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ESx host in maintenance mode

May 14, 2018, 5:49 am
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Hey Guys and Gals looking for a way to pull up a list of ESx hosts that are in maintenance mode(according to vcenter not Orion), this info is available in the database.  From said list I'd like to provide a link for the user to utilize to go to that esx host, this doesn't seem to be available in the DB but is available via SWIS for the host table, but the inmaintenancemode column ins't available via SWIS......

 

any experts out here that can help me?

 

Unless someone has other suggestions I guess I'm going to have to save my DB results to a file and use the results via SWIS to get the URL's I need.  I wonder why Solarwinds makes some things so hard sometimes....

 

 

Thanks as always

Chris

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Datastore low free space alert

August 30, 2018, 11:15 am
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Will VMAN trigger a datastore low free space alert if the VMs attached to the datastore are allocated over 90% of datastore capacity using thick disk or is the alert triggered when actual stored data (OS, apps, files, etc) reach over 90%

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VMAN ESXi Hosts and VMs

November 26, 2018, 11:11 am
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When adding a node, how would I know that the VMAN Orion poller is being used?

 

What I see when adding a node under the define node section: polling hostname or IP address, polling method (external node, status only, most devices, windows and hyper-v servers, windows and linux servers) and under additional monitoring options i see (check boxes for UCS manager credentials, poll for vmware and poll for F5.  I don't see an option to select the polling method (i.e. VMan). 

 

Several of our ESXi hosts have been added but they show up as unmanaged, since they are added why would they be unmanaged since Orion should start polling as soon as they are added?

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Number of hosts per cluster in Report?

December 14, 2018, 6:49 am
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I am trying to include the number of hosts in each VMware cluster in my VMAN Orion reports, but cannot seem to find it in the available data. VMAN definitely knows the number of hosts per cluster, because if you hover over a cluster it will show #Hosts. What am I missing? Thanks.

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VMAN Licensing Question

August 15, 2019, 5:52 am
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Hey I have a VMAN deployment in place that we currently have linked to three of our vCenter environments. I am wondering if there is a way to control what nodes we are monitoring in vCenter.

 

Example:

 

vCenter 1

- 2 Nodes for Dev

- 6 Nodes for Prod

- 1 Node for DR

- 1 Node for Another Country (Different Country)

 

vCenter 2

- 2 Nodes for Prod (Different City)

 

vCenter 3

- 4 Nodes for Prod (Different Country)

 

That is how it is setup right now. I am wondering if we have to use VMAN licenses for DEV for example as we are monitoring vCenter 1 or is there a way we can turn it off for just DEV.

 

Please let me know if you need any clarification

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Querying phantom snapshot files

February 3, 2014, 3:18 pm
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We seem to be in a situation where a large number of phantom snapshots have accumulated on some of our datastores. I would like to be able to run a query or report which shows the list of orphaned files, but I haven't been able to figure out what that query should be. Can anyone help me out?

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No VM search in Virtualization Summary page

March 14, 2018, 5:58 am
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We have Virtualization Manager 8.1 in Orion. No separate appliance. There doesn't appear to be a way to search for a VM on the Summary page. If I don't know what host a VM is on it can be a long process to find.  Is there someway to do this?

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Old Snapshots Alerting

July 24, 2018, 12:05 pm
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Hello,

 

I'm currently building an alert that would inform us about old snapshots on our virtual machines. The alert itself works fine but I would like to put as much information about the snapshot as possible.


So far I have managed to set up an alert notification in the following way (I have cut out non relevant text):

"There is a snapshot older than X days on ${N=SwisEntity;M=Name}.

 

Oldest snapshot creation date: ${N=SwisEntity;M=OldestSnapshotDate}

Snapshot storage size: ${N=SwisEntity;M=SnapshotStorageSize}

Snapshot summary count: ${N=SwisEntity;M=SnapshotSummaryCount}"

 

This is nothing special as it only includes variables available from "creator".

 

What I would like to add is information about snapshot creator and snapshot description.

 

As far as I know SolarWinds does not pull information from "Monitor" tab in VCenter so it may not be possible to do this currently (please correct me if I'm wrong).

However I found in database that there is table named "[dbo].[VIM_Snapshots]" and column "Name" is basically snapshot description, so I'm looking for help how could I add this information into above alert.

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High Percent Co-Stop (%CSTP)

February 24, 2015, 12:29 pm
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Co-Stop (%CSTP) is the percentage of time that a SMP virtual machine was ready to run, but incurred delay due to co-vCPU scheduling contention. To remedy Co-Stop on a VM, decrease the number of vCPUs on that VM. If there are multiple VMs with high %CSTP on a host, it is likely a sign of CPU contention and resource starvation due too many vSMP VMs on that host. Migrate some of those VMs off to other hosts to re-balance the load in the cluster and also, decrease the number of vCPUs allocated to those VMs to see if the %CSTP goes to zero.


VM CPU Co-stop (%CSTP) Alert in Virtualization ManagerVM CPU Co-Stop Alert Viewer in Virtualization Manager

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IPAM Integration with VMware

March 5, 2015, 6:33 am
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Hi,

 

If you deploy virtual machines frequently, what is the desired workflow for assigning IP addresses?

 

We are looking at enhancing IPAM API (a.k.a. SWIS or Orion SDK) as described here: Add SWIS features to IPAM. The ultimate goal is using this API to integrate with VMware vCenter Orchestrator in order to improve/automate VM deployment by assigning IP addresses via IPAM.

 

I would like to discuss details of the workflow in detail -- if you are interested in such discussion, please reply to this post, or send me a direct message.

 

Thanks,

Jiri

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Orion advanced reporting with SQL SWQL DBQ

June 23, 2016, 10:56 pm
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Hi all,

 

I am going crazy.

I can't find "Orion" in products.

Anyway in my case it is more related to VMAN

 

I see that I can do some good reports with Orion.

I want to replace those from Vman and do better.

 

But I can't find a documentation, I try with existing alerts and reports but it is not enough to get all the possible parameters like in the following

 

SELECT vm.Name, vm.GuestState, vm.MemUsage, vm.CpuLoad, vm.OldestSnapshotDate, vm.TotalStorageSizeUsed, vm.SnapshotSummaryCount,  vm.PlatformID, vm.Status, vm.DetailsUrl, vm.Host.HostName, vm.Host.Cluster.Name AS ClusterName

FROM Orion.VIM.VirtualMachines vm

WHERE DayDiff(vm.OldestSnapshotDate, getUtcDate()) > 7

 

I want to avoir to post a question for each reports I need.

Who can lead me to a good source?

 

thanks and regards

 

Gildas

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One or more thresholds are exceeded. OK, great. WHICH ONES???

May 7, 2019, 11:00 am
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Orion Platform 2018.4 HF3, NPM 12.4, SAM 6.8.0

 

We've got a bunch of nodes that all have blinking yellow boxen on their green status icons, and "Node status is Up, One or more thresholds are exceeded.." [sic] in the status column of Manage Nodes.

 

 

For the life of me, I have no idea why.

Some are Hyper-V hosts - when I go into the host node, it shows VMs as up-with-warning or up-with-critical in Appstack, but going into the vm nodes, everything is green - no disks about to run out of space, no crazy CPU usage, etc.

Some are vms where, when I go into the node, everything is green - no disks about to run out of space, no crazy CPU usage, etc.

Two are vms in a Hyper-V cluster - hovering over them in Manage Nodes says that one has guest status critical and the other is warning, but none of the cluster nodes are in this list.  Again with everything looking fine when actually looking at the nodes' pages.

One is an ESXi host.  It does have two vms that are turned off (on purpose), but other than that, everything looks normal.

 

Search is failing me, just leads to three articles that are zero help:

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https://support.solarwinds.com/SuccessCenter/s/article/Clusters-hosts-VMs-showing-as-Critical-One-or-more-thresholds-are-exceeded

 

Gives example saying they went over a network throughput theshold, and shows how to adjust that threshold.

Great.  HOW does one know that it was the network one that was triggered???

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https://support.solarwinds.com/SuccessCenter/s/article/Virtual-Machines-warning-One-or-more-thresholds-exceeded

 

It's referencing v 11.5 and talks about getting info from the VIM_Resources table to see what was triggered.

There is no such table in v12.

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https://support.solarwinds.com/SuccessCenter/s/article/VMWare-guest-status-showing-as-critical-one-or-more-thresholds-are-exceeded

 

Kind of a combo of the other two - talking about stuff specific to v11.5, and assumes you already know what is triggering it, just shows how to adjust the threshold.

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Anyone know how the heck I figure out why NPM is getting cranky about these nodes?

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Monitoring VMware View

March 16, 2014, 7:52 pm
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Are there any plans to add VMware VIew (VDI) specific monitoring to this platform.Being able to monitor things like:

 

- connection servers

- pools

- desktops

- connection statistics

 

Also be able to drill down to underlying storage/network issues under the View environment.

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Datastore low free space alert

August 30, 2018, 11:15 am
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Will VMAN trigger a datastore low free space alert if the VMs attached to the datastore are allocated over 90% of datastore capacity using thick disk or is the alert triggered when actual stored data (OS, apps, files, etc) reach over 90%

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VM Disk Latency Alerts

September 18, 2018, 7:16 am
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Since upgrading our environment to ESXi/vCenter 6.5U2 we have been experiencing "VM Disk Latency" according to VMAN. Frequently it will show latency approaching 25 seconds! After hours of trying to find the cause of this latency we are starting to wonder if the data in Orion could be incorrect. We can not find any evidence of latency exceeding 8ms in vCenter nor on the hosts using esxtop.

 

Where is VMAN pulling the VM Disk stats from and how can I validate that an issue actually exists?

 

 

*Note: VMAN 8.2.1 HF1

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"vmStatsProvider" causing Solarwinds to give false "down" alerts?

October 10, 2014, 11:52 am
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Hi Everyone,

 

Does anyone have experience Solarwinds giving false "down" alerts on with virtual servers?

It happened on a server yesterday morning, twice. We received alerts from Solarwinds that a particular server was down around 7:00 and 8:00 AM.

In looking at the application logs for that time on the server I spied numerous line items:

 

Information10/9/2014 7:08vmStatsProvider256GeneralThe "vmStatsProvider" is successfully initialized for this Virtual Machine. WMI namespace: "root\cimv2".
Information10/9/2014 7:08vmStatsProvider258Guest Library APIThe "vmGuestLibrary" is successfully initialized for this Virtual Machine.
Information10/9/2014 7:06vmStatsProvider256GeneralThe "vmStatsProvider" is successfully initialized for this Virtual Machine. WMI namespace: "root\cimv2".
Information10/9/2014 7:06vmStatsProvider258Guest Library APIThe "vmGuestLibrary" is successfully initialized for this Virtual Machine.
Information10/9/2014 6:57vmStatsProvider256GeneralThe "vmStatsProvider" is successfully initialized for this Virtual Machine. WMI namespace: "root\cimv2".
Information10/9/2014 6:57vmStatsProvider258Guest Library APIThe "vmGuestLibrary" is successfully initialized for this Virtual Machine.
Information10/9/2014 6:55vmStatsProvider256GeneralThe "vmStatsProvider" is successfully initialized for this Virtual Machine. WMI namespace: "root\cimv2".
Information10/9/2014 6:55vmStatsProvider258Guest Library APIThe "vmGuestLibrary" is successfully initialized for this Virtual Machine.
Information10/9/2014 6:46vmStatsProvider256GeneralThe "vmStatsProvider" is successfully initialized for this Virtual Machine. WMI namespace: "root\cimv2".
Information10/9/2014 6:46vmStatsProvider258Guest Library APIThe "vmGuestLibrary" is successfully initialized for this Virtual Machine.

 

If I understand this correctly these are coming from the VMWare tools that is installed on the virtual instance?

Can this be causing Solarwinds to see the server being down?

 

Thanks everyone,

Cheryl

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ESX Host with 6.7 version-- Help needed on multiple issues

January 11, 2019, 5:01 am
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Hi All,

 

Anyone with ESX on version 6.7 facing below issues:

 

Remote lockout issue for root account from Solarwinds?

Hardware sensors not working-- this is already identified as bug from VMware but just mentioning again here as i have one more doubt.

 

Now, we had passwords changed for most of the ESX servers in our environment so it had to be updated in Solarwinds as well. It was done and was working fine. Today we were informed by our technical team that for more than 20 hosts, they are getting the remote lockout issue for root account and the cause was the Solarwinds IP address. So we tried to remove the VMware Polling and gave 10-15 min time and then again re-enabled; strange thing to observe was that same password worked after disable/enable of Vmwar Poll.  So any way to find out what exactly went wrong?

 

Other help i need is- Is there any way to get an alert when the passwords have stopped working from Solarwinds for the ESX hosts?

 

serena- Marking you incase you have seen similar issues or received anything via support ticket.. I am willing to open a ticket for my case but before doing that want to know if anyone here has come across same issue...

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creating virtualization manager alert

August 10, 2011, 11:16 pm
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hi guys,

need help to create a new alert...im not familiar with those query strings...

is there any refferrence for this? orion/NPM alert is way more friendly and straight forward even for newbies..

really appreciate to those who can help...

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Is there a report that shows iops for each VM over seven days?

March 30, 2015, 2:29 pm
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Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

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Change Orion main poller IP in VMAN

April 21, 2016, 11:21 am
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I have VMAN integrated into my Orion install and I noticed something today. My Orion server has two NICs in it, one of which is a private NIC that connects to my Orion DB virtual machine. The other NIC is outward-facing and is the NIC that is used for connecting to the Orion front-end, polling all nodes, etc. For some reason, my VMAN is attempting to send data to my Orion server via the private NIC, probably because Orion has the private IP configured as the main poller IP in the database. Can I change this IP in VMAN somewhere so it stops trying to connect to Orion over an IP that isn't even reachable from anywhere except the Orion server itself?

 

FYI, I've made sure that my network adapter bindings are correct, in that my public-facing NIC is at the top of the binding list. This doesn't seem to affect the Orion's choosing of which IP to store in the database as the main one to use for the poller.

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