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ESXi Status Alert
I am trying to setup an alert in Orion for when my ESX hosts are not in a good state. Orion will show the ESX status as down (as seen in the screenshot below) when there is a problem. This value is...
View ArticleIs there a feature comparison doc for IVIM and Virtualization Manager?
We're in the process of implementing the Integrated Virtualization Infrastructure Manager (IVIM) with ORion Npm 10.7, and I'd like to find a document that lists the features of each tool for comparison...
View ArticleCurrent KPIs and long-term capacity are equally important metrics
When people hear the term “key performance indicators”, they often think of management metrics. But, if you’re here, you also know – or at least suspect – that there are a variety of key performance...
View Article3. VMWare Datastore details are not available
vMAN is configured with the administrator privileges of vCenter, but still we are unable to get the details of vmware datastores in VMAN. ? Kindly find the below screenshot for your reference.
View Article"vmStatsProvider" causing Solarwinds to give false "down" alerts?
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...
View Articlecreating virtualization manager alert
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...
View ArticleCustom Dashboard
I am looking to make a custom dashboard with all the same content as the Administrator Dashboard but for only a small subset of servers. Is this possible and how would I go about doing it?
View ArticleVMan - Copy all widgets in a dashboard to new dashboard
Good afternoon, To start off, we are only using VMan, no Orion in place. I state that because it seems like most of the new features, updates or innovations that relate to VMan are implemented in Orion...
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vCenter Server not polling
I have just added a vCenter server to my solarwinds. Everything checks out but for some reason it shows the status and status details as being "unknown", but shows the polling status as ok. I have...
View ArticleRoot password
Hi,What is the root password for the appliance? I have had a power failure on the machine running the virtual instance of Solarwinds Virtualization Manager, which means i need to run fsck before it can...
View ArticleUSB GSM Modem on VMWare
Hey all, We recently purchased APM and NPM, they are running on a VMWare server and we're looking at integrating SMS text alerts to our oncall engineers, we have purchased a GSM modem and we have...
View ArticleChange Date format in console
Hi Guys,, How do you change the date format displayed thoughout in the web console?Right now, by default, it displays Fri 11/30/12I would like it to display Fri 30/11/12 What needs to be changed?...
View ArticleESX Host CPU Polling stopped after deleting a SAM Application assigned to the...
I hope someone can help me understand if this is a bug or not. Yesterday I added 2 SAM Application monitors for our VMWARE vCenter server. Then, I deleted one of them. [The monitor was a WMI service...
View ArticleVMWare Polling for guests
I am polling an ESX host using SNMP. In order to manage guest hosts it's asking for a separate SNMP credential even though I click the 'Poll for VMWare' option.Is it possible to manage guest hosts via...
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ESXi Status Alert
I am trying to setup an alert in Orion for when my ESX hosts are not in a good state. Orion will show the ESX status as down (as seen in the screenshot below) when there is a problem. This value is...
View ArticleESXi 5.5.1 host suddenly missing from vCenter cluster with IVIM
One of ten ESXi hosts running 5.5.0 dropped off the list of hosts for its cluster as displayed in Orion/NPM 11.5.2 (IVIM 2.1.0). It is polled fine by VMAN 6.3 with its data visible in that console. It...
View ArticleStill hunting phantom snapshots
I have a feeling that I have significant opportunity to hunt down and eliminate many phantom snapshots. Unfortunately, the Orphaned VMs report is broken in version 6.1 and later, but the Alert for VM...
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High Percent Co-Stop (%CSTP)
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...
View ArticleVMAN on Orion - Now with Global Search
Hello VMAN customers, We on the Orion Global Search team have been hard at work adding module support to OGS. I'm happy to announce that a Beta of OGS with VMAN on Orion support will be available...
View ArticleEmail Notifications
I am trying to set up email notifications for certain things such as High CPU usage, memory usage, etc. I can't seem to get the email to send when this happens, where do I set this up to make this work?
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