Root 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 ArticleHow to list VMware snapshots and space used by a VM
I am new to Virtualization Manager and trying to get used to the navigation as things aren't very intuitive for me in this product. I have found multiple places where an alert or trend will show that...
View ArticleVM vmotion travel map
Is there any way to build a report/graph etc that will show a VM and what ESX hosts it have traveled across during a certain time? We have a cluster and VMs are automatically moved around to balance...
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Ghost nodes in Virtualization assets
Hi Everyone, I'm having trouble getting our Virtualization assets listed correctly in Orion so hoping someone can help. We have a Hyper-V cluster named BEDHVDEV with fives nodes, BEDHV01 thru...
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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 ArticleGuest storage space utilization - exclude a few drives
Good day all, Below is an email that I receive about disk storage. I like the alert as it is setup but I have a few drives that I have dedicated for pagefiles or are a few TB in size and I do not want...
View ArticleAre you interested in monitoring and managing your server and application...
The SolarWinds UX (User Experience) team is interested in talking with users who either are or would like to be monitoring server and application configurations. Do you have a need to: Monitor...
View ArticleDynamic alert notification to vMan DataCenter or virtual hosts
Hi, I use Orion to send alert notifications. I added custom attributes to monitored nodes and utilize the attribute in alert notifications so the same alert rule will send to different recipients...
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Create Report for Virtual Machines Including its Host Server Name
Hi Team, I'm currently creating a custom report of all my virtual machines in hyper-v, however I can't find a way to add its host server name to the report for example: SERVER1 192.168.0.1 Windows...
View ArticleMoving Dashboards
I can't for the life of me remember how to do this but I thought there was a way to move around the order of Dashboards on the drop down menu? Or is that not possible? Thanks.
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 ArticleVMan drive full... how to manage database
The Vman appliance has a 200GB 2nd hard drive. Today my drive filled and collection stopped. The solution from Solarwinds is to increase the drive size and reboot the appliance. I would love to say...
View ArticleVMAN stuck at file system check
Hello, I had to reboot my vman virtual appliance, and now it fails it's system check at around 48.5%. My only options are to reboot (which starts the cycle over again), or load the tools, which it...
View ArticleHow To Add Hyper-V Host and VM's
Hello,I am not the Hyper-V guy in our office. I am a network guy trying to add a Hyper-V host into Orion so we can see all the hosted VM's.The Hyper-V guy turned on SNMP and I was able to add the host...
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 ArticleHaprdware details not polling in ESX host
Hi, We have a ESX server in Vmware5.5 version. We are able to poll all the data including host servers except hardware details. In the hardware details we are getting the error as Hardware polling...
View ArticleCustomized specific timeline for oversized vm on on-demand reporting
Hi. Can we customized specific timeline for oversized vm on on-demand reporting?
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 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?
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Dashboard reports only showing 4 days in graphs
Hi, I have made a couple of different dashboards that contains reports for a couple of customers. It looks like this: If we look at the config for this widget, it looks like this:As you can see, I...
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