Hardware Status = Critical, Overall Status = Warning?
Overall status for a VMware host shows 'warning', hovering over it declares that 'one or more child objects are in Warning state'.When the actual summary page for the server is inspected, the 'host' is...
View Articleexcluding a Virtual machine from monitoring on a SWQL Alert
i am using one of the canned VM alerts. "VMs with Old Snapshots" and i would like to exclude one VM Guest from the monitoring of this alert. here is what i have now.SELECT VirtualMachines.Uri,...
View ArticleGrayed Out VMs
Hello, I am pretty new to monitoring hypervisors. Currently i have an implementation for VMWare when i click on a VCenter Host, and drill down to a Host within one of my clusters i see virtual machines...
View ArticleVmotion
When a VM moves from a host to another host in a different VCenter Vman sees the VM in 2 places at once. Should this work properly?
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How to Re-sync vCenter on VMAN
Hi Guys, Just want to ask if why does the hosts still on VMAN after we removed the hosts on the vCenter its just that its on maintenance mode.?. Should that be automatically removed?
View ArticlevCenter 5.5 U3
Has anyone upgraded vCenter to 5.5 U3? Any issues with Virtualization Manager communicating with vCenter 5.5 U3? I see some warnings about Veeam not being able to communicate because of the higher...
View ArticleUnable to process login error
Hi, We had an issue with our SAN which is now resolved but have been unable to login to Solarwinds Virtualisation Manager since. The login page displays but when we enter a username or password we get...
View ArticleNotification email subject customization
Is it possible to customize the subject of a notification email in Virtualization Manager? If so, could someone explain how? I'd like to put the name of the virtual machine in the email for alerts...
View ArticleConfiguration Collection Crashing host
When running Configuration collection on Cisco UCS Hyper-V Host, the host crashes and reboots. Anyone seen issues like this? Performance Collection runs fine.
View ArticleHow to monitor VMAN Server
Does anybody else find it ironic that SolarWinds appliances (VMAN and Alert Central) don't come with SNMP enabled? How can I monitor my monitoring servers? Are there steps to installing SNMP on these...
View ArticleData collection fails for some vCenter Servers after upgrading to...
A new KB article was posted today to the address issue where Virtualization Manager 6.1.1 fails to connect to vCenter after being upgraded from version 4.0 or below. The issue is caused by the RSA key...
View ArticleMonitoring RAID Status for ESXi Servers
Hi! Is VMan capable of monitoring the RAID Array status of ESXi servers? I specifically mean the direct-attached disks that are RAID-configured on a VMWare server. Can't find anything in the VMan...
View ArticleAverage value of trend
Hi,is it somehow possible to get the average value of a trend over a selected time period?User story: We have several trends for showing the total of vcpus, RAM, etc. of different customers. Now I need...
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Invalid certificate
Hi all- #1. I am hoping someone can help me resolve this certificate error. when clicking the dashboard tab under virtualization in Orion: I have installed the cert multiple times, both on my...
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 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 ArticleErrors in their VIM.CollectorJobs_[xxxx].log: 'VMware Job Polling node XXX -...
So it seems that we have found yet another limitation of VIM as well as vCenter.During an ongoing migration of our vCenter servers from 5x to 6x, we have observed instances where SolarWinds Virtual...
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?
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 ArticleVirtualization manager and Integration with Orion
Hi, I have Virtualization manager running as an appliance, we also have NPM and other products, is their a way to integrate with Orion? Thanks Mike
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