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Using Powershell to add nodes with Custom Properties for Device Type
Hello,Running Orion NPM 10.6.0 and SDK 1.7 on Win2k8R2 Can anyone help with adding devices into Orion using Powershell? To complete via NPM Web console, select Management, Edit Node.Select groups,...
View ArticleHow do I add CPU, RAM, and Disk pollers to a new SNMP node via the Python API?
I am attempting to add nodes via SNMP using python. I have previously been using ICMP to add the nodes only for Status and response time polling, but would like to expand further and gather more...
View ArticleVerbArgument Example for 'AddResourceToView'
Hello Thwack Community, Looking to automate the creation of custom query / swql resources. Here is what I have from the Metadata.VerbArgument table in SWQL Studio filtering on the 'AddResourceToView'...
View ArticleOrion SDK with PowerShell - manage/unmanage multiple nodes
I've been able to script unmanaging and managing nodes in powershell. However, for 400+ nodes, this ends up taking quite a while. Via script, it takes about 7 minutes to unmanage the nodes and over 10...
View ArticleSDK Introduction
Would anyone be able to point me to an article or reference material where some very basic and easy tasks are completed using the API ?
View ArticleValidateCustomProperty Verb
Both Orion.NodesCustomProperties and Orion.VolumesCustomProperties have a Verb named, "ValidateCustomProperty". Does anyone know what this verb does? Can anyone provide the parameters required for it...
View ArticlePowershell scripts to automatically unmanage\remanage a node using the Orion SDK
First, I'll share the script. Then, I'll explain why we need it and how it helps us in our environment.To use the script you must have the Orion SDK installed on the monitored node. Take the text...
View ArticleDatabase model
Is there an overview of the exposed tables where I can see how the entities in each table relate to each other? It some times take a bit of guess work to figure out that for instance Orion.Nodes.NodeID...
View ArticleActive Alert Manager Alternatives
We are growing our solarwinds world and are trying to transistion our previous monitoring platform (nagios and check_mk) into it. However, we are also bringing other groups on campus into solarwinds...
View ArticleFetch table of Restriced Values for a Custom Property through REST
I'm working on code to use the REST API to automatically add our servers to Orion. I want part of this code to add the Custom Properties to the node. I've put together what I need to do that,...
View ArticlePowerShell or Python ?
Ive taken a few python classes at school a while back and while I enjoyed it I never used it too much in the real world. From doing research and reading various posts I seem to have this feeling that...
View ArticleHow do I limit the scope of a query to the current node?
I am trying the following: SELECT CS.RowID as RowID, IsNull(CS.Status, 0) as ValueFROM Orion.NPM.CustomPollerStatus CSINNER JOIN Orion.NPM.CustomPollerAssignment CA ON CA.CustomPollerAssignmentID =...
View ArticleSWQL queries not working in Custom Query and Custom Reports since NPM v12 but...
Hello World before the upgrade to NPM v12 we were using some custom queries in order to extract IOPs per process from the database and create charts and tables with that. Everything was working...
View ArticleScheduled task using Powershell or similar to disable/enable alerts during...
Hello all, We have scheduled maintenance windows typically once a month that start at 4 AM and end at 7 AM. We integrate SolarWinds NPM with PagerDuty to send alerts so during the maintenance window,...
View ArticleUpgrade from NMP 11.0.1 to 11.5 breaks SDK 1.10 set CustomProperties
Hello all,I want to thank those that released the SDK. It's a great tool and we've used it extensively. We have a powershell script, using v1.10.16.0 of the SDK, which we use to add nodes, setup...
View ArticleHow to configure Power supply alert in NPM 12 ?
Actually i am unable to generate power supply alert for any devicePlease help !
View ArticleHow to get the latest configuration of a set of devices from Config database?
We always have up to date configuration of all devices in Solarwinds (via daily backup job). I want to run some scripts against some of these configs, but I do not want to download them directly from...
View ArticlePowerShell or Python ?
Ive taken a few python classes at school a while back and while I enjoyed it I never used it too much in the real world. From doing research and reading various posts I seem to have this feeling that...
View ArticleNeed Help Converting SQL Report Writer Code to SWQL - Down Time Duration
Here is Report Writer SQL code that produces the duration of down time for a node. I need to be able to convert this to SWQL and populate the 'hours down' time into a custom property field. I want to...
View ArticleHow to set topology data polling interval ?
Dear Sir or Madam - In SAM version 5.2, a node property was introduced called "Poll for Topology Data Every [ ] minutes" (on the GUI). I assume this property is only used if there is an associated...
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