A few months ago, I really stated digging into the Orion SDK and I wanted to know more about ways to automate adding nodes to Orion. Sure, I can wait for the Network Discovery to kick off, but I’m impatient. I’ve gotten many of the parts together over time, but this is my first post…
A few months ago, I wrote about the third step in setting up an Orion server from scratch. After using this script for a few months, I realized there was an eventuality that I missed.
SolarWinds’ SAM PowerShell Templates offer so much flexibility for teasing out the metrics you need, but I’ve found it’s better to work with a template for the template.
Do you run a bunch of Orion servers? Do you hate exporting your custom NCM Device Templates one at a time? No? Only me? Well, if you are ever like me, I’ve got something to help you out. It basically checks for all the device templates in your database for those that aren’t out of…
Installed Orion Modules SELECT CASE WHEN Name = ‘APM’ THEN ‘Server & Application Monitor’ WHEN Name = ‘IPAM’ THEN ‘IP Address Manager’ WHEN Name = ‘NCM’ THEN ‘Network Configuration Manager’ WHEN Name = ‘NPM’ THEN ‘Network Performance Monitor’ WHEN Name = ‘NTA’ THEN ‘NetFlow Traffic Analyzer’ WHEN Name = ‘Orion’ THEN ‘Orion Core’ WHEN Name…
In a previous post I said how to run multiple Orion installations without running the Configuration Wizard. This is great if you have a new big installation planned. So the last step is to actually run the configuration wizard.
I stumbled across an article called Install Orion products in unattended or silent mode that made me so happy because I install new Orion servers about 4 times a month. There are only so many time I want to click “Next,” “Next”, “Finish” in any given day. So, since I do this so often, I wanted…
This is part 1 of a multi-part post on updates that I’ve made to How I Build an Orion Server. Primarily, it will be three parts. If you need this for a Hyper-V environment, I’ve got that script as well. Building my Orion Servers in VMware Configuring the disks on the VM after OS install…
So this is a little different than any of my other posts. Normally I post about something having to do with technology, but this time I’m focusing on something that is decidedly not technological. I recently took up archery as a hobby – specifically shooting the longbow. Why the longbow? Because I’m actually a closet (or…
