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 Orion
SAM PowerShell Scripting Template
I write a lot of PowerShell scripts. Like a lot, a lot. I write them for any manner of things, but recently I’ve been tasked to help out with a few Server & Application Monitor templates. These are some of the most interesting things that SAM has to offer.
Looking at each of the scripts, I decided it was worth revisiting based on some of my newly acquired PowerShell superpowers (cape not included).
SAM script templates (Windows Scripting, PowerShell, Perl, Python, whatever) require two things – a statistic and an exit code.
Automating the Configuration Wizard
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.
Spider my Orion Pages with PowerShell & SWQL
A few days ago, I spoke before a small group of people about what I’d been doing with the Orion SDK. I mentioned that I had created a Spider-Orion script that I use to navigate to every page in my install. When I mentioned this script several people asked where it was published. The short answer – here.
Zen and the Art of Monitoring
I’ve been thinking recently about complete stack monitoring and how a good solution should be like a teenager – it can primarily take care of itself, but occasionally needs to have someone step in and give it direction.
How I Build an Orion Server
UPDATE: There’s an updated version of this post now available for scripters.
I’ve posted several times about how I personally build my SolarWinds Orion Servers. For this post, I’ll just discuss how I setup a Main Polling Engine on a Windows 2012 R2 Server.
SolarWinds Database on SQL Server for Linux
This post is some of my experiences with getting the SolarWinds Orion database running on a SQL Server hosted on a Linux-native system.