Solar Winds API Connection
When trying to access the database through the Solar Winds REST API I am getting a "Could not connect in call from " error. I am using the proper IP Address and Username/Password. Any suggestions?
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Hi community wondering whether we have any updates on SWQL NTA Entities and aggregated functions. i've been asked for a report where the sum of the bytes transferred for a specific IP address is more...
View ArticleIssue with API Creating Discovery
I am having an issue in my production environment this worked fine in a test lab but not production Solarwinds. The error in the discovery is A Network Discovery job has failed to complete.\r\nState:...
View ArticleProblem with CreateCorePluginConfiguration
I'm trying to start automating the process of node autodiscovery. Looks like the 1st part is to generate a config with CreateCorePluginConfiguration. When invoke this, I get the following error...
View ArticleSWQL Studio Error (Unknown dataprovider type 'ntext')
EDIT:My question in bold underline below still stands, even though I know some of the answer now (see my Edits further below), but if you look at my final edit (Edit 3:) you can see my workaround that...
View ArticlePython Module Httplib GET request issue
Hi all, I found a related topic here and provided my 2 cents Rest Api Connection Failed, but I'm in need of an answer or advice so I thought I'd post my own question. I'm new to SolarWinds, and have...
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 ArticleOrion WSQL Short-Comings
Where I see a major problem with WSQL is returning properties for a node, where you don't know what is available. You can use a query like: SELECT Name FROM Metadata.Property where EntityName =...
View ArticleReq SWQL Query Advice - NTA Check If SourceIP Exists
Hey I'm currently running this SWQL (SWIS) Query SELECT SourceIP, Sum(EgressBytes) as TotalEgressBytes FROM Orion.Netflow.FlowsByIP WHERE TimeStamp>GetDate()-2 AND TimeStamp<GetDate()-1 and...
View ArticleNode Discovery Error
I am currently running into an issue while running a Node Discovery via RestAPI. I am seeing the following error in Status Description within SWQL Studio. I have noticed is when I login into Orion...
View ArticleAdding Hardware Health Details
I'm able to successfully create nodes with the SDK (via PowerShell). However, a new node I create that way doesn't have any Hardware Health status (fans, power supplies, etc.). At first I thought it...
View ArticleEnabling SSL Certificate Verification for the SDK
So the hard coding of SSL Certificate Verification to False within orionsdk-python (and the associated run time warnings) was getting to me, so I did a GitHub Pull request (here) to enable passing down...
View ArticleHow do we programmatically discover the non-interface properties [in Orion]...
We are automating the hydration of assets in Orion, and after adding a node, we know how to discover the interfaces, but how do we programmatically discover the non-interface properties and enable them...
View ArticleAggregate Functions on NTA entities
Hi community wondering whether we have any updates on SWQL NTA Entities and aggregated functions. i've been asked for a report where the sum of the bytes transferred for a specific IP address is more...
View ArticleBacktracking NetObjectID with query
What table I should search for getting NodeID when I only have NetObjectID number?As I have understood, NetObjectID can bee application, volume, Interface, Node, etc... Background information:I have...
View ArticleDeleting Nodes (Can't get it to work with Perl LWP or Curl)
Hello All,I'm working on a project that requires us to change the IP address of every server in our infrastructure. There are a number of operations that happen on different servers as part of this...
View ArticlePowerShell Node Creation - Missing Volumes
Greetings Thwack community, We have a script in place that currently runs a query on our kiosk database for new systems, and then creates nodes for them in SolarWinds. We have 2 different types of...
View ArticleManage/Unmanage nodes via powershell
Hi, I have tried to follow the below and I am stuckSilence Group of NodesPowershell scripts to automatically unmanage\remanage a node using the Orion SDK This is the script im using # 2014-07-21 Node...
View ArticlePowershell Adding SNMP nodes, List resources?
I'v been able to Create scripts to add multiple SNMP Nodes but after i add them into the system the resources are never monitored. The only way to complete the process is to list the resources for each...
View ArticleUpdating multiple custom properties from a list
I am using NPM 11.5.3 and trying to update multiple custom properties on a node through the use of SWIS Update and Python 2.7 custompropertylist = ['prop1', 'prop2', 'prop3'] for property in...
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