We found that Solawinds was reporting that some WMI monitoring was not working correctly on out XenApp 6.0 Windows 2008 R2 SP1 servers. We used some WMI tools to check to see if the WMI entries existed or if there were permission issues. On investigation it was found that the entries did not exist. After […]
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Querying Solarwinds for Device Added Dates
May 24, 2012 
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We had the need to create a report that showed us which Windows devices were added into Solarwinds within the last 7 days. With a little poking around and chatting to someone that knows SQL this is what we came up with: select n.caption as ‘Node Name’ , Min(datetime) as ‘Date Added’, n.vendor from responsetime […]
Continue readingXenApp 6.0 WMI Queries
March 17, 2012 0 Comments
I use these WMI queries within Solarwinds Monitoring APM applications applied to the relevant servers to report back the results. No doubt other monitoring tools allow WMI queries and so could be used with them as well. There are many possible queries to be written and the list will grow in this post, but these […]
Continue readingSolarwinds Job Sceduler not Running
November 3, 2011 0 Comments
I had an incident where the Job Scheduler would not run any scans new or old. The service kept crashing. Repairs would not fix it and eventually I found this: Source: Solarwinds Thwack URL: Click Here Error “The job scheduler database file is corrupt. The SWJobSchedulerSvc service has been shutdown until the database is fixed.” […]
Continue readingClearing Traps in Solarwinds
May 18, 2011 0 Comments
At times the Traps and TrapsVarBinds tables fill up for no useful reason in Solarwinds. The way to clear these down are as follows: Clearing it Down Start > All Programs > Solarwinds Orion > Advanced Features > Database Manager Expand your database and right-click on the TrapVarbinds table. Select Query Table. Type the below […]
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