Server & Application Monitor (SAM) - Updated March 10, 2015

Start Using SAM v6.1

• How to Download Latest Version of SAM
• System Requirements
• License SAM
• SAM Licensing FAQs
• Install SAM
  
• Upgrade SAM
• Migrating SAM
• Setup Server & Application Monitor in 4 Easy Steps
• SAM Overview | Video Tutorial
• SAM Guided Tour | Video Tutorial

• Creating Monitors for Processes, Services, and Performance Counters
• AppInsight for Exchange: Missing performance counter
• Remote Registry Service and RPC
• Critical index fragmentation detected during database maintenance
• Troubleshooting Windows Management Instrumentation
• The Orion Web Console is loading slowly
• A Configured Alert is Not Triggering
• Volume Stops Reporting After a Resize or Name Change
• Configuring SAM to monitor an Oracle Database Server
• Error Message "Invalid Class" when using WMI monitors

Make The Most Of SAM

• Customer Training Program - Changing and Growing in 2015!
• The Rumors are True...Our Free Customer Training Program is Expanding
• Virtual Classroom Training Program for Current Customers - It's Here!
• SAM Demo Server
• Configuring and Integrating PowerShell
• Configuring and Integrating JMX
• SolarWinds Orion Web Based Reports
• Basic Application and Monitoring Tool
• Building Your Own Bandwidth Calculator
• 10 Criteria for Server & App Monitoring Software
• Installing SolarWinds Additional Polling Engines
• Web Based Reporting Supported Products Matrix
• Customer Application Monitoring with SAM | Video Tutorial
  
• Integration Tips
• SolarWinds Events Calendar

Latest Blogs

• SME Weighs in on SolarWinds AppStack: Why it's Useful
• The Cost of Monitoring (But Not Automating)
• Beta News: Adding a Databases Tab in Orion
• A Lap Around AppStack
• The Cost of (Not) Monitoring
• How Do You Keep an Up-to-date Inventory of Your Server Hardware?
• All New Appstack Environment View
• Troubleshooting Quality of Experience Problems With SAM
• Measuring And Monitoring Performance of Web Services
• Going Beyond System Center for Comprehensive Systems Management
• A Day in the Life of a DBA
• Impact of APM Across Your IT Landscape
• Exchange Server Monitoring Need Not Be Complex
• SQL Server Two Ways - SAM AppInsight for SQL And Database Performance Analyser
• Microsoft Exchange Server Roles - Ready Reckoner
• What's this - SAM v6.1

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• How to Import/Export Application Template
• How to Disable Asset Inventory Data Collection
• How to Access Thwack Templates Through Proxy
• How to Delete Interfaces from Nodes
• Creating a Report that will Return the Node Name and the Serial Number from the Assigned Universal Device Poller
• How to Create an Advanced SQL Report that Shows Unmanaged ESX Guests
• How to Monitor the Windows Mount Points on the Server
• How to Monitor an Application Process Launched from a Specific Path
• How to Effectively Monitor MySQL Servers
• Best Practices for Monitoring Performance & Health of Apache™ Web Servers
• How SolarWinds SAM Can Help the Air Force Monitor and Resolve Server Issues | Video Tutorial
  
• How to Use the SolarWinds Orion Report Writer | Video Tutorial
  
• How SolarWinds Products Fit Together | Video Tutorial

• How to Manually Register a SolarWinds License
• AppInsight for IIS: Updating WsMan Limits
• AppInsight for IIS: Firewall Rule
• AppInsight for IIS: Certificate
• Protecting Against POODLE Security Vulnerability (CVE-2014-3566)
• AppInsight: Changing Between 32-bit and 64-bit Polling Methods
• You Want to Load Dell OpenManage Server Administrator (OMSA) Sensors on Linux in SAM
• You are Unable to Access Server WMI with a Local Administrator Account
• AppInsight for SQL: CPU usage at 100%
• Removing WSDL Files
• You have a Problem Displaying GB/MB with the MemoryUsed Variable Used in the Email Action in Alert
• AppInsight for Exchange: Configuration Failing
• Performance Statistics are Displayed with Incorrect Measurement Unit
• SAM Maintenance Overdue Notification in UI Reporting Issue with Component Status Details
• What Object IDs (OIDs) does the Orion Platform Poll for Network Topology Information? What Types of Network Topology Information does the Orion Platform Poll?

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• Online Administrator Guide
• Administrator Guide
• Evaluation Guide
• SAM Template Reference
• Datasheet
• AppInsight Application User Guide
• Release Notes
• Port Requirements
• WMI for TroubleShooting SolarWinds SAM
• Troubleshooting Hardware Health
• Windows 2012, SQL 2012 and SolarWinds Products

SAM Video Zone

• Thwack Videos
• Hybrid Cloud Monitoring: End-to-End Application Performance Visibility
• Exchange Monitoring Tool: AppInsight for Exchange
• SAM and VMan have Upgraded their Relationship
• Introduction to SAM
• SAM Video Training Playlist
• SAM Customer Training
• Application Monitor Templates Made Easy Plus Cloud Monitoring Tips
• IIS Web Server Monitoring Best Practices
• SAM Customer Training Level 2
  
• SAM Customer Training | Introduction
  
• SAM Customer Training | Tabs Views and Resources
  
• SAM Customer Training | Hardware Monitoring and Vendors
  
• SAM Customer Training | Managing Applications
  
• SAM Customer Training | Assigning Application Templates
  
• SAM Customer Training | SAM Credentials
  
• SAM Customer Training | Specific Alerting and Reporting
  
• SAM Customer Training | SAM Settings
  
• SAM Customer Training | Scalability
  
• Custom Application Monitoring with SAM
  
• Server Monitoring Software: Introduction to Server & Application Monitor
  
• How to Park, Migrate and Upgrade a SolarWinds License
• How to Activate a SolarWinds Product License

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Troubleshoot SAM

• Page Loading Problems with IE 11 in Windows 2012 R2
• Agent is Constantly Losing its Connection
• Unable to Install an Additional Poller While the Primary Poller is Running with an Installed HotFix
• Out of Memory Error is Being Displayed While Adding Windows Process Monitors
• AppInsight for IIS: Bad Input Parameter. An Unexpected Error Occurred During the Log Parsing Process
• Agent Management Service Will Not Start on Additional Poller
• AppInsight for IIS is Not Polling
• SAM's Hardware Health Monitoring is Broken for SAM v6.1.1 and Earlier After Upgrading to NPM 12
• AppInsight for IIS: Access is Denied When Configuring
• You Receive the Following Error: ERROR SolarWinds.APM.Probes.CustomPowerShellProbe - Probe error System.Management.Automation.ParseException: Missing closing '}'
• The SCOM Dashboard Does Not Render the Status of the SAM Tests Properly; However, the SCOM Dashboard Does Render Performance Metrics Properly
• AppInsight for Exchange: Error: Performance Counter Not Found
• AppInsight for Exchange: Cannot Identify Correct Space for Volumes in Mount Points
• NIC and Volumes Go into An Unknown State
• Hardware Health is Not Working for VMware ESX Host

What We Are Working On

• What We Are Working On After v6.1
• Suggest New Features for SAM
  

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