Server & Application Monitor (SAM) - Updated September 16, 2014

Start Using SAM v6.1

• How to Download Latest Version of SAM
• System Requirements
• License SAM
• Install SAM
  
• Upgrade SAM
• Installing SolarWinds Additional Polling Engines
• Migrating SAM
• Introduction to SAM
• Overview of SAM
  
• Setup Server & Application Monitor in 4 Easy Steps
• Web Based Reporting Supported Products Matrix
• SAM Overview | Video Tutorial
• SAM Guided Tour | Video Tutorial

Latest Blogs

• Troubleshooting Quality of Experience Problems With SAM
• Measuring And Monitoring Performance of Web Services
• Going Beyond System Center for Comprehansive 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
• IIS Web Server Monitoring: Best Practices
• A New (Lesser Known) Feature in SAM
• Monitor Bottlenecks In Exchange Server
• 5 Tips To Optimize Exchange Server For Improved Performance

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Make The Most Of SAM

• 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
• Customer Application Monitoring with SAM | Video Tutorial
  
• Integration Tips
• SolarWinds Events Calendar

Most Recent / Popular KBs

• How to Manually Register a SolarWinds License
• 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
• AppInsight for Exchange: The Configure Server Button Fails to Complete Successfully on Windows Server 2008
• AppInsight for Exchange: Remote Configuration Failed Due to Multiple Connections
• Powershell Exception After .Net 4.5 Upgrade
• I'm Seeing "Access Denied" Or "Network Path was Not Found" Errors When Deploying an Agent
• PowerShell 2.0 was Not Detected On the Exchange Server
• Invalid Exchange Certificate Assigned to Website

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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 Configure SAM to Monitor an Oracle Database Server
• How to Effectively Monitor MySQL Servers
• Best Practices for Monitoring Performance & Health of Apache™ Web Servers

SAM Video Zone

• Thwack Videos
• Exchange Monitoring Tool: AppInsight for Exchange
• Exchange Management Made Easy: Server & Application Monitor, now with AppInsight for Exchange
• SAM and VMan have Upgraded their Relationship
• 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
  
• How SolarWinds SAM Can Help the Air Force Monitor and Resolve Server Issues
  
• How to Use the SolarWinds Orion Report Writer
  
• 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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SAM Documentation

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

SAM Releases

• SAM v6.2 Beta - Because Sometimes You Feel Like a Nut - Part 3
• SAM v6.2 Beta - Because Sometimes You Feel Like a Nut - Part 2
• SAM v6.2 Beta - Because Sometimes You Feel Like a Nut - Part 1
• Release Candidate of SAM v6.1.1
  
• SAM 6.1 Hot Fix for Daylight Savings Time Bug
• General Availability of SAM v6.1
  
• Release Candidate of SAM v6.1
  
• Introducing Appinsight for Exchange - SAM v6.1 Beta 2 Sneak Peek
  
• SAM v6.1 - New Feature Overview and Beta Sign-Up
• Release Candidate of SAM v6.0
• SAM v6.0 Beta Sign Up
• SAM Release Candidate Group
• SAM Beta Group

Troubleshoot SAM

• OWA Form Login Component Intermittently Fails
• AppInsight Templates are Not Available
• AppInsight for SQL: Database Status is Not Calculated Correctly in all Cases
• AppInsight for Exchange: Remote Configuration was Unsuccessful due to the Following: "WinRM Test was Successful" "
• AppInsight for IIS: Quota Violation Error
• Disabling AppInsight Components does Not Reduce License Usage
• AppInsight for Exchange: Excessive Number of PowerShell Sessions and Incomplete or Missing Results for Some AppInsight for Exchange Database Metrics
• AppInsight for IIS: WMI Memory Leak Requiring Microsoft Hotfix KB2519454
• AppInsight for SQL: Create an Alert Trigger Based on How Much Available Space is Occupied by Actual Data in the Database
• WMI Interfaces Not Being Found with Non-Administrator User
• SAM Hardware Health: Blade Servers Are Reporting the Same Serial Number
• AppInsight for SQL: Auto Close Option for Database Breaks Polling of Performance Counters and Database Collation
• Svchost.exe Consuming Large Amounts of Memory
• AppInsight for Exchange: Remote Configuration failed due to Multiple Connections
• Unable to Send and Receive Statistics from Exchange 2010 Mailbox with PowerShell Template - The WinRM Client Cannot Process the Request

What We Are Working On

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

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