Hi,

I am trying to record a application and it seems it takes nearly 30 seconds for google analytics code to download which is causing the overall transaction end up in a higer rate. Any suggestions/ work around to fix this.

Many of you did notice recent exciting news, that we have a new family member - Pingdom joins SolarWinds!

Pingdom - a leader in cloud based web monitoring is great for measuring customer experience for customer-faced websites, provides end user experience from different geos and browsers, it's easy to start with abilities like RUM, transaction scripting and extensive mobile support. You may be asking about future of Website monitoring in Solarwinds and that is absolutely right question. WPM is a powerful synthetic monitoring solution, great for behind the firewall web application monitoring, with on premise or Amazon cloud options. However what do you think should be future of these two products? How would like to see these two be integrated if at all? What value you would like to get from this marriage?

Thinking about same and different use-cases for Pingdom and WPM: are you using WPM for monitoring internal or external sites (or both)? How many you have of each? What is in Pingdom, that would make your life easier? Are you using some other monitoring solution with WPM, which is actually a complement like Pingdom?

Share your opinion and ask more questions. We want to know!

Hi All,

I'm doing some web testing and the list items i've recorded with values are being missed when I play the WPM transaction back. Does anyone have any idea why this happens? is there a way around it? I have tried rerecording using X Y coordinates and that didn't work either.

Hello,

I currently use the following to unmanage a node from the API.

curl -k -u user: -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d @"unmanage.txt" "https://x:17778/Solarwinds/InformationService/v3/json/Invoke/Orion.Nodes/Unmanage"

unmanage.txt -

["N:19","04-26-2017 12:00:00 PM","04-27-2017 02:00:00 PM","false"]

I tried using this since transactions have an ID assigned -

["T:2","04-26-2017 12:00:00 PM","04-27-2017 02:00:00 PM","false"]

which returned a clear error -

{"Message":"Only nodes can be unmanaged through this interface. T:2 does not refer to a node.","ExceptionType":"System.NotSupportedException","FullException":"System.NotSupportedException: Only nodes can be unmanaged through this interface. T:2 does not refer to a node.\u000d\u000a  at SolarWinds.InformationService.Verb.VerbExecutor.Invoke(Object hostInstance, Object[] parameters)\u000d\u000a  at SolarWinds.InformationService.Verb.VerbExecutorContext.Invoke()\u000d\u000a  at SolarWinds.InformationService.Core.InformationService.Invoke[T](String entity, String verb, Action`1 setupParameters, Func`2 extractReturnValue)"}19

I then tried referencing the table / modifying the call slightly

curl -k -u user: -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d @"unmanage.txt" "https://x:17778/Solarwinds/InformationService/v3/json/Invoke/Orion.SEUM.Transactions/Unmanage"

["T:2","04-26-2017 12:00:00 PM","04-27-2017 02:00:00 PM","false"]

which simply returned 'null'.

Could anyone point me in the right direction on how I can unmanage a transaction through the API?

Is the player load percentage based on # of CPUs?   So if I have 2 CPUs, then I can safely go up to 200%?

Asking because around 7pm the other night, for some unknown reason at this time, all 4 of my current players doubled in load according to WPM.

All of them are now reporting well over 100% load and none of them even have 25 transactional tests on them yet.

Oddly, this occurred on two different WPM installations, one in PRD and one in DEV.   Yet, the load on all players on each WPM installation doubled at the same time.

Are there any recommended troubleshooting steps to take if WPM cannot connect to the player location? So far i have verified that port 17781 on the player laptop and on the main server are open, and verified the WPM player was installed with a local admin account. I contacted support a few weeks ago and they advised me to re-install the WPM player/recorder on our WPM laptop with local admin rights, but for some reason I still cannot add the location successfully in the solarwinds console.

Thanks for your help!

Is there any way to do this? We are breaking out WPM instance into a separate Orion instance because we are looking at deploying a very large amount of WPM transactions over the next few months. Currently we have about 80 - 100 transactions that we need to migrate from the old WPM instance to the new one but it looks like the export button only works with a single recording. I have been looking at the database and there are a couple of tables involved for WPM so I might be able to script out a SQL export and import but if there is a cleaner way to do this I'd prefer to not reinvent the wheel.

Any ideas on this.

Thanks

-Jim

How to download web server Package.

Has anyone else encountered this problem?

I have a Node CustomProperty that we have Account Limitations set for all users.  But when I click on any of our Transaction Monitors, even those associated to a node, I get a timeout or it has the spinner for a long amount of time and never stops the Loading... spinner.

When I remove the Account Limitations from the user, the pages load quickly and no slowness appears to be present.

v1.0 PR1

Installed on an existing test installation of Orion + modules.

Followed by:

Solution:

Optional > stop all Orion services
1. Check permissions/Repair the X:\InetPub\SolarWinds\ folder using OrionPermissionChecker.exe
2. Rerun Configuration Wizard

I did a simple recording of our in network SharePoint site which does require domain authentication to access.  First time around with the playback pushed to a workstation node it was an issue.  Redid the recording with PassThrough Authentication off in the browser, thought that was going to do the trick. NOPE.

Seem a few pages down the authentication is broke or not there because I get a access denied and see this in the screen shot from the web console report. Which at this point breaks the rest of the playback.

I would also like to note with the PassThrough Authentication turned off and having to capture the logon prompt for credentials, greatly increases the time of execution.  If a normal user was to just open their browser which points to our SharePoint site it opens within 3 4 secs and not 27 seconds.

So I want the Player service on my remote node to run under a domain service account which will have access to our in-house SharePoint site and sub pages.  What all would I need to do to make this happen.

Is the player load percentage based on # of CPUs?   So if I have 2 CPUs, then I can safely go up to 200%?

Asking because around 7pm the other night, for some unknown reason at this time, all 4 of my current players doubled in load according to WPM.

All of them are now reporting well over 100% load and none of them even have 25 transactional tests on them yet.

Oddly, this occurred on two different WPM installations, one in PRD and one in DEV.   Yet, the load on all players on each WPM installation doubled at the same time.

Is there any way to do this? We are breaking out WPM instance into a separate Orion instance because we are looking at deploying a very large amount of WPM transactions over the next few months. Currently we have about 80 - 100 transactions that we need to migrate from the old WPM instance to the new one but it looks like the export button only works with a single recording. I have been looking at the database and there are a couple of tables involved for WPM so I might be able to script out a SQL export and import but if there is a cleaner way to do this I'd prefer to not reinvent the wheel.

Any ideas on this.

Thanks

-Jim

The recording that I created works fine when I run it manually.  But when I run the transaction every 10 minutes, it always fail with "element text field not found".. On my other recording, intermittently the

errors are "element div not found",  "element button not found" or 'element link not found".   Is there anything that I need to add on the recording to make these run properly? Thanks

Hi everyone,

Is anyone else having problems with proxy settings on transactions?

The WPM player is on a standalone Windows 7 32bit (Not on a domain).

Group Policy is also set to "disabled" on "Make proxy settings per-machine (rather than per-user)".

Proxy server is open on port 80 on local address.

Here is an example of the AgentWorker.log

*** SolarWinds WPM Agent Worker v(null), .Net Runtime (null) ***

*** Assembly SolarWinds.SEUM.Agent.Worker, Version=2.2.0.297, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null, .NET version v4.0.30319 ***

2015-10-13 11:42:27,308 [SolarWinds.SEUM.Agent.Worker.exe][Main] INFO  SolarWinds.SEUM.Agent.Worker.Program - Starting agent worker process with PID 2536 as user 'SEUM-User-1' in session 0.

2015-10-13 11:42:27,308 [SolarWinds.SEUM.Agent.Worker.exe][Main] INFO  SolarWinds.SEUM.Agent.Worker.Program - arguments: a8204cd4-e131-45eb-bb43-e65aef8d3ded, 1664, 300

*** Assembly SolarWinds.SEUM.Agent.Common, Version=2.2.0.297, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null, .NET version v4.0.30319 ***

*** Assembly SolarWinds.SEUM.Common, Version=2.2.0.297, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null, .NET version v4.0.30319 ***

*** Assembly SolarWinds.SEUM.Player.WatiN, Version=2.2.0.297, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null, .NET version v4.0.30319 ***

*** Assembly SolarWinds.SEUM.Browser, Version=2.2.0.297, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null, .NET version v4.0.30319 ***

*** Assembly csExWB, Version=2.0.0.2, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null, .NET version v2.0.50727 ***

2015-10-13 11:42:27,511 [SolarWinds.SEUM.Agent.Worker.exe][UI Thread] WARN  SolarWinds.SEUM.Browser.SEUMWebBrowser - Error clearing cache: Exception from HRESULT: 0x80072EE4

2015-10-13 11:42:27,511 [SolarWinds.SEUM.Agent.Worker.exe][UI Thread] WARN  SolarWinds.SEUM.Browser.SEUMWebBrowser - Error clearing cookies: Exception from HRESULT: 0x80072EE4

2015-10-13 11:42:27,542 [SolarWinds.SEUM.Agent.Worker.exe][Browser Thread] WARN  SolarWinds.SEUM.Player.WatiN.WatiNPlayer - Proxy for playback was not set. Expected proxy address is http://proxy.domain.com:80 but current proxy address is . Group policy 'Make proxy settings per-machine' is probably enabled.

2015-10-13 11:44:12,796 [SolarWinds.SEUM.Agent.Worker.exe][UI Thread] WARN  SolarWinds.SEUM.Browser.EventProcessors.BrowserEventProcessor - Navigate error: URL: https://www.google.dk/, StatusCode: INET_E_RESOURCE_NOT_FOUND, TargetFrame:

2015-10-13 11:44:13,092 [SolarWinds.SEUM.Agent.Worker.exe][Browser Thread] WARN  SolarWinds.SEUM.Player.WatiN.WatiNPlayer - Browser was stuck with pending requests for more than 30000ms.

2015-10-13 11:44:13,092 [SolarWinds.SEUM.Agent.Worker.exe][Browser Thread] WARN  SolarWinds.SEUM.Player.WatiN.WatiNPlayer - Remaining pending request: Begin: +0,000 s, Blocked: 0,015ms, DNS: 0 ms, Connection: 0 ms, Send: 0 ms, TTFB: 0 ms, Download: 0 ms, Size: 0 Mime: text/html Status: 0 URL: https://www.google.dk/

2015-10-13 11:44:13,092 [SolarWinds.SEUM.Agent.Worker.exe][Browser Thread] WARN  SolarWinds.SEUM.Player.WatiN.WatiNPlayer - Continue execution without requests above included in page load duration.

2015-10-13 11:44:13,108 [SolarWinds.SEUM.Agent.Worker.exe][Browser Thread] ERROR SolarWinds.SEUM.Player.WatiN.WatiNPlayer - Action Action Navigate 0d84a60e-3449-4053-9db6-1356a5afa6fe https://www.google.dk/ explicit failed. Reason: SolarWinds.SEUM.Common.Exceptions.NavigationException: Resource not found

   at SolarWinds.SEUM.Player.WatiN.ActionProcessor.Visit(ActionNavigate action)

   at SolarWinds.SEUM.Common.Actions.ActionNavigate.Accept(IActionVisitor visitor)

   at SolarWinds.SEUM.Player.WatiN.ActionProcessor.Process(ActionBase action)

   at SolarWinds.SEUM.Player.WatiN.WatiNPlayer.RunAction(StepResult results, ActionBase action)

2015-10-13 11:44:13,108 [SolarWinds.SEUM.Agent.Worker.exe][Browser Thread] ERROR SolarWinds.SEUM.Player.WatiN.WatiNPlayer - Action Action Navigate 0d84a60e-3449-4053-9db6-1356a5afa6fe https://www.google.dk/ explicit failed.

2015-10-13 11:44:13,170 [SolarWinds.SEUM.Agent.Worker.exe][Browser Thread] ERROR SolarWinds.SEUM.Player.WatiN.WatiNPlayer - Step 'Åbner Google.dk' (43 - 353393e8-1f22-4ce6-8caa-ac475009b17d) failed. Terminating run.

2015-10-13 11:44:13,201 [SolarWinds.SEUM.Agent.Worker.exe][UI Thread] WARN  SolarWinds.SEUM.Browser.SEUMWebBrowser - Error clearing cache: Exception from HRESULT: 0x80072EE4

2015-10-13 11:44:18,537 [SolarWinds.SEUM.Agent.Worker.exe][10] WARN  SolarWinds.SEUM.Agent.Worker.AgentWorker - Failed result: <result version="2.2.0" structureVersion="2" id="846205e6-c763-4e48-85b4-c734f8764d6e" recordingId="3b370191-d7b7-4367-b01a-9e0131c1c9d1" duration="PT0S" playbackDuration="PT1M45.6277855S" received="2015-10-13T09:42:27.5584483Z" finished="true" status="failed">

  <failureCauses>

    <failureCause>ProxyOverrideFailed</failureCause>

  </failureCauses>

  <steps>

    <step stepId="353393e8-1f22-4ce6-8caa-ac475009b17d" duration="PT0S" status="failed">

      <screenshotFailure imageType="TIFF" id="e223373e-3df8-4507-99e9-bb774e7b2193">... image data ...</screenshotFailure>

      <pageHtml>... page HTML ...</pageHtml>

      <actions>

        <action actionId="0d84a60e-3449-4053-9db6-1356a5afa6fe" duration="PT0S" type="Navigate" status="failed">

          <exception type="SolarWinds.SEUM.Common.Exceptions.ActionFailedException, SolarWinds.SEUM.Common, Version=2.2.0.297, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null" recoverable="false">

            <message>Action "Navigate to https://www.google.dk/" failed</message>

            <action type="Navigate" guid="0d84a60e-3449-4053-9db6-1356a5afa6fe" browserIndex="0" name="" url="https://www.google.dk/" explicit="true" />

            <exception type="SolarWinds.SEUM.Common.Exceptions.NavigationException, SolarWinds.SEUM.Common, Version=2.2.0.297, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null" recoverable="false" statusCode="-2146697211" url="https://www.google.dk/" proxyStatus="0">

              <message>Resource not found</message>

            </exception>

          </exception>

        </action>

      </actions>

    </step>

  </steps>

</result>

I noticed this always happens at the same time as a windows event:

Windows detected your registry file is still in use by other applications or services. The file will be unloaded now. The applications or services that hold your registry file may not function properly afterwards.

WPM was running on a server all kinds of other software,

So I installed WPM on a fresh computer running only windows 7,

but we are still getting the same problem.

Anyone seen this before / know how to fix it?

Full Error:

Warning - User Profile Service - 1530

Windows detected your registry file is still in use by other applications or services. The file will be unloaded now. The applications or services that hold your registry file may not function properly afterwards. 

DETAIL -

3 user registry handles leaked from \Registry\User\S-1-5-21-3180736419-2574619303-322211628-1002:

Process 2284 (\Device\HarddiskVolume2\Windows\System32\dllhost.exe) has opened key \REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-3180736419-2574619303-322211628-1002

Process 2284 (\Device\HarddiskVolume2\Windows\System32\dllhost.exe) has opened key \REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-3180736419-2574619303-322211628-1002\Control Panel\International

Process 2284 (\Device\HarddiskVolume2\Windows\System32\dllhost.exe) has opened key \REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-3180736419-2574619303-322211628-1002\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer

Just did a brand new install on a fresh server and I am unable to get the module engine to start. Any ideas?

I'm evaluating SAM and WPM and I haven't been able to get WPM to work. I'm using the default transaction for google.com and also setup one for a local Intranet site. Neither of them have successfully generated any data/results. When I set them up in the Player and hit play to test them they worked just fine. If I check in the web console I see the following:

If I drill down into the Google Transaction I see the following:

Running this on Windows Server 2012 R2, evaluation versions of SAM and WPM using the all-in-one install (SQL Express):

Web Performance Monitor 2.2.0 Build #2.2.0.297

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor v6.2 Build #6.2.0.1080

The SolarWinds Job Engine and Data Processor eat up a lot of CPU and make everything noticeably slower in the web console after installing WPM.

In the AgentService.log file I see the following:

2015-05-29 08:38:32,468 [PlaybackDispatcher] ERROR SolarWinds.SEUM.Agent.WorkerProcessManagement.WorkerProcessManager - Unable to create worker process. Trying again.

SolarWinds.SEUM.Agent.Exceptions.AgentException: Unable to launch worker process

   at SolarWinds.SEUM.Agent.WorkerProcessManagement.WorkerProcessWCFProxy.Connect(Boolean launchProcess)

   at SolarWinds.SEUM.Agent.WorkerProcessManagement.WorkerProcessWCFProxy..ctor(String userName, String domain, String password, Int32 sessionId)

   at SolarWinds.SEUM.Agent.WorkerProcessManagement.WorkerProcessFactory.CreateWorkerProcess(String username, String domainOrMachine, String password, Int32 sessionId)

   at SolarWinds.SEUM.Agent.WorkerProcessManagement.WorkerProcessManager.AddWorkerProcess(String username, String domainOrMachine, String password, Boolean runInInteractiveSession)

2015-05-29 08:38:32,468 [PlaybackDispatcher] ERROR SolarWinds.SEUM.Agent.WorkerProcessManagement.WorkerProcessLauncher - Error launching worker process.

System.Exception: Error launching worker process. Error: logon error. System error: 0x569

   at SolarWinds.SEUM.Agent.WorkerProcessManagement.WorkerProcessLauncher.LaunchWorkerProcessInCurrentSession()

   at SolarWinds.SEUM.Agent.WorkerProcessManagement.WorkerProcessLauncher.LaunchWorkerProcessInternal()

Not sure why it's throwing a logon error. Any suggestions on what I can do to get this working? I already tried uninstalling, rebooting and reinstalling WPM and that didn't make any difference. If there's another log that would be helpful, please let me know, I really don't know much about SolarWinds products. Thanks.

I am trying to get a clear picture of how WPM works.  The Admin guide doesn't really explain it.  The Data sheet gives one picture and kind of leaves me hanging.  Does this application module require a separate server?  It cannot be installed on the same server as NPM and the other modules?   I also need to add 2 more other machines for the player and recorder?

I want to monitor Skype for Business services.  Just basic connectivity, is it up or down.   Any thing additional would be groovy.

I have SAM and WPM, but I believe WPM would be the tool for this since this since it is web based.

Suggestions ? jbiggley