Customize user agent string?
I am running into an issue where a site I am attempting to monitor is rejecting the user-agent string that is coming from my transaction monitor. Is there a way to override the user-agent string within...
View ArticleInconsistent coordinate behavior
Here's our situation - any guidance is greatly appreciated. When using the recorder, the test is simply to:1. Log in2. Navigate a javascript menu tree3. navigate on and do some mundane validations. The...
View Articlestuck with pending requests
I've been experimenting in DEV myself for a bit this morning but thought asking might be faster.What setting can I tweak in the config to limit the # of retries the player permits for these...
View ArticleSEUM-User-# using up disk space
I've got three players spun up on Amazon with modest but sufficient resources to do the job. So far I've got 6 monitors assigned to each player. I've noticed that the seum-user-# subdirectories grow...
View ArticleWeb Performance Monitor and IE 10 / 11
Hi everyone, There is an issue that has more to do with IE 10 and 11 than with WPM, but the effect is that the new WebCache that is utilized for IE will quickly grow in size into the 10s of gigabytes...
View ArticleTransaction Monitor Error (Element field not found)
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,...
View ArticleGroup Order in Manage groups accounts in WPM not working
Hello, We have a user who is added in two different active directory groups. Both of these AD groups are added under the 'Manage Group Account' section. But when the user logs in, he is able to see the...
View Articleplayer vs recorder - inconsistent results?
I've noticed that some scripts play completely fine on the recorder, but on the same machine will fail during playback. This happens consistently across a large number of recordings. Where/what are...
View ArticleSEUM Transaction playback - using to many logins / connections (DDOS Attack) ;-p
I have two simple Transaction of accessing a IBM Cognos home page and then another that does the same thing but then goes one layer deeper for a report page. The recording of these two translation went...
View ArticleChecking for a value in a column of a table
We want to monitor a site that consists of a table with multiple rows and columns. We want to check one of the columns and throw a error if any of the values is over 50. Is this something WPM can do?...
View ArticleWPM v2.1 no longer being supported?
I happened to read the fine print in the WPM release notes (here) and it shows: SolarWinds End of Life PolicySolarWinds Orion WPM 2.1 has entered the End-Of-Life (EOL) cycle. This means that SolarWinds...
View ArticleWeb Performance Monitor and IE 10 / 11
Hi everyone, There is an issue that has more to do with IE 10 and 11 than with WPM, but the effect is that the new WebCache that is utilized for IE will quickly grow in size into the 10s of gigabytes...
View ArticleUnmanage via the API?
Is it possible to manage/unmanage transactions via the API? I wrote a cgi frontend (using perl) for Solarwinds that gives our operations an overview of all of the transactions and their current...
View ArticleService level agreements - do they ever *not* give us headaches?
When I asked about "What does it take to satisfy you when testing if a service is available or not?" the topic of SLAs came up. Specifically, user MSimmons said "Re: What does it take to satisfy you...
View ArticleIssue with website security certificate and WPM
(Disclaimer: I'm fairly new to the world of SolarWinds admin) We have a user portal that requires smart card for access that we want to monitor . I loaded a soft cert onto our solarwinds server and...
View ArticleProblem with transaction that failes without any failed steps
Hi I have a problem there i have a transaction that failes but no step has failed, it has done 2 steps of 9 and the rest gets out grayed, as failed message i got "COM object that has been separated...
View ArticlePlayer problems
Hi, I have problems with Transactions.Player is installed on my PC. This is Windows 7 Enterprise system with admin rights.Transactions were recorded for google.com and corporate website.WPM gives me...
View ArticleInconsistent coordinate behavior
Here's our situation - any guidance is greatly appreciated. When using the recorder, the test is simply to:1. Log in2. Navigate a javascript menu tree3. navigate on and do some mundane validations. The...
View ArticleHow to group transactions together and display them?
I have a lot of transactions for a specific application. So, i have created groups and have the transactions in the groups. I have then chosen Summary Reports -> All Groups, and this is exactly...
View ArticleWPM Player works for Intranet Sites but not for Internet Sites
Hello: I have set up WPM transaction monitors for one of our internal corporate web sites and for google.com. Both these transaction monitors work on some of my WPM players, but on a couple of them...
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