We recently performed a P2V operation of a physical Window 2003 server that supports SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM). After the P2v operation all our servers that are being monitored by SolarWinds NPM had to have their SNMP service restarted so that monitoring by Solarwinds NPM could be restored. All regained monitoring. However, shortly after this, our Web Servers being monitored by SolarWinds started alerting that their w3wp.exe Monitor - SNMP process and inetinfo.exe Monitor -SNMP process were stopped. This occurred daily and at frequency intervals of about an hour (the process would stop and start on its own). Restarting the SNMP service has temporarily resolved the alerts but they do come back after awhile.
Our customer who maintains the Web applications on these servers says that the servers are doing fine but the alerts keep coming. They contend it must be because of the P2V operation. Solarwinds was consulted and they have reviewed each server. They contend that it is not with their application nor do they believe it is/was caused by the P2v.
Since these alerts did not occur prior to the P2v, I am not totally convinced that something did NOT occur as a result of the server virtualization. Has anyone seen this sort of event with their Web Servers?
