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Hey all — I’ve put together a write‑up on Thwack about a sneaky NCM issue where config downloads fail with ACCESS‑DENIED but never show up as failures in the UI. I’ve seen this catch out a lot of environments, so I figured it was worth documenting.

I included a SQL alert that surfaces these hidden failures so you can catch them immediately instead of discovering them weeks later.

Curious if anyone else has run into this or solved it differently — always good to compare notes.

Article link:
https://thwack.solarwinds.com/discussion/152479/detecting-hidden-ncm-config-failures-access-denied-with-sql-alerts

It’s my first Thwack submission — hope it helps fellow SolarWinds geeks.

I have an alert that I need to change but if I save change it's going to trigger 1099 emails. If i disable email, do change and re-enable email it will trigger. If i disable alert all together, do change and re-enable alert it will trigger. How can I make the change without pushing out alot of emails.

Really got me scratching me head and google wasn't much help

Hi Everyone,

I recently performed the inplace upgrade on main and polling servers from 2016 to 2025. We have three 2003 legacy servers in our infra.

We received a node down alert for those three servers even though servers are up. We also identified it as a polling issue.

We are using Solarwinds agent based communication and I tried to switch it to SNMP for the legacy servers and it didn't work.

Any quick ways to fix this issue and polling issues started because of the OS upgrade. Are legacy servers not compatible with 2025 OS.

SAM version: 2025.2.1

Thanks in Advance.