In case you hadn't seen in NPM 11.5, we shipped a technical preview of a new feature we are calling Orion Global Search (OGS). Full details (and feedback forum) are here: Global Search Technical Preview - Notes & Info In summary, our vision for OGS is to give you one-stop-shopping to find Orion object. For the technical preview build, we have this capability enabled for NPM objects, syslogs, traps, and some SAM and VIM data. The team is very interested in your feedback!
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Have you tried the Orion Global Search technical preview?
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Cisco Catalyst 3750 reports high transmit discards
Recently, we have set up Network Performance Monitor and it is showing a high amount of transmit discards on every interface of one of our switches.
AnnexStack is actually two Catalyst 3750 switches - one is a 24 port (WS-C3750-24PS-S) and the other is a 48 port (WS-C3750-48PS-S). They are connected via stackwise cable, and the 24 port is being elected as the stack master. These switches are both running Version 12.2(44)SE5. I have searched and found cases of people having a similar issue where the discards are reported incorrectly. However, the "show platform port-asic stats drop" is showing a large amount of TxQueue drops as well, so I do not believe it is being reported incorrectly.
From what I have read, transmit discards can be a sign of network congestion. It may be important to note that 70 of the 72 ports available are in use, but we have not noticed any disruption of service or problems relating to this issue. All of the traffic is trunked through the GigabitEthernet2/0/1 port back to our core switch via fiber.
We plan to upgrade soon to two 48 port switches stacked in the same configuration, but we are worried that the amount of transmit discards may cause more trouble with 24 additional ports (if the issue is related to network congestion).
Any ideas or insight as to what could be causing this, things to test, etc, would be much appreciated.
Thank you,
Dan
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'Unplugged status' for workstations?
Hi
I've been asked to add in a set of user workstations to use solarwinds software / hardware auditing.
Going to use a custom property to exclude from alerts, but thinking these PCs will go up and down depending on use - is there a setting like that in interfaces where you can show it as unplugged rather than down?
Thanks!
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unknown machine type
I'm wondering how to dictate what "MachineType" Orion sees a node as. I have created some "ping test points" and would like to have the MachineType show up as that. If I change the field in SQL, Orion overwirtes it. Where does it grab that from. The object was created as "ping only", not SNMP in NPM, so I can't see it overwriting it with an SNMP value. Anyone run into this?
Thanks
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Which Help Desk / Service Desk are you using?
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ParentUri and ChildUri getting incorrect server name
When creating dependencies my install is setting the ParentUri and ChildUri to an old server name. Where can I change the server name being used in these variables?
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Physical rack server showing up as Vsphere Guest
Several weeks ago the guys in the data center had to work on a physical machine, so they virtualized it temporarily using the same IP address. After they completed their work they shut down the guest and brought the physical server back up.
However, the physical machine in NPM still shows as a VM under one of our vmware hosts.
How can this be corrected so that the machine is appropriately tagged as a physical server?
Thanks,
C.White
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UnDP Table Count?
I'm very new to NPM. What I'm trying to create is an alert that will let me know if my VPN tunnel is not complete. I have created a UnDP that is giving me the raw data to work with it looks like this:
What I want to do now is count how many rows have the data I'm looking for, for example 4237.21D2 would count 5 in my example above, then have SolarWinds alert me if that count is ever less than 5. Is there a way to accomplish this?
Thanks!
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Cisco ASA Failover status
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Cisco ASA as a Default gateway?
There has been over 1 million of Cisco ASAs built and deployed around the world in a past years (good job Cisco!). As not supporting SNMP protocol properly, they often complicate our lives when configured to be Default gateways, not allowing products like SolarWinds User Device Tracker to monitor what's behind. Do you use your ASAs as a Default gateways too? If so, what percentage of your network they route?
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is a an easy way remove domain name from the node caption
I like to see all my devices listed as name only, without the domain name added to the end. It makes the alerts shorter and easier to read on SMS messages, and it just looks nicer, I think.
Anyway, i have been removing the domain name by going to Manage Nodes, then editing the node properties to manually remove the domain from the end of each node name. Its not that big of a deal, but its very time consuming if i import a large number of nodes.
Is there any way to make this process more effectient? Maybe a way to do this in bulk or with a SQL update script?
Thanks,
Jeremy
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Looking for guidance on monitoring Cisco SX Codec video cameras with SolarWinds
Hello Folks,
I have recently started using SolarWinds again (it’s been a couple of years so I have forgotten quite a bit) and I am looking for guidance on how to monitor Cisco SX Codec video cameras. I was wondering if anyone out there is currently doing this and if I could get some ideas or a leg up from their experience. The type of things they want to monitor, create reports, and alert on are:
First pass
· Device up/down
· Jitter
· Latency
· Packet Loss (> 0.5% implies poor video quality)
Second pass
· Tagging
· Configuration Enforcement
· QoS
· Topology Mapping
Thanks for any help in advance!
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Monitoring Palo Alto Network Firewall NAT Table
In speaking with PAN support it seems that there are many interesting "show" commands that don't have a MIB.
One of them is reviewing the NAT Table or consumption thereof:
e.g. "show running ippool"
PAN indicates these are exposed via their API which uses XML calls.
Is there a way to create a Custom Poller based on HTTP calls instead of SNMP?
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group status view at the tree list of groups
Let's assume we use groups maintained on different ways - group of nodes, group of groups, group of nodes, interfaces and applications. they show up status on different way - some of them as "best of ..", some as "mixed status" - others as "worst of.." Has anybody an idea if there is a way to have displayed group status mode at goup tree list? I mean - which group is showing status at worst status of member and which shows mixed? I think it is not possible but maybe anybody got a tricky way to get it shown
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categories of web based reports vs groups of Report Writer's reports
Maybe I missed something but didn't find explanation why reports created at web interface (and categorized with the same name as group of Report Writer's reports) are not listed within the group to get selected by 'Custom List of Reports'. I suspect a bug because even cleaning of browser's cache didn't change items on the list of reports to select. Can anybody has solution for the issue? If web based reports 'Category" is something different than reports 'Groups' by Report Writer then why I can see both listed together as members of the Category-Group? I even cannot see report created at web interface at possible reports list at all (for Custom List of Reports item for 'view').
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NPM 11.5.1 Duplex Mismatch detection not working
I've got a client who is attempting to use the Duplex Mismatch detection that's available in NPM 11.5.1 and for some reason it doesn't seem to work/alert. The proper interfaces are monitored and the alert is enabled but when we initiate a duplex mismatch it just doesn't pop up. For example we hard coded a workstation to 100/hdx and the switch port to 100/fdx. If I drill down into the interface on the switch (which is monitored via NPM) it acknowledges the half duplex (hdx) but still no warning. Am I doing something wrong?
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Device Inventory
Not sure if this is an obtainable request, but I would like to do a full inventory on our servers and what they are monitoring (CPU, Memory, Network Interface, Disk Volumes etc).
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to obtain this, or has anyone already implemented something similar?
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Folks, how to improve a best performance to access to Web console Solarwinds, now is very slow
My navegation is to slow how to improve a best performance
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How can I see saved credentials of NPM?
Hi ,
Is there any way to see the saved credentials for Windows , UCS or VM saved in database?.
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Adding Live Weather to the "Worldwide Map" Resource
Adding Live Weather to the "Worldwide Map" Resource
Summary: This will allow you to add live weather to the worldwide map based on the OpenWeatherMap project (free).
Limitations: The map must be on a page where your can insert HTML/JavaScript. This will probably break during future releases.
Notes: If you want to change the height of your map you must do it within the HTML resource.
Preview:
Step 1: Get the id of your map element, to do this go to a page where you've inserted the map (don't go to the map page itself). Once there view the source of the page (Ctrl + U in most browsers) and search for the map element (Ctrl + F), search for 'id="worldmap' (without the single quotes but with the double quote). Make note of your map ID, in this case 753.
Step 2: Add a HTML resource to the page with the map on it that you would like to modify. To do this go to "Customize Page" >>> "Add Resource To Column X" >>> "Custom HTML".
Step 3: Paste the contents of the attached file into the Custom HTML resource you just added to the page. Make sure you update the file with your map ID you found in step 1 and change others settings you would like to.
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