Please help us understand your organization's thinking on this topic by selecting how much you agree or disagree with the following statement:
"My company would never purchase a SaaS-based monitoring tool to monitor our on-premises IT infrastructure."
We are attempting to monitor our UCS Domain using Solarwinds. We were able to create the node with SNMP and UCS credentials, connect to the UCS Master, and add the fiber switches as nodes. However, the blades were not clickable to add them as nodes and adding the Managment IP address as a node manually would not populate the UCS table.
What appears to be happening is Solarwinds is expecting the management pool IP address information to come through the UCS Master API. However, when UCS Central is used to manage the IP pool, the UCS Master does not report the IP's in the same manner. Solarwinds is unable to determine the actual pool information, nor is it able to connect to UCS Central to collect the information from there. This would appear to require an update from Solarwinds in order to correctly intergrate with a UCS Domain if UCS Central is part of the configuration.
This can be a very problematic for sites that have multiple UCS servers configured and wish to use UCS Central in order to manage their site.
Hello all,
We have two of the above not stacked, they both have redundant power supplies. We want to add a node to alert us if one of the power supplies fails, but struggling to figure out how to get it to report the status of power supplies.
Has anyone added similar that could share their experiences?
Regards
Danny
I have a question regarding how the device is pinged from NPM. I noticed this gauge and got a little excited. It was indicating close to 400 ms average response time. The node was also having higher memory utilization. I pinged the device and always got similar to "bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=124". I then thought it could be that the Orion server is seeing this and remoted into the server and pinged the device with the same results. What could be up???
Hi guys,
In pre 11.5.x environment, a simple query would show you which APs have disappeared from the monitored controllers.
SELECT ap.IPAddress, ap.DisplayName
FROM Orion.Wireless.AccessPoints ap
WHERE Status=2
That query no longer works in NPM 11.5.x. Any idea where I should be looking instead?
Hello
I am using a very simple alert in order to get informed about interfaces going down. I have created several groups and I need to get informed for node interfaces going down only in one specific group (i.e. Group A).
Problem is, I'm getting alerts from node interfaces going down from other groups as well. I have triple checked and there are no same nodes being overlapped in different groups.
This is how I created the WEB alert.
Interface status is equal to down
AND
Group name is equal to Group A
After this simple alert didn't work for some time, I decided to play more advanced and use custom properties in Groups. This didn't work either (still getting alerts from node interfaces going down from other groups as well).
I feel that I'm missing something very simple here, any suggestions?
Thank you in advance.
Dear SQL Gurus,
Where can I find below check-boxes records in SQL server? I need TABLE and FIELD names
Thank you,
Alex
We are having an intermittent problem, which at one point error is displayed on the web interface with the message "time out" and only system back to normal after restarting the Solarwinds services.
I like to know if there is a way to add or embed troubleshooting notes within a network map. We use network maps that are displayed on overhead monitors. In the remote node section on the map, I have embedded icons for each system type. Clicking on the icon opens a topology map for that specific system. It is at this point that I would like an option to click on an icon on the map that would open a reference document. The document should be Windows word or Powerpoint format.
Thanks.
Hello all,
I have been digging through the discussions hoping to find one similar to mine. No luck!
My question is on dependencies and alerts. I have created a Group and added all my dependencies of a location to it. I have made the main router the parent to the child dependencies. When the parent sire router goes down i only receive the alert on the down parent. That much s correct. But when the parent comes up i receive the up alert for it and then an up alert for all the dependencies also.
I am trying to thin the amount of alerts i receive. If this worked as design i would only receive 2 alerts. the down & up of the parent.
Any ideas?
Hello all,
I am a newbie so please go easy on me.
I have 60 ESXI hosts that I want to create alerts for and am really hoping I do not have to make a separate alert for each host.
My hostnames are as follows:
c01esxihost01
c02esxihost01
c03esxihost01.... all the way up to 62.
Here is what I have so far:
Is there anyway I could make it something like this: Node Name is equal to c**esxi01
I do see the "starts with" option, it would be nice if there was an "ends with"..
Any advice would be much appreciated.
thanks,
Bmoore
Hello Everyone,
I wanted to know the best way to display a View on a TV screen for Each team.
The views are created. I wanted to see if we could tweak it or if there were any ` add ons` for TVs.
Every 3 minutes the screen refreshes and the seizing of the page changes and I have to scroll down to keep Only Solarwinds and the view..
Is there any way where I could hide the explore or even the chrome menu? without really having to scroll down every few minutes :-)
Thank you for your help.
Hi,
We are in the process of upgrading our SolarWinds estate and I have a question which relates to minimizing monitoring downtime.
If we have an instance of NPM 10.4.2 and SAM 5.5 with an additional polling engine, is it possible to fail the monitored nodes over to one polling engine, upgrade that to 11.5.1 and then fail the nodes back over to upgrade the additional polling engine? Or do you have to shut down Orion Services on both polling engines?
Kind regards,
James
I don't understand why there is group member alert available in Solarwinds. I setup email alert working well, but the system doesn't allow me to show which nodes or groups or group members triggered the alert. It seems group member alert doesn't want me know what triggered the alert. Anyone has an idea what I should do. Thanks
Here is the calculation for the Disk / Volume / RAM /below and example.
You can run the MIB Walk for the Node in Question in order to find out what values been returned by the Node for required OID's as below.
Here is MIB walk tool details
******** MIb Walk Result from the Node **********
.1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.3.1 = String: "Physical RAM"
.1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.3.2 = String: "Virtual Memory"
.1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.3.3 = String: "/"
.1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.3.4 = String: "/proc"
.1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.3.5 = String: "/dev/pts"
.1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.3.6 = String: "/proc/bus/usb"
.1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.3.7 = String: "/partB"
.1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.3.8 = String: "/common"
.1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.3.9 = String: "/grub"
.1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.3.10 = String: "/dev/shm"
.1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.3.11 = String: "/spare"
.1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.3.12 = String: "/proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc"
.1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.4.1 = INTEGER: 4096
.1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.4.2 = INTEGER: 4096
.1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.4.3 = INTEGER: 4096
.1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.4.4 = INTEGER: 4096
.1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.4.5 = INTEGER: 4096
.1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.4.6 = INTEGER: 4096
.1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.4.7 = INTEGER: 4096
.1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.4.8 = INTEGER: 4096
.1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.4.9 = INTEGER: 1024
.1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.4.10 = INTEGER: 4096
.1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.4.11 = INTEGER: 4096
.1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.4.12 = INTEGER: 4096
.1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.5.1 = INTEGER: 1021591
.1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.5.2 = INTEGER: 512034
.1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.5.3 = INTEGER: 4232703
.1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.5.4 = INTEGER: 0
.1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.5.5 = INTEGER: 0
.1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.5.6 = INTEGER: 0
.1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.5.7 = INTEGER: 4232699
.1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.5.8 = INTEGER: 17502476
.1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.5.9 = INTEGER: 252879
.1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.5.10 = INTEGER: 510795
.1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.5.11 = INTEGER: 8468466
.1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.5.12 = INTEGER: 0
.1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.6.1 = INTEGER: 447260
.1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.6.2 = INTEGER: 52
.1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.6.3 = INTEGER: 2837178
.1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.6.4 = INTEGER: 0
.1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.6.5 = INTEGER: 0
.1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.6.6 = INTEGER: 0
.1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.6.7 = INTEGER: 2736606
.1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.6.8 = INTEGER: 7646375
.1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.6.9 = INTEGER: 4303
.1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.6.10 = INTEGER: 5422
.1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.6.11 = INTEGER: 8256
****************** Physical Disks ******************
hrStorageDescr = .1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.3.3 = String: "/"
hrStorageAllocationUnits= .1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.4.3 = INTEGER: 4096
hrStorageSize .1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.5.3 = INTEGER: 4232703
hrStorageUsed = .1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.6.3 = INTEGER: 2837178
Calculations :
Volume size 4232703 x 4096 17337151488 Bytes 16.146 GB
Volume used 2837178 x 4096 11621081088 Bytes 10.822 GB
space available 17337151488 - 11621081088 = 5716070400 5.323 GB .
Percentage 10.8/16.14 * 100 65%
****************************************************
hrStorageDescr = .1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.3.1 = String: "Physical RAM"
hrStorageAllocationUnits= .1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.4.1 = INTEGER: 4096
hrStorageSize .1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.5.1 = INTEGER: 1021591
hrStorageUsed = .1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.6.1 = INTEGER: 447260
Calculations : Physical RAM
Volume size 1021591 x 4096 4184436736 Bytes 3.897 GB
Volume used 447260 x 4096 1831976960 Bytes 1.706 GB
space available 1831976960 - 4184436736 = 2352459776 2.1 GB
Percentage 1.706/3.897 * 100 43%
*********************************************************
hrStorageDescr = .1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.3.2 = String: "Virtual Memory"
hrStorageAllocationUnits= .1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.4.2 = INTEGER: 4096
hrStorageSize .1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.5.2 = INTEGER: 512034
hrStorageUsed = .1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.6.2 = INTEGER: 52
Calculations : Virtual Memory
Volume size 512034 x 4096 2097291264 Bytes 1.953 GB
Volume used 52 x 4096 212992 Bytes 0.0001 GB
space available 212992 - 2097291264 = 2097078272 1.953 GB .
Percentage 0.0001/1.953 * 100 0.0%
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Adding Few more explanation here for Cisco Call Manager Showing 99% Memory Utilization in Orion .( just in case someone having this issue )
The reason you are seeing 99% is due to the Cisco MCS returning back those values.
Why its doing this, you have to Open Cisco TAC.
NPM is returning back the values its being supplied with, in this case showing 99%.
Poller type: Used .
Memory poller for OpenVMS systems which support proprietary CPQ-Host MIB
Poller utilizes GetSubtree request with two OIDs to gather total and used memory:
cpqHoPhysicalMemorySize = 1.3.6.1.4.1.232.11.2.13.1.
cpqHoPhysicalMemoryFree = 1.3.6.1.4.1.232.11.2.13.2.
Total memory is computed using this formula:
memoryTotal = cpqHoPhysicalMemorySize * 1024
Used memory is computed using this formula:
memoryUsed = memoryTotal - (cpqHoPhysicalMemoryFree * 1024)
MIB Walk shows:
.1.3.6.1.4.1.232.11.2.13.1.0 = INTEGER: 3990 = cpqHoPhysicalMemorySize
.1.3.6.1.4.1.232.11.2.13.2.0 = INTEGER: 60 = cpqHoPhysicalMemoryFree
memoryTotal = 3990 * 1024 = 4085760
memoryUsed = 4085760 - (60 * 1024) = 4085760 – 61440 = 4024320
PercentUsed = 4024320/4085760 = 98.496% = 99%
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For Linux Server for Poller assigned N.Memory.SNMP.NetSnmpReal
If poller assigned
N.Memory.SNMP.NetSnmpReal
/// memTotalReal = 1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.4.5.
/// memAvailReal = 1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.4.6.
/// memCached = 1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.4.15.
/// memBuffer = 1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.4.14.
/// UsedMemory = (totalMem - availMem - cachedMem - bufferMem) * 1024
.1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.4.5.0 = INTEGER: 2073620 (Total )
.1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.4.6.0 = INTEGER: 1869968 (Available )
.1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.4.15.0 = INTEGER: 88008 (cachedMemory )
.1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.4.14.0 = INTEGER: 51868 (BufferMemory )
( 2073620– 1869968– 88008– 51868 ) = 63776
63776 * 1024 = 65306624 bytes
********************
Supported Poller
The "Memory" Usage and the "Physical Memory" Utilization are calculated differently by Orion NPM.
Memory:
The Memory is the sum of the memory used by the processes listed in the HOST-RESOURCES-MIB:hrSWRunPerfTable (1.3.6.1.2.1.25.5.1).
The OID used is the hrSWRunPerfMem (1.3.6.1.2.1.25.5.1.1.2).
Physical Memory:
The Physical Memory is calculated based on the values populated in the HOST-RESOURCES-MIB:hrStorageTable (1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.2.3).
The OIDs used are hrStorageSize (1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.5), hrStorageUsed (1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.6) and hrStorageAllocationUnits (1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1.4) .
We are attempting to monitor our UCS Domain using Solarwinds. We were able to create the node with SNMP and UCS credentials, connect to the UCS Master, and add the fiber switches as nodes. However, the blades were not clickable to add them as nodes and adding the Managment IP address as a node manually would not populate the UCS table.
What appears to be happening is Solarwinds is expecting the management pool IP address information to come through the UCS Master API. However, when UCS Central is used to manage the IP pool, the UCS Master does not report the IP's in the same manner. Solarwinds is unable to determine the actual pool information, nor is it able to connect to UCS Central to collect the information from there. This would appear to require an update from Solarwinds in order to correctly intergrate with a UCS Domain if UCS Central is part of the configuration.
This can be a very problematic for sites that have multiple UCS servers configured and wish to use UCS Central in order to manage their site.
This tool can be used to view how the UCS is actually configured and required output by Solarwinds Support.
( Please Note : This is not the actual configuration down loader like as NCM )
Please run this tool - it will collect some data about UCS to xml file.
Then please check the file how the UCS is configured.
Run it from CMD:
in a case you are using SSL:
S: - source IP address
U: - user
P: - password
O: - output file
Growth is either down to 2 reasons:
1 NO DISK SPACE
2 LDF Autogrowth restriction has been reached
First thing I would do is Change Recovery from FULL to SIMPLE if not done so already
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189275.aspx
The transaction log should be sized based on the amount of data modifications made to a database and the frequency of the log backups.
Large data modifications, such as data loads or index rebuilds should be taken into account when calculating a log file size.
In simple recovery model the transaction log should not grow as the interval between checkpoints (which truncate the log) is based on the amount of data modifications made.
If the log does grow, it may be that there are long-running transactions or transactions that have been left open. Either may indicate a problem with the application.
In full or bulk-logged recovery model, if the transaction log grows it may indicate that the frequency of data modifications has increased and as such,
the interval between log backups should be decreased. It may also indicate long running transactions or that the log backup jobs are not running properly.
RESOLUTION STEPS :-
.LDF file grows out of control, How to recover:
1.) Make sure recovery model is set for SIMPLE and NOT FULL
http://knowledgebase.solarwinds.com/kb/questions/1359/Changing+Recovery+Model+of+database+back+to+Simple
2.) Backup the database, this will mark the data in the transaction logs as committed and no longer necessary.
3.) Shrink the database again to reclaim the log space. (PLEASE NOTE YOU MUST HAVE SOME FREE SPACE ON THE DISK IN ORDER TO RUN THE SHRINK )
How to: Shrink a Database (SQL Server Management Studio)
How to: Shrink a File (SQL Server Management Studio)
8.) Select the MDF file, and hit okay.
9) Remove the LDF file entry hit OK
It will recreate will 0KB LDF File automatically.
Future Proof so it doesn’t recoccur
After above all should be fine, but have you check LDF File growth doesnt reoccur.
Also once set to SIMPLE Recovery, LDF file should never really be over 1GB if all running smoothly.
But can also configure LDF to Restricted Growth, so say LDF File on Drive over 100GB Free,
You could restrict LDF to few dozen GB just to be safe,
in case LDF growth reoccurred and LDF goes 100GB and brings down server due lack disk space.
How can i Examine / Open / Analyze what is in Transaction Log file ?
SQL Server transaction log format is not documented and therefore can’t be used to read data from it directly.
There are tools such as ApexSQL Log that can read the transaction log but it’s only because they probably spent a ton of time reverse engineering its format.
ApexSQL Log - SQL Server log explorer | ApexSQL
Options for reading are to:
a) figure the format on your own (not recommended)
b) get yourself a third party tool
c) using functions such as fn_dblog that are also not documented but can give you some details.
For more details please see the post below
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7748653/how-to-open-the-sql-server-transaction-log-fileldf
How to read the SQL Server Database Transaction Log
http://solutioncenter.apexsql.com/read-a-sql-server-transaction-log/
Installed our first cisco c3650's and getting that error above which coincides with 2 of the "trunk" (uplink) ports on the switch.
Has anyone run into this ? have a fix ?