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Wireless Heatmaps with multiple levels/large buildings

August 18, 2016, 12:22 pm
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I'm curious what people are doing when creating wireless heatmaps for larger buildings?

 

Is it necessary to put all of a site's APs on a single map?  I would think if you didn't, then your samples and coverage wouldn't be complete, but it's not clear how the Network Atlas Heatmap Mapping is handling missing APs.

What happens if I leave an AP off the map?  Does it's signal strength between itself and the other APs in the same building simply not get drawn in, but when sampling clients may be connected to an un-mapped AP and sample will fail?

 

Some scenarios:

  • We have 2 or 3 floors/levels of a building.  Say I'm making a map of the middle floor.  Do i need to place APs from the lower and upper floors on this same map as well?  Clients certainly could connect to an AP on a different level (even more likely when ceiling-mount APs are installed 'sideways' which is all too common), the Controller and AP's RRM operates in 3D space, not really understanding the difference in 'up and down' vs 'side to side', just focusing on coverage/distance between APs and signal strength/interference.  However Maps are inherently 2D.  Do we 'flatten' the whole building into a single 2D map (making a separate map to show relationships floor-by-floor), but still include all 3 floors worth of APs?  Or is it really better to put just the single floor's APs on the map at a time?

 

  • We have large office buildings with attached warehouses.  There's no reason a client sitting near the warehouse wall in the office won't connect to a warehouse-AP instead of an office AP that might be farther away.  What is best to do when the floorplan gets too big to display on one map?  Sure you can make the map smaller, but in the largest spaces, at some point it gets so small details like individual offices can't be discerned anymore.  How do I decide where to stop including 'far away' APs, when there's continuous coverage from one end of the building to another?  Is the solution to buy all of IT who will look at a the map giant multi-screen setups that can fit super-high resolution maps? (please say yes) ;-) !
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Volume Report - Fixed Disk - Available - Size - Used - overall volume capacity with Thresholds

July 1, 2016, 8:50 am
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SolarEGGs lol that always makes me laugh anyway,

 

Here is a report for a question that i wanted to answer and i know that before i post this i have wayyyyyy OVER  thought this and yea sure it can be done in the SolarWinds interface but i want to become awesome supreme SolarWinds SQL genius

 

So off we go..

the first part of this report is selecting the volume size's, volume space used, volume space available, percent used by adding them all up giving you the total volume sizes. i have based the where statement to only show vendors like Windows and select the volume type as Fixed disk thats all thats really happening here in the first part. you can indeed change the where statement to include custom properties and group your beloved nodes how every you want.

--you can edit this WHERE statement to filter the out any nodes you want to see  in the report
WHERE(n.n_customer like 'name of Customer') AND VolumeType IN('Fixed Disk', 'FixedDisk')

 

Version 1.3

***NEW***

 

Report features:

  • Report now includes THRESHOLDS per volume that will check the thresholds of your volumes and present them here.
  • Order percent used by highest first
  • clickable drives for direct volume landing page
  • clickable Nodes for direct Node landing page
  • report includes volumes, Size, Used, Available, Percent used, Warning Thresholds, Critical thresholds  
  • custom properties enabled for customer and any CP you use to group nodes

 

WHERE
-- you can change this report to only show your customers or vendors any CP you want really
(n.n_customer LIKE 'name of Customer') AND (VolumeType like 'Fix%') AND (n.Vendor like 'Windows')

 

to group the nodes simply

your end product will look like this

Simply download the attached for the two reports and one SUPER important thing to remember is

stay EGGY SolarWinds

 

please feel free to ask any questions on improvements or adjustments

credits to alexslv for the rounding and converting magic.

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ContainerMemberSnapshot update interval

October 4, 2016, 6:59 am
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Good morning everyone,

 

I modified one of the groups in the ContainerMemberDefinitions table to exclude some nodes, because we can't do it through the website currently.  I noticed that there are still nodes in the ContainerMemberSapshot table that violate the definition I just made.  I'm wondering how frequently the ContainerMemberSnapshot table gets updated, or if there is a way that I can make it update.

 

 

Thanks in advance!

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Creating a Heat Map within Network Atlas

March 4, 2015, 7:33 am
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When I try generate the heatmap within atlas I get the following error "Failed to Poll Access Points / Reference Points"  It was working yesterday.  I don't know what to do to resolve this, can you help??

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NPM 12.1/NCM 7.5.1 ?all good?

September 29, 2016, 1:32 am
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Hi

 

Please update if you have problems with 12.1 or NCM 7.5.1 ?

Sure like to get some good vibes ...

Before upgrate my production set..

 

/SJA

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NPM -How to monitor HP 3 Par Storage

October 6, 2016, 1:54 am
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Hi,

In NPM module, how to monitor the HP 3 Par storage.

Please share basic configuration of HP3 par and NPM module

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How do I configure stack alerts, for when a member of a stack goes down?

October 6, 2016, 6:57 am
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How do I configure stack alerts, for when a member of a stack goes down? NPM 12.0

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Hardware requirements for additional polling engine using several modules?

October 6, 2016, 6:26 am
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Hello everyone, we are considering adding another additional polling engine to our SolarWinds environment, and we are re-evaluating our hardware needs for additional pollers. I am having a difficult time locating hardware requirements for this for more than just 1 particular module. We are running the following modules:

 

NPM 12.0

IPAM 4.3.2

SAM 6.2.4

DPA 10.0.1

NCM 7.5

IVIM 2.1.2

QoE 2.1.0

NetPath 1.0

NTA 4.2.0

UDT 3.2.4

 

We currently have 2 licenses per server, and all of our servers used for our entire SolarWinds environment are virtual servers if that matters. I would also like to confirm if 12,000 total elements per additional poller is the maximum number of total elements we should be allowing, and if there is lesser number than 12,000 that we should consider moving nodes to an additional polling engine. We currently do not have any nodes that we no longer need to monitor, and the polling rate on one of our additional pollers has been hovering at 60% with just under 9,000 total elements, so we are trying to be a little proactive before we reach 85% of its polling rate and have to start scrambling a little faster to come up with a proper resolution.

 

I apologize if I'm leaving out any pertinent information in this-- I am a SolarWinds newbie and at the very beginning of the learning curve here. If there is anything I left out please let me know and I'll be happy to provide that information. Thanks in advance!!

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Additional Poller(NPM) update failed - nodes also not being polled after main poller update

October 6, 2016, 7:59 am
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Not sure where this question should be asked, but we've recently attempted to patch NPM, SAM and WPM to the latest version (12.0, 6.2.4 and 2.2.1?). After updating the main poller with NPM and SAM, WPM failed halfway through its install. I decided to ignore it for the time because it does not work with multi factor anyways and I just wanted to make sure the update for NPM and SAM worked. I noticed multiple nodes were not getting polled (mostly Linux, but some Windows as well). Upon trying to update the NPM additional poller, it says it won't update until WPM is updated, which fails halfway through install. I've tried running the configuration wizard, which made things worse. The webpage would not display properly and I was forced to rebuild the performance counters on Windows before it would work again. Any suggestions for a next step? I've placed a ticket with Solarwinds as well, but also wanted to see if the community had seen similar issues.

 

Thank you,

Terry H.

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Create report based on NCM commands

October 6, 2016, 8:10 am
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Hi,

 

We like to have a report that present the interface per vlan.

By default if we monitor all the interface we can have this information... but that is not realistic due to licence and due to machines ressources.

 

With NCM we can execute script to have the information show vlan or even show vlan id xx.

 

In the previous version of the product we can have the output of this within one file, however with this new version we have to open for each switch the command output.

 

Can you advise on this ?

 

Cheers

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Planning a SolarWinds installation on Cisco UCS

October 7, 2016, 5:34 am
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I am preparing to install my SolarWinds suite of applications (NPM, NCM, NTA, SAM and IPAM) on a Cisco UCS platform. I have done this several times on traditional virtual/physical Windows servers, so I know how to scope the server CPU, memory and storage resources.

 

How do I translate resource planning for a Cisco UCS? Can I do it all on one UCS unit? What "formula" do I use to know how much RAM and CPU I will need?

 

Thanks for any experienced help.

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NPM 12 Message Center row color missing

July 19, 2016, 2:15 pm
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For those that have upgraded to NPM 12 and using Message Center, you may have noticed row background color no longer colors the entire row.

 

Get a copy of this change plus more here: NPM 12 Message Center mod

 

I have jquery code update that can be added to the file C:\inetpub\SolarWinds\Orion\NetPerfMon\OrionMessages.aspx

This code will update the background color for the entire row.

 

At the bottom of the file there is a section that starts:

    <script type="text/javascript">

 

Add this code right after that line and the row colors will once again be colored.

 

        <script type="text/javascript">               $('div.event-icon').each(function () {                  var $tr = $(this).closest('tr');                  var $color = $(this).css( 'background-color' );                  $tr.css('background-color', $color);               });

 

Here is the before and the after:

Before:

 

After:

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Little help please? :) I Can't edit interfaces after my NPM12 upgrade

October 5, 2016, 7:28 am
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I have recently upgraded to NPM12.0.1 we have two additional pollers and the following modules Orion Platform 2016.2.100, NCM 7.5.1, WPM 2.2.1, IVIM 2.1.2, NetPath 1.0.1, UDT 3.2.4, VNQM 4.2.4, DPA 10.2.0, NPM 12.0.1, QoE 2.2.0, SAM 6.3.0

 

We had a little trouble with the upgrade and had to call customer support. We upgraded our primary poller modules to all the newest versions and after we got that finished we moved on to the additional pollers.

This is where we ran into some issues. The additional pollers would not upgrade due to a "version mismatch" it was seeing that the Orion core on the main poller was at 2016.1 and the additional pollers was too far behind to upgrade (i believe it was wpm that it had focused the version mismatch on) we tried everything to get it to work from the new installer that comes with NPM 12.0.1 and individual install of each module but nothing worked.

 

Talking to SolarWinds Support was kind of a pain this time the rep continued to tell us that we would have to roll back on our primary poller to the previous versions (physical server) and that there was no way to get around this issue.

I didn't really want to roll back that server so we came up with a plan of our own to just uninstall all of the modules on the additional pollers, install the updated modules fresh to the servers. We were not really sure if it would work but in theory it was like losing a server and having to replace it??? right....?

 

So that went smoothly we got all of our modules installed and the website looked great seemed like everything was working perfectly but we have run into this bug and im not sure if it is related to the way we upgraded our additional pollers

hence the backstory.

On one of our additional pollers we cannot edit interfaces. The website just sits there and spins until it times out and throws this error - Exception of type 'SolarWinds.ApiProxyFactory.TransientApiProxyException' was thrown.

We poured through all of our logs but couldnt find much. I found the below KB Article but i can complete an nslookup with no issue so im not really sure whats going. I have attached a piece of the orion web log that I found suspicious.

 

https://support.solarwinds.com/Success_Center/Network_Performance_Monitor_(NPM)/No_DNS_entries_exist_for_hostname

 

Any insight or help with the issue would be much appreciated!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Custom MIB Use

October 5, 2016, 5:55 am
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So I have found a MIB for a device in the MIB browser but after I have selected the MIB I cant find anywhere to select OK / APPLY. Am I missing something here? Do I then need to poll the device for new MIB details? I'm new to this custom MIB malarkey and floundering around but getting there slowly

 

Any advise greatly appreciated.

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Alert trigger where the value is evaluated against a custom property?

September 27, 2016, 12:59 pm
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Hello,

 

I have been struggling to find an answer to this and am hoping someone might be able to help.   Within NPM I would like to create an alert that has a trigger evaluated against a custom property.   For example I have an alert built for a temperature sensor that looks something like this: "Custom Poller Current Stats - Current Value - is greater than - 80".  This works perfectly and triggers/resets the alert as appropriate when the temp gets higher/lower than 80.

 

Instead of coding in a specific value for the alert trigger I would like to reference a custom property.   I have tried both of these formats without success:

"Custom Poller Current Stats - Current Value - is greater than - ${TemperatureAlertWarningThreshold}"

"Custom Poller Current Stats - Current Value - is greater than - ${N=SwisEntity;M=Node.CustomProperties.TemperatureAlertWarningThreshold}

 

In either of the above two examples the alert immediately triggers as soon as I have saved it, regardless of what the current temp of the device is and what the custom property is set to.

 

Any assistance or advice would be appreciated.   My goal is to be able to be able to specify a custom warning/critical threshold for each device, without having to build separate alert rules for each one.   I was hoping using custom properties would allow me to specify these values on a per device bases while using only a single alert rule.

 

Thanks!
Scott

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can we use NASH 7200rpm for installing application and DB NPM 10.7 ??

October 6, 2016, 11:17 pm
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we have NASH 7200rpm with capacity 1TB, can we use it for installing application and DB for NPM versio 10.7 ??

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NetPath - Internal Unmonitored device

October 6, 2016, 10:35 am
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Is there a way to tie IPs together on a device so that it is recognized as a monitored device even though it is monitored on a different IP. What I'm talking about specifically is our main firewall NetPath identifies it as an Inside IP address, but not the IP on which it is monitored. So NetPath knows it's an internal device, but doesn't know that it is monitored so I don't get any more specific information about the device.

 

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Looking for ideas/advice on creating a map.

April 29, 2008, 5:19 am
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As part of the building a case for increasing our Orion license to cover all our retail sites, management want to see a map of the UK with all our sites that we are currently monitoring (130 sites at the moment, we have approx 450 in total at the moment and this is likely to grow over the years). The sites will be concentrated around towns and out of town shopping centers. Ideally this map would be displayed on a large screen in our support department for all to see.


The issue I see is that to see any meaningful detail the scale of the map would have to be rather large, and even then I think it's likely for some areas such as London  or Birmingham (where we have a lot of stores in close proximity) all you're going to see is a large blob.


Is there anyway to create a number of maps and then automatically switch between maps over a set time period, eg display a region or town for a 1 minute, then move to another map?


Or has anyone else have had to deal with a similiar requirement?


Thanks in advance :)


Regards

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How long each interface or node was down.

April 3, 2008, 5:25 am
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Node SLA Availability Report Last Month

December 6, 2014, 6:50 pm
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