Hi All,
Today got an alert for MSMQ size. When I checked the folder its showing 1.75GB.
So is this something to worry about? And what steps do I need to take?
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MSMQ size related alert recieved
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Using Wait time in trigger condition doesnt allow re-occurence of the alert
HI All,
I am seeing some strange behavior on the alerting part. I have a CPU alert which is set for more than 90% with wait time of 10 min. I am evaluating the condition for every 30 minutes.
And reset is set as ' No reset condition, trigger each time the condition is met.
Ideally for every evaluation of the condition, if any node qualifies it should throw an alert right? But in my case I just get one alert and after that re-occurrence doesn't happen even if the condition holds good. But if I remove the wait condition then I am getting the re-occurrence alerts.
So am I missing here something?
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Lost View (UNDP)
I have a large group of high profile devices in which each device has a large number of UNDP. They have worked flawless since inception. Today im getting errors to anything related to UNDP on those devices. Anyone seen this before ?
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Easily add technician contact information to Solarwinds Maps
I was wondering if there was a way to easily enter technician contact information into Solarwinds maps. We would like to make it easy for our help desk to find the contact information of our techs when troubleshooting network performance issues in the field. We are looking for a solution that would make this more automatic. We don't want to edit every map in "Network Atlas" when we get new techs in an area. Please let me know your thoughts. Is anybody else doing this?
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I've a few questions about things in NOC mode
I'm working on getting the stuff we need and want to see on the NOC display set up to go onto a wall mounted display. I have a few issues I would prefer to resolve, but I suspect it isn't going to work the way I'd like it to work. If any of them make sense as feature requests, I will gladly make the request. Now to my questions.
1. If I have the browser show items at 150% or 200% normal size, is it possible to have the headers and footers stay small while enlarging the info in the resource? If (as I suspect) this is not possible, is there a way to make the header and footer smaller so that they aren't eating into too much of the scarce screen real estate?
2. Is there a way to have a long resource (e.g. down interfaces) either scroll automatically or perhaps display the top part, then display the next part, and so on until all the parts have been displayed? Display one part on the first pass through the NOC Views, then display the next part the next time through?
One problem is that while I have various summary pages up on one of my screens most of the day, the NOC views are so other people in the office are able to see things without having to keep Solarwinds open on there machines. Another problem is that my monitor is normally at 1920x1280, but the display that the NOC screens will normally be on is 1280x720. I wasn't exactly thrilled with how it looked on my display when it was a long resource, but I was really less than thrilled when I checked it out at the lower resolution.
We are running NOM 12.0.1, NTA 4.2.1, and Orion 2016.2.100.
Thanks, in advance, for any information or help.
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DB Maintenance - How to Handle It When Some Tables Have Tens of Millions of Rows?
As an accidental DBA, I'm having trouble determining how to handle maintenance on our Orion DB. When using the built in DB maintenance plan, the maintenance jobs inevitably end up running longer and longer due to HUGE amounts of data being dumped in a few tables daily. Eventually, the jobs run for days on end. The issue is several tables are growing to tens of millions of rows with one growing to hundreds of millions before the configured 7 day retention pruning occurs. Without shortening the retention period to clean out the daily tables quicker or turning down the volume on collected node info, I'm weighing my options for running maintenance to re-org/rebuild indexes and update statistics without having locks on these tables for days.
Here's my thoughts - open for comment:
1. Disable the built-in DB maintenance (how...rename the .exe?)
2. Create stored procedures for each of the following (based on Ola Hallengren's SQL Maintenance Solution at https://ola.hallengren.com/):
a. Database backups nightly
b. Data integrity checks nightly
c. Nightly index re-org/rebuilds and update statistics (actions determined by % fragmentation)
It's my understanding that stored procedures run more efficiently than SQL Maintenance Plans or maintenance jobs built by SQL queries (which is how I believe the .exe is doing it). So, how do those of you with large environments and tons of data being stored in your DB's handle this?
Thanks for any help!
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How to tell what map(s) a node is on
Is there a way to tell what maps a node is on?
Thanks,
KMNRuser
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Tell us your "Unknown" devices!
Sometimes devices show up in Orion as "unknown". Those devices need to be added to our SysObjectID database. We know about lots of them, but we'd like to hear which items you need.
We need:
SysObjectID (which you can find in Node Details) in System Manager.
Vendor
Model
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What are the things that Solarwinds cannot do?
I am reading notes and watched videos about Network Performace usage by solarwinds and almost all, from mapping to interface levels can be monitored. Do you know guys whar are the things that Solarwinds cannot do? Disadvantages? Thank you.
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Unamanaged Nodes report
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How to find out PoE output levels on a switch/port?
I have a slightly different kind of question for a change. If you wanted to find out how much power is being supplied by PoE ports on a Cisco Catalyst switch, how would it be done? I'd like to know the total amount that each switch is putting out and, if possible, how much each PoE port on the switch is putting out? I know I can keep plugging devices in until it won't power any more, but I'd like some method that will allow for better planning and not leave me looking like a complete nut. For the record, the switches are still running IOS 12 - with the exact version dependent upon the device, with one exception. One of the switches is running 16.3.1, because it was brand new this summer. Most of the switches are 2960's.
If the method is dependent upon an IOS version, I'd still like to hear the method and know which version of IOS supports the parts that allow it to work correctly. If the method requires custom pollers, I will have many more questions to ask and will not feel bad about looking somewhat dense, because I know others will learn from my questions and the answers to them.
Thanks in advance and I will be asking Cisco much the same kind of questions.
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NPM 12 Stack Data Ring error
Anyone else experiencing this error with NPM 12? The power stack data displays fine, I just get this nasty error when I add the "Stack Data Ring":
Unable to construct the data ring diagram because the information required to show the diagram is missing or is not complete. Make sure the device is configured properly.
This is the case for every single stack we have.
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Alerts Cannot Edit, Locking up IE11, NPM 12.0.1, on Windows 7, using IE11
I am having a problem when editing alerts. When the page first come up, I can click and review an alert, but then the next time that I click on an alert, it just kind of flickers then nothing, before long the nothing on the browser will respond. If I close IE and reopen then everything else works find until I try to edit alerts again. Does anybody have a clue what is causing this?
Thanks
Rick
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SolarWinds Active Diagnostics
The new Active Diagnostics is a great tool to quickly identify some problems and it has also helped me understand and resolve issues when the regular SolarWinds Diagnostics routine fails to complete.
However, some of the returned messages are rather confusing and I wonder if a dictionary of its messages with meanings and recommendations has been created and could be published.
Regards, Robert
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How to - Solarwinds Polling Engine Maintenance mode
Hello all,
I have the need to reboot the Cisco switch that our polling engine and and database server are directly connected to. The switch is getting a new IOS that will also upgrade the microcode so it will take 10 minutes to reboot. What would be the most transparent way to put the Solarwinds server(s) itself in maintenance mode? If i did nothing, what would be the expected results? Would we be flooded with thousands of down alerts followed by thousands of up alerts? We are an ISP and we have hundreds of customer's equipment being monitored and there are almost 500 user accounts per customer. We do not want to send alerts out to all the customers that their equipment is down during the reboot. Also, we use solarwinds data to bill customers based no SLAs and such. We do not want to capture this downtime as all of the customers nodes are down. That would be a huge mess for the billing dept.
Thanks in advance for any expertise shared on this matter.
-Noel
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NCM/NPM alert schedule based on custom table?
Our company owns several facilities that host events. During these times we turn everything on and watch it, and "when the carnival leaves town" we shut it all down. I know I can just click these things and unmanage them until the next event, but it's inelegant. I'd like something to handle this automatically.
I was thinking I could add a table to the database with 3 columns, something like:
SITE | Event start | Event End
abc | Dec 1 | Dec 8
abc | Dec 12 | Dec 17
bcd | Nov 7 | Nov 15
cde | Mar 1 | Mar 8
Any site could have any number of events, I just need to query for the site in question and see if any events are "ON" at the moment and if so I need to alert the designated devices, and if there is nothing going on I need to ignore or unmanage these devices.
I've played with custom fields and we use them quite a bit but they don't lend themselves well to a multi-event type of setup. I'd like to just put the whole schedule in one spot for the year and have the system handle everything else automatically.
Any suggestions?
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When you installed NPM, did you add Nodes manually or did you run discovery?
We would like to improve user experience and for such reason I'd like to better understand if our users prefers INITIALLY to add nodes manually or run product network discovery in order to import devices to NPM
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Hardware Status Undefined.
Have about 100 servers that have hardware messages such as this.
Hardware polling failed: Provider load failure Scope: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx\root\cimv2\dell[\SSD.Com\svc_monitor] ErrorCode: 0x80041013
I can only assume that it is because they or have been p to v'd. Any ideas of how to resolve this?
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Bug with custom filter in /Orion/NetPerfMon/Events.aspx
We witnessed a but in the /Orion/NetPerfMon/Events.aspx page (in both 12.0 & 12.0.1).
When filtering in the events page, using the custom filter, the time stamps used do not match.
We suspect that the custom filter does not take into account the difference between local time and GMT.
Doing the same thing thru the Message Center is working fine.
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List of Thin AP's - Replacement resource
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