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Orion General Threshold - Disk Usage in Alerts

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Morning all...

 

I've been migrating all of our alerts to use the Orion General Thresholds so that we could do tweaking of thresholds on the nodes themselves as opposed to maintaining a huge list of exclusions or what not. I've done it on CPU and Memory with no trouble so far.

 

But I'm stumped for Disk use.

 

I'm trying to cut alerts, but I can't seem to find the Warning or Critical Value Reached event under Volumes. I'm sure that I'm a moron and have just missed it somewhere, or I have a huge fundamental issue with understanding how this all works... Either way, anyone else been able to figure this out?

 

Cheers,

Wil

Orion Platform 2015.1.0 - NPM 11.5


NetPath Accuracy

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I have a Netpath connection from my Solarwinds Orion server to a customer.  This first connection on the path shows a 30% packet loss w/ 13ms latency.  This is my local firewall.  Pinging the firewall from my Solarwinds Orion server directly reports back 1ms, and no packet loss.  Any ideas?  The reason in the image for the subnet change - this firewall has multiple LAN and WAN addresses.  I'm assuming NPM is using the default LAN address, even though Solarwinds is using 10.101.101.1 to get out.  To verify it's not a routing issue I've also pinged 10.0.1.1 from Solarwinds and received the same result from pinging 10.101.101.1 - low latency and no packet loss.

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False alerts on Checkpoint devices

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I have been troubleshooting false alerts on checkpoint devices for quite a while.   Hopefully someone here can help out some.

 

This is our configuration. 

  • Orion Platform 2014.2.1, IPAM 4.2, NCM 7.3.2, NPM 11.0.1, NTA 4.1.0, UDT 3.1.0, IVIM 1.10.0, VNQM 4.2
    • Everything except for our Neflow server are on virtual servers.
    • We have two pollers.
    • All SW Servers are located in the same datacenter.
    • Checkpoints are across the country.

 

When we get a false alert: (they are random and not consistent)

  • If you log into the Poller that device is assigned to, you can't ping or trace route to that device.   However if  you log into the other poller or from your desktop you can ping and trace route without issues.   This happens more often on our primary poller, but has happened on our secondary poller.
  • The false alerts many times bounce (show down, up, down, up about every 10 or so minutes)

 

I have:

  • Had our server team look at the servers and they have not located any issues.
  • Restarted the servers
  • Firewall team (responsible for the checkpoints) do not show issues or blocks
  • Updated the SW MIBS file
  • This is happening ONLY on Checkpoint devices.  Other monitored devices are not giving false alerts.

 

Any other suggestions would be appreciated.


NPM 12 through Juniper/Pulse MAG-SM360 - Issues loading maps

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Hi all,

 

Has anyone been able to get maps to load successfully through a Juniper/Pulse MAG appliance? It appears that the JS that renders the map overlays isn't being passed through correctly, so we're left with a spinning "Loading" icon. Alas, we're not web developers and don't have access to the MAG appliance that NPM is going through either, so we're quickly running out of ideas.

 

Thanks,

Ben

Serial Number or UUID to query via REST API

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I am using the REST API to query inventory data from our SolarWinds NPM. I need a unique value that exists in our other tracking systems such as Serial Number OR UUID.

 

How can I expose Serial Number or UUID to the API?

 

I read some information about creating a custom poller to expose Serial Number in a report. However, I need this data available to query in the API.

 

Any suggestions on how to set that up?

Network Atlas map

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I'm looking for assistance in retrieving a map that was deleted from Network Atlas.  I am still relatively new to Solarwinds and inherited from someone who is no longer with the company so pardon any obvious questions.

 

The map was deleted a few days ago from Network Atlas and I would like to get it back for some users that still work with this map.

 

From what I have found and read so far, it appears that the maps are part of a database but I'm not sure where this is.  I have found files that have an extension of *.orionmap but don't understand if these are relevant to what I want to do.

 

Is the database file something I can do a restore on (the server is backed up by my server group)?  If so, what is the file name and location?  Or is there a better way to restore this map?

 

We are currently running Orion Platform 2015.1.2, SAM 6.2.0, QoE 2.0, NCM 7.4, NPM 11.5.2, IVIM 2.1.0.  (including in the event this helps)

Auto Network Imports (NPM 12 Feature)

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Has anyone used this feature yet ?  Seems very promising, something I spend a lot of time on is the ignoring/importing various things found in the Network discoveries.   I was curious how this new engine works. Is it similar to a firewall in which it starts at the top of a list and works its way down until it finds a match or is it doing multiple "ands"  ?

 

 

As an example, if I choose the setting as seen in the snippet.  Will I auto import the following ?

 

- All interfaces up ?

- All interfaces up and starting with gi0/0

- All interfaces up starting with gi0/0 or gi0/1

Exporting NPM Node Properties

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I would like to select a few sample nodes from NPM and export all of their properties to be used as a template when adding new nodes. (Or to restore/undo the node after it is removed)

 

The only thing close to that I found was "Export custom property values" after selecting a node under "Manage Nodes":

 

However after expanding the advanced section, several of the available properties are actually node specific statistical data:

 

 

Is there a SWQL query that would yield the type of properties from an existing node which I could use build a "add node" template to be used with CRUD operations.


SWQL Node Availability Query

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Hello, I am trying to generate a SWQL query to gather node availability so I can post this on an NPM page. I encountered some old Thwack posts where people were referencing a table named "Orion.ResponseTime". I'm not seeing this in database manager.

I'm seeing ResponseTime_Statistics though, but this table doesn't have availability.  I'm at a remote office, and cannot use SWQL studio or direct SQL database access.

 

I was going to use the ResponseTime_Statistics table and manually write the query to calculate availability for the last week, based on count divided by time, but this table only has three entries.

I need the response time results table before the data is summarized into hourly.

 

Can someone help me out here? NPM ver is 11.5.3

 

 

NPM 12 showing an incorrect total memory on node details

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We've recently upgraded to NPM 12 (Orion Platform 2016.1.5300, NPM 12.0, QoE 2.1.0, IVIM 2.1.2, NetPath 1.0) I've noticed that in the node detail view that the total memory being recorded for my devices is incorrect i.e. a 2811 router with 256MB of RAM shows in the node detail view as having a total of 116MB of RAM. Another router of the same model shows a different total memory. Even devices I've added to NPM after the upgrade also show an incorrect memory total. This has an effect that if the actual memory usage of a device reaches the indicated memory amount then it fires an alert. Is this a bug? I don't recall this being a problem in previous versions.

Using Custom Properties sending Alert emails

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After receiving lots of queries i will try to explain in screen shots what steps needs to take if you wish to use custom properties logic to send email alerts to respective location / or team responsible for that node and group.

Basically when you have bunch of Nodes and you just wanted to send emails to the related department / Engineering Team only

Or You may have monitoring nodes for multiple customers where you would like to send emails to related customer for the nodes for that customer /


This post  can help in order to configure .


Step #1 Creating Custom Property


Start with Custom properties

Settings > manager custom properties.

Add Custom Properties

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Leave it blank and Submit

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Step #2 Assigning email to the nodes

 

Go to Settings Manage Nodes.

(Select multiple Node you wish to assign the email ) and click Edit Properties.

Now assign the email you wish to assign so all the alerts will be sent to respected email for these nodes .

And Submit to save changes.

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Step #3 Using Custom property name under Alert Trigger Condition

 

Now in Alert use the custom property name to send the email for required email address for each node.

Select the Alert you wish to Edit and Edit Trigger Action > Send an email /page.

Add Trigger Action

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When the alert will trigger it will use the email you have assigned to the Node.



***** Adding CC you can create more custom properties to include CC emails such as an example below ****

${Email}

${EmailCC}

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PLEASE NOTE:- THIS SOLUTION WILL NOT WORK FOR THE GROUPS

NPM - Group Questions

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I am new to using Solarwinds NPM, and these forums, so this might might be in the wrong place. I did do some research but did not find a definitive answer so I thought I would try here.

 

We are hoping to use groups in NPM as a container for nodes. For example we have 700+ sites that all have 3 or 4 switches at each site. We would like to make each site its own group, so when a user selects a group they see all the nodes (switches in this case) assigned to that site. We would like to use custom attributes for each of the groups for meta data like physical address, contact name, etc. This would mean there would be 700+ groups with custom attributes.

 

The trouble is I can not find a way to search for a group name once they are created. We can search for a node, but I could not find a way to get back to the group page (that lists all the other nodes for that site) from the node screen. Is there a custom search I can create to to search only for group names (Preferred)? Or maybe a way to get back to the a nodes group from the node screen? Am I missing a step?

 

Thank you in advance,

-Matt

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Emailed Reports broken after enabling SSL for Web Console

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We recently enabled SSL for the web console of NPM.  Since then emailed reports contain the following error instead of the report:

 

Unable to retrieve url: http://SERVERNAME:80/Orion/Report.aspx?ReportID=73 using PDF type.


I've changed the name to "SERVERNAME" here, but it is just the windows hostname of the server.  I imagine there is a place that I haven't found yet where I can change the url to https and even perhaps change the server name to the FQDN, but I haven't found it yet.  Can somebody point me in the right direction?

Solarwinds High Availability - Migrate multiple interfaces

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Hi.

 

I have and NPM+SAM+NTA environment in production, I upgraded to NMP V12.01 and SAM 6.3 and have the need to deploy the high availability, i thought i did until i realized how it works,  my problem is this.

 

I have 2 Virtual servers, made the deployment  of High availability, i have a virtual IP until that point everything is ok

 

The primary server have 4 Interfaces with different Vlans pointing to other network subnets, this was done this way, since we have separated networks for some clients we monitor in our datacenter.

 

For example.

 

Network 1 - have the internal IP addres 10.30.xxx.xxx - this is the primary interface and have a 1 to 1 NAT to a public address, this is the "Virtual pool Address"

Network 2 - have the internal IP addres 172.30.xxx.xxx - This is the Management Network, this one goes Backups, Monitoring, replication with HA and Database connection

Network 3 - have the internal IP addres 192.168.xxx.xxx - Dedicated interface for one of our clients network

Network 4 - have the internal IP addres  172.31.xxx.xxx - Dedicated interface for one remote client network

 

The network 1 have the default gateway wich is a firewall

 

We have static routes of the network segments of Network 3 and 4, to reach those subnets through a gateway, for example in network 3 is a MPLS Router

 

My problem with High availability is, ¿Can the module switch those IP addreses to the secondary? i cannot put a different IP address in the secondary server, for example in Network 4, i have 250 agents pointing to the IP of the Primary server.

 

¿Any ideas?

 

Regards


Custom ASPX resources in NPM 12

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So I have been using several custom resources I created over the years (earlier versions of NPM) and tried to add them to NPM 12.0 but it seems that everytime you run the configuration wizard for the web it wipes them out.

 

I assume this is now normal behavior however are we no longer allowed to use custom ASPX resources in 12?

Web Gui Issue

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We are experiencing an issue where every couple days the web gui for Solarwinds will not open.  The website is unable to connect server.   We have a temporary solution of migrating the server to a new host in our VMWare.  Has anyone experienced anything like this?

NetPath hops are inacurate

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Hi Members,

netpath is showing only one hop away to any final destination. it doesnt show the intermediate hops  along the path  from  the src to  dst .

i run wireshark on the source of the service probe and it is showing me that there is a device in my network that is reply by icmp time-exceeded message !

i am not sure if icmp exceeded message has  to be open inbound to see devices along the path to the destination !

 

can anyone advice ?

thank you!

How to disable discard notification on specific interface of node on Solarwinds NPM

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Hello,

 

I am a newbie on Solarwinds,

 

Recently, I replaced Cisco Switch by HP Switch with the same configuration, but in the Solarwinds NPM, it notices the interface discard parameter many times with a huge value. I opened a case with HP but they said this is just the multicast drop and do not impact to production traffic and they said I have to use ifInErrors(1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.14) MIB value instead of ifInDiscards(1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.13) on Solarwinds.

 

So could you please help me how to do that on Solarwinds

 

Many thanks,

SWQL Node Availability Query

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Hello, I am trying to generate a SWQL query to gather node availability so I can post this on an NPM page. I encountered some old Thwack posts where people were referencing a table named "Orion.ResponseTime". I'm not seeing this in database manager.

I'm seeing ResponseTime_Statistics though, but this table doesn't have availability.  I'm at a remote office, and cannot use SWQL studio or direct SQL database access.

 

I was going to use the ResponseTime_Statistics table and manually write the query to calculate availability for the last week, based on count divided by time, but this table only has three entries.

I need the response time results table before the data is summarized into hourly.

 

Can someone help me out here? NPM ver is 11.5.3

 

 

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