Is it possible to use both AD and a separate LDAP directory for authentication?  Our use case is based on internal corporate access vs. customer dashboards.
We have a separate LDAP authentication system for customers while all corp users are in AD.

We do have a separate web server front end that faces the Internet for customer access - can I set that one up to authenticate off of LDAP and leave the internal website tied to AD?

If none of that is possible, does anyone know of a good platform to front both and non-Microsoft LDAP directory and AD with (presumably) an LDAP front end?

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.

Our Solarwinds team has set up Disk alerts  at Warning, High, and Critical Thresholds.

From what I am told, they should apply to all disk volumes. 

If I look at the Active Alerts,  and filter down to volumes and to Critical alerts, I get a listing of a number of active critical disk alerts.

If I run a simple report, asking for  all volumes running above the critical alert threshold of 95%, it returns me a listing  of all volumes currently running above our critical threshold of 95%,  but it is double the size of the Critical Active Alert data.

This tells me that all of my volumes must not be alerting. 

If I look at the ones that are not showing on the active alert list, I see that in the box  called:

Why does it not show  the Warning and Critical Alerts?

All Alerts this Object can trigger         (1)

            ALL ALERTS

We have a bit (pun intended) of an interesting problem to overcome. We have a couple of devices that use binary flags for alarms status, however, they're presented as a decimal number in an OID retrieved through SNMP. The two devices specifically are a T1 fail-over switch and a generator SNMP gateway. Our senior systems engineer recently requested assistance from SolarWinds support (I will copy the thread below as his description of the issue is rather thorough, as is his obvious frustration...I've removed the names to respect privacy). However, does anyone in the community have experience in grabbing alarm status via his described method? Or any luck with SolarWinds' feature requests? It's seems like our engineer's request is rather reasonable?

Thanks!

-Mike

Update for Case #981860 - "Orion software for customer
#SW21762132"

Good afternoon,

UNDP does not calculate a value. It simply creates a "get" request for the assigned value. Once that value is output you can then display the value in Orion, or create an alert based on that value.

There are no calculations with a simple UNDP. Just a get request for a value from the device.

Kind Regards,
SolarWinds Technical Support

-----

SolarWinds Technical Support,

Please forward to your software developers…..

I appreciated your response, however I have to completely disagree with you.  The purpose of the UNIVERAL DEVICE poller is to request data as you have indicated.  Then Transform the data so that Orion can display or generate an alert.   If you look at the
tab on the first page of Orion UnDP,  there is a TAB that is labeled Transform Results.  If you click on it, you eventually get to a page where you can add a poller and add a function.   If the developers who wrote this software had even a simple clue on how customers use this software, one of the SET of functions  would be bitwise versions of the Boolean operators like   AND , OR , XOR , NOT , Shift-Left and Shift Right.   The formula line on the Transforms Results Wizard page would look like 

Formula:  {engSystemStatus}   &  0x004   (with   &  being the bitwise AND function…)

The simple result of the transformation would be another “NUMBER” that looks like a number but contains just the MASKed bits in it. 

Currently the transform Wizard returns the following in my setup:

[Screenshot omitted]

The 38 converted to binary looks like 000001001100  in a 12 bit NUMBER.  If I could mask it with 0x0004  the number would be 000000000100

Which allow me to create a single check within Orion to alert on bit 3

Here is another transform that adds 72 to the result using your UNDP Transforms .

[Screenshot omitted]

So you can see the UNDP  does transform data. Orion/UNDP just seems to lack simple, basic bitwise Boolean operators or functions. Every single computer that has ever existed on the face of the Earth, the MOON, Venus,  Mars and all the space probes that have EVER left Earth for parts unknown, makes use of bitwise math operations.  There must be untold millions of SNMP devices just in the USA alone that return registered values that looks like a number and its actually BIT DATA from a hardware register, that needs to be dissembled to the bit level before it gets displayed by software like Orion or used to generate an Alarm.   ???

Your software is broken, lacking  or inappropriately named, if it is unable to do this simple set of functions in a UNIVERSAL DEVICE POLLER.

Just so you understand, using the value as it is returned means I potentially have to put in 4095 custom defined Pollers for a 12 bit number and 65535 pollers on the 16 bit values.   This is impractical if all 12 or 16 bits get used and some of my values use all 12 or 16 bits!

I realize that your software may not do this but listen to your customers …. Please FIX by adding bitwise Boolean math operands or functions along with any other normal Boolean logic functions and associated conditional checks like the   “ IF ( (x & 0x004)  eq 0x004 then return TRUE”   .   Then allow Orion to display the returned values and generate alerts…

Thanks and have a great day.

What is the metric used (in percent) that causes the error counters to go from black to red?

Rick

Was looking at the changes in 2016.2 HotFix 2 which was released on the 22nd of December, and found:

"SolarWinds® Orion® Core 2016.2.5300 Hotfix

===================================================================================

This hotfix addresses a CPU utilization issue on multi-core nodes running

Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 R2 when using Agent or WMI polling methods.

Install this hotfix on each SolarWinds poller and polling agent.

===================================================================================

...

"INSTALL THE HOTFIX ON THE AGENT

1. Extract all files from the ZIP archive containing the hotfix and this readme.

2. Open the Services Snap-In and stop the SolarWinds Agent service.

3. Navigate to the following directory:

C:\Program Files (x86)\SolarWinds\Agent\Plugins\Core

4. Back up the following file to a separate location:

SolarWinds.Orion.Core.Pollers.dll

5. Copy the hotfix file to the Orion directory, overwriting the existing file.

6. Start SolarWinds Agent service.

The hotfix is installed on the SolarWinds Agent."

===================================================================================

This is one of the reasons I've been very hesitant to go for a general site wide agent deployment to our nodes versus sticking with WMI or SNMP.

Is there an ETA for this fix being integrated into the Orion suite so that the deployed agents can be auto patched via the GUI, versus having to go into each agent individually?

I have a large number of old interfaces spread out across a bunch of different nodes that I need to have removed. Doing it through the web console would take forever. I had an idea to just delete the interfaces from the database itself. Would this cause an issue with the web console or would it know what to do if I performed the operation?

SolarWinds tech support helped me with this so I figured I'd share!

When you create a Custom Table resource, you are limited to displaying only 100 rows.  You can change the filter settings to get less than 100 rows, but not more - rows are capped.

To change this:

1. Browse to C:\inetpub\SolarWinds\web.config and open in notepad
2. Search for the entry "ReportingTableViewMaxRowCount" and change the value from 100 to whatever you want

No service restart was necessary.  I tested this on 11.5 several different ways and that setting put a hard ceiling on the row output all the time.

• Caveats: 
  • If you do something crazy with this number, you might incur a performance penalty
  • After installs or upgrades, you'll have to edit this field again

Thanks to everyone who has been contributing their collective knowledge!

-Brent

Hi,

What software do I need to install to monitor hardware health for Lenovo x3650M5 ?

I have virtual server of 2.30 GHz having 8 core and want to upgrade to the NPM 12.0.1

But i am in deli ma to go with the upgrade and i have a very big environment to monitor.

Do i have to upgrade the hardware requirement ? 

All prerequisites met successfully, the upgrade went well until the very end when this message appeared:

Checking Orion Service Manager, all services are running except Syslog - which is stuck in "stopping" and trap, which is stopped and won't start.

New firewall ports --- are they TCP or UDP, the NPM 12.0 Release Notes *does not specify* - could this be a problem with the site and services simply not starting?

Thanks,

Bill

We have some file servers that are only being polled via ICMP/Pings , showing only an up and down status.  Can it also be configured  for SNMP Poling so that I can get actual drive performance information and alerts?

Hi all,

I created UNDP for WLC with SNMP OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.14179.2.1.4.1.7, the result are actually table of SSID which user connected to e.g.:

FINANCE

FINANCE

GUEST

FINANCE
GUEST

is there anyway to parse the result to become like this:

SSID FINANCE --> result = 3

SSID GUEST --> result = 2

This idea is came from this link

https://supportforums.cisco.com/discussion/11976136/track-number-users-ssid-using-snmp-wlc-2504

So we can create chart to track the number of client on particular SSID.

thank you.

Adi

We have a bit (pun intended) of an interesting problem to overcome. We have a couple of devices that use binary flags for alarms status, however, they're presented as a decimal number in an OID retrieved through SNMP. The two devices specifically are a T1 fail-over switch and a generator SNMP gateway. Our senior systems engineer recently requested assistance from SolarWinds support (I will copy the thread below as his description of the issue is rather thorough, as is his obvious frustration...I've removed the names to respect privacy). However, does anyone in the community have experience in grabbing alarm status via his described method? Or any luck with SolarWinds' feature requests? It's seems like our engineer's request is rather reasonable?

Thanks!

-Mike

Update for Case #981860 - "Orion software for customer
#SW21762132"

Good afternoon,

UNDP does not calculate a value. It simply creates a "get" request for the assigned value. Once that value is output you can then display the value in Orion, or create an alert based on that value.

There are no calculations with a simple UNDP. Just a get request for a value from the device.

Kind Regards,
SolarWinds Technical Support

-----

SolarWinds Technical Support,

Please forward to your software developers…..

I appreciated your response, however I have to completely disagree with you.  The purpose of the UNIVERAL DEVICE poller is to request data as you have indicated.  Then Transform the data so that Orion can display or generate an alert.   If you look at the
tab on the first page of Orion UnDP,  there is a TAB that is labeled Transform Results.  If you click on it, you eventually get to a page where you can add a poller and add a function.   If the developers who wrote this software had even a simple clue on how customers use this software, one of the SET of functions  would be bitwise versions of the Boolean operators like   AND , OR , XOR , NOT , Shift-Left and Shift Right.   The formula line on the Transforms Results Wizard page would look like 

Formula:  {engSystemStatus}   &  0x004   (with   &  being the bitwise AND function…)

The simple result of the transformation would be another “NUMBER” that looks like a number but contains just the MASKed bits in it. 

Currently the transform Wizard returns the following in my setup:

[Screenshot omitted]

The 38 converted to binary looks like 000001001100  in a 12 bit NUMBER.  If I could mask it with 0x0004  the number would be 000000000100

Which allow me to create a single check within Orion to alert on bit 3

Here is another transform that adds 72 to the result using your UNDP Transforms .

[Screenshot omitted]

So you can see the UNDP  does transform data. Orion/UNDP just seems to lack simple, basic bitwise Boolean operators or functions. Every single computer that has ever existed on the face of the Earth, the MOON, Venus,  Mars and all the space probes that have EVER left Earth for parts unknown, makes use of bitwise math operations.  There must be untold millions of SNMP devices just in the USA alone that return registered values that looks like a number and its actually BIT DATA from a hardware register, that needs to be dissembled to the bit level before it gets displayed by software like Orion or used to generate an Alarm.   ???

Your software is broken, lacking  or inappropriately named, if it is unable to do this simple set of functions in a UNIVERSAL DEVICE POLLER.

Just so you understand, using the value as it is returned means I potentially have to put in 4095 custom defined Pollers for a 12 bit number and 65535 pollers on the 16 bit values.   This is impractical if all 12 or 16 bits get used and some of my values use all 12 or 16 bits!

I realize that your software may not do this but listen to your customers …. Please FIX by adding bitwise Boolean math operands or functions along with any other normal Boolean logic functions and associated conditional checks like the   “ IF ( (x & 0x004)  eq 0x004 then return TRUE”   .   Then allow Orion to display the returned values and generate alerts…

Thanks and have a great day.

I have an alert that I've configured an NCM action for and it does not appear to be working. The action is set to run a pair of specific commands on a device once the trigger has been met. I should say that I have NCM actions configured in other alerts and they work just fine. I am unable to 'Test' the action because the alert is based on a Custom Table Poller Current Status, which for some reason will not allow me to test or simulate any actions. The action parameters configured in this alert is configured exactly like all the ones I have working, except for the commands. I am pretty sure it's not working because I do not see the user logging in to the device when the alert is triggered and no output is posted in the email that gets sent out, nor is there any output posted in the Alert Details where I would normally see it.

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."

As the title said, how can I have netflow top application report match the NPM interface utilization report?

I am asking this because I want it when NPM reports me that my bandwidth got high utilization, I can tell what kind of application traffic that is utilizing that much of bandwidth at that time.

However, I got confused as the total utlization number between netflow top application chart and NPM interface percent utilization chart is different

for example:

I have a 40 Mbps bandwidth from my ISP (I have modified the bandwidth to 40Mbps in the node configuration from fast ethernet default 100Mbps)

My router is cisco 1800 series, I only have flow enabled both ingress & egress in one interface of the router, i also have configured ip flow-cache timeout active 1

From this graph I can know that between 13:10 - 13:14 my link is utilized 43,47% (recv) and 45,65% (xmit)

However, if I observe the total utilization from netflow top applications graph in the same time range is not the same. For example, in below graph:

Total traffic inbound 27.54% + 19.49% + 0.3% + 0.03% = 47.36% --> compared to inbound 43,47%

Total traffic outbound 37.02% + 4.64% + 1.05% + 0.02% + 0.01% = 42,74%--> compared to outbound 45,65%

From what I can say, I dont limit my application monitoring only to only monitor some specified apps, so the traffic recorded in netflow should be all traffic that are "passing" that interface right?

And I can confirm that there are no bandwidth shaper appliance between the links, so everything is as it is.

Please kindly advise.

Please expand on “Other” and why by adding a comment below.

Every year we have to file a report that states how many of each type of interface we have.  In Prime I used to have a report that spit this number out for me, but I don't see that in Solarwinds.  Is there somewhere I can get this information from?

Here's what I'm looking for, just a report that tells me how many of each type of interface I have, and nothing else:

100G Eth:  2

40G Eth: xx

10G Eth: xxx

1G Eth:  xxxx

100Mbps: xxxxx

10Mbps: xxxxxx