I'm wondering if there is a way through a script to turn off/on specific alert rules in Trap Viewer? I know how to enable/disable the alert rules manually but wasn't sure if this was possible through a script. Thanks in advance!
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Trap Viewer in NPM ?
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MAINTENANCE MODE
Hello,
We have been using another product as a event manager so there was never a need to put devices in maintenance mode in Solarwinds. I see the unmanage feature and aware it does a similar thing. However, we would still like to be monitoring when having items in maintenance.
Does anyone out there know if such a feature exist in Solarwinds NPM where a device can be in maintenance mode? We have just updated the latest version and I do not see any new feature like that.
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Your Input on Network Insight for Cisco ASA
As you may have seen, we're working on providing additional monitoring for Cisco ASAs. If you run ASAs in production, we'd love to hear your input on what you'd like covered and how you would like that coverage to work. For example:
- What problems occur on your ASAs that are not detected by your monitoring today?
- Are there any customizations you've done for monitoring your ASAs, for example UNDPs? How do they work and why do you find them useful?
- What would you like to alert on in relation to your ASAs?
- What are the most important things to know about your ASAs when you're troubleshooting a problem?
There are a couple of ways you can get involved. The easiest way is to comment here, in this thread. Our User Experience research team will also be doing phone calls to walk through early prototypes and use cases, as well as general feedback sessions. If you'd like to be involved in that, please note your interested in participating in UX research here. We'd also like to know: What version of Cisco ASA software are you running?
Another easy way to get involve is to upload an SNMP walk of your ASA. We use these during development to make sure our code works against many different versions and implementation scenarios, and that our visualizations scale both up and down. It's a great chance to make sure this feature fits your environment specifically. You can use the SolarWinds SNMP walk tool to grab the walk, and upload it here.
Looking forward to your feedback!
-Chris
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Rx/Tx traffic on interfaces display different bandwidth values
We ran into this issue because the value you see when hovering over an interface graph is different than the value in the report. Support gave us a link to
which contains this bit of information:
"This is because in tooltip/popup (that is common component used on multiple places in NPM), the value is divided by 1000 when converted from bits to Kbits, but on resource it is divided by 1024."
This seems like something that could easily be fixed in an NPM upgrade. Is there a reason the 1000 is used instead of 1024? We asked support but they did not know.
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Can Manage Alert be used to change a map in a user view?
I admin a network with multiple sites. For my main NOC screen I created a user view consisting of a high level map. If a node should go down in my remote site how can I automate the map to change to that sites detailed map? Another option would be when the node goes down it would open a user view. Any Ideas?
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Report on unmanaged node duration
Hello folks, we have a report created where it runs and tells us what nodes are currently unmanaged and then which have their alerts suppressed. Is there a way to include the time that a node is unmanaged for in the report? I'm not finding a way to do this yet... Any help is appreciated- thank you.
EDIT
All, here is some code that I found and messed with to make as simple as possible:
SELECT Caption AS Name, UnManageFrom AS UnManageFromUTC, UnManageUntil AS UnManageUntilUTC
FROM
Orion.Nodes
Where
UnManaged = 'True' AND NodeID = ${NodeID}
EDIT 2:
Is there a way to edit this to show nodes that are currently managed, but scheduled to be unmanaged?
EDIT 3:
I found an old sql script from 2009 on here and formatted it to work with our current version of SW. This script shows all current + future unmanaged nodes
SELECT Caption AS Name, Nodes.UnmanageFrom, Nodes.UnmanageUntil, Nodes.StatusDescription
FROM Orion.Nodes
where Unmanaged = 1 or unmanagefrom >= getdate()
ORDER BY 1 ASC, 2 DESC
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Unexpected Website Error The settings property 'DPA.DPASummaryViewID' was not found.
i CAN´T EXECUTED THE LISTRESOURCE IN ALL SERVERS AND i INSTALLED THE FIX NPM 11.5.3 BUT NOW I HAVE THIS ERROR
Unexpected Website Error
The settings property 'DPA.DPASummaryViewID' was not found.
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Agent not showing resourses
Morning,
I have an agent installed on my servers and in the norm it works. But on 2 servers I am having issues, the agent installs and runs fine, will provide response times but will not show any resources.
When I list resources this happens -
The devices are up and available and SolarWinds even reports them as available, but I cannot monitor disk/network etc which is causing me some issues, as 1 of them is a file server and it has nearly blown its disk...
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How to monitor HP Onboard Administrator hardware details?
We have NPM 12 and we are getting only cpu and memory information. I also tried some OID's mention below but didn't found anything.
Thanks for your suggestion in advance.
| Fans | ||
| Index | CPQRACK-MIB | 1.3.6.1.4.1.232.22.2.3.1.3.1.3 |
| Status | CPQRACK-MIB | 1.3.6.1.4.1.232.22.2.3.1.3.1.11 |
| Power | ||
| Index | CPQRACK-MIB | 1.3.6.1.4.1.232.22.2.5.1.1.1.3 |
| Status | CPQRACK-MIB | 1.3.6.1.4.1.232.22.2.5.1.1.1.17 |
| Output | CPQRACK-MIB | 1.3.6.1.4.1.232.22.2.5.1.1.1.10 |
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Calling All Arista Geeks!
We're working on some device support improvements around Arista. To ensure broad coverage, we'd like to get as many SNMP walks as possible to verify functionality against. If you have Arista gear that is missing hardware health info today, please shoot me an SNMP walk! Hardware health includes power supply health and voltage, fan status and speed, and temperature.
Our very own SNMP walk tool outputs in a format that can be used by tooling we've built to automatically test compatibility. For that reason, I'd ask you use that tool specifically to take the walk. Instructions here. You can upload here.
Thanks!
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World Wide Map (Unknown)
Since the update to 11.5 I have noticed that on the world wide map the Nodes are grouped togther into one "plot" when you zoom out.. but when you hover over that "plot" all the devices show as Unknown..
If you zoom in its fine but when in this Top level view its breaks..
Any ideas?
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HOW TO Know SQL Database Password??
I forgot the Sql Database Password which is required to run Configuration Wizard in Orion NPM.
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Quick Disk performance check for SQL server
Recently someone asked me how you check the disk performance on the SQL as its outside the SolarWinds support however i am just adding what can be quickly check and getting an idea all this about the logic behind that.
To be honest as per technology growth it’s almost impossible to find out as an accurate metric and calculation as due to high end storage is been used such as the SAN mostly for the database its difficult to get and idea if this is really good or bad configuration .
To check bad performance you can check the queue length if its grater than 2 for any disk . But if you have a SAN you will not have any idea how many are being used for your drive where you have the SQL files stored .
So lets just have a quick look on the actual system .
To monitor the times:
- Start Windows perfmon.
- Use counter “Logical Disk”
- Select “Avg Disk/Sec” and choose Read, Write or Transfer depending on what you want to monitor. I typically choose Transfer.
- Select the drive where you have the SQL files placed
- Hit Add>> OK
- Let it run for 5 min and check
Please Note: When you read the perfmon data and see a number like “.010” this means 10 milliseconds.
Lets now check what value we have according to the table
10 ms |
| Good |
10 ms | 20 ms | Reasonable |
20 ms | 50 ms | Busy |
50 ms + |
| Bad |
There are many customer who checked and said more than 1 ms response times is a not a good sign configured SAN storage with the Storage Team .
How ? for more details please check with your Storage Team they might have to check the HBA or other factor involved .
Please Note: When you have SAN, storage like EMC or Veritas / IBM you can even contact the Storage Team as they will have there own performance software provided by the vendor where you can see more in depth details what's actually happening on the back end .
I would certainly agree there are many other factors need to consider however it would be a very long discussion could have on this however i would just keep my focus on the basic check and understanding on this as there are plenty of space available for discussion and arguments for SQL and Storage experts.
Please Note again check the disk performance is out of Solarwinds support and for more details please do consult with your SQL and Storage team .
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Your Input on Network Insight for Cisco ASA
As you may have seen, we're working on providing additional monitoring for Cisco ASAs. If you run ASAs in production, we'd love to hear your input on what you'd like covered and how you would like that coverage to work. For example:
- What problems occur on your ASAs that are not detected by your monitoring today?
- Are there any customizations you've done for monitoring your ASAs, for example UNDPs? How do they work and why do you find them useful?
- What would you like to alert on in relation to your ASAs?
- What are the most important things to know about your ASAs when you're troubleshooting a problem?
There are a couple of ways you can get involved. The easiest way is to comment here, in this thread. Our User Experience research team will also be doing phone calls to walk through early prototypes and use cases, as well as general feedback sessions. If you'd like to be involved in that, please note your interested in participating in UX research here. We'd also like to know: What version of Cisco ASA software are you running?
Another easy way to get involve is to upload an SNMP walk of your ASA. We use these during development to make sure our code works against many different versions and implementation scenarios, and that our visualizations scale both up and down. It's a great chance to make sure this feature fits your environment specifically. You can use the SolarWinds SNMP walk tool to grab the walk, and upload it here.
Looking forward to your feedback!
-Chris
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Using Windows 10 Workstation for Netpath
I am trying to use a Window 10 Pro workstation as an end device for Netpath. SNMP is configured on the workstation and the Netpath agent has been installed. When I go into Netpath to look at the routes, I get no data found. I tried to get the workstation added into NPM but it is not working with SNMP. The firewall is turned off on the workstation.
What am I doing wrong or can this be accomplished?
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Universal Device Poller: Browsing MIB tree results in "Object reference not set to an instance of an object."
System: NPM 12.0.0
Issue: When creating a new Universal Device Poller, when the "Browse MIB Tree" button is clicked, I get a pop-up that says "Object reference not set to an instance of an object." I also get this error if trying to edit an existing poller and click on the same button.
Question: Has anyone experienced this/know what to fix? In the past I've seen this same extremely clear error message in the web UI when editing resources and the fix is to clear some IIS caches and reinstall the web site. I haven't seen it affect browsing a MIB before.
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iDrac Hard Drive Status - How to Create an Alert?
I've managed to get SNMP data from our iDrac controllers, but I'm totally lost on setting up an alert. The table below (which I set to show on my Health page) shows the data that's being generated. What I'm trying to do is create two alerts, one that will look at physicalDiskSmartAlertIndication and alert if the value is 1, and one that will look at physicalDiskState and alert if the value is 1, 7, or 9.
I got the data by using the server based Universal Device Poller tool, and creating 3 Uiversal Device Pollers, one each that would check status on PhysicalDiskNumber, PhysicalDiskSmartAlertIndication, and PhysicalDiskState, then combining those to a single display on the Health page.
Sorry to sound like I'm totally lost, but from the web based Add New Alert I can't find anything that shows me those entries so I can create the alerts. Anyone have a "walk through" for either one of the alerts (once I've done one, I THINK I can do the other).
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Polling Engine Usage Resource?
I am curious, is there a way to get a resource on our NOC view that shows the polling engine usage? I am unable to find anything canned, but I do find canned alerts. I think usage may be helpful in some environments where you have multiple polling engines and many people making changes to keep track of capacity. Any help would be appreciated, thanks!
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Migrate NPM and NTA to a new server
Hello everyone.
I am posting here in hopes that someone might be able to help me with a migration that I have planned as I have tried support and they keep pointing me at the upgrade advisor.
I need to move my NPM 11.0.1 and NTA 3.11 from the existing Server 2003 R2 32bit server to my new 2012 R2 64bit server. I need to keep the ip and hostname the same as alot of network gear is tied to the ip address for monitoring and I don't want to touch each device in the network to change the IP address (I did just buy NCM but have not installed it).
I have seen articles on how to keep the same hostname but I would also like to update NPM and NTA to the latest versions. There is alot that appears I need to do and I am not sure on where to start with this. I have the 2012 server built and ready to go. I am just not sure on the next steps. Is it install SQL Express then NPM and NTA? I know that NTA 4 now has some new requirements. To be honest i would rather stay on 3.11 but I don't think I can do that (again, not sure).
Is there someone out there that has already been through this and can perhaps offer up their experience on how to complete this migration and upgrade?
Please let me know if there is something else that you need to know.
Thanks in advance.
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SLIGHT PACKET LOSS CAUSING NODE DOWN ALERTS
We're seeing slight packet loss and barrage of Node down alerts will drop in.
Where is packet loss configured that would affect our basic Node Down triggers? I'm stumped.
Thanks
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