we want to monitor Alcatel OS6350 Switch paramters like power supply fan speed ,CPU & memory. Does NPM has it out of box ?
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how to monitor Alcatel OS6350 Switch hardware in NPM
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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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ASA Hardware Monitor
We are not be able to able to Monitor Cisco ASA Firewall Hardware.
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Interface Utilization Minimum / Maximum / Average
This is two questions on the same subject:
I have several interfaces monitored and the graph is detailing minimum/maximum/average
Polling is every 9 minutes and detailed in the graph every 15 minutes
My question - if the maximum on the graph is displayed at 762 Mbps is that really the maximum or in the 15 minutes could it have gone higher.
I know this sounds like a stupid question, but I also have a second scenario;
I also have a vendor monitoring an MPLS link which is experiencing drops (Not huge quantity, but still I do not expect them) and they are detailing the following on a 20Mb link which is not showing 100% utilized, in fact, traffic is occasionally hitting 14Mbps. I am wondering whether there graph would be better as a minimum / maximum / average, but only if the maximum is really the maximum.
for reference, their graphs are: and they are detailing the following:
Comments from Vendor monitoring our Link:
[Comment from Vendor]
I have reviewed this case with a colleague and the opinion at the moment is that the discards seen in the period 04:00hrs - 12:00hrs are simply due to microbursts of traffic from the site. Whilst we can configure the load-interval value on the router interface down to 30 seconds, this is still far too long to capture any microbursts of traffic.
We have used a real-time bandwidth monitor which can provide a snapshot of traffic utilisation on the link and I have run this against the router today to get an idea of traffic levels. This has shown a number of spikes in transmit utilisation lasting just a few seconds at various times throughout the day. Whilst we can poll the interface at this relatively short interval (~2s), it is not always possible to see microbursts of traffic even at this level, although we can get a fair idea of the traffic levels.
Microbursts are patterns or spikes of traffic that take place in a relatively short time interval (generally sub-second) causing network interfaces to temporarily become oversubscribed and drop traffic.
Looking at the bandwidth monitor this evening (16:00hrs GMT onwards), we are seeing general low levels of traffic (presumably as the site is now closed), however about every 5 minutes we see a short sharp burst in transmit traffic of about 8 - 10Mbps (examples attached). In comparison, our monitoring servers will poll for SNMP data every 10 minutes and then average the data so any short sharp spikes in data will not be seen.
Looking at the interface counters (since they were last reset upon reboot 18wks ago), the number of output drops equate to ~0.12% of all data sent through the link. Any TCP traffic should have been automatically re-transmitted by the host once it was notified that the packet had not been received.
I hope someone can assist.
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How to create a simple custom view of multiple interfaces' bandwidth utilization
I've used custom views to show clients and my Team many different things that NPM monitors, and those folks really appreciate the service. You can be a rock star in their eyes when you give them something that helps them improve how they and their clients understand their systems and their performance.
Here's how to build a custom View that shows current and recent WAN interface utilization between routers connecting six different data centers. Remember, your new View doesn't have to be of just interfaces on the same switch, or on the same router.
You can build this kind of report for as many interfaces as you'd like, from any switch or router or device interface that's monitored by your NPM. This one shows a single WAN interface on six different routers that connect into the same MPLS cloud:
Here's how to do it:
Create the view:
1. From NPM, go to Settings > Manage Views > Add
2. Customize the new view:
- Name it intuitively
- Select Summary (there are MANY types of views. Read up on them, test some to get a feel for the extreme versatility of NPM)
- Click Submit
3. Edit the View.
- You can change its name if you want.
- I chose not to enable Left Navigation--this will be simple, and won't load a lot of info.
- I added a Custom HTML Resource to Column 1, then cloned it three times. Next I moved one instance into Column 2, and then cloned that one twice. I ended up with three Custom HTML Resources in each column.
- I set the width to 500 px for each
- I set No View Limitation (but you can add one in if you need it)
- Click Done or Preview. Preview lets you see it right away, without assigning it to any Menu Bar. Plus, you can edit those custom HTML fields.
4. Here's the sweet spot to make you rock in the eyes of your boss & peers because it gives you the power to make a really useful view:
- Open a second browser window to your NPM
- Browse to a router node and open it
- Open the interface that faces the WAN
- Look at the URL bar and note the NetObject= section. Example:
- http://your_server_name_here/Orion/Interfaces/InterfaceDetails.aspx?NetObject=I:XXXXX&view=InterfaceDetails
- Copy or write or memorize the NetObject number for use in the next step
5. Edit your new View in Preview, or assign it to a Menu Bar and open it
- Click Edit in the top left Custom HTML window
- Give it an intuitive Title
- Fill in the Subtitle if that helps you better identify the interface or feature you're displaying
- Copy and paste this into the html window:
<img src="/Orion/Netperfmon/Chart.aspx?ChartName=MMAvgBps&Title=&SubTitle=&SubTitle2=&Width=640&Height=0&NetObject=I:XXXX&CustomPollerID=&SampleSize=1H&Period=Last 10 Days&FontSize=1&NetObjectPrefix=I&SubsetColor=&RYSubsetColor=&Printable=true&ShowTrend=True&ResourceID=27" />
- Where I've put in the X's, remove them and enter in the NetObject ID number you wrote down from the previous step
- Click Submit
The new page should open, but this time the top left window won't say Custom HTML, it'll show the bandwidth used by that router's WAN interface for the last 10 days:
Now repeat this for every Custom HTML entry you've made, but change the NodeID info to the Node ID that's shown in the Interface Details page URL for new/different WAN routers and interfaces.
OK, you've made a new View. But your team can't access it easily until you assign your new View to the Menu Bar they use. If you don't know how to do that . . .
Here's how to define a new View to add to a Menu Bar:
- Go to NPM > Settings > Customize Menu Bars
- Edit the Menu Bar you or your team will use to access your new View
- Find your new View in the Available Items column on the left
- Drag it to the right column, drop it in where you want it.
If you can't find your new View, you'll need to discover its URL. Follow this process:
- Open a second browser window and Edit the View by clicking the Preview open
- Copy the URL for the new View when you're previewing it
- Go back to the original browser window from step 3 and click Add
- Type in the Name of your View, paste in the URL address, give it a good Description
- I clicked the option to Open in a New Window. It's your choice.
- Click OK
Now go back to NPM's Home Page, find the new View in the Menu Bar, and click on it.
Voila!
Tweaking and tuning:
If you're not afraid of a little keyboard editing of html, you can easily change the 10 days to show the last 7 days or last 23 hours or last 17 minutes or last pretty-much-anything. Here's how:
Look for "SampleSize" and "Period" in the code you copied & pasted
<img src="/Orion/Netperfmon/Chart.aspx?ChartName=MMAvgBps&Title=&SubTitle=&SubTitle2=&Width=640&Height=0&NetObject=I:XXXX&CustomPollerID=&SampleSize=1H&Period=Last 10 Days&FontSize=1&NetObjectPrefix=I&SubsetColor=&RYSubsetColor=&Printable=true&ShowTrend=True&ResourceID=27" />
Note the SampleSize is 1H, or One Hour.
Node the Period is the Last 10 Days
Edit each window in your view and change the SampleSize and Period to whatever works best for you. Keep in mind that some combinations of SampleSize and Period don't go well together (e.g.: SampleSize=1M and Period=Last 10 Months) because NPM needs to have you be reasonable. If you want a graph showing changes every 1 minute, you have to be polling & collecting the data pretty frequently. Pick a Period that's reasonable for seeing good granularity of 1 minute points, like Last 20 Minutes. If you just see points instead of a line in the chart, you've picked a combination of sample size & period that's too granular for what your NPM has polled. Adjust until you've got something that meets your needs.
Remember to keep the spacing in the html code exactly the same as the example I show above. If you add a space between words, or remove one, you risk breaking the pretty graph output.
Some examples:
Show the Last 3 Hours, in 10-minute increments uses this code:
<img src="/Orion/Netperfmon/Chart.aspx?ChartName=MMAvgBps&Title=&SubTitle=&SubTitle2=&Width=640&Height=0&NetObject=I:XXXX&CustomPollerID=&SampleSize=10M&Period=Last 3 Hours&FontSize=1&NetObjectPrefix=I&SubsetColor=&RYSubsetColor=&Printable=true&ShowTrend=True&ResourceID=27" />
Note how the graph automatically changed "Last 10 Days" to "Last 3 Hours" in the title. Sweet!
Suppose you like the 10 minute samples, but want to show the last 24 hours. Just change "Last 10 Hours" to "Last 24 Hours":
<img src="/Orion/Netperfmon/Chart.aspx?ChartName=MMAvgBps&Title=&SubTitle=&SubTitle2=&Width=640&Height=0&NetObject=I:25091&CustomPollerID=&SampleSize=10M&Period=Last 24 Hours&FontSize=1&NetObjectPrefix=I&SubsetColor=&RYSubsetColor=&Printable=true&ShowTrend=True&ResourceID=27" />
If it looks great, fire off an e-mail to your Team or your Boss and show off the new functionality you've provided to the organization.
If it doesn't look great, spend a little time fixing it up. Look for typos, fix spelling & punctuation--this is your baby, and folks will judge you by your work.
Swift Packets!
Rick Schroeder
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Custom User Links, Modified User Links Resource
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How to create a simple report that can be exported to csv
I just want to create a CSV file showing all nodes in Orion, and the hardware platform or each. I need this asap so I was hoping someone might be able to walk me through it or point me in the right direction. I am running NPM 12.0.1
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The poling engine you are trying to assign the selected nodes can have a different suite of installed modules. Some types of objects can be dropped from monitoring.
Can have or does have? Can be dropped?
Does this indicate I am missing something on my newly installed poller?
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Unable to Assigned Custom Pollers to Agent Polled Devices?
I just want to make sure that I am not the only one experiencing this phenomenon.
We heavily leverage custom pollers in our environment (see The Ultimate CPU Alert...For Linux - Reloaded! for an example) and we've recently decided to go with Linux agents on all of our EC2 instances. After adding a couple of agents (very nice!) I went to go and apply the custom pollers -- no go. I tried the 32-bit app and the web UI. Neither would allow me to assign pollers -- it just didn't see the node.
Now I know that back in the day you could "trick" Orion into allow you to assign custom SNMP pollers to a WMI node by first polling that node via SNMP and then converting it to WMI, but we can't do that in this case.
While I try and get SNMP configured on these nodes (I *just* noticed that it didn't even get configured!), could someone confirm whether or not an Linux server polled via the agent with snmp installed and configured can have custom pollers assigned to it?
Thanks!
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Orion install on Azure IaaS supported?
Hello,
Just wondering if Orion can be installed in Azure. We will be monitoring agents on VMs in Azure as well as WMI/SNMP/Storage nodes on premises.
Modules will be NPM, SAM, UDT, SRM, NCM.
Thanks,
Alex
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Is there an app that will simulate SNMP date for a device that soes not support SNMP?
Ok,
So I have a copy of NPM up and running. I also have a Verizon Actiontech router/gateway. This red and black turd on my desk seems to do everything except SNMP protocol. Does anyone know of and application or tool that will look at the data traversing this router and create SNMP traffic? I am doing a development project and would love to not spens hundreds of $$$ if I can get away with it.
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Universal Device Poller: Get "unsupported". But MIB Walker and MIB Browser can pull values?
Setup:
- Running NPM v12.0.0 and MIB database from 11/16/2016.
- Trying to pull custom OID on a "Sierra Wireless" airlink device, OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.20542.9.1.1.1.261
Issue:
- Added device to NPM and it "took" using SNMP v2c to pull data for "standard monitoring". When trying to create a Universal Device Poller", get "unsupported"...but other tools can pull back the data.
These "Engineers toolset" tools can browse to the device, get to the OID, and actually show the value:
- SolarWinds MIB Browser
- SolarWinds MIB Walker
These tools can walk all the way down to the OID (it can walk or recognizes the OIDs in some way), but return "unsupported"
- Universal Device Poller = Can walk to and select the OID, but the "tester" returns "The OID is not supported"
- The Orion web console, under the device management for "MIB Walker", can walk to and select the OID, but when selected it returns "UNSUPPORTED"
Question(s):
- My MIB DB isn't that old, and these devices "are not new or unusual" according to some people. Why is there a discrepancy between the tools in being able to pull the data in some tools but not others?
- I could update the MIB DB (it looks like I have to take an outage to do so, go though change control, etc.), and I've seen *many* posts (some over 8+ years old) talking about the MIB database and what it's roles are from old versions of NPM...but is there a way *today* to validate my MIB(s)/OID's are in the database before importing it? The consensus seems to be that you must import the latest MIB DB into NPM, then if it creating a new device poller still doesn't work you send the OID into support (somehow...make a ticket?) ... then wait patiently?
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Configuration Wizard stuck at importing sample maps
I have already checked the KB article for this issue and the article is only applicable for one web server.
I experienced this error on my additional web server where all permissions folder are ok, done the re-installation, i even checked the web table and only two web servers are added. So, yeah I am here maybe some from the community here also experienced this issue in NPM v12.1 and able to resolve this.
I've already open a ticket but still no luck to get a response T_T
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Interface Downtime and Availability - Incorrect
Hi, Does any one have this issue where the interface is up for sometime already (>1 hour) but the Downtime shows status as "unknown"?
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SHA256 certificate Support in Solarwinds NCM 7.5.1
Does NCM 7.5.1 support SHA 256 certificates
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Universal Device Poller and Transforms
I've created a Transform Poller that is simply the addition of the values of two pollers. I run the test and the transformed values are displayed as I expect. I have added the poller to several nodes and its enabled. When I go to one of the nodes and click on the Transform Poller there isn't any data being collected. What am I missing? Why is it not collecting data? Currently the interval is set to 2 minutes.
One thing to note, I'm new to SolarWinds so as much detail as you can give would be appreciated.
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how to monitor Alcatel OS6350 Switch hardware in NPM
we want to monitor Alcatel OS6350 Switch paramters like power supply fan speed ,CPU & memory. Does NPM has it out of box ?
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ASA Hardware Monitor
We are not be able to able to Monitor Cisco ASA Firewall Hardware.
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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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Mobile device monitoring/management features
Which of the following is your highest priority feature provided by your MDM solution?
Feel free to add more options in comments and vote for them using Like button!
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