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Edit (8/14/18):
Updated device list. Thank you for input and tests on other models!
Edit (10/4/17):
Poll the nodes directly via Solarwinds. You must define the SNMP details on the Meraki dashboard (see how-to steps below).
Meraki Document for the curious: Monitoring the Wireless Network - Cisco Meraki
Background:
Thousands of Meraki devices needed to be added to Solarwinds for my situation, and so the hunt began. First stop was Meraki for some help, which led me to this document: https://docs.meraki.com/download/attachments/13500458/ConfigurationGuide-Meraki-SolarwindsSNMP%20(2).pdf?version=1&modif… (Deprecated.)The document's instructions weren't for the implementation that I was looking for, and that document was all I could find in online. What I needed was to poll the devices directly instead of through the dashboard. When I followed Meraki's document for alerting, it wasn't what I was looking for. Passing relevant information to the alerts wasn't available, based on Meraki's instructions. Eventually, I accidentally stumbled upon the answer, and now looking back it seems so simple .
How-To Steps:
Results:
Here's a Meraki MX80 that's been added.
Here's an MR16 that's been added:
After the nodes have been added, I setup alerts and they'll be able to pull helpful information (Hostname, IP, Custom Properties, etc.) when an event happens.
Misc. Info:
Version info: NPM 11.0.1
Devices I've tested unless otherwise noted:
Firewalls
MX80
MX65 shannon.raymond
MX100 michael.kent
MX400
Wireless Access Points
MR16
MR18
MR24 michael.kent
MR32 kwameb87
MR42
Switches
MS22P
MS220 kwameb87
MS320 kwameb87
MS350 kwameb87
MS42P michael.kent
MS420 kwameb87
Current issues:
From the screenshots you can see that the Last Boot date isn't correct, however that isn't a pressing issue for me.
I hope this will help some of you, and feel free to ask questions.
I'll be adding updates as more info comes in, so feel free to post what you have run into.
Message was edited by: Naters
Hi All,
I'm looking for the best way to solve this problem, as I'm sure there are multiple ways to go about this.
Essentially we have our ISP connections (primary, backups) being monitored through ICMP, and grouped together to form the parent on which our firewall is the child to. Group will be set to Best. This should report whenever both our primary and backup is down, our firewall is down. Fair enough. We have other dependencies as well, which will likely also face the same issue below, but we currently haven't had the requests....yet.
My issue is that when putting members in the group, on the node details page, the dependency tree only shows the group, not the members. Others have expressed the desire to see what nodes are in the parent/child group. Is there a way to list them, or is there a certain way to configure another resource to display this?
Apologies if this is not the correct place to ask this.
Thanks for any help.
What is the actual SNMP OID for the "Machine Type" reported in Orion? It isn't sysObjectID.0, is it? We're trying to get a managed service provider to insert particular information so that it is returned in the "Machine Type" field and they're stating they don't know what we're talking about. I thought "Machine Type" was one of the standard RFC1213 MIB. Currently, the hardware we're monitoring has a "Machine Type" of "net-snmp" and we're asking them to customize this so we can create views based on the device.
I'm trying to use the filter on a Volume resource to only show C Drives. I'm using the correct volume property but it doesn't seem to work. I'm getting incorrect SQL errors.
This is my string:
VolumeType = 'Fixed Disk' AND VolumePercentUsed >=85 AND Caption like 'C*'
According to the examples it should be working, but I get this:
Any ideas?
After upgrading to 12.3 from 12.2 we are having issues with the RabbitMQ service running, we start it and the service stops almost right away
We have already tried this KB
RabbitMQ stops on the Main Polling Engine and generates Orion Web Console issues - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and S…
Hi all what are you all monitoring on your main NOC screen,
Paul
A couple of my sites have greater distance and latency involved when their APE's need to get Polling Engine updates from my main NPM instance during hot fix / patch episodes.
They regularly give me this error:
If I let these servers just sit without clicking Yes or No, I can see the progress bar in the background continue moving to the right until the download is complete, and it appears all I need do is click "Next. But that's not possible while the previous dialog box is unanswered, and I can't click X on it to remove it.
If I click No, the process ends and I have to start all over again.
If I wait until the back progress bar makes it all the way to the right, and then the Solarwinds Orion Compatibility Check Summary window (above) appears, then I can click Yes, and the front dialog box closes I can click "Next" and move through the patch/upgrade.
It seems as if that initial window about the Downloading Process being interrupted is caused by some arbitrary timer that expires.
1. Do you ever experience this?
2. Is there something I can do to prevent this? The download is not truly interrupted.
3. Can we get this corrected/repaired/fixed?
Hi Expert,
I could not received any SNMPv3 traps from gigamon in NPM.
SNMPv2 work perfectly fine.
Thanks.
I am not able to view CPU and Memory for the switch stack members. I get the below information:
I checked the "Learn more" article and found the below OIDs mentioned in the article:
After which I created the pollers in UnDP and added the 2 OIDs:
But still I am not getting the information related to CPU and Memory? Can anyone suggest how can I proceed with this?
Hey All! Now, you’re probably looking at the title of this and thinking “yeah, that’s easy enough, just create a custom chart and get the top 10 already”. Well, this one is going to be a bit different. What if, instead, you want to see the top 10 interfaces, but the interfaces are in separate charts? Perfstack seems the obvious choice, but perfstack only gives you a static list, not a top 10 list. That’s where things get a bit tricky.
But fear not! With the power of SQL, this can be accomplished:
Here I’ve gone and created a view in Orion that contains the top 10 interfaces across the entire environment. Each one of these resources is a custom chart that is based on a custom SQL query. Each query is exactly the same, except there is an offset number that is changed for the first, second, etc. interface. Below are the steps in creating:
Step 1 - Create a new view (Optional, but recommended):
Go to Settings --> All Settings, and click on Manage Views. Click on Add, then create a Summary View called “Top 10 Interfaces”
Step 2 – Add the new view to a menu bar (Optional, but recommended):
Go to Settings --> All Settings, and click on “Customize Menu Bars”. Click on the menu bar you want to add the view to (I used Network_TabMenu), and select Edit.
From the list of available views on the left, find the “Top 10 Interfaces” you created, and drag that to the right.
Now you have the new view under My Dashboards --> Network --> Top 10 Interfaces
Step 3 – Create the widgets:
Click on the view we just created in steps 1 and 2, and on the left side of our blank canvas, click on Customize Page:
Then go to “Add Widgets” in the upper right:
Search for the “Custom Chart” Widget, then drag and drop that widget 10 times to the main part of the screen (5 in each column):
Click “Done Adding Widgets when finished”
Step 4 – Make the charts:
This is the meaty part. On the first chart, click on “Configure this resource” or “edit” (both will take you to the same page):
For “Title”, call this “Interface #1”
Subtitle we can leave blank
Then for datasource, click "Select Datasource", and change the selection method to “Advanced Database Query (SQL, SWQL)”, then change the query type to SQL:
Now for the query, copy and paste the following:
SELECT
(no.caption + ' - ' + interf.interfacename) as [Node Name],
interf.interfacename as [Interface Name],
it.datetime,
it.in_averagebps as [Average BPS In],
it.out_averagebps as [Average BPS Out]
FROM [dbo].[InterfaceTraffic] it
inner join Interfaces interf
on it.interfaceid=interf.interfaceid
inner join nodes no
on it.nodeid=no.nodeid
where it.interfaceID=(
SELECT
it.interfaceid
FROM [dbo].[InterfaceTraffic] it
where it.datetime >= DATEADD(day, -1, GETDATE()) and it.in_averagebps IS NOT NULL and it.out_averagebps IS NOT NULL
group by it.interfaceid
order by(avg(it.in_averagebps)+avg (it.out_averagebps)) desc
OFFSET 0 ROWS FETCH NEXT 1 ROWS ONLY)
So, quick explanation as to what this query does. The first part, up to the “where” statement, pulls the interface traffic information. The magic happens in the where clause. The where clause takes the last 24 hours of performance information, per interface, and averages it out and sorts the top interfaces.
The important piece to this is the LAST line;
OFFSET 0 ROWS FETCH NEXT 1 ROWS ONLY)
What this line does is return just one line, but offset the rows X number of lines. So, for this chart, we take the top result. For the next chart, we will take an offset of 1, so our query is now:
OFFSET 1 ROWS FETCH NEXT 1 ROWS ONLY)
This query will give us the chart for the 2nd interface in the top ten, and so on.
Step 4 – The rest of the chart setup:
Now that our data source is set for the first chart, you can now set the rest of the options.
And that’s it! Hit submit.
Step 5 – Rinse and Repeat:
Repeat steps 3 and 4 for the other ten charts, and make sure you:
Change the offset number for each chart (Interface #2 has an offset of 1, Interface #3 has an offset of 2, etc.)
Change the name of the Charts for Interface 2, 3, etc.
That should do it! From this point, if you want to change the query to include a custom property, or maybe do volumes or cpu performance, you can. The real part of this is the where clause where you look up your information ahead of time, then offset/fetch. Let me know in the comments if you have any questions!
Hi Team,
we have upgraded NPM 12.3 after solarwinds website getting error intermediately.
Please provide suggestion
FYI: If you want to monitor the temperature of HP Proliant servers and you've installed SNMP and the Compaq Insight Management software. You can create a Custom MIB Poller using OID (1.3.6.1.4.1.232.6.2.6.8.1.4).
cpqHeTemperatureCelsius: This is the current temperature sensor reading in degrees Celsius. MIB value type should be set to Raw Value, and type is set to none.
Unfortunately, you can't yet perform math on the Custom MIB Poller to convert the value to Fahrenheit.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
A combination of both
We recently saw that "Cisco NBAR support" was voted #1 enhancement request for NTA - the Network Traffic Analyzer.
Above and beyond NBAR, we are wondering what are your most important needs for advanced traffic analysis techniques such as Network Based Application Recognition-NBAR, Deep Packet Inspection-DPI, Flexible Netflow
More on this topic here
When adding new nodes to NPM, do you use Network Sonar or you add your nodes directly?
Do you track mobile devices in your network?
