What version of BIG-IP your F5s run?
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F5 BIG-IP versions in use
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Which Help Desk / Service Desk are you using?
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Web Based Reports - Adding as a resource
So I might be a bit brain dead and I'm sure there's a way to do it, but I've created some reports that I'd like to add as resources on my dashboards. I know there is a resource for Report Writer reports, but I can't figure out how to display them for web based reports. Anyone figure out how to do this?
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Automated port shutdown - what would be your reasons?
There was a feature request for a UDT recently for an automated port shutdown, if the connected endpoint is on the "black list".
What would be your other reasons, for which would you want to shut down the port? Lets's go our imagination wild and imagine events like user device infected by a non-deletable virus, peer-to-peer software installed, firewall disabled? Feel free to vote for Other and leave comment. By liking the specific comments you can vote for other ideas.
Thanks!
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NPM 12.4 BETA 1 IS OUT!
I'm pleased to announce that the Network Performance Monitor (NPM) 12.4 Beta 1 is now available!
This beta includes certain items that are mentioned in What We're Working on for NPM (Updated June 1st, 2018) post.
At SolarWinds, being customer-driven and responsive to customer needs is a fundamental part of how we build software. Beta feedback is one of the key avenues we use to inform and adjust what we're building so that it can fit your needs and your environment. We'll take feedback anytime we can get it, but now is the best time to provide feedback that can affect the product.
As an added incentive, beta users who submit feedback will receive 3,000 THWACK® points to buy swag at the THWACK Store. That's enough points to score yourself all sorts of stuff.
To get access to the beta, you need to be a customer on active maintenance for NPM and sign up here. To share feedback, please post on the NPM Beta forum.
Sincerely,
NPM Team
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Resource Filters no longer work since NPM v12.3
Hi there,
Filters that have been used for the past 6 years such as PercentLoss < 100 no longer work in resources such as Top XX Nodes by Current Response Time.
We've noticed this in several Orion sites that have been upgraded to NPM v12.3. Is there a fix for this on the horizon?
FYI, we're on the latest platform and NPM hotfixes as of today.
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cisco CUCM B6000
kindly assist on how to monitor cisco cucm B6000 on NPM
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Orion Scalability Engine Evaluation expiration?
I figured I'd turn to Thwack for a quicker answer rather than try the phone or a ticket... can anyone help me understand what exactly is up with this? Will this mean that I won't be able to use the scalability installer for any other APEs?
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How to apply account limitation to Events view in NPM 12 ?
Hi,
We had implemented NPM 11.5.2.
We had configured some user accounts with device limitations to manage.
Those users could see only events of limited devices to their account in NPM 11.5.2.
Recently, we had upgraded NPM to 12.0.
Now, Every user can see all managed devices events.
There is no effects of account limitation on events view.
Does anyone know how to apply account limitation to Events view in NPM 12 ?
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Any advice for NetPath - Cannot "Create New Service"?
Hello! We have a relatively fresh SolarWinds installation with multiple polling engines.
When we attempt to create a NetPath service, it always times out when we click Create.
The only thing we've tried so far is to add PUT and DELETE to 32/64 handler mappings in IIS as per SolarWinds support.
Has anyone else had this issue and found a resolution? Thanks!
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3 - it hangs here forever but you can still click Cancel.
I have a proxy server configured but it appears to be working:
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Juniper-IVE.UnDP
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How to properly monitor a SQL cluster with Orion NPM 10.1.2
I want to monitor a SQL database that runs on a cluster, but I have been reading Thwack posts about Orion "losing" track of the physical resources in the event of a failover.
Can anyone help me with a step-by-step of how to add the cluster to NPM and how to monitor the resources of the cluster and alert if there is a failover? Would I use APM for any of this?
Thank you so much for any help.
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Can SolarWinds monitor the exit code of an exe?
Hello. In the past with other tools we have monitored using exe files that check some functionality and return an exit code, and basically anything other than exit code 0 triggers an alert.
I see info about scripts and exit codes for SolarWinds, but is there a way to run an exe and use the exit code from the exe?
Or will these exes need to be recreated in a scripting language?
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Why do you need more than NPM's interface traffic and NTA's flow analysis
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
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Automated port shutdown - what would be your reasons?
There was a feature request for a UDT recently for an automated port shutdown, if the connected endpoint is on the "black list".
What would be your other reasons, for which would you want to shut down the port? Lets's go our imagination wild and imagine events like user device infected by a non-deletable virus, peer-to-peer software installed, firewall disabled? Feel free to vote for Other and leave comment. By liking the specific comments you can vote for other ideas.
Thanks!
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Topology maps (NPM 12.3) with IEEE 802.3ad interfaces
Hi
Does any one has Juniper gear that display IEEE 802.3ad interfaces (LAG) in Atlas or the new map from NPM 12.3?
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License count for APE HA
Dear Experts,
We are planning to install High availability Setup for Additional Polling engine.
We are confused with licensing..in our case, I need 1 HA pool license & for APE do I need 1 license or 2 ??
Kindly please help me with your answers
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SQL DB Migration with CNAME
We will be moving our DB from a 2008 SQL server to 2014. If we add a CNAME to point to the same name as the old SQL server, should Solarwinds just pick up where it left off when I start up the services when the migration is complete? Because the name isn't changing, I didn't think I needed to run the configuration wizard, is that correct?
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Alert help - changing hardware thresholds and/or warning and critical levels in alert manger
I recent taken management over SW and noticed we get a lot of false positives temperature alerts. I found how to change the sensor thresholds under hardware sensors but don't want to do that for each switch. Instead I was going to create a new alert and change/raise the values to stop this from happening. Can the alerts be set to an actually number? For example, 90 degrees F. When I select the field or look at the old preset alert, it has warning and critical in the value field but I can't seem to find what those actual values are. Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you!
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Dashboard for Top 10 Interfaces
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.
- Set your time period (I set mine to last 24 hours)
- On the left y-Axis, click Add data series, select “Average BPS In”
- Once added, click ‘More’, and a button will appear for “Time Column”. Click that and select ‘datetime’
- Again on the left y-Axis, click Add data series, select “Average BPS Out”.
- And again, once added, click ‘More’, and select ‘datetime’ for the “Time Column”
- For “Units Displayed”, set this to “Bit/s”
- Under “Data Grouping”, “Group chart data” by “Interface Name”
- And for “Legend Shows”, select “Node Name”
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!
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