When adding new nodes to NPM, do you use Network Sonar or you add your nodes directly?
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Do you use the Network Sonar Discovery?
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F5 BIG-IP versions in use
What version of BIG-IP your F5s run?
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How does encrypted traffic, impact the effectiveness of your Advanced Traffic Analysis product (e.g. DPI-based solution)?
If you run an Advanced Traffic Analysis product, we are interested to hear about how impacted it is by encrypted traffic.
Example of these products/technologies: NBAR, Flexible Netflow, nProbe, Riverbed Cascade Opnet/Pilot, WildPackets, Fluke Optiview, Paessler, WireShark, Compuware...
More on this topic here
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Mobile device tracking
Do you track mobile devices in your network?
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Node Downtime with Duration and Minimum Length Filtering
**REQUIRES ORION PLATFORM 2018.2 OR ABOVE**
I had assembled this based on a much older SQL report, and then updated it to SWQL, then added some more intelligence to it so you can filter it based on the duration of the outage, search by the device names, and it has a method of letting you know when nodes have been down so long they aged out of the events table.
Based on popular requests I figured it was time to put it out here to make it easier for the Thwackers to find and use. This is intended to be used inside the Custom Query Resource
select n.caption as [Device]
-- shows the current status icon
, '/Orion/images/StatusIcons/Small-' + n.StatusIcon AS [_IconFor_Device]
-- makes a clickable link to the node details
, n.DetailsUrl as [_linkfor_Device]
-- shows the timestamp of the down event, if there is no timestamp then is says the event was greater than the number of days in your event retention settings
, isnull(tostring(t2.[Down Event]),concat('Greater than ',(SELECT CurrentValue FROM Orion.Settings where settingid='SWNetPerfMon-Settings-Retain Events'),' days ago')) as [Down Event]
-- shows the timestamp of the up event, unless the object is still down
, isnull(tostring(t2.[Up Event]),'Still Down') as [Up Event]
-- figures out the minutes between the down and up events, if the object is still down it counts from the down event to now, displays 99999 if we cannot accurately determine the original downtime, and
, isnull(MINUTEDIFF(t2.[Down Event], isnull(t2.[Up Event],GETUTCDATE())),99999) as Minutes
from orion.nodes n
left join (SELECT
-- Device nodeid used for our join
StartTime.Nodes.NodeID
-- Down Event time stamp in local time zone
,ToLocal(StartTime.EventTime) AS [Down Event]
-- Up Event time stamp in local time zone
,(SELECT TOP 1
ToLocal(EventTime) AS [EventTime]
FROM Orion.Events AS [EndTime]
-- picks the first up event that is newer than the down event for this node
WHERE EndTime.EventTime >= StartTime.EventTime
-- EventType 5 is a node up
AND EndTime.EventType = 5
AND EndTime.NetObjectID = StartTime.NetObjectID
AND EventTime IS NOT NULL
ORDER BY EndTime.EventTime
) AS [Up Event]
-- This is the table we are querying
FROM Orion.Events StartTime
-- EventType 1 is a node down
WHERE StartTime.EventType = 1
) t2 on n.NodeID = t2.nodeid
-- this is how I catch nodes that are down but have aged out of the events table
where (n.status = 2 or t2.nodeid is not null)
-- If you want to filter the results to only show outages of a minimum duration uncomment the below line
--and MINUTEDIFF(isnull(t2.[Down Event],(GETUTCDATE()-30)), isnull(t2.[Up Event],GETUTCDATE())) > 60
-- if you want to use this query in a search box of the Custom Query resource uncomment the below line
--and n.Caption like '%${SEARCH_STRING}%'
order by t2.[down event] desc
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Virtual Memory Resource
What exactly does the Virtual Memory resource under Volume Utilization monitor when listing resources for a Windows server node? I assumed this was the size of the pagefile, but the data displayed in Orion is not even close to what the actual pagefile is like, which leads me to believe this resource is not what I think it means.
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Node Admin Password Verification
We would like to create a SAM that indicates if a node's Windows admin password is not in scope with our standards.
Example:
We set our server admin accounts to the following password: t3x@S32rTr20!+18^v
If a node does not have this password, we get an alert and can address the issue in a timely fashion.
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Report on Parent Child dependency
Hi team,
Has anyone created the report on Parent Child dependency, Following SQL query uses the ID and not name of the node.
SELECT TOP 1000 * FROM [dbo].[Dependencies]
Please help if anyone has done it.
Thanks
Prashant
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NPM DDBB Lightweight installation to Standard Installation
We were testing NPM with the Lightweight installation to show solarwinds to a client.
We were monitoring a lot devices and configured maps, universal device poller, custom properties, views, etc
Now our client want to move all devices that we tested and solarwinds to the production enviroment.
Is there a way to migrate the database from SQLExpress to a SQL 2016 or SQL 2017? Is SQLExpress compatible with SQL 2016/2017?
We would like to avoid start from scrach but we would like to know too if the migration is problematic and can be a headache.
Thanks.
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fiber optic attenuation
It is possible get the attenuation for a interface with fiber optic?
My client is asking me if is possible because right now they need to log in every device (more than 30) to check if the attenuation is correct for every interface.
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Export / Import maps - Network Atlas
Can someone point me to where, once exported, I can then re-import network maps into Network Atlas?
There is clearly an export function available, with various export options, yet look as I have, I see no option anywhere to import back into Network Atlas... ?
Use case for this for me is that I want to clear out a bunch of existing maps without deleting them and then have the option to add them back (import them) should I need to without having to recreate them all.
Thanks in advance,
Daniel
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Node Uptime Report
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Physical Server Versus Virtual Server
Hello Thwackers,
I have been reading up on the fore's for using a Virtual Server rather than a Physical server for the installation of Solarwinds Orion products.
I recently upgraded our Solarwinds servers to Server 2012 from Server 2008 R2 - these are physical servers. It was a totally new install so was a lot of hard work and a big learning curve for me.
I've now read that any Hotfixes for NPM that go beyond version 12.2 are not supported on Server 2012, the recommendation is Server 2016. It will still work but won't be supported by Solarwinds.
I would like to propose to my manager that if we upgrade to Server 2016 that we use Virtual servers. The concern from my manager is that if our Virtual environment fails then all our alerting fails! Does anyone know if Solarwinds have any recommendations or documentation of how to protect against this kind of scenario? or any good arguments for choosing the virtual option over physical.
Any help, info or advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you
Anita
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To SaaS or not to SaaS, that is the question.
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."
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When you installed NPM, did you add Nodes manually or did you run discovery?
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
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Remove NetPath Probes
What is the proper method to remove NetPath probes from Orion? I have some nodes that I no longer use as probes and would like to remove them from the list of probes. I've seen where I can edit the database to remove them from the list but I can't imagine this would remove the plug-in from the agent on the server so it doesn't seem like that would be the "proper" method. Does aLTeReGo have any tips?
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Are your Orion server and SQL database server in the same Active Directory domain?
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Alerting different groups based on time?
Currently we have groups of engineers around the globe and i'm trying to figure out how we can send the same alerts to different groups based on time. Trying not to get woken up in the middle of the night while our other teams in a different time zone are taking care of it heh. Any help is much appreciated. Thanks!
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Hardware Polling Failed: Error 31224 - Crypto Error after 12.3 Upgrade
Anyone having this issue after upgrading to 12.3?
| Hardware polling failed: Error 31224 - Crypto Error - Unable to perform the requested algorithm. If FIPS restrictions are enabled, please select a FIPS compliant algorithm. |
I have a ticket in with Solarwinds #00144449 but no one has picked it up yet.
Polling server is Windows Server 2016 Standard
SQL server is Windows Server 2016 Standard running SQL Server 2012
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Using Your Custom HTML Resource To Properly Display SWQL Query Results
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