Cisco Catalyst 3750 reports high transmit discards
Recently, we have set up Network Performance Monitor and it is showing a high amount of transmit discards on every interface of one of our switches.AnnexStack is actually two Catalyst 3750 switches -...
View ArticleIssue with the network discovery.
Hi ,From yesterday , we are experiencing the below issue when doing the network discovery. Could not save discovery profile. JobSchedulerException: PolicyExists:Could not reach JobEngine v2 service...
View ArticleHow do you point additional pollers to a new Orion main server?
I am trying to doc this procedure but have not found the answer to this question yet.The use case is a manual recovery from a failed Orion main server. All of the nodes are assigned to additional...
View ArticleIssue with throughput for a Cisco FWSM
We are currently in the process of completing a new NPM installation. We have created a custom poller to monitor traffic throughput for a Cisco FWSM, this appears to be reporting correctly or so we...
View ArticleLinking Salesforce & Orion NPM?
My company use Salesforce for ticketing, tracking accounts, etc. Is anyone aware of an API, or another way, to link these two systems? Ideally I'd like a way to pull certain technical fields from...
View ArticleSNMP vs WMI polling - pros and cons
I'm pulling together a (semi-comprehensive) comparison of the impact of monitoring via WMI versus SNMP. The upshot for those who are impatient: WMI monitoring (whether WMI polling or WMI via SAM) has a...
View ArticleMonitoring process in linux box
Hi guys. I am using debian and centos, net-snmp is configured so I can monitor cpu, memory,disks.. but I would like to monitor some processes, first I want to try with httpd, ftp, sshd and then some...
View ArticleOrion Vs OpManager - Opinions Anyone
Hello,Has anyone come across or done a comparison of the two products.Any replies are greatly appreciated.CheersSaraf
View ArticleMonitoring physically HPProliant servers, snmp
Hi guys.First, we have NPM.We are installing some centos, redhat and debian in proliants DL servers gen8 and gen7..I have configured net-snmp in the OS and can monitor basic stuff like memory, cpus,...
View ArticleAlerts\Event is not triggering properly
Hi,From last 3 months , SW is working fine & we are getting all the configured alerts/events correctlyBut since yesterday we are not getting any alerts/events logged into SW event log as well as we...
View ArticleOrion DB - High Disk Queue - High Index Fragmentation Percentage
The orion database is running on SQL2008 Standard 64bit. The volume containing the database files is the source to the high disk queue. The other 8 volumes rarely have more than 3.00 disk queue...
View ArticleNot getting the interface statistics properly
Hi,We are using the NPM version 10.3.1. We have added almost around 700 devices in SW.Now only we come to know that, We cant able to get the interface statistics for any devices.Kindly see the attached...
View ArticleSchedulerResults folder growing out of control
Our Orion server is filling up due to the \JobEngine.v2\SchedulerResults folder - there are over 500,000 (takes forever to even list the number) files in this folder... all with the .RESULT file...
View ArticleSetup email alerts in NPM
Hi, Where do you go to setup email alerts in NPM.The following is an output taken from Solarwinds NPM admin guide :-"To configure an email/page action for a basic alert:1. Click Send an E-Mail / Page,...
View ArticleScheduler Results Folder
Hi I seem to be getting an extremely high amount of data in my folder \JobEngine.v2\SchedulerResults all of a sudden and as a result the disc space on my server is filling up dramatically. From the...
View ArticleHave troubling setting alert for custom Exalt UDP
(I am having trouble setting up an alert based on the Received Signal Level (RSL) of an Exalt wireless radio from a Universal Device Poller.I chose 'Custom Node Table Poller'Trigger Alert when 'all' of...
View ArticleNetwork Atlas Issue
Hi All, I have an issue in getting all Network Atlas on ORION Web Console,this happened after I have upgraded the NPM to 10.4, it kept getting differenterrors like: -There was an error while rendering...
View ArticleCreating A Dashboard View Using New Dynamic Graphs in 10.4
I am trying to re-build a dashboard view of many interfaces representing WAN circuits. Not multiple interfaces on a chart per-se, but multiple charts on a view. I have done this in the past with...
View ArticleCreating A View with Multiple Charts For Interface Utilization
I have been searching for an answer for a while on Thwack and I must not be asking the right question in my searches. My question is How do I put multiple charts in a single view?What I have is a...
View Article10.4 hardware health monitoring - anybody know what a bias current sensor is?
Hi all, I think this may fall under "be careful what you wish for" but here goes. I've just upgraded to NPM 10.4 and have found some "interesting" things with the hardware health monitoring: Does...
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