unifi access points not recognized
Is there a way to add to the Vendor list? I have equipment that shows up in the "Unknown" list.
View ArticleCustom Reporting with SSRS
Hi All, My company is now starting to offer Managed Services as an offering and we are looking into creating a custom report with Microsoft Report builder that hooks into the Orion db to pull data....
View ArticleHow does NPM determine an Aruba ThinAP is down?
We have the case where occasionally one AP on a controller is flagged as 'down' in the database (an alert is genertaed) but we can't see events that indicate that this one AP has had any issues in...
View ArticleSNMPv2-MIB:authenticationFailure - Loads of these from two of our switches?
HelloAs above really, they are coming from two new switches but the config seems to be the same as all the other switches we have in regards to the community strings.Exact...
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How to test/evaluate network management tools?
Hi, I want to test and evaluate the solarwinds suite and especially NPM.The problem is that I have to evaluate it for a large and complex network but I don't know what is the best and most comfortable...
View ArticleHow to upgrade additional Poller?
What is the process for upgrading an additional poller? I looked to see what was installed on our additional poller and just like our primary poller we have IPSLA MGR, SAM and NPM all installed on that...
View ArticlePMP Radio Link Monitoring and Alerting.
We have many PMP radio links in our network that need to be critically monitored. The issue we have with monitoring these links with NPM is that the PMP radios have multiple radio links to various...
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Add SNMP Nodes
Hi. I need help. On the server Windows 2008 R2 SNMP service installed. In security set Community string READ Only = public. Write = private. Then I add this node to monitor and specify Community String...
View ArticleMobile 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!
View ArticleCisco UCS VMware Hosts show warning with "One or more thresholds are...
After installing 4 new UCS hosts I connected them to the NPM server and all 4 hosts are showing in a warning state with the error "One or more thresholds are exceeded." When you dig into each host it...
View ArticleTell us your "Unknown" devices!
Sometimes devices show up in Orion as "unknown". Those devices need to be added to our SysObjectID database. We know about lots of them, but we'd like to hear which items you need. We...
View ArticleWill a host that is down cause the virtual machine to show as down as well?
I added a few VMware hosts and guests into NPM. I am trying to figure out the following.I have an alert that checks for node status is down. If a host goes down, does the alert generate an alert for...
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NPM 11.0 Release Candidate Now Available!
Intro to NPM 11.0 With NPM 10.7 just out the door, we are pleased to announce that NPM 11.0 has entered Release Candidate phase. In a first for SolarWinds, NPM 11.0 has the ability to collect...
View ArticleNPM Edit Node Custom Properties wierd javascript
We are using several custom properties in NPM. Some are dropdown lists. When I edit a node (https://solarwinds_server/Orion/Nodes/NodeProperties.aspx) and attempt to set one of these custom...
View ArticleMobile 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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ALERT CENTRAL - ALERT NPM LINK SSL ERROR
When I click on the link to the node within alert it launches NPM but does not use the FQDN. The server certificate is for the FQDN so page displays an SSL certificate error. When configuring an Orion...
View ArticleReport Writer timeframe of Last Month... is it really last month or more like...
The question i have is that I always assumed reports run from report writer with timeframe of last month would be on the data from the previous month... the problem I've run into is that on one of my...
View ArticleHow does NPM interpret data from a SNMP Table and display it in a UNDP chart?
Hello! I am trying to understand how NPM interprets data collected via a SNMP Table that is polled via UNDP. In my case the device polled is polling statistics from other devices. These devices are...
View ArticleHow to calculate MTTR & MTBF in Solar NPM
hi, I've added network nodes to the NPM monitoring and now I want to obtain MTTR & MTBF Index in NPM.How I can calculate this for my network stability ? MTTR = Mean time to repair/recoveryMTBF =...
View ArticleWhy are my alarms silent?
We have a dedicated screen in our IT department that displays a NOC view of our infrastructure. The PC is just running Linux, with Firefox as the browser. This works ok for displaying the status, but...
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