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Moving Nodes to Correct Polling Engine & (Removing OLD Engine Entry with...
Why have 2 Primary Polling Engine Entery in Orion ? This will be the case where you have incorrect Dual (OLD ) Primary Engine EntryWhich can be seen in Orion and Nodes assigned to Old Engine Entry in...
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Maps - MPLS - Link utilization
Dear SW community, After many years we finally started to use MAPS in NPM. Like most organizations, we use multi point WAN solutions (e.g. MPLS) and discovered that whilst using Atlas and connect MPLS...
View ArticleRequesting help with Advanced Alert Manager
I am trying to create an alert using Advanced Alert Manager that will trigger an alert when all our Server Nodes have a Memory Load that is "equal to or greater than 75", except for our SQL Server and...
View ArticleDeploying Virtual Appliances
Are you comfortable with deploying virtual appliances? We're discussing ways to deploy new products that may interact with your NPM (and other SolarWinds) deployments and one of our options is a...
View ArticleNOC employee looking for advice
Hello, I work on a NOC dept of 4 ppl (1 manager, 3 employees) that covers 7221 elements (1135 nodes). When I started in my current position I was told our dept was given the current Orion environment...
View ArticleClean up Unknown interfaces and volumes.
Hi, What's the best way to clean up Unknown interfaces and volumes? We've been running NPM for years and I'm sure there are loads of Unknown interfaces and volumes floating around the database where...
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the invisible volume
A volume on an OSX 10.6.8 SNMP-monitored volume is reported as "down", and I can't find it. Could you please help me? The error:Volume "/Volumes/macadmin" on Tier 1 node "Pipeline4": Down...
View ArticleWhat we're working on post-NPM 11.0
The 11.0 release just occurred today, but we're already hard at work looking at items for future release. We have some game-changing new features in the works, so please stay tuned. Kindly find below...
View ArticleWhy do I have to open a ticket every single time I update this product?
WHY?We use about six of Solarwinds products in Orion. Sure when I open a ticket the guys are helpful and its resolved quickly. But dammit we paid about $70K for this with enough licenses for our...
View ArticleWhen do you create a service pack for Orion?
Hi, I am curious to know why there hasn't been made an service pack for NPM v10.7? As of today, there are 9 hotfixes for NPM v10.7. Installing these hotfixes required alot of planning and time to...
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Report will not produce the correct output....!!!
I started out editing this existing report thinking that the task was extremely simple... Turns out I am going crazy trying to figure out why the report is blank after running it. Here is my...
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Universal Device Poller Enumeration Web Display
I have created a poller to determine the state of the C-Link (SS7) connection between two STPs. The OID values are:1 - Disconnected2 - Connected3 - ReconnectingMy issue is that all I can display is the...
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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 10.7 and Enterasys
I am wondering if anyone has run into any issues with polling/monitoring Enterasys network devices.New install of Solarwinds, new DB, all on W2012R2 I am working on discovering a network with N series,...
View ArticleMigrating
I was just given the task of taking over a Solarwinds NPM installation along with a SQL database and migrating it from one location and to another and onto newer boxes. The current version running is...
View ArticleWhat Condition Trigger Group Status is Equal to Warning
Dear all, I have set a group alert type at "Advance Alert Manager", this alert will inform me when the following conditions are met Group Status is equal to to WarningGroup status is equal to Critical...
View ArticlePalo Alto Poller
Has anyone cooked up a basic Palo Alto poller for connection tracking? Thanks!
View ArticleHardware Health on Cisco 3750 Reporting Incorrectly
Just got pinged about a Cisco 3750 that is showing a bad PSU in NPM, but am being told it is not showing an issue when they are logged into the system. I've already confirmed that SNMP is working...
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