Standalone Syslog Viewer
Hi everyone, Is there a standalone syslog viewer application that we can install on client computers? To be honest, the web based syslog viewer is useless. We always use the syslog viewer application...
View Articlecreate a report showing click count for print devices
Our print devices are covered by support contracts. Each month we receive phone calls asking for click counts on these devices. I'm hoping to create a custom report displaying these. My guess is...
View ArticleBest approaches to discovery?
I wondered if there are any better approaches to performing network discoveries, especially on large networks, as it simply takes far too long, and discovers devices we simply don't care to monitor. We...
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 ArticleRedirect HTTP to HTTPS
I just enabled HTTPS for my Orion site. I have HTTPS required on IIS. I want to redirect anyone who browses to the HTTP site to HTTPS. What is the best way to handle this redirection?
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"Bad trap packet received from Node with IP x.x.x.x. Error description:...
This is one possible reason for the error "Bad trap packet received from Node with IP x.x.x.x. Error description: Unknown user and engine. Packet discarded."I ran into this issue not too long ago....
View Articleaudible alerts
My customer has given me a requirement to play a sound when a device goes down. The SolarWinds server is in a server room that is not normally manned. The 'audience' is in another room using...
View ArticleHow to sync two Orion systems
So for DR purposes we're looking at having two separate independent Orion systems (NPM,SAM,NTA,NQM) in two physically separate data centres. The systems will ultimately be active/active and monitoring...
View ArticleDisplay of Nodes DOWN only
A few years ago, we used a product called PINGER that would poll our network gear and put up a line of Node identification if that node was Down. A blank screen means all is GOOD. It would be great...
View ArticleDPI in a Windows 2008 R2 VMware guest
I worked with our network team to set up a SPAN and our VMware team to build a promiscuous mode vswitch for us to do some DPI testing. When I check the vNIC in the guest OS (Windows 2008 R2) ---...
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Polling Engine Monitoring
What is this website doing to determine if the polling engine is down? I know there have been some post on monitoring the polling engines but I can't seem to find them. We use APM to monitor the...
View ArticleESX, HP C7000's and QoE Span port
Hey all C7000 Chassis with ESXi hosts that have Vflex with trunked ports to core switches. 20+ Vlans on a VDS that spans multiple chassis. Instead of enabling Promiscuous on all port groups which is a...
View ArticleNetwork Atlas - Link Status Issue
OK - perhaps I have failed in my search attempts. If this is the case and the "right answer" is "RTFM - look here" I'll apologize for the search fail - and will be grateful for the pointer. That said...
View ArticleNode Reports - Up/Down
I need to create a Node avaliability report monthly basic to the management.can any person share report format to me. reports columns as follows Daily between - 9:30AM to 2:30PMnodename, eventtime,...
View ArticleHelp with NPM Reporting
I need to create a yearly report for NPM of server availability. I cant seem to see my full year of data even though i have been running nearly two years with Orion. Help?
View ArticleAlert Creator
Hi Thwackers, There are multiple people in my company creating Alerts. How can I find out who the creator of each Alert or specific Alert is? Thanks
View ArticleIs it possible to populate the last xx event window with a particular syslog...
We are running NPM v10.3 and there is a particular type of syslog message I want to keep a close eye on. I know I can configure alerts from the syslog viewer application on my NPM server however the...
View Article[HELP] What is Read/write community string?
I have a problem to add new nodes, I started to add manually the nodes for SAM, in "Define node" i choose "polling method" - "most devices: SNMP and ICMP - Recommended", SNMP v2, port 161, community...
View ArticleCustomized Views in Orion Network Performance Monitor
I am using Orion Network Performance Monitor (Version 8.5), for considerably big network. Current view is "Vendor" but I want to view the devices in groups by layer like...- Internet Layer- DMZ Layer-...
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How do I measure disk latency from the virtual server
I'm suspecting my SAN may have some disk latency. I have NPM but I can install SAM. Where do I go to find disk latency by volume in NPM or SAM?
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