What's better? Polling ESXi directly or through vCenter
I am new to Orion and in the process of setting up nodes for monitoring through NPM. When monitoring my vCenter environment, is it better to poll ESXi directly or through vCenter? I see my ESXI 5.5...
View ArticleDo you need Network Access Control solution ?
I wonder how many of you already have some version of a Network Access Control (NAC) solution in place. Theoretically speaking, Mobile device management (MDM) is just a part of a bigger NAC, so I would...
View ArticleTrouble getting Google Maps to work in NPM.
I've gone through every Thwack discussion and watched every video I could find and I still can not get this to work. Does anyone have this up and working properly in NPM V11? If so, can you please let...
View ArticleOrion Dashboard Screenshot samples
I'm wondering if you guys would be willing to share some screenshots of your dashboards to give me some new ideas of how to setup some dashboards / homepages in Orion for my users. For the most part I...
View ArticleSNMPv3 problem on networking devices.
Good morning everyone,I still consider myself a novice at networking, but I am learning more and more everyday, and Solarwinds has been my best friend on the job. I am currently having problems with...
View ArticleFeeding nmap discovery into solar winds NPM, IPAM, etc.
My experience with solar winds discovery features has been poor in that discovery jobs are slow, incomplete, or bomb out all together. nmap however runs like a champ. Has anyone found a smart way to...
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Device Studio, i.e. Manage Pollers inline help links are empty
You have several links on the Manage Pollers page that offer to help me "Learn More". These links take me to blank sections of the online help file, with only the descriptions of the sections as...
View ArticleScripting to Solar Winds Monitoring
I am wondering if there is a way to take the output from a simple command such as: df -h > /<directory>/<filename> and have Solar Winds read it and use the information for a drive space...
View ArticleTesting communications from server to server
Hi,I´m looking for any way to test if 2 servers can communicate (using port 5656). Server_A -> Server_B (port 5656) (Windows servers) Thanks
View ArticleHardware Monitoring: Tons of Te x/x/x Receive Power Sensor on XXXXXXX is...
Te2/6/14 Receive Power Sensor on XXXXXXXXXXX is WarningThe Alerts and Hardware Monitoring events I get on many of my big Cisco Switches really clog the event log up... I hate the idea of turning...
View ArticleNPM data continuity when upgrading circuit types?
Howdy. We are currently in the process of replacing several hundred point to point full-rate DS-3 and T-1 circuits across the US with MPLS based circuits. In most cases the handoffs will be going from...
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NPM - Difference between Interface Bandwidth & Configured Interface Speed
Hello all, I'm conducting a Port Audit on our NPM and one question I've been unable to answer is what is the difference beteen 'Interface Bandwidth' and 'Configured Interface Speed' under the Interface...
View ArticleSupport for Citrix Xenserver
Do you know if there will be any special support for Citrix Xenserver in the next year? Specifically, getting the same kinds of information like VMware: number of VM's; VM names; if they are in NPM;...
View ArticleSWQL report writer all cisco devices
Hello, I am trying to use the SWQL as my selection method for a custom table. I have been going through documentation and once I came across the 1.9 SDK I have made much more progress. My question is...
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Weird issue with NPM / UCS Blades with VMWare and Disks
So we have a much of our ESXi hosts running on UCS blades and all of them are showing the following error. It seems that the drives are not checking in to the hardware monitoring. Has anyone else seen...
View ArticleSQL Filter to Limit Report to Current Node
I need some help to create an SQL filter for a Report on my web page.The report shows all nodes...bytes....for last 7 days.I need the filter on the web page to only show the Current Node results and...
View ArticleNUTANIX MIB submitted to SolarWinds
From NUTANIX... Hi Rob, the latest update I've got from our Tech Alliance is that we have already submitted the MIBs on our end to Solarwinds counterpart. Let me get a name for you to ping as well....
View ArticleTransmode TM-3000 DWDM and Packet Optical
UnDP for Transmode TM3000 (and possibly other transmode devices). This UnDP has support for the Transponder cards, Optical Amps, EMXP, MPLS-TP, and some of the alarm reporting. Please let me know if...
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How does Solarwinds populate graph details?
In this graph how does Solarwinds populate the non bandwidth data and by this I mean the description of the chart?I understand that the part of the description circled in red is pulled straight from...
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