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Unable to see Sonicwall Interfaces
Struggling solarwinds admin here,All of our new sonicwall's that are running dell's new firmware are unable to be polled by solarwinds. Previously it would allow me to select the interfaces I would...
View ArticleUsing SCP/SFTP server with Orion server
Solarwinds includes a SCP/SFTP server utility with Orion which seems nice but I don't see how SCP could work on a Windows server. *Network mostly not a server guy but... I'm using WinSCP as a client...
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 ArticleStop World map from moving in NOC mode
How do I stop the world map from moving while in NOC mode?I have the world map setup as one of the recourses that cycles through in NOC Mode and when it cycles through over and over the map is moving...
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Adding Nodes to WorldMap automatically
I just today stumbled upon the WorldMap feature that was added in NPM 10.6. When I first added the resource to my page I found that it had already populated around 50 of my nodes without any input from...
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Adding Live Weather to the "Worldwide Map" Resource
Adding Live Weather to the "Worldwide Map" Resource Summary: This will allow you to add live weather to the worldwide map based on the OpenWeatherMap project (free).Limitations: The map must be on a...
View ArticleOrion Report Writer
Been struggling for a week now trying to take a report and modify it? We have the state's school districts in solarwinds... when we add 1 school the report will run. When we start adding...
View ArticleAdvanced Alerting Help
I apologize in advance for this wall of text, but I feel like I have a pretty complicated issue I am trying to deal with.To start, the computers we have deployed have huge problems with dropping hard...
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SNMP Polling Meraki Devices (NPM 11.0.1) - How To
Background:Thousands of Meraki devices needed to be added to Solarwinds for my situation, and so the hunt began. First stop was Meraki for some help, which led me to this document:...
View ArticleDPI issues with additional poller
Anyone here using an additional poller with NPM 11 and having issues with Agent management and the DPI module? I'm getting repeated errors that it's unable to find the SolarWinds.AMS.Proxy.dll but the...
View ArticleOrion Database Maintenance from the SQL Server
Hello; I am looking for a way to run the Database Maintenance application from the SQL server itself, instead running it from the NPM server. How I can do this? Or Is there a script I can run from...
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Google Maps in Orion NPM - How to Video
I've made some changes to the original Google Maps that I introduced about this time last year. This version provides a status icon on the map for each unique latitude and longitude value in the...
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CPU/memory load via SNMP on Mac OSX Server?
Can't seem to get OSX Server (tried 10.6 and 10.8) to report CPU and memory via SNMP. Interfaces, volumes and processes are reported fine.(Selecting "CPU and Memory" doesn't do anything.) Checked...
View ArticleWhy do you need more than NPM's interface traffic and NTA's flow analysis
We recently saw that "Cisco NBAR support" was voted #1 enhancement request for NTA - the Network Traffic Analyzer.Above and beyond NBAR, we are wondering what are your most important needs for advanced...
View ArticleViewing NetFlow data in Node Details
I have netflow charts shown in my node details pages, but that information is not nearly as detailed as if I go in to the netflow tab and then go to my device from there. Is there a way for me to get...
View ArticleUnmanage Utility
Trying to create some tasks to stop alerting during the weekly reboot process. Time scheduled is for 1 hour per office. When I start task manager and try to import the xml file I get the following.....
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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 ArticleHow does encrypted traffic, impact the effectiveness of your Advanced Traffic...
If you run an Advanced Traffic Analysis product, we are interested to hear about how impacted it is by encrypted traffic.Example of these products/technologies: NBAR, Flexible Netflow, nProbe, Riverbed...
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...
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