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How to alert when WAN circuit switches from Primary to Backup circuit
Our Network team wants to be alerted whenever their primary circuit fails over to a backup. I have played with the Orion Advanced Alert for 'Alert me when a Neighbor down', which I've been told should...
View ArticleWAN Interface Utilization Help
My customer is asking for the following alerts and reports and since I'm a novice with T-SQL I'm not even sure where to begin or how to complete this request. Is this possible? Have any of you...
View ArticleNPM 10.7 Report Writer
Hello, I've recently created a report that would show our branches that experienced high utilization. This report is put into a 24 hour format( so essentially i get to see the max utilization for every...
View ArticleNPM Monitoring Network flapping
Hello and good day I was trying to figure out a way for NPM to detect and report on the following occurrence we are seeing from NPM to the monitored node By doing a simple ping from NPM to the node you...
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Charts lose the lines and become just dots
I've noticed charts seem to lose the lines and just show dots, or even just sporadic lines between the dots when I go to sample values less than 10 minutes. Here is an example: Is there any way I can...
View ArticleAruba S3500 switches shown as wireless controllers
Monitoring a few stacks of Aruba S3500 switches. They show in NPM as wireless controllers. Appear to be missing the usual detailed data with switch topology, connected devices, etc. Where do I start...
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Tell 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 ArticleWhich member node is down in group alert?
I have a series of groups each containing four nodes. There two scenarios that I need to alert on. First, all member nodes down. Easy Peasy. The other is that one, two or three member nodes go down....
View ArticleOrion website/resource usage statistics (ie: page hits)?
Our main page on Orion is pretty cluttered and I'm looking at it today wondering how to squeeze in a link to a report that everyone is referencing while an on-going project is being worked. We have a...
View ArticleMigrating SolarWinds to new server
I will be moving an installation of NPM, SAM, IPAM, NCM and NTA to a new server and I want to be sure I have all of my bases covered. The current server needs updates on all applications, but has...
View ArticleHow to add SNMP monitoring of the VMWARE 5.5 Virtual Server Appliance
Anyone know how to add a VMware 5.5 VSA to SAM for SNMP monitoring?
View ArticleDatabase Query to link AlertLog table contents with the AuditingEvents table...
Hi All, I am trying to build a custom report for our NOC team to extract the alert information(mostly Historical) for any given Node in Orion from the ALertLog table (which contents the alert info that...
View ArticleDynamic alert thresholds in 10.7
I have some questions about how the new dynamic alert threshold function works for nodes and interfaces. It looks like: 1. Dynamic thresholds for nodes are calculated at the time the button is clicked...
View ArticleCiena CN-4200 monitoring
I have recently been involved in the installation of NPM to monitor a large Cisco network which has a small number of other devices, notably some Ciena CN-4200 WDM systems. Out-of-the-box NPM...
View Articleping component monitor for external nodes?
Is there an equivalent of a ping component monitor in NPM? Need to ping an external node. (External nodes which don't have ICMP functionality, regretfully.) Short of scripting it, of course. Thanks!
View ArticleCan alerting be turned off for a group of nodes?
I have set up a group which contains 10 nodes. Is there a way to manage the alerts on the group that would apply to all the nodes contained wihin? thank you
View ArticleUse Help Link to send e-mail as opposed to opening Help
Would like to know if there is a manner by which to use the "?Help" link in the top right corner of the screen to open an e-mail form as opposed to linking to a set of help documents? Reason for the...
View ArticleHow to combine advantages of Group with Custom Property feature
Starting point is an interesting customer requirement, which can be classified as "I can't believe that this is so complicated to solve...". Task:Nodes are organized via Group Feature - one group per...
View ArticleDependencies
Hey We've created alot of alerts and they are helpful and work just fine but, I would like to clean up the alerts so we don't get hit with 20 emails when we know the site is down. This seems easy...
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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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