Interested in Better Cisco Switch Stack Monitoring?
We are. If you are too, I have a small request. Although we have our own lab gear, it's incredibly helpful to get data from representative deployments in the field. If you have one of the following...
View ArticleHow can I stop the Node Name from changing when the hostname changes?
I know when I add a node, such as a Cisco switch, to NPM it sets the Node Name to whatever the hostname of the switch is.But then I can go back and change the Node Name to be whatever I want. We are...
View ArticleAny way to add an editable Notes field to the Node view?
Has anyone found a way to add a "Notes" field to the Node Details view. Ideally, this field would be similar to the Notes field that can be added when an alert is acknowledged on the SW website. I know...
View ArticleDisable Hardware Sensors
Hello, Is there a way to delete or disable an individual hardware sensor and clear up the Warning or Critical state of the hardware monitor?
View ArticleF5 - Is there a way to monitor up/down status of Virtual Servers, Pools, and...
Hello, I am wondering if there is a way to monitor the up/down status of virtual servers, pools, and the pool members on an F5 device. I am very inexperienced with MIBs and OIDs, but am willing to...
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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 ArticleNode is up, status will not update to up
We had a remote firewall go down, got alerted as expected, called the carrier, modem replaced, service restored at the location and we received a node up alert. Node up event was written to the event...
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Node Downtime Reports
We’ve prepared two reports within Report Writer to report on node downtime: Node Down Time Report – shows outage duration for each node when and how long it was downSummarized Node Down Report –...
View ArticleExternal image in Custom HTML box not refreshing
I've got a Dashboard page setup that pulls an image from another server we have (it's a capture of our weather station display). I'm using a Custom HTML box with just an image source tag. Problem is...
View Article1-minute max to tell us about your IT troubleshooting pain points
Tell us your biggest pain point when troubleshooting IT issues, e.g. users complaining about slow or broken access to applications.Select your biggest pain point from this list.Of course any additional...
View ArticleReport for number of alerts per node over timeframe
How would one go about producing a Report showing the number of alerts per node (filterable by OS, machine or whatever) over a specified time with sortable by # of Alerts or Node name?
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...
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Email BGP Syslog messages
I am trying to setup emailing syslog messages for BGP up/down Adjchange. I have a the Filter setup but I'm not receiving the email when I shutdown or establish BGP. Does anyone have an example of how...
View ArticleReporting nodes not configured for hardware polling?
Using the new web-based report writer I built a report that shows gives my all of the nodes that are not reporting a valid hardware status (up/warning/critical). Summarized the report by the team that...
View ArticleOrion User Account Limitations are not supported in NCM Jobs
hello,when I create a new job,"Choose nodes" page,prompt "warning:Orion User Account Limitations are not supported in NCM Jobs." I continue the job, enable the job,start the job ,but the job nerver...
View ArticleIs there a way to change the font in the web-based reports to make it look...
I find the report writer report layer much cleaner. Is there a way to change the fonts in the web-based reporting?
View ArticleCan I create a web-based custom Syslog Report restricted to specific time frame
I want to create a syslog report for a given time frame. I can filter on the content, but can't seem to add a time frame restriction to it. Is there a way to do this outside of Report Writer?
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SNMP Polling Issue
Currently Running NPM 10.6.1 with some other modules on the one server. I'm running into one particular frustrating problem. On one particular subnet in our environment I am seeing Solarwinds...
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