NPM 11.5 - False Alert on volume < 60 days of capacity - triggering on...
This reminds me of the Out of Box "Network Top 10" resource "Top XX Volumes by Disk Space Used" that incorrectly reports Virtual Disk / Physical Disk / Cached Memory instead of just disk volumes. Any...
View ArticleNPM 11.5 - web interface issues
When I go to manage nodes in Orion and list by vendor, I'm getting 404 errors on vendor gifs. Is this normal?...
View ArticleCustomizing pages of node details
Hello, I’m currently working on our new Solarwinds system, which is used worldwide (US, EMEA, APAC). The problem is that we want minimal information in the node details (actually there are more than 20...
View ArticleNPM DB Index Fragmentation
I've just implemented AppInsight on both of our NPM SQL DB's, one DB is fine but the other one is showing 10 indexes over 75% fragmentation of which 5 are over 83% and ones 0ver 90%. I thought Indexes...
View ArticleGoogle 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...
View Articlehow to retrieve currently configured SNMPv3 passwords
is there a way i can get the snmpv3 password from a device? i believe its encrypted somewhere on switch. i am in a environment where v3 was setup then kind of forgot about. i am trying to clean up...
View ArticleAlert Prioritising Dashboard (SWQL) with Alert Time and Acknowledge Status
I have added 2 addition columns for Alert Prioritising Dashboard which is introduced in my previous document “Alert Prioritising Dashboard (SWQL) for Problematic Nodes (Servers)”...
View ArticleAlert Prioritising Dashboard (SWQL) for Problematic Nodes (Servers)
Here is an example to use SWQL to build a view to display problematic nodes (servers) with issues from one or more flowing areas: • Node Status (column name: CONN) - (1 UP, 2 Down, ignore other...
View ArticleDeploying network sensor for QoE
Hello, I am trying to deploy a network sensor and am having an issue with it not collecting any data. I built a 2008 R2 64Bit server with 2 NICs for deploying the network sensor too. One NIC is...
View ArticleAdding variables from other custom pollers into an alert
Hello.We are monitoring a customer's UPS through a number of custom pollers.We have one called UPS_TimeOnBattery that's measured in time ticks, and we've set a warning threshold at 6000 and critical at...
View Article11.5 - un/remanage broken?
Hi. Recently updated to 11.5.Today, I was doing some work on a system, and at some point in trying to un/re-manage it, looks like something didn't get fully processed. The node wasn't showing up in...
View ArticleF5 LTM/GTM Monitoring Limitations
I appreciate that some F5 monitoring has been baked into NPM over the past few versions but there are still gaps that require I maintain numerous custom mib polling. Today the F5 monitoring polls LTM...
View ArticleResponse time threshold - alerting.
Hello. How is response time threshold determined? I'm changing our alerting to try to make things more dynamic by using threshold values for things like packet loss, response time etc so we can edit...
View ArticleI'm pretty new to Solarwinds and had a few questions.
The Solarwinds server running Orion Platform 2014.1.0, SAM 6.1.0, IPAM 4.0, NCM 7.2, NPM 10.7, UDT 3.0.2, and IVIM 1.9.0. So far, it has been used mostly for Cisco network device management. We...
View Articleneed some help with report filters
Hi All I'm looking to edit the Historical - Response Time and Packet Loss report to give me a snapshot of the peak and average response times for the routers at our remote depots so I want the entries...
View ArticleFalse Alarm: A Node Has Gone Down?
Several times I have been notified through email alerts that varies nodes (access points) have gone down, but are now back up. When I investigate further on our wireless controller, the controller...
View ArticleSNMPv3 & APC PDU's
Has anyone has been able to get SMNPv3 monitoring in NPM to work on APC PDU's? Tried almost everything an no luck...
View ArticleAtlas maps - One per switch node
I am wondering if anyone has a good way of going about displaying a network map per switch. I am okay making the maps per switch but, displaying them when I go to the node summary page is not user...
View Articledeleting ghost interfaces in NPM 11.5
After deleting them in NPM 11.5 they are still there. Last time I did it in NPM 11, they obediently vanished. Anything I am doing wrong?(Just upgraded to 11.5 a few days ago and suspect this may be...
View ArticleEscalating an alert if the occurrence happens more than once - Example -...
My team is being asked to change an alert situation if it occurs more than once during a short time period. I've been playing around with the reboot alert, seems to work just fine but trying to capture...
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