No More Net-SNMP Nodes
As an avowed Linux-head and long-time *nix Sysadmin wanna be, I'm more than a little miffed to see all of my pretty pretty non-windows servers lumped into this big bucket of "net-snmp" in the...
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Percentage of Errors to Turn Interface Counters Red
What is the metric used (in percent) that causes the error counters to go from black to red?Rick
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...
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Custom SQL Query, Filter List, Based On 2 Different Custom Poller Field Values
We have around 5k volume elements being monitored on one of our polling engines, which is roughly 50% of the currently elements being monitored on that polling engine.We do not currently need to be...
View ArticleCisco ISR 4300 series not showing model number in NPM
Hello all - We have recently been upgrading from 3900 series to 4300 series which runs IOS XE. Somewhere along the way, the Machine type has become only 'Cisco' rather than 'Cisco 4331' as it use to...
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Group uptime report
Hi all May I please ask for assistance? I am having an issue on the reporting of my devices up time, I created a report that shows group up times, the reports is based on the following;The table are...
View ArticleNetwork Sensor or Server Sensor or Both? QoE
Hello everyone,I have recently deployed a Windows QoE server that is connected to a monitored or SPAN port on our Core Switch. I have mirrored our firewall and proxy ports to that SPAN port in order...
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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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Using Scheduled Discovery for Discovering Monitoring Gaps - A Crazy Idea
What do you do when you have nearly 11,000 nodes and 70,000 elements and someone ask you "How are you sure that you are monitoring all of the appropriate interfaces and volumes on those nodes?" We...
View ArticleAutomatic dependency calculation
Under 'Manage Dependencies' in the web console, there is a line that says "Calculate dependencies automatically:Turned OFF"How do you turn that on, or does it require NTM to do it?
View ArticleNOC Display Size
How do you handle having different resolution Displays? We are setting up monitoring stations in each IT area, and some have different resolution screens. This causes the NOC views to look nice on some...
View ArticleDependencies not active
Hi solarwinds community, I'm new to the network monitor and I need some help with alerts and dependencies. I have the following dependencies set up: The Network Monitor is installed on a server...
View ArticleAgent - high latency
NPM 11.5, Orion 2015.1.0 We've got a server in our DMZ that we switched to using the agent (v 1.1.726) to monitor, instead of just snmp. Latency reported for the node is now crazily high. NPM reports...
View ArticleNetwork Atlas - Link to NPM Server
I'd like to know if the Network Atlas that we create is linked directly to the NPM Server? By that I mean is it stored physically on the Server? We recently had our NPM Server crash and I've had to...
View ArticleCustom Table resource limited to 100 rows of data
SolarWinds tech support helped me with this so I figured I'd share! When you create a Custom Table resource, you are limited to displaying only 100 rows. You can change the filter settings to get less...
View ArticlePolling Using WMI versus the new Agent
Currently polling a lot of internal servers using WMI and a couple of remote servers using the agent. So far, the agent is working great for the remote sites, but are there any performance gains for...
View ArticleVBScripting notification emails
So I have finally gotten tired of running in circles trying to track this down, and I imagine that someone out there is doing the same thing that I am attempting to do. So we have this 350 line long...
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