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Universal Device Poller
So I have created 7 pollers, and assigned them to my UPS nodes. However is there a way to create a "new" group under the All Defined Pollers, besides Default Group and Example.2nd part of this, so if...
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Integrate Google Charts with Solarwinds reports/view, A Pie chart example
When built reports with Solarwinds report builder we only have plain data tables. It would be very informative if we could add some customised charts, such pie charts in the reports. It is possible to...
View ArticleFalse Down Alerts
Hey everybody, We are getting false 'device down' alerts when ping begins failing between the SolarWinds server and a switch. Everything else can ping the switch, but not the SW server. Here are two...
View ArticleSending Syslog as raw UDP ver WAN vs MSMQ via additional poller
We are setting up a remote site and mulling over the options of syslog architecture. We can configure the devices to send syslog to additional poller and then additional poller can use MSMQ to forward...
View ArticleWireless Heat Maps with Cisco Wireless Lan Controller
Hi, Does anybody know if the Wireless Heat Maps are compatible with the Cisco Wireless Lan Controller? I've tried adding the poller to the Controller and says that it's not a match. Thanks,
View ArticleCredentials with the same name already exist. Please use different credential...
I've been trying to add vCenter to Orion server, I keep getting "Test Failed. Credentials with the same name already exist. Please use different credential name." I know the user name and password is...
View ArticleNetwork Atlas and Link Utilization for Sub Interfaces
So I have dumped a slew of sub interfaces from 2 Cisco devices onto a map and manually connected them and the connections show up as "Hyperlink:Automatically generated".... and all of the information...
View ArticleOrion NPM Distributed Setup
I've recently become the admin for the Orion NPM system at the organization I work for and I am still learning the system. We have a pretty large Orion setup with approximately 13,000 elements. Our...
View ArticleHow to create multiple different instances of Worldwide Map of Nodes
We would like to create different instances of the Worldwide Map of Nodes (WMON) to be placed in the web console but when we attempt to add a second instance it populates the new instance with the...
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...
View ArticleCisco ASA as a Default gateway?
There has been over 1 million of Cisco ASAs built and deployed around the world in a past years (good job Cisco!). As not supporting SNMP protocol properly, they often complicate our lives when...
View ArticleHow to upgrade NPM from 10.7 to the latest 11.5?
Hi all, I'm still running the old older NPM 10.7. I want to upgrade it to the latest 11.5. Is there an upgrade fee? Where to download the non-demo software? Thanks.
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customizing numeric format in alerts
An old style ${VolumePercentUsed} variable has a two-digit precision while the new ${N=SwisEntity;M=VolumePercentUsed} - six-digit.Don't see a "format output" option in alert configuration either. Not...
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NPM 11.5.2 update notes
Jumped on it hoping it'd fix some of the issues we've been having since 11.0. At least one issue (below) - not fixed. Updated to NPM 11.5.2 and SAM 6.2.1. Prior to updates: Orion Platform 2015.1.1, SAM...
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alerts for (interface status change) events that happened long ago
Getting strange alerts from NPM (starting with 11.5): "5/1/2015 12:46 AM Interface Intel(R) PRO/1000 MT Network Connection · x100 on Node AAA changed to Warning at 2/7/2015 12:19:00 AM". Note how the...
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hardware status can't be polled: how to alert?
How do I trigger an alert when hardware health status can't be polled? E.g. I change the SNMP community string on a node to a bad one, the node goes into basically in ICMP mode, there are various...
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Groups' Content Does Not Update Dynamically
We recently upgraded to NPM 11.5.1. After upgrade I noticed that every time I reboot the Orion server all mapped nodes inside of groups disappear. To recover all of my groups’ content I had to go into...
View Articleorion 9.5 failure due to bad query
i have made a bad query in query editor field in Down Nodes view and now i have no access to orion webpage at all, even with other users.the error message i receive is:An error has occurred with the...
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set up the NPM program to report troubles
i'm planning to launch NPM in our server roomDue to the using of virtual servers and raid controllers ,i need to know how to set up the NPM program to report US troublesfor example if one of the...
View ArticleWhat drives your NOC?
Hello all, I am working on redesigning our company's NOC, which gives me a good opportunity to toss out some of the things we have tried in the past that didn't pan out, and implement things that work...
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