Nexus 5000 and bogus utilization numbers for FEX and access interfaces
Hello, I have a quick question for folks running the Nexus platform in their shop. We utilize Nexus 5K w/2K FEXs as our top-of-rack solution. Since performing a recent NX-OS upgrade, v5.1(3)N2(1c),...
View ArticleDevice Getting Polled on Old Community String after Community String Change
Hi, I have NPM 9.5 SP4 and I recently did an audit of all my network devices to get them up to SNMPv3, if possible. If not, I changed the SNMP v2c or v1 strings for the nodes. I'm seeing at least 10+...
View ArticleSQL Server Conundrum
Hi All, I am currently in the process of producing a spec to move a customer SQL Installation from a VM to a physical server. Unfortunatly the client is tied into using Dell Servers and there are some...
View ArticleDefault Domain
When we log in to the Solarwinds web page with AD credentials we have to provide Domain\ before the username.Is there a way to set a default domain for users so we would not need to provide this.
View ArticleIcons Missing
Hello, After upgrading NPM to 10.5, we are seeing that the icons (like the title "Solarwinds" and the status icons are not showing up when logging in from browser. When I logged into the server to see...
View ArticlePost your Solar Winds home page
I figured it would be fun to share a screenshot from the home page of our local Solarwinds setup, and invite others to share so we can see what all is out there. Out home page is dominated by a...
View ArticleTabs - Orion Views - can they be altered?
The Orion NMP I'm working was setup before I hired in. I have upgraded/migrated to version 10.4.x. My struggle is on the Home and Network tabs is an "All Nodes" menu item. the view has been altered...
View Articleannoying mouse rollover display on perf graphs!?
is there ANY way to stop the displaying of all the stats on a mouse rollover in the new NPM 10.4.x? I find this really distracting, not informative and would be nice if it could be turned off for...
View ArticleCustom Report in Node Details
I have a custom report from CE that shows all custom pollers assigned to all nodes. I would like to add this to the node details page but create an sql filter so it only shows the information for the...
View ArticleAlert Manager (Interface Ip address Variable)
Hi All !! I am creating interface based alerts. 1) My devices are being polled via the loopback address. 2) I have an interface monitor / alert on the serial address. 3) I have custom...
View ArticleSite Maps vs. Network Maps
I'm trying to make site specific maps and display them on the node details page.How do i apply them so they will show up site specific and not overwrite each other? For example: I have a site called My...
View ArticleAutomating Excel reports
I know the report scheduler does not support sending excel sheets at this current point in time, however has anyone had any luck using cURL to grab the excel sheets and then email them with some clever...
View ArticleWHAT WE ARE WORKING ON POST NPM 10.5
Because NPM 10.5 has been released recently we are already working on the next release of NPM. Here is a preview:Web based reporting UI with new "out of the box" reports with chartsReports that will...
View ArticleJuniper Virtual Chassis monitoring
I was wondering if Solarwinds have Juniper EX virtual chassis monitoring on their roadmap. Currently NPM will monitor the Virtual Chassis master switch but will not detect when a virtual chassis member...
View ArticleAdditional License Needed for Additional Polling Engine?
My firm needs to add an additional polling engine as we are running at 95% capacity on our single polling engine. Do we need to purchase an additional license for this additional polling engine? Thanks.
View ArticleAlert for down thin access points not working
Hello all, I have activated the out-of-the box alert : Alert me when a thin access point goes down. I did a test but it is not working. The AP disappeared from its AP's controller's list but i got no...
View ArticlePlaying a Sound in NPM??
Hi We want to purchase two plasmas to put up on the way. My objective is to show only Critical events and to play a sound when something like a critical node goes down. I can setup an alert to 'Play a...
View ArticlePost your Solar Winds home page
I figured it would be fun to share a screenshot from the home page of our local Solarwinds setup, and invite others to share so we can see what all is out there. Out home page is dominated by a...
View Articlerouting monitor and EIGRP
why don't the Real-time routing configuration monitoring and alerting include EIGRP in NPM v10.5 ?
View ArticleCan EM01B environment sensor data be collected?
We have three EM01B "Esensors" environment sensors that we need to pull data from over port 80. These devices are very simple and just use a character-delimited format. An example of the text...
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