Alert Rules
Hi all, I want to understand the rule mechanisam. I have a network of 5 machines added in NPM.a: 172.172.1.1b: 172.172.1.2c 172.172.1.3d: 172.172.1.4e: 172.172.1.5Now , I want to make...
View ArticleMy Solarwind NPM cannot recognize CheckPoint Hardware Appliance
Hi Forum, I has added one node, Check Point Appliance. But the Solarwind did not recognize its Vendor and Vendor Icon. It show some kind of default: net-snmp LinuxWhat I have to do now to make the...
View ArticleRemove Unmanaged Nodes From Down List
I have a number of nodes (36) that are on a customer network that is going through ownership changes. Based on these changes I am currently unable to reach these nodes from our network for now...
View ArticleSetting up ACP UPS Alerting
Recently been tasked with the assignment of converting our APC alerting into SolarWinds, I do not have much experience so I wanted to reach out to see if anyone could help get me started. Specifically...
View ArticleExceedingly High Percent Utilization
My problem is that some of the percent utilization values for a few interfaces are reaching values of over 6,000,000,000%. This is obviously not right. At first I thought NPM was confused at what the...
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Error on Management Pack Configuration
Hey guys, I'm having a weird issue that I was hoping you could shed some light into. We own an older version of NPM, but are testing the latest eval version in sandbox in order to determine our worth...
View ArticleStrange polling problem
I have a couple nodes that decided to have unknown interfaces, yet when puling up the resources, they show up fine. This happens occasionally and usually deleting the node and adding it back corrects...
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Conditional alerting question
I am in the process of building my first alert, and I was hoping for feedback to make sure I am doing this the right way. We have several nodes that we only want to alert us if they go down during...
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Advanced alerting help
Hello all, I'm searched for this answer and cannot seem to find it. I hope someone here can help. I use Solarwinds NPM to monitor my network. I have alerts set up so that when something goes down, an...
View ArticleInterface Errors and discards - in 10.5
Hi, I have a pretty large summary view I created indicating bandwidth usage and % utilization as well as interface errors and discards. I upgraded to NPM 10.5 last week. Ever since I get an error on...
View ArticleMachineType only shows 'Cisco'
I have two types of Cisco devices that only shows up as MachineType 'Cisco'SysObjectID is 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.1.783 and 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.1.858 How do I get NPM to recognise the device types?
View ArticleMonitoring 101
Despite the relatively maturity of monitoring and systems management as a discrete IT discipline, I am asked - year after year and job after job - to give an overview of what monitoring is. This...
View ArticleWhy am I getting the "Error: A query to the SolarWinds Information Service...
I checked and verified that the SolarWinds Information Service is started. It doesn't seem to matter what query I type into the Customer Query box, I always get the "Error: A query to the SolarWinds...
View Article3750X Health Monitors
I have two 3750x switches out of 75ish that are showing up as with bad power supplies in Current Hardware Health, but both are OK when I check in the switches.Any Ideals? I've check them against the...
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High Availability for Solarwinds Switch Over
I have this Prod and DR encironment. Until now, we did switch over process manually (manually switch the solarwinds app, license. etc.).And I have license just for production environment.By doing this...
View ArticleToolset Prerequisites keeps loading
Out of the blue, anytime I try to do something on my primary poller, Toolset Prerequisites loads for 3 or four minutes. It completes and then the next thing I launch starts it up again.Advanced...
View ArticleESX Host Gray Out
I have a few esx hosts that always go to gray out status - I have removed them and re added but they gray out again. Is there a fix I am using NPM 10.5
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Add Cisco Swtich as Node
Hello, I have setup NPN and have started to monitor servers. but i would like to monitor our Cisco switches. When a switch goes down, i do not want to receive server alerts, just a switch...
View ArticleCan we do log monitoring using NPM
Hi everyone, There was a requirement where some logs need to be monitored. We have NPM , NCM, Net flow & IPSLA(voip) installed. Will i be able to do log monitoring from some AIX/Unix system using...
View ArticleCustom Properties Parent Child relationships
Is there a way for us to establish Parent -> Child relationships amongst custom properties? My example is this: Device_Type:NetworkServer Server_Type:PhysicalVirtual I would only want the...
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