NPM won't accept SNMP credentials
I added a switch to my company's network and have been having trouble keeping the node status to up. Every now and then, NPM will tell me the node is up, but then about four minutes later the node...
View ArticleAlerts via Text Message (Iphone, AT&T)
Hi, So I am curious to see if this happens with anyone else. We have our alerts setup to be sent via text message to one of the network engineers and my manager, yesterday we had lost half of our...
View ArticleNPM 10.5 - Adding bulk nodes - Non-responsive
I know how to add nodes using the discovery tool, but now I need to know how to bulk-add devices that are unresponsive due to maintenance. For example, is it possible to import devices using a...
View ArticleNPM 10.5 problem
Hello i have some problems with this version NPM 10.5 the problem is " Indexes with fragmentation over 90% found during DB maintenance." I followed the steps in the help site of solarwinds, but the...
View ArticleMaximum # of Polling Engines
I have a growing SolarWinds Orion NPM environment that I am working in. Can somebody help me understand the Maximum number of Polling Engines, including the primary server, that I can home to a single...
View ArticleImporting Graphics to Network Atlas
I want to import my company logo so I can place it on some maps. How do I do this. I had one in my old NPM and it's on the new maps and is resizable. I have another image I want to use but can't figure...
View ArticleCorrelating UnDP Results to Nodes
The UnDP I created for one of my devices pulls a list of connected IP/MAC addresses. The IP addresses correspond to nodes that I am monitoring in Orion. Is there any way to set up the UnDP table to...
View ArticleNetwork Performance Monitor Endpoint Listening Error
I get the following error when I try to launch the Orion Web Console: There was no endpoint listening at net.tcp://itapps:17777/orion/core/businesslayer that could accept the message. This is often...
View ArticleDuplicate user settings in NPM
Our current configuration of NPM has our engineers using local Orion accounts for viewing NPM. For example, we have a login for our Orion admins, storage admins, noc, video engineers.. Based on that...
View ArticleBling your Network Atlas With Custom Icons
I put together a quick screencast to walk everyone through adding custom icons for Network Atlas. The copy/paste method certainly works, but having a lot more control over how the icon looks, it's...
View ArticleModify a top ten display to include a downtime count
Hello! I would like to modify the realtime displays of any node that may be down to include a 'downtime counter' so that in once quick glance not only am I seeing the node down, I'm seeing how long it...
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Question on 10.5.x Discovery
I am getting ready to upgrade my systems from 10.4.1 to the newest version of 10.5, and one of the questions the users have asked me was filtering a discovery. I have seen some information in the white...
View ArticleSetting up alerts for groups
I'm trying to setup alerting for groups of nodes. Currently I have a general alert that fires when a node is down. This alert is working fine and is setup as follows: Property to monitor: NodeTrigger...
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Issue with export to PDF not including all charts
This is what the webconsole sees.This is what is exported.Any thoughts on why all of the charts are not visible in the PDF?
View ArticleAlert actions: SNMP Traps are not consistently formatted
I'm using NPM 10.1.3 and have some alets configured for email - they seem to work fine. We have recently installed another tool to receive traps from the existing monitoring tools for high level event...
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 ArticleAlerts - Percent variable being displayed as a variable
Some of my alerts display their received and transmit statistics in what appears to be an exponent.It should be displayed as a percentage.Any ideas on why and how to fix this?Hee is an example: Alert:...
View ArticlePortal access for customers
Is anyone using a portal to allow their customers access to reporting from Solarwinds in their networks? I am with a service provider and customers are asking to review their bandwidth usage on a...
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 ArticleAcknowledged Active Alerts get resent after one week of not clearning
We have a few alerts that fire off when any disk gets to 5% space remaining. We have started noticing that after approximately one week these alerts will refire their trigger actions. There is no...
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