Worldwide Map Customizations
I'm customizing the Worldwide map to include features it doesn't currently have, specifically adding leaflet plugins. I know some of these features I want to add are already under development but they...
View ArticleDeploying Virtual Appliances
Are you comfortable with deploying virtual appliances? We're discussing ways to deploy new products that may interact with your NPM (and other SolarWinds) deployments and one of our options is a...
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Including custom poller status in report blocks all selected field data from...
I am trying to create a report with all the interfaces in a specified switch with last output time using universal device poller but I am unable to get the poller result into the report. First of all,...
View ArticleNetwork Topology Mapper supersedes Network Atlas, your thoughts ?
If SolarWinds did decide to supersede Network Atlas with Advanced Network Topology Mapper (NTM), and become a powerful mapping desktop application for creating dynamic & custom maps using NTM...
View ArticleAlert for when volume disappears
I am the SolarWinds administrator at our site. Sometimes the SAN engineers will change a volume mapping on a server and I don't know about it. I have to manually go back through the entire day's...
View ArticleNPM 10.4 Release Candidate 1 available
I would like to thank you for your NPM beta feedback. We incorporated all important updates and fixes and I'm happy to announce that NPM is now available as a release candidate.Those who would like to...
View ArticleUniversal Device Poller Chart with multiple tabular UnDP
Is there a way to have a universal device poller chart, with multiple tabular UnDPs? I'm polling number of connections, bytes in and bytes out for each vip from ours F5 balancers, all values are taken...
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What do I backup?
Hello everyone, I'm a bit confused on how to backup my Orion NPM environment. We've recently upgraded to NPM 10.4.2 al the way from 9.5.1. In older versions, you had seperate config files you needed to...
View ArticleWorldwide Map - Default location
Hi Folks, I've started making use of the Worldwide map but as we are a campus, I'd like to be able to save the zoomed in view as default? It'd be good to be able to get to my right zoom level etc while...
View ArticleVendor SNMP Port 8001 produces no Interface Discovery
Using NPM 10.5Application Servers, Media Servers, Network Servers and Web Servers Running Broadsoft Applications on a Solaris 10 OS on SUN/Oracle T5120, NETRA X4270 X4170 M2 5.10 Generic_147441-22...
View ArticleAutomated port shutdown - what would be your reasons?
There was a feature request for a UDT recently for an automated port shutdown, if the connected endpoint is on the "black list".What would be your other reasons, for which would you want to shut down...
View Articleable to ping ip but node shows down
I have an icmp node that Orion shows down. I'm able to ping this ip from any pc both inside and outside my network.It is a static public IP.I've deleted the node and made a new one.The IP belongs to a...
View ArticleVMware ESXi server Datastore disk size Monitoring in NPM 9.1 SP3
Hi all, I have SolarWinds Orion Network Performance Monitor 9.1 SP3. I enabled SNMP on my vmware ESXi server on /etc/vmware/snmp.xml .I cannot monitor vmware ESX host's Datastore disk size. I...
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Add “Search for Nodes" element in every Solarwinds Webpages header with ‘hit’...
I have added some codes in “C:\inetpub\SolarWinds\Orion\Controls\PageHeader.ascx” which adds the 'Search for Nodes' element on every SolarWinds webpages in the page header. In order to prevent form...
View ArticleMonitor VMWare ESX server datastore size
I am trying to monitor the size of my datastores on my VMWare ESX servers. I have my ESX servers showing up in Orion NPM properly (except my vSphere for ESX, but a fix is coming I understand), but I...
View ArticleChart For Node Status
Hi, I am just getting started on Solarwinds and I am looking for a way to create a pie chart for current Node Status - is this possible? I currently have a Node Availability Chart (Line Graph) - but it...
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'High percent loss' reports
From description of Error and Warning levels: Percent Packet Loss Error Level 1% to 100% Nodes with Percent Packet Loss above this level will appear on "High Percent Loss" reports. Their Percent Loss...
View ArticleDo you need Network Access Control solution ?
I wonder how many of you already have some version of a Network Access Control (NAC) solution in place. Theoretically speaking, Mobile device management (MDM) is just a part of a bigger NAC, so I would...
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