Deploying 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...
View ArticleFalse Positive
I am getting a false positive on one of my switches. I have physically verified the device is up and operational. Any suggestions or help would be much appreciated. Thank you!
View ArticleAdvanced Report writing help.
I'm trying to edit some existing reports in the Orion Report writer. Specifically, my firm has a report showing the top 10 WAN links by bps in/out for the last month. I want to edit this to show it for...
View ArticleHow to allow account user permission to new View
I have an existing Orion NPM user account that I need to give permissions to a NEW view. How would I do that?
View ArticleCisco Router Trap "config" - Username
I am attempting to setup an alert from a trap on a cisco router. The trap being sent is "snmp-server enable traps config" and I would like to email to report what user is writing the config? Can...
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Alerting setup failed us when most needed - suggestions for improvement
Yesterday we had a midnight incident with Cisco 3750 (seems very choosy about the time window), all end hosts connected to the switch lost network connection and the switch was also not manageable....
View ArticleDetailed interface information of all interfaces in one group?
With no search luck I will post here. I have 1 group that contains all my critical ISP links or critical HBA interfaces. There is something like 5+ interfaces of various sorts.Clicking on that group I...
View ArticleSupport Contract Nearing Expiration Alert
We are currently using a custom property to indicate the specific date that the support contract for a device will expire. I'm trying to come up with a way to create an alert that is triggered when the...
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 ArticleWant to prepare and send daily node down report with the event time from NPM
Hi All, I am able to prepare daily current node down report and schedule it but the issue here is i am not able to get the RECENT time when the node went down ,so i removed the column of event time but...
View ArticleEdit data type for an existing custom property
Good day everyone,Simple question, as in the title, is it possible to edit the data type of a custom property (i.e. previously created as varchar, to be made as int.) via SQL ? I mean, I know that SQL...
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Desktop Notifications for Orion
I personally find these a bit more interactive and useful than e-mail notifications: A simple click can take you to the element's details page... If anyone is interested I could be persuaded to provide...
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Liebert Universal Device Poller - data not shown
I have reviewed other posts related to Liebert CRAC and UNDP's. The problem I am having is specific to the displaying the data collected. The closest I get is with Universal Device Poller Status with...
View ArticleLooking for ideas on alert for up coming network outages.
Hi, I'm looking for something visual that will notify users of upcoming carrier network outages. The only thing I can come up with is a Custom HTML with basic text stating that "Circuit XXXXX will be...
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...
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Adding Live Weather to the "Worldwide Map" Resource
Adding Live Weather to the "Worldwide Map" Resource Summary: This will allow you to add live weather to the worldwide map based on the OpenWeatherMap project (free).Limitations: The map must be on a...
View ArticleAruba AP's not displaying after SW upgrade?
Hi Since I upgraded Solarwinds I am unable to discover my Aruba AP's?I have re-added the Aruba Controllers but the AP's no longer show? Any idea's? Thanks Jantzen
View ArticleReport scheduler issue with PDF if more than 1 job scheduled for same time
Has anyone experienced issue with report scheduler when you have 2 or more unrelated jobs slated to run at exact same time, each including PDF, utilizing same userid info for job processing ? Temporary...
View Article8TB limit bug on ESXi 5.1.0 datastore polling?
Has anyone else tried to add an ESXi host volume larger than 8TB to NPM? I have a 13.2 TB single NFS datastore volume which NPM thinks is only 8.0TB when mounted on any ESXi 5.1.0 host, whereas it...
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