chris.lapoint replied on Tue, Oct 27 2009 4:10 PM

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That's a great idea.  We'll reach out to our Cisco contacts to determine if this API is public for 3rd party integration.

If there are others interested in this feature, please chime in to help us prioritize!

Thanks,

jswan replied on Wed, Oct 28 2009 3:54 PM

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This would be a huge value and a great selling point.

Nicki replied on Thu, Jun 24 2010 3:14 PM

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You might also check with http://www.parinetworks.com/trial/pnat.htm

bzeitner replied on Fri, Jun 25 2010 1:58 PM

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This would be an excellent feature and definitely a selling point.

How nice would it be to pull a report from NCM that list EoS/EoL dates for your entire inventory? And one step further (as suggested by the original post), whether the version of code is subject to a PSIRT.

Chris-

I'm not sure that there's an API, per se, as the EoS/EoL notices are typically static pages posted by Cisco (unfortunately not in one place, either).

christineb replied on Mon, Jun 28 2010 1:21 PM

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I really like this idea and we're talking about it in house. Thank you all very much for the input. 

--Christine

extrands replied on Wed, Nov 3 2010 3:54 PM

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This one just came up in our staff meeting this week as we are looking at decomissioning CiscoWorks.  Three items came up that we need, but do not have with Orion.

• Chassis View.  The ability to see a graphic representation of the device, including any installed modules or interfaces.  We realize the challenge here- but hey, you guys are good at that.
• EOS/EOL.  With thousands of devices in nooks and crannies around the globe (plus an overly aggressive EOS policy), something's almost always on the way out, and the time to learn of it is not when you call for support.  This would be a major plus for us.
• User tracking.  Realize this has some support in Configuration Manager, which we will demo soon.

Any one of these has a large impact, all three are a dinosaur killer. 

Steve Extrand

Sr Network Analyst

(1) Orion v10 SLX polling engine & Additional Web Server 25500 elements

(2) Orion v10 SLX polling engine

(3) NTA v7 786 interfaces

(3) IPSLA SLAX

christineb replied on Sat, Nov 6 2010 3:59 PM

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Hi Steve - 

On item 1 - depending on where you are thinking you'd want that - you could use the custom HTML resource to add a graphic. 

Item 2 - we've been looking in to adding this. Are you looking more for something to automatically retrieve this information or just a place to input and store it in your inventory reports? 

Item 3 - user tracking - yes, we have gotten lots of requests for this and this is something we have some support for and will be working on further as well. 

Let me know if you'd like to have a call about any of these - I'd love to get your insight. Just pm me or write me at christine.bentsen@solarwinds.com.

--Christine

reheindel replied on Mon, Nov 8 2010 10:42 AM

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Christine, can you elaborate a bit more on #1?

What Steve is looking for is exactly what we are interested in as well.

christineb replied on Mon, Nov 8 2010 10:59 AM

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Here's a KB on it - http://knowledgebase.solarwinds.com/kb/questions/1862/How+do+I+display+an+embedded+Web+page+into+Orion%3F

It works the same way for NCM. This resource allows you to show an html page as a resource in your Orion application. You can show an image too. Again, this may not be what you have in mind, but it might get you part of the way there. 

--Christine

reheindel replied on Mon, Nov 8 2010 11:20 AM

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Thanks for the info Christine.

I think we were looking more for what was suggested in the following post.

I do like the custom html resource though, that is something that we can use in other areas.

http://thwack.com/forums/48/orion-family/9/network-performance-monitor/23532/feature-suggestionrequest-for/

extrands replied on Mon, Nov 8 2010 3:28 PM

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Hi Christine,

For item 1, the primary use for this today is to see what interface options are on the remote device. I could certainly create a custom HTML to display, for example, a 3800 series router, but that would not, without a lot of effort, show the active interfaces in that router. 

Item 2- Automatic retrieval is what we are looking for.  I know I can create a custom property and assign it, but it would be a nightmare to try to manually update given the rate that equipment is End of Saled. I would have to dedicate someone just to watch for the end of sale anouncements and update the custom pollers and properties. CW today has the ability to pull all of the EOS data from a database at Cisco, match it against the hardware we have in inventory, then report on it. A EOS report, coupled with some addtional node details would be a wonderful addition to NPM, or NCM. 

-Steve

christineb replied on Mon, Nov 8 2010 4:30 PM

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Thanks Steve. I'm tracking both of these as feature requests. I have both of them in the system already - so I've incremented them with all the comments from this thread. 

--Christine

mhh351 replied on Wed, Apr 13 2011 12:03 PM

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We would also like to have the feature of NCM polling Cisco for EOL/EOS etc.

mattjenkins replied on Mon, Apr 18 2011 8:07 AM

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An auto EoL/EoS report is all that is keeping me on Ciscoworks at the moment... I really want to get rid of it as it's quite resource intensive for us and would much rather have NCM.