Automatically Generate New Graph(s) Based On Custom Property Value

I think this request is fairly simple and straightforward, and can already be accomplished, in a limited fashion, with some user created modifications.

Here is a link to my current solution:

Custom SQL Dynamic Graphing Resource

I would like a native feature/function that would simply create a new, user defined, graphing resource for each interface/object, qualified by a custom property value. (or any user defined value)

We need to see a single graph, for a single interface. We need to do this for numerous interfaces, across thousands of different nodes, which we would group by a custom property, customer name. And all of the graphs, for all of the different interfaces, need to be displayed on the same page.

All of these interfaces are currently using custom properties, to group them by customer, purpose, area, etc...

Any time a new interface is added to NPM, and has the correct values for specific custom properties, it is automatically added to the group it qualifies for. These mechanics already exist in NPM.

I simply want to extend that functionality to automatically create a new graph, on an existing page, for each newly added interface.

Currently, we have to manually view the page(s) where we need to add new graphing resources. Edit the page. Copy the existing graphing resource(s). Save the page. Edit the newly copied graphing resource, and modify it to reflect the newly added interface.

All of that, to simply add a copy of the previous graph on the page, for a new interface.

SolarWinds, please give me a way to be more efficient.

If I have 10 interfaces, each with the same, specific custom property value, I want you to build 10 graphs (all graphs being the same type, with the same options set), 1 per interface.

If somebody adds a new interface (giving us 11 interfaces in this example) with the same cp value(s), I want you to build another graph for me, on the same page as the others with matching cp values.

Now, we have 11 interfaces, from 11 different nodes, each with matching cp values.

I built the first graph, but, since SolarWinds is such a great tool, it went ahead and automatically built new graphs for all of the other 10 interfaces...

Okay, I suppose I have repeated myself enough here...

Thank you,

-Will

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Comments

yamonwi

Will,

More repeating please.

jkump

I agree. I have recently had an issue crop up whereby I had to implement some other tools to drill down to the actual individual interface level trying to resolve a random latency issue in a remote part of my WAN. So, in essence, I am having to double poll the router and affected switches which of course adds to the latency issues.

Keep up the thought patterns

serena

Tracking this feature request internally under AP-98

serena

Also, @wluther I want to see how your graphs change after Matt gets his expert mitts on PerfStack!

mblackburn

I made some pretty good progress in the last 24 hours with my flask application that uses the swiss api. I do not know if it would ever see production, but I am at the point where I can make a series of graphs based on a query of my choosing and unlike the example that I showed you the graphs now make sense visually (couldn't get the charting script to accept the date variable without converting it to epoch time(easiest way for me to make an absolute date out of an integer)) I built a tooltip formatter function so now the bandwidth data is translated from a large number to Gbps,Mbps,Kbps in the tooltip. I just have to convert the code to functions for reuse and built a front end form and loop through the graph function. I am guessing in a weeks time I will be able to display a bandwidth graph of anything in our network and any list of interfaces that match a criteria within seconds.

I cut out anything proprietary of course and this screenshot was before I formatted the numbers in tooltip.

Ill check out perf stack more soon. Looks like it does run a lot faster on the production machine than what we saw in the conference room.

mblackburn

How is this feature request coming along?

yamonwi

I have looked at the PerfStack and I like some of what I see from that. I'm not very fluent in a lot of SQL and other programming, but it would be really nice to have a page that loads fairly quick that I could use a dynamic query to build the page from.

We have a custom field that is 'WAN Interface' and we can enter either 'True' or 'False'. I would like to create a query that looks for all interfaces where this 'WAN Interface' custom property is marked to 'True' and quickly build a page filled with each of these interfaces.

When compared with our old MRTG server, a similar page can load in about 10 seconds, whereas a similar NPM page will load after 2-3 minutes.