Memory utilization above 100% - the n-th

Question

I've searched the forum, the manual and the KB but couldn't figure out how I should  handle values above 100%.

Can you tell me if I'm right or how I should interprete that.

The CPU & Memory counts both, physical & virtual memory.

So I have some devices  with eg. 45% util. and some with 1500%.

Are the both true if it's nearly the same hardware (mainly Nokia)? I'm not sure where I can trust Orion and where i can't.

If I create reports it's impossible to to compare values above 100 .

Should I use "real memory" instead? Is this the correct phys. mem. utilization?

Or is there something wrong with my MIB configuration (still default settings)

How do deal with such "situations" best?

thx in advance for you help

Oliver

genesys · Answer

No solution yet?

UnDP will deal with alerting but would'nt the TOP 10s be affected? What is the process through UnDP?

The console is unnecessarily red!

Any pointers would be much appreciated.

FormerMember · Answer

Orion pulls its info from the Host Resources MIB, and this is how it reports that data.  In Orion APM, we're able to separate the data.  Also, if you can find another MIB for your device that separates the two types of memory, then you can use the Universal Device Poller to get that information for alerts.

mcobb · Answer

If the above statements are true, why does Orion still look at both and combine them.  When I write up a report on memory utilization and it states that a server is at 180% memory utilization management looks at me like I am crazy.  Why doesn't solarwinds split this up and have physical and virtual memory seperatly polled so that we can stop having these issues.  These numbers are absolutely useless in this form.  I would like to have seperate values or be able to split them myslef to provide some useful stats to management.