Does Solarwinds have a recommended or best practice way to monitor a node (Windows server) with multiple IP's? It could be multiple IP's on one or more physical adapters, or a single IP's on multiple physical adapters.
Thanks,David
Hi David--
I've marked this for the PM to answer.
M
We need a single IP that is reachable by the Orion server and allows query for ICMP/SNMP data. This will allow us to check status and retrieve statistics about all NICs, including status. If you want to also ping each specific IP to check response time (let's say the NICs were connected to different switches), you'd want to use APM and set up a ping monitor for each IP.
HTH,
Chris,
Is a ping monitor something provided out of the box on APM 3.5? I do not see a ping monitor in the list of component monitors.
Sorry, you're right. You'll need to use the custom script monitor and create a ping vbscript.
It would be best if all IP's were located under the node view of a device. Is this an option that is on Solarwinds radar?
Any update for this topic?
Our Orion (NPM APM NCM) server has direct connections into multiple firewall and restricted networks. Thus can see servers and firewalls with multiple ip addresses.
Doing a network discovery (Discovery Central, Network Sonar) we are left with imported devices (routers, firewalls, servers) that have the same name, services, etc. but with different ip addresses.
What is the best / preferred method of handling systems that have multiple addresses?Is there a method of selecting which address is preferred for monitoring (Example: for a device having a nat address that may be the preferred address for monitoring, versus the local server address)
Hi all--
Just an update to this thread. Better handling of devices with multiple IPs is on the road map. Please see the 3rd bullet on this "What we are working on" post.
Thanks,DH
DanielleH,
I've searched the entire Thwack site and see no updates since 2012 on this subject.
Is there and update on the" handling of devices with multiple IPs"? Roadmap comment is 3 years old and just wondering where SW is on this subject.
To poll multiple IP assigned to a single device, I have to create a totally separate object for each IP in the NPM DB. Still a bit cumbersome.
If this is actually already, or should I say, still on the road map, what is status and expected roll out? i.e. with what version of NPM and when?
As always, your assistance with information request or directing me to the correct POC is always appreciated!
BSpencer
Better handling of multiple contexts / multiple IPs / SNMP responders on a single device is still on our radar to address. Unfortunately priorities shuffled previously and we did not make forward progress on this. For the moment, each IP would need to be added as a separate object.
Any update here?
We are having the same issue when monitoring an Ironport appliance with multiple listeners.
When trying to use APM to monitor SMTP on all of these listeners, we only can add the monitor on the polling IP (which of course is not one of the listeners IP's that responds to SMTP messages).
Solutions per now is to add 2x9 (18!) listener-adresses as separate Orion-objects. Our environment is a quite small environment, so I guess the big customers would LOVE this feature.
BR a small local ISP.
It would also help drawing good NetPath diagrams!
Just because NetPath gets different IPs from some routers (you can test that with a traceroute), it needs a node for every IP of the same device (routers and firewalls, in my case).
That's not really cool!
For Netpaths to my retail stores, I had to define 3 nodes for the same router...
