no custom mib poller option is orion 7.8

Question

Hi there,

I am having trouble locating the import custom mib poller option in orion system manager version 7.8. It does not appear to be under the file menu option which is where the help says it is supposed to be.

any help would be greatly appreciated as I need to monitor my vmware servers

thanks

Paul

vhcato · Answer

Paul,

That's correct. Support for polling custom mibs was introduced in v8.0. Prior to that, Orion was considered more of a "fixed configuration" tool with respect to what data it could collect. Meaning you get what you get when you take it out of the box, and the pricing somewhat reflected this. Now, with the addition of such features as the ability to poll any user configured mib, the tool becomes much more powerful, and again this is also reflected in the recent price changes. All in all, the price is still relatively low for what you're getting.

We have not yet moved to v8, so personally I'm still a little curious as to just how far the product can reasonably scale, given that fact that one can now collect and store an almost limitless amount of data.

Vic Cato
Technical Lead - Network Operations
Georgia Pacific

FormerMember · Answer

mmm ok,

I just did a search on this forum and it seems this is being added into version 8. Thats a bit dissapointing. I would have though custom MIB's would have been put in to orion in like version 2 or 3.