Max number of alarms in Orion 8.1.3?

Hi,

I apologize for making my first post a question, but I haven't been able to find an answer to it yet, and thought I'd ask.

Currently, we are using SolarWinds Orion NPM 8.1.3 to monitor our network devices. Everything works fine and as expected. However, we (our project) have a requirement that says that we have to keep at least 30 days' worth of network alarms at any given time. This is no problem (I don't have physical access to the system right this moment, but I am certain we have more than 30 days worth). The problem comes in that we are supposed to show it in a more "concrete" manner, like a config file setting, or a menu, or whatever. I haven't been able to find the way to "set" this value, if it even exists.

So, is there a way for me to demonstrate that we meet this requirement? (other than pulling up the application and showing that we have lots of old alarms)

Thanks in advance,
Pedro

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ceige

Orion will keep 30 days of events by default. This is configurable and can be changed in the System Manager via "File->Orion Network Performance Monitor Settings" Database tab under "Statistics Summarization"

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FormerMember

That's a very old version. You should consider upgrading to 9.1. You're missing out on a lot of functionality.

You can run a report to show active alerts, if you're using advanced alerts.

pedro

Well, right now no one's really using the product (we're supposed to install/configure/etc but we're not the ones actually using it), so I'll let our admins decide if they want the extra functionality of version 9.

For now, what we're trying to do is sell off on requirements - and one of them says that we need to keep at least 30 days worth of network alarms. Does Orion NPM support this? I'm sure it keeps way more than that, but is it a configurable setting? If so, where can I find the config file (or anything I can verify that setting with)?

Thanks again,
Pedro

ceige

pedro

Awesome. That's exactly what I was looking for. I guess I missed it when I was looking around. Thanks a lot!