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NOC graphs

WE would like to be able to have multiple graphs on a single page in our NOC so we can quickly glance and see usage on a particular Interface. I've gone to customize views but when I go to the + button there are no options to choose interface charts.

Am I missing something?

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Network_Guru

Jeff,

No you are not missing anything, there is no easy out-of-the-box method of doing this.
I've created custom pages with multiple graphs, but it is a manual process which requires some URL coping & pasting, as well as some basic html coding. See the following post for more details:

www4.solarwinds.net/.../topic.asp

I've created other pages for link utilization using a 2 column view, so that 2 links which are load sharing can be displayed side by side. You must browse to each graph you want to display in Orion & copy the URL of the graph into a separate line of code.

Note, it is very easy to change the graph duration & sample size by just editing the URL directly:

<img src="/NetPerfMon/Chart.asp?Chart=MMAvgRTLoss&NetObject=N:960&Period=This Year&SampleSize=1D&ReBuild=TRUE&FontSize=Medium&Width=800&Height=0">

In the example above, just edit the "&Period=ThisYear" to "&Period=Last7Days" as well as the "SampleSize=1D" to "SampleSize=2H" for a more detailed graph. I also resized the graph using "&Width=600" to fit 2 graphs side by side.

-=Cheers=-
NG

~seek & ye shall find---> [url="http://www4.solarwinds.net/SolarWindsForum/search.asp"]

<---no need to wait for answers~

jtimes

Thought this would have been simple, but the Interface Details from Type of View drop down only allows one interface... I have figured another way to do this...

First open several windows with the exact interface charts you want.
Get the chart variables sorted out (Last 24 Hours / sample size Every Hour etc...)
Select Printable view and then from that browser window select View and then source to get the raw HTML code in a notepad.

Create a new view called Interface Charts Summary
Select Summary from Type of View drop down
Submit
Customize "Interface Charts Summary" will come up next

Decide how many columns 1,2,or 3
Click the "+"
Select Miscellaneous
Select Custom HTML or Text

Preview the page and select the Edit Resource button
Change the title to whatever you want
From one of the "view source" notepads, stated above,
cut-n-paste the HTML code
Submit

Wash, rinse, and repeat...

Warning: The more charts in the view = longer page load time for the overall view.

Special note: You might want to do these one at a time, just to keep down the inherent confusion of so many similar windows open at the same time. You can always add more Custom HTML pages to this view.

Don't forget to add the new view to the client's menu bar when your satisfied with it.

Hope that helped.

John J. Times

*man I should have known Guru would beat me to it...
Oh well; consider this option B...

jtimes

If your using NG's method, which gives you the Min/Max/Avg resonse time for nodes, use the following HTML to get the circuit/interface utilization: (variables are color coded)

"http://insert server /NetPerfMon/ViewChart.asp?Chart=MMAvgUtil&NetObject=I:17247&Period=Last%2024%20Hours&SampleSize=30M&ReBuild=TRUE&FontSize=Medium&Width=600&Height=0"

Chart Min/Max/Avg Utilization
InterfaceID
24 hour Time Frame
30 minute sample

Before you start coding, make a list of interface you want charts on and then get their ID number from the Orion DB, or bring up the interfaces in an Interface Detail View, the ID will be the NetObject=I:xxx in the URL.

John J. Times

FormerMember

Thanks for the information. I'll try to get to that today or tomorrow and let you know.

FormerMember

John thanks for the information. I works great!!. Now we just need to get a larger Monitor to see all the graphs at the size the boss wants.

trm33

Thanks John
This is what I was looking for. We are just implementing a MPLS network and this will allows us to monitor the bandwidth at each site at the same time.

Tim

craig999

This topic
http://www4.solarwinds.net/SolarWindsForum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=3459

Has some good info in regards to plasma's and multi views.

jtimes

If the boss wants "big" talk him into an IMAX screen... They are eight stories tall.. LOL

John J. Times