When I go to node detail it show
so... I use VIM to edit that file but not so sure how should I put in the location... as I try and restart the service but it still show as unknown.
After you edit the node details like location, contact, etc and restart the snmpd service you will need to hit the rediscover button in solarwinds, or wait until it automatically rediscovers. The default interval is every 30 minutes. I would assume that by now that value has updated itself.
-Marc Netterfield
Loop1 Systems: SolarWinds Training and Professional Services
Unfortunately not, It still show as unknown.
My experience with using the SNMP location, contact, etc fields has been to avoid them. Since they are free-form and at the discretion of whoever controls the system they tend to become inconsistent quickly.
Most likely you want to use the field for some grouping, reporting, filtering or alerting function. I suggest using a custom property with a drop-down list instead.
If you use SNMP location, the subtle differences between what is on systems can cause problems. Example: "NewYork" and "New York" are different and will be a pain.
My experience comes from monitoring 20K+ nodes via SNMP, WMI and ICMP.
Chris
Thanks Chris. The reason I want to use SNMP location is because I want to use it as a condition for dynamic query to group the application where nodes custom properties doesn't show up.
Where are the Custom properties not showing up? Since you're talking about dynamic queries, I'm assuming groups (containers). Custom properties work fine there if you set them to be allowed as filters.
C
Yes, I'm talking about group. Custom properties will show up only when orion object is node. I want to create a group of application that is on the node in specified location.
Ahhh I see your problem. You can't access the node custom properties when creating a dynamic application group.
Here's an idea:
Kinda convoluted and I've not tried it.
C.
Thank Chris, That's absolutely what I want to do. Another thing is I want to suspend alert from component monitoring when my MPLS Router is down/disconnected.
is there such a way to do that ?
The component is in a SAM template.
The SAM template instantiated on a server (node).
The node is behind your MPLS router.
On a good day, NPM will create auto-dependencies between your router and node. You can tell if this has happened by looking @ the node page and see if there are any auto-dependencies listed.
Assuming there is a dependency relationship in place, you can now add the following clause to your alert to supress it if the MPLS router goes down:
If it's not a good day for NPM, then you an create manual dependency groups but that's a story to be told around the campfires late at night to scare people.
