I have 15 managed WAN that i would like to monitor from one dash, can this be achieved using Orion?
Absolutely! Just make sure all the devices (switches/routers etc) have SNMP enabled on them and are all accessible from a single server.
Thank you.
The only limitation I foresee is the dash, is it possible to have individual dashes for each site?
I would really like to have one HUD for all locations, I currently use WUG, and uses several mappes to do this.
if i uderstand this corectly you could just make a map that has all the sub-maps feed into it and then monitor from the top map and when there is an issue drill into the problem from the higher level maps.
That will also give you the ability to have the sub-maps available for each site to monitor if that is the desire with out them being able to see other sites.
It there any way to have have several maps one page?
You can add more than one map resource in a summary view. This would show multiple maps on one web page. Do this in Manage Views in the Admin option on the website.
Hope this helps.
Thank you...
I'm really thinking of switching to Orion.
but
can folders be cratered to identify locations then within the folders have nodes?
Hi
What you want is easy.
You need to create a custom field - say like "City"
Add a web resource to the front to show all nodes status.
From the webpage front end, edit the nodes status and use a SQL query like "Location like 'NA_%'". You can even have multiple groups like Asia | Taipei and then use the web resource to list in the order you want.
I hope this helps but if not drop me a line and I can help out.
Bye
Ken
Sound a bit in depth.
I'm by no means a SQL guy, so it sounds like Greek to me.
but I'm glad to hear that it can be done...
this is what I'm looking to do.
China (this would be a folder)
with in this folder
Cisco 7300 router
exchanger server
SQL server
DNS server
file server
managed switches
asterisk phone system...
I have 15 sites like this and i find it easier to manage each site like this
All of what you have asked can be done with a combination of Account Limitations, Custom Properties and adding a resource to the Network Summary view of "All Nodes - Tree (AJAX)"
Account Limitations - build an account for each of your customer, and make the settings so that they can only see thier devices. What I do is abbreviate each customer to 3 characters and add this plus a - to the front of each system name. IE. Machine name Exchange for customer XYZ, I would change the Node Name to XYZ-Exchange and then under the user that i created for this customer, I would LIMIT the users views by Node Name Pattern and use "XYZ-*" as my pattern.
Next step, Build custom Properties with the Custom Property Editor and add up to 3 properties. In this case you could do "Country", "City", and even "Device Type". So for an exchange Server, you could have China, Hong Kong, Server.
After you when thru and added the above properties for each node, you now add a resource of "All Nodes - Tree (AJAX)" to your Network Summary Page. then you click the EDIT button for that resource, and Select Country for Level 1, City for Level 2, and Device Type for Level 3.
If you do this all correctly you will like the outcome and also bring some light to the way on how Orion works and the POWER that it possess's in customization.
