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rix

Sign if you think the biggest feature improvement to Orion
should be service/port monitoring ala WUG.

I personally think it would be incredible then.

Strength in numbers, make yourself heard.
maybe v7.5

Thanks,

-Network Janitor
(time to empty the bit bucket)

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ryoungpe

Feature request:

The session timeout is found in Admin / Settings. How about an addition override session timeout for individual accounts?

off: 281-209-7833
mail: richard.young@bakerhughes.com

serdvl

Thanks for the great product and the update to 7.0 (7.5).

This is what I would like to see in the next update....

- Custom MIB's
- Custom Port Monitoring (DHCP, DNS, SMTP, AD,) kick out ipswitch... its crap!

rpereda

In order to effectively manage a network You need to be able to customize the MIB's.

Currently I have to use the Polling cycle to send an alert regarding my Cisco Router for % over 5 minute time span. There is already a MIB value to alert on that comes with the Cisco IOS for 5 minute interval.

Thanks,
RP

FormerMember

Here is my 2 cents for a new feature...

I would like to see a Replay Mode. I'd like to go back to a period of time, let's say within the last 7 days, and begin replaying all stats for all nodes/interfaces from a given date/time and refreshed based upon a user-definable replay interval using the Top 10/TopXX views. For example, this would be helpful in seeing a full network picture of all resources at a given date/time and provide helpful clues in problem isolation (i.e., a network slowdown).

Joakim

I Agree to both ports, the use of manufacturers MIB´s and trap reciever.

tbradley

I would love to see an On/Off switch for node/interface monitoring.

ie, I'm monitoring about 1000 nodes, and around 3500 interfaces. It gets annoying, when users shut down equipment, and monitoring reports this as a down node.

It would be a great help in the web interface to "administratively" discontinue monitoring

myancey

quote:Originally posted by tbradley

I would love to see an On/Off switch for node/interface monitoring.

ie, I'm monitoring about 1000 nodes, and around 3500 interfaces. It gets annoying, when users shut down equipment, and monitoring reports this as a down node.

It would be a great help in the web interface to "administratively" discontinue monitoring

Matthew Yancey
Network Engineer
Intersil Corporation

dana.turner

custom MIBS.

Support (CPU, memory and the like)for Extreme networks gear at a min.

DTuloJr

1. Custom MIB support (or manual OID entry, tied to a node, with units and variable types chosen manually)... this single feature would eliminate the need for so many third party mom-and-pop shop custom apps, and even a few commercial ones that just look like them...

2. SNMP Trap *and* Syslog reception... coupled with the ability to import custom MIB's, would turn Orion into a fully centralized L2/L3 network infrastructure and event management application. Alternatively, integration with Kiwi Syslog for alarming and/or live and post-mortem event reporting would also be acceptable.

3. Basic service/port monitoring with SYN/SYN-ACK responses time logging would be useful, but would not eliminate the need for full L7 application transaction monitoring... perhaps the addition of something that would run a simplistic script and check the data stream for a particular string of characters?

4. The ability in the web interface to administratively disable Orion monitoring of a node, interface, or volume, without tripping an alarm.

rix

DTuloJr,

You pretty much covered everything I want as well, in a clear concise manner.
Good post.

jneiberger

DTuloJr, you echo my thoughts exactly. I was just in a meeting yesterday regarding increasing our infrastructure monitoring. I told the people in the meeting that I was evaluating Orion but they lost interest in it when I told that we can't use custom MIBs. Much of what we need to monitor is not in the standard MIB.

We also require basic port monitoring, like testing a web server to see if port 80 or 443 is listening.

I like Orion but I'm not sure I'd could sell it to management as-is. If custom MIB support and port monitoring were added it would be a no-brainer.

John

danvega

Custom MIBs (must!)
Service/Port Monitoring (must!)
Mouse-over graphics to display actual values (nice to have)

jneiberger

Here's another feature that I would LOVE to see: get rid of IIS and move to Apache or some other web server. Everyone in our IT department seriously dislikes IIS and our technically-minded Executive VP doesn't even want it in our network, if at all possible.

If Orion supported custom MIBs and port monitoring *and* it ran on a different server, we'd be customers within a week.

iunderwo

Just a comment in here on the anti-IIS comment...

The problem isn't with IIS per-se. The problem lies with the default security model being very lax, and with admins who don't keep up with server patch levels. To dismiss the program on the grounds that it runs on a Microsoft platform is faulty logic, because any platform can be open to exploit.

The beauty of Orion is that you don't need to be an expert to set it up and start collecting data.

// Ian Underwood - Service Management
// Level 3 Communications

samcox

Query on any IOD.
Traps.
Maybe Syslog, I wouldn't use it. But I understand why most people would.

Pauly

I agree with number 2!! If this had a Trap receiver and a corelation engine (even a simple one) I would replace all of my other utilities with this one.

I don't agree I'm afraid. In order of importance IMO....

1. Custom Mib reporting / alerting
2. TRAP HANDLING (can't believe they missed that one!!)
3. Device Grouping

One could argue that NPM is a NETWORK performance monitor (up to L3 OSI). What you are requesting is monitoring APPLICATIONS (ports and services) - not the same thing.

I agree however that it would be a 'nice to have' - and in fact, should not be too difficult to achieve

Network_Guru

Well it's been almost 2 years now since I've been asking for CatOS Catalyst Switch port
description discovery. Once again I have been let down by Ver 7.1
It seems as though this will never be implemented, even though I have done the MIB walk
and sent the MIB to Solarwinds Development.
It appears as though this product will never be CatOS switch friendly :<(

-=Cheers=-
NG

iunderwo

NG,

Switch descriptions would definitely be useful...I'd hate to see the full whiteboard of requested features. But like any small company, this kind of stuff takes time.

// Ian Underwood - Service Management
// Level 3 Communications

DonYonce

Network Guru,
I'm very sorry about the switch descriptions. Obviously we misunderstood what you were asking for. CAT OS Switch port descriptions should be available in version 7.1. They are working on all the Catalyst switches in our labs (and Cisco labs).

Can you send the information directly to me at Don_Yonce@SolarWinds.Net
I'll find out what went wrong and let you know.

Don

psala

I'd like to see a net flow add-in to be able to drill down in the traffic charts. It is great to know that you have high utilization, but the followup question is why and by whom.

I's also like them to incorporate the MIB walker tool into the monitor. If you can find the MIB, then you should be able to monitor it. All the code is already there.

Paul Sala
Network Engineer
Emerson Power Transmission

iunderwo

Paul,

Netflow would definitely be helpful.

It seems as if a lot of the features we're asking for would work wonders as separate applications...you know, like other tabs next to Network Performance Monitor, with some kinds of links between the three applications. (Netflow, SysLog/Trap, etc.)

The reason I suggest this is because running Netflow would ultimately require a database of its own, and another server to act as a collector. This would be important because detailed stats would need to be boiled down constantly into specific intervals, lest the database meltdown in a thermal fury of high CPU.

An Orion Netflow Monitor? If it were easy to use, I bet I could get management to buy off on it.

// Ian Underwood - Service Management
// Level 3 Communications

Network_Guru

This would definitely have saved us a lot of money.
We just purchased a whack of distributed sniffers and taps to find out what is causing the events seen by Orion.
Admitted, this does give us far more visibility and troubleshooting capabailites than Netflow, but we may have gotten
by with Netflow as a start.
These sniffers have hard drives which capture and analyze the traffic and can create Application Response Time
historical graphs.

There are certainly many more features and avenues to explore for the Solarwinds dev team.

-=Cheers=-
NG

BakerD

If this has not been mentioned, how about a "sub group" field for the reports. Would help with organizing the reports on the web interface I think.

Main Group
..Sub Group1
....report1
....report2
..Sub Group2
....report1

and so on.

Network_Guru

I created a menu item called "reports" with 3 columns. Each column has multiple groups/headers for different report groups.

E.G.

Column 1 - Availability Reports
Header 1 - Routers
Header 2 - Switches
Header 3 - Servers

Column 2 - Utilization Reports
Header 1 - Routers
Header 2 - Switches
Header 3 - Servers

Column 3 - Events & Top 40 Reports
Header 1 - Routers
Header 2 - Switches
Header 3 - Servers

You can do a lot of customization with new pages using the "add Menu Item" to toolbar
along with the "custom views" menu. You can even link to other report pages from the first
report page you have created.

-=Cheers=-
NG

BryanBecker

The CATOS and port name function does not appear to be working in V7.1. That needs to be fixed if it hasn't already.

I'd also like to see the following :

1. Launch any report or graph directly into pdf for better printing. Have a PDF icon to do this like the Execl icon is on each graph.

2. Abilty to monitor launch the toolsets (properly installed on the server and licensed) to have real-time monitoring...like watch the utilization on a circuit interface in real-time.

3. Like it has been said before, incorporate the syslog server into the web page.

iunderwo

Actually, you can launch the toolset applications from within the system manager. However, that's not going to happen from the web page as there aren't any standard URLs to make those kinds of calls to applications. This could theoretically be done with ASP, but then you essentially lock the application into Internet Exploder which would certainly make me unhappy.

PDFs would be neat.

Here are a couple of Report Writer requests:

* Incorporate graphing functions into reports.
* Incorporate a "Master Report" style which would be a collection of smaller reports. That way, more smaller reports could be put into one viewable page.
* Support a tiered query in the report writer. For example, in the first query, I ask for a list of nodes that have Multilink or Virtual-Access interfaces. Then, based on that node list, give me a list of serial interfaces.

// Ian Underwood - Service Management
// Level 3 Communications

BakerD

Map <--> Node details <--> Map web navigation

I would like to be able navigate back and forth between nodes and a map containing nodes without using a browser back button. For example, say you start with a overall map, then go down to a state map, then uner that have maps of sites in that state. A site map shows all/some of the nodes at that site and if you click on a node it takes you to its node details. Then say you want to look at the nodes NIC or volumes etc. You have to hit the browser back button twice to get back to your map in order to view another node at that site.

For those of you that may have used WUG before, from a node details view, you could return the the main part of that node, or the map that node sits in using links and not the browser back button.

Sorry if this has been requested before. If there is way to do this, someone please explain.

Thanks

Network_Guru

Short of editing the ASP code, the cheap and nasty way to do this, is right click on the
node or interface and select "open in new window". You can also hold down the shift key
while clicking on the link to open it in a new Window. Then your map stays open, and you get
a new window for the details of whatever you have selected.

-=Cheers=-
NG

powersj

Grouping in the system manager would be great. Also the ability to make mass changes using the shift or ctrl key to select certain nodes.
It's a pain to make a change to all of the nodes, also it would be easier to manage if you can group the nodes like Active Directory.

Network_Guru

Setting up alerts amongst a list of 500 nodes or 2000 interfaces is also a lot of work.
It would be nice to use a filter based on a custom property to select which nodes/interfaces you
actually see to setup alerts, or even base the alerts on a filter/tag of a custom property.
Using something like a Report Writer interface to create your alerts would be ideal.

I had suggested some time ago that creating 95th Percentile reports would be a good feature.
Someone at Solarwinds had agreed this would be a nice feature, but I have not heard anything else
regarding this.

-=Cheers=-
NG