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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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FormerMember

Got it! Thanks NG & Janis!

I agree with everyone, this capability should be a standard function!

SW...got your ears on?

iunderwo

Now that it appears we can turn off management of devices for a certain time frame, it would be particularly nice to be able to unmanage interfaces as well.

Particularly useful when a site is going to shut down for planned work over the weekend.

Edit: I'm looking at how this information can be usable in the web engine.

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

Network_Guru

So if a device is unmanaged, does this mean it's removed from all alerting as well?
When we are doing maintenance at 3AM, it would be great to unmanage the device so that
everyone else on the team does not get SMS'd awake. I will be trying this next week
when we shut down a router and replace it with a newer one.

Unmanaging interfaces would also be a very beneficial feature. Sometimes servers are
shutdown for OS upgrades, etc. and the switch ports show as down. This way we could retain the statistics for the switch port/server, without cluttering up the home page
with dozens of down interfaces.

-=Cheers=-
NG

mick.briggs

Great stuff.. this little unmanaged tweak has made my Life a lot easier

Ian Great Idea next Step independent interface management

Serco/ESA Network Services

Regards Mick

pancamo

Works! You have to right click on the node, and select Node Details. There will be a UnManage button on the right.

Still testing, but so far, so good...

Why is this hidden?

dp

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/SolarWinds.Net/Orion Network Performance Monitor /Settings

Allow Unmanage REG_SZ True

quote:Originally posted by Network_Guru

Just tried it again using the new registry location. Still no joy

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\SolarWinds.Net\Orion Network Performance Monitor\Settings

REG_SZ true

Or is it case sensitive and I need to specify "True" ?

I don't want to restart the polling service un-neccessarily, as it generates
false node down alerts when the service re-starts, which messes up our reporting.

EDIT: I found the unmanage button. You need to right click and select node properties. The unmanage button is on the right hand side below the rediscover and poll now buttons!

-=Cheers=-
NG

pancamo

The Unmanaged node never automatically returns back to Managed after the pre-defined time.... Is a SQLagent job or stored proc required to do this? I also tried updating the Node table, and the Web site updated, however the GUI didn't update and must use some other flags for this..

quote:Originally posted by pancamo

Works! You have to right click on the node, and select Node Details. There will be a UnManage button on the right.

Still testing, but so far, so good...

Why is this hidden?

dp

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/SolarWinds.Net/Orion Network Performance Monitor /Settings

Allow Unmanage REG_SZ True

quote:Originally posted by Network_Guru

Just tried it again using the new registry location. Still no joy

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\SolarWinds.Net\Orion Network Performance Monitor\Settings

REG_SZ true

Or is it case sensitive and I need to specify "True" ?

I don't want to restart the polling service un-neccessarily, as it generates
false node down alerts when the service re-starts, which messes up our reporting.

EDIT: I found the unmanage button. You need to right click and select node properties. The unmanage button is on the right hand side below the rediscover and poll now buttons!

-=Cheers=-
NG

iunderwo

It would be particularly nice to unmanage a node from the web interface, instead of on the poller...and I've been looking at how this can be done, but there is no way that I can see to get the poller to read the status if it's set from the web engine.

Perhaps there needs to be a new table which the poller reads from time to time for "instructions" which can be sent from the web engine for things like unmanaging nodes.

Additionally, it would be nice in the event log if it would also say when the node was unmanaged until.

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

dimonet

I would really love to see the following incorporated into ORION. As a global organization (And I know there are other global users here) these are very important.

1.Being able to set someone’s time zone at the account level so that when they view online statistics they are viewing them in their local time zone (The website would perform a background calculation to show them their time).
2. Being able to specify a time zone when using report writer. This way it would perform a calculation between the collection time zone and the reporting time zone.

pancamo

same results here. I have been able to update the Nodes table with the unmanage settigns, however the poller does not pick up the changes

quote:Originally posted by iunderwo

It would be particularly nice to unmanage a node from the web interface, instead of on the poller...and I've been looking at how this can be done, but there is no way that I can see to get the poller to read the status if it's set from the web engine.

Perhaps there needs to be a new table which the poller reads from time to time for "instructions" which can be sent from the web engine for things like unmanaging nodes.

Additionally, it would be nice in the event log if it would also say when the node was unmanaged until.

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

mustafa

Customer MIB would make this Package really Great!

Traps Handler would be a treat with this Package

Mustafa Rana

gavinadams

We would love to see:-
- port/application checking
- custom mib support.

Cheers,
Gavin
SKM

dsullinger

quote:Originally posted by pancamo

Besides the top 3 requests(Custom MIBS, Trap Handling and Port Monitoring) Here are some easy requests:

3. Ability to automate discovery.
4. Ability to import a list of devices
5. Ability to place a node in Maintenance Mode for X hours
6. Ability to Group Devices in the Win32 App
7. Ability to Manage Nodes(add/delete/edit) from the Web
8. Ability to set/override thresholds on individual nodes.

These go double for us, we would really like to see it automate the discovery process.

jjohonness

Is Solar Winds working on these requests?

Custom MIB importing
Trap receiving and correlation

BryanBecker

quote:Originally posted by jjohonness

Is Solar Winds working on these requests?

Custom MIB importing
Trap receiving and correlation

No one really knows. That is one thing that Solarwinds needs to do a better job of. I can understand maybe not posting that information on here but maybe an email to its paying customers once a quarter detailing the Orion, as well as the toolsets, product roadmap. I'd like to know what's in the works and what will be released next, timeframes, etc.

riglerst

My biggest wish: Custom MIB's....

mgibson

It would be nice to be able to have Interface Availability/%UpTime to measure the performance of Circuits.

mgibson

clerum

How about some type of grouping..

So you could group core nodes together and poll at 30 sec internvals.

And Customer's together and poll every 3 minutes...

cnorborg

Not sure if this has been mentioned yet, but here it is. I'd like to have maybe a global flag that says whether or not "Node Name" gets automatically updated/changed when the "System Name" changes.

On occassion a server name or switch name gets changed even though its IP doesn't. The system automatically picks up this change in the "System Name", but doesn't propagate it to the "Node Name", so you have to manually do it yourself. I'd like the ability to make this automatic (except in the case of a blank system name of course!! Never overwrite an actual name with a blank one!!)

As an added bonus, I'd love on a per-node basis to be able to "lock" a name in. This would allow you to customize names, while still allowing others to change when the "System Name" does...

Craig Norborg
Network Analyst
Robert Bosch Corporation

mav

Well I think if they get the design your own MIB then all they have to do is provide some storage space and let users make the MIDS or OID's and we can download them. Even put in a user voting system and # of times downloaded and bingo--done

dsullinger

It would be great if Orion ran on UNIX, we would prefer Solaris, but would be happy with Linux (SuSE or Red Hat).

clerum

Yeah an Linux version wouldn't be bad. However despite the cost Server 2003 really has been peforming well for us.

Not to mention that it would slow down the development process consideribly.

haimc

I think the tool should be more then SNMP monitoring tool
it should monitor Databases , Applications , Windows Eventlogs

it should be all in one - the tool has lot of power and in order to complete it u need to look on other tools

there are other tools around like www.serverwatch.com that has the features above but luck the customization u can do with Orion

I think if Orion will have the options above , it will be a killer monitoring tool

Haim

kcherry

I would like to see:
Netflow Stat Graphs
Syslog service with viewing capability from the website
Custom MIBs

If MRTG which is free can allow you to configure custom MIBs then I think Orion should as well. Just my 2 cents.

BryanBecker

Just thought of another one :

I'd like to see an alert availabe that says if my cpu on a device changes more than X percent send an alert. For instance if I know the firewall runs at 50% and for some reason it jumps to 80% I should be able to configure an alert that says greater or equal to 30% alert me.

B

siciman

- Server Monitor is a big features that shoul be included (just tcp connection or a simple command like get /index or pop command or smtp command....

AndyL

Ok I though I would put a few suggestions here:

1. Ability to windows Services (Up/Down)
2. Ability to monitor ports on a node (I know this is layer 4+) – Also a way to test a port via a send/receive response.
3. Ability to Support Custom MIB importing
4. Ability to select/de-select devices found in automate discovery.
5. Ability to import a list of devices
6. Ability to place a node in Maintenance Mode for X hours
7. Ability to Manage Nodes(add/delete/edit) from a command line
8. Ability to Manage Nodes(add/delete/edit) from the Web
9. Ability to set/override thresholds on individual nodes.
10. Ability to monitor Windows Event log (consolidate and alerts on them)
11. Ability to function as a SNMP Trap receiver
12. Ability to function as a Syslog Server

Andy

rmccoy

Disk I/O and service/port monitoring are my largest needs.

al.gartner

1)Syslog
2)Custom Mibs/Stats
3)TCP Port Status (Definable)

vsop

Looking at the release notes for v7.5, the added features were

Support for monitoring CPU/Mem ultilization on the Motorola BSR6400 7 the Arris C4 CMSTs.

Logic work around devices with faulty SNMP agents that lose time in the sysuptime counter

Added SQL query timeout setting for database manager

& additional icons for new system types.

And resolved two alerting engine issues -
Issue where alert actions would sometimes not execute
and alert engine would sometimes hang if database connectivity was lost while trying to trigger or reset an alert.

So I guess we really will have to wait for the Next major version release for any of the things we want..

Lets just hope that when V8 is released that they will have at least the custom MIB support

dajomas

So, First of all, I really like the tool Orion, but I too have some additional requests that I would like to see.

Aside from the already mentioned custom MIBS (MOST IMPORTANT MISSING FEATURE !!!) and Port monitoring, I would also like to see:
* ISDN Backup (BRI/PRI) monitoring (These lines should be down but I don't want them to cause the node to have a red marker and when they go up, something is wrong) I understand this request has been around since version 5. (SECOND MOST IMPORTANT MISSING FEATURE !!!)
* populating custom properties during discovery. We use the location field as a container for 4 fields, separated by semicolons. I want to split those fields and populate them into 4 custom properties when a node is added.
* adding multiple nodes to the MAP in Mapmaker in 1 drag in stead of dragging each one separate.

I understand that in version 7.6 a SYSLOG server will be added. That's great news!

Greetinx
Johan.

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