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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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dos-netres

Monitoring of VPN tunnels on Cisco 3000 concentrator

danesa

We are evaluating Orion - what we are considering as a major "failure" is:

1. Custom MIBS
2. SNMP Traps
3. Syslog Integration

If it will be implemented, we will buy a licence for sure.

Danesa d.o.o.
http://www.danesa.com

aLTeReGo

I just bought this product and I'm very disappointed that the port descriptions on my Cat6500 series switches are not populated automatically. As I have well over 100 ports per 6500 this is a huge pain in the ass.

How about before we trick this product out with all sorts of cool new features like syslog and such, we nail down the basics first.

asigiam60

besides all the other features people want such as custom mibs and such.....how about having ro snmp strings as well as rw strings and the ability to shut down ports or enable ports thru the web. I know you can shut down and enable ports from the manager, but then you have to have only the rw strings being broadcast everywhere.

FormerMember

quote:Originally posted by aLTeReGo

I just bought this product and I'm very disappointed that the port descriptions on my Cat6500 series switches are not populated automatically. As I have well over 100 ports per 6500 this is a huge pain in the ass.

How about before we trick this product out with all sorts of cool new features like syslog and such, we nail down the basics first.

That's odd. We have a few Cat 6500's and the ports all populated in solarwinds just fine.... on version 7.2 and 7.5.

Network_Guru

quote:Originally posted by aLTeReGo

I just bought this product and I'm very disappointed that the port descriptions on my Cat6500 series switches are not populated automatically. As I have well over 100 ports per 6500 this is a huge pain in the ass.

How about before we trick this product out with all sorts of cool new features like syslog and such, we nail down the basics first.

BryanBecker

quote:Originally posted by Network_Guru

Yes, that's one of the issues I brought up a couple of years ago.
This is only an issue on switches running Hybrid - CatOS & IOS.
If you change to Native mode (IOS only), then it does pull the port descriptions from the interfaces correctly.

-=Cheers=-
NG

NG...just read your post...its been almost a year since Don posted that CATOS port names were supported in V7.1. Like you and others I do not see that even as late as 7.6 beta. All I see is "short wave fiber gigabit ethernet" and "10/100 utp ethernet (cat 3/5)". I have to manually enter the names and its a HUGE pain.

BB

BryanBecker

Problem : Alert triggers when threshold is passed only 1 time.

Request : Have the ability to add a number of instances value before tiggering the alert.

For instance cpu's spike from time to time. All it has to do is spike once and the alert is triggered. I want to be able to say if the threshold is passed in say 4 consecutive polls then send the alert.

BB

jnight

Can you throw in a port monitor for World of Warcraft? We have...ummmm...technical reasons why we need this. Yeah. That's it.

aLTeReGo

MapMaker NEEDS an undo function.

It would be nice if MapMaker saved a backup copy (.BAK) of the original when you save a map.

It would be awsome if maps were stored in the SQL Database. It sucks when I create or modify maps on my local PC using the remote admin tool and then have to manually copy them to the server.

Also a Function in MapMaker to right click on the node in the object list and select a function that would make the node blink or flash on the map so you can find it. This would be nice when working on large maps, or maps with many nodes.

aLTeReGo

quote:Originally posted by webcrawlr

quote:Originally posted by aLTeReGo


I just bought this product and I'm very disappointed that the port descriptions on my Cat6500 series switches are not populated automatically. As I have well over 100 ports per 6500 this is a huge pain in the ass.

How about before we trick this product out with all sorts of cool new features like syslog and such, we nail down the basics first.

That's odd. We have a few Cat 6500's and the ports all populated in solarwinds just fine.... on version 7.2 and 7.5.

You must be running IOS on your Cat 6500. I'm running CatOS and Orion 7.5 still does not populate with the interface descriptions.

angus

Well Said.

We have struggeled wit CA unicentre and all sorts of other footwork for a long while. We were functional with orion within 2 Hours!

quote:Originally posted by 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

angus

In order of preference:
1. Port monitoring with predefined stuff for protocols like SNMP,http, https, sql and DNS
2. Netflow
3. Policy based approach to alert definition. The polices can then be applied to the monitored objects. Unless I am missing someting, the current method is tedius and cumbersome and would the chances of unwanted alert noise.

Nice to have
Dynamic baselining - there is a radical change in traffic profile between work hours and non off hours. This creates a problem for us when setting alerts. Suggestions workarround are welcommed

Zypher

I pretty much need all of the features meantioned here, But these are the features badly needed.
1. TCP/UDP Port Monitoring - Also checking if answer is Equal to "Variable"
2. Service Monitoring either through SNMP or Windows Logon(Rather not)
3. Better Mib Support, ability to add Mibs
4. SNMP Trap and checking for SNMP messages in trap.
5. Alerting and Event Logging on all above.

angus

quote:Originally posted by angus

In order of preference:
1. Port monitoring with predefined stuff for protocols like SNMP,http, https, sql and DNS
2. Netflow
3. Policy based approach to alert definition. The polices can then be applied to the monitored objects. Unless I am missing someting, the current method is tedius and cumbersome and would the chances of alert "noise".

Nice to have
Dynamic baselining - there is a radical change in traffic profile between work hours and non off hours. This creates a problem for us when setting alerts. Suggestions workarround are welcommed

Mithrilhall

Support for Allot's NetEnforcer.

http://www.allot.com/

DarrenJeffrey

Limited control to Suppressing Alerts using the Web interface instead of the GUI interface. We have UNIX people would have servers on Orion and the NT people don't want the UNIX Guys on the Server...

We need to suppression both globally and per-server alerts.

siciman

I'm a customer and I monitor 100 nodes....
I'd like to have a view with more then one graph
1 for internet connection link
1 for internet ISP2 connection link
1 for intranet connection link
..
in order to compare "visually" on same page different link

any features..??

thanks
Carmelo

Debbi

Netflow add-in - here is a link to a vendor that has a way to incorporate Netflow Monitor with Orion. Yes, you have to buy Netflow Monitor, but you may be interested in knowing about this possibility.
www.netflow-monitor.com/.../

Debbi

PS: I am underwhelmed by the fact that not many people seem to think that having a *scheduled maintenance window* is important. How hard can it be to integrate the capability to turn off alerts EASILY between 5am and 7am on Tuesdays and Thursdays? Even an inexpensive program like Kiwi Syslog can do this. Instead, we have to create several alerts -- one for Tuesdays and Thursdays, and another for the same group of nodes for the rest of the days. Multiply that by the number of alert rules you started with... it just does not match the ease with which the rest of the features operate.

jstruck

Custom MIB Support

eelandon

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.

MRoberts

quote:Originally posted by gonzajoh

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

This point is debatable in terms of who application monitoring is important to. Full scale proactive Network monitoring is much more than knowing that your routers and switches and servers are 100% up and available. I can tell you that requirements in net management have shifted an angle away from the typical throughput, If Util, and collisions, CRC errors etc type of stats to include notifications on Application brown outs before they happen. As a result I had to evaluate Concord, VitalSuite and several other Application performance monitoring tools.
I can see where it would benefit the developers of SolarWinds... and it customers, to come up with detailed and easy to use ( Just like SolarWinds) Application monitoring module to satisfy this piece the the market. I liked Vital Suite... it does network monitoring very well and the Application monitoring you pay for that piece separateley. Its modular like like the rest of them but the "rest of them" are way over priced or cumbersome or both or just unreliable...too many unexplainable gaps.
I'm using a ton load of distributed sniffers for application monitoring along with SW ( I ditched HP HopelessView the day I got SW) cause I like reliabilty for customer reports.
I know SW can come up with an App monitoring tool...it aint that hard.

My other request to SW would sure be a net simulator...prior to a deploying more gear on the network, and also a trend forcaster....also aint hard to implement cause all the necessary stats are already in the database.

Great product Don!

Marlon.A.Roberts
Network Management Systems Engineer.
ITSD/Verizon/SIM&S INC.
Network Control
732-532-5000
Marlon.A.Roberts@us.army.mil
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Mithrilhall

The ability to change the ifAdminStatus of interfaces from the "Node Details Page".

As of right now I have to log into every switch/router when I want to turn a port on or off, which we do quite often.

(Edit: I see this is available from the Engineer's Toolset)

Also, the ability to save the running configuration to the startup configuration would be great. Saving the running configuration to the backup configuration would be a bonus as well.

aLTeReGo

One thing I haven't seen suggested is a more robust alerting system. For instance a definable alert escalation or only alert after "x". Two examples would be..

(Alert Escalation)
If node goes down alert person #1, if the node remains down after "x" ammount of time, alert person #2.

(Suppress Alert until X)
We reboot equipment from time to time and it's a real pain that everyone's pager/cell phone has to go off because someone rebooted a server. It would be nice to have a method of saying "do not alert unless the node has been down for at least "x" ammount of time".

BryanBecker

Some more for me :

Better device inventory report (serial numbers)
PDF export on any reports
Syslog view filters
Ability to launch switch port mapper from orion when you right-click on a switch

DannyMc

quote:Better device inventory report (serial numbers)

I believe this is stored as a MIB. Custom mibs have been requested pretty much since the start of this thread in 2003.

quote:(Suppress Alert until X)
We reboot equipment from time to time and it's a real pain that everyone's pager/cell phone has to go off because someone rebooted a server. It would be nice to have a method of saying "do not alert unless the node has been down for at least "x" ammount of time".

This would definately be a nice thing! No need to get pages at 5:00a for scheduled switch or server reboots. I just want to know about the ones that are going down and staying down!

aSquared

Yes I want that feature. After porting over to ORION I realised that I am missing that feature which is very important to my NOC operations.

I wouild also want ORION to have a feature to receive SNMP Traps which can be filtered down and after that trigger and alert if necessary.

Sidetrack a little. Has anyone here overcome the issue of ORION not able to monitor Service ports. Do you have any alternatives to this?

quote:Originally posted by 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)

2020

quote:Originally posted by aSquared

Sidetrack a little. Has anyone here overcome the issue of ORION not able to monitor Service ports. Do you have any alternatives to this?

I'm certain i read/heard something about an Orion Application Monitor...

Does anyone else have any info of help...does this exist/how do we get it/what does it actually do?

tim.hays

quote:Originally posted by 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)

Network_Guru

quote:Originally posted by 2020

quote:Originally posted by aSquared


Sidetrack a little. Has anyone here overcome the issue of ORION not able to monitor Service ports. Do you have any alternatives to this?

I'm certain i read/heard something about an Orion Application Monitor...

Does anyone else have any info of help...does this exist/how do we get it/what does it actually do?

Do a search in this forum for "Application Monitor".

www2.solarwinds.net/.../topic.asp

-=Cheers=-
NG