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Hello Everyone.. I need your help on how we can establish the IP SLA monitoring for "Arista Network Devices". As per Solarwinds Support, Arista device supports SNMP and if you have the OID (acquired from vendor) to poll the IP SLA information you need from your device, what you can do is try to create UnDP (Universal…
Hi Everyone, Just to check if anyone here has 2 Management Software running in the production network? Example Cisco Prime and SolarWinds. Is it ok to run both Network Management Software at the same time? I am only enabling the NPM, NTA, Alerts and Syslogs in Solarwinds. Thanks for your response!
Hello, I work in a secure, paranoid environment. Solarwinds will be fired up shortly. There are security concerns regarding where to place the SW servers in the network since they'll be able to communicate with virtually every device, particularly Internet edge routers, firewalls, and switches. Have you placed your SW…
Hi Masters/Techies/Readers. We have installed following modules NPM for ~1300 Elements,/~4000(~1300up, ~2700down) interfaces on Machine-A(Vm of Hyper-v) SRM for ~200 elements on Machine-A(vm of Hyper-v) Virtual Mangr ~2 Hosts on Machine-A (Vm of Hyper-v) Infrastructure is about 150 switches, ~1300 end points, ~4000-6000…
Not too many years ago I ran a large network for the United States Air Force. For the first several years I was there we had an old copper-wire backbone and it was amazing to see the havoc that weather could wreak upon that network. Sometimes you practically needed scuba gear to go into those manholes and troubleshoot…
Here at SolarWinds we offer a product called EOC - or Enterprise Operations Console. EOC is used when you want to deploy Orion in a distributed management architecture. Today I received a question about when you should think about deploying such an architecture so I thought I'd take a few minutes to write on the subject.…
One of the things that I get asked about a lot is whether it's best to use centralized vs. distributed syslog servers within your overall network management strategy. It's a great question as there are advantages to each, so let's take a look... Centralizing Syslog Collection There are several advantages to centralizing…
Network administrators work endlessly to maintain high quality network services for business critical processes and applications to run smoothly. They are expected to monitor and deliver high network performance, without any downtime. While, achieving this has been daunting for network administrators, the need for ‘high…
Looking back at the past decade, its mind boggling to see how the IT model has flipped on its head. Things that were once an exception are now the norm and ironically a lot of organizations aren’t keeping with the pace of change in datacenters and network management. While IT teams are doing all they can to address…
I’ve worked with a few different network management systems in my career, some commercial and some open source. Based on my experience with each one of them, I’ve developed certain qualities that I look for when deciding on which product to recommend or use. One common theme that always seems to come up when comparing…
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