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Using Alert Variables
Strangely enough, alert variables are one of the more straightforward features to configure in Orion's alerting engines. Although they may seem a little confusing at first, they're really just a way to include relevant information in the messages that are sent when an alert is triggered or reset. That's it. These messages…
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Why Do I Need IP SLA Manager?
Many of you have some type of Voice Over IP (VoIP) deployment, which begs the need to monitor your VoIP sites, Call Managers, and other information that helps you manage your VoIP network. The old Orion VoIP module provided these features, and Orion IP SLA Manager still does today. As I mentioned in a previous post, we…
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What Happened to VoIP, and what is Orion IP SLA Manager?
“What happened to VoIP?” This is one of the first questions people have asked about the new Orion module, IP SLA Manager. The answer is nothing has happened to the old VoIP module; we just made it better. Before I elaborate, let me take a few steps back. Cisco has this really cool technology called IP SLA which enables…
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Updated APM Exchange Templates
We have some new Exchange templates posted to the Content Exchange on thwack that should be an improvement to your Exchange monitoring. These templates are the first of many that we will be updating over the next few months. We’ve received a great deal of feedback on how we could improve these, specifically on how we can…
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Meet the Features APM 4.0 - VMware Monitor
APM 4.0 is currently in the RC phase, and GA is right around the corner. In addition to the Virtual Infrastructure Monitoring we released with NPM 10.1, APM 4.0 will also include a new VMware component monitor. Where the Virtual Infrastructure Monitoring in NPM 10.1 gives you basic performance statistics about your virtual…
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IP Address Tracking in Orion IPAM
As many Orion IPAM customers know, the product doesn’t currently support detailed tracking on IPs, like when a status was changed, and by who. This is a feature for which we get many, many requests. Although this is a high priority for us to implement in IPAM (see IPAM’s ‘What We’re Working On’ post), you have another…
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What's in Orion IPAM 1.7?
Orion IPAM 1.7 is right around the corner, which has a couple of really cool features we want to tell you about. First, as usual, you asked for it, so you shall receive: Cisco DHCP. Yes, now you can add Cisco DHCP servers and their corresponding scopes to IPAM. Let’s take a look. You’ll add a Cisco DHCP server in the same…
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Orion Alerts: Don't be Afraid
I haven’t been with SolarWinds very long, but I’ve been here long enough to understand Orion alerts. Although Orion NPM comes with some really useful and simple out-of-the-box alerts, advanced alerts can be intimidating, and creating some of the more complex alerts can be daunting. Orion’s advanced alerting engine is very…
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Windows Credentials and Microsoft DHCP Servers in Orion IPAM
We get many, many questions on thwack regarding Windows credentials for adding a Windows DHCP server to IPAM. There are few tips and tricks I will share that can make this process relatively painless. First, let me explain why you need to enter Windows credentials in IPAM. A Windows account is required to pull scopes from…
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Orion-Toolset Integration - It Just Got a Whole Lot Better!
In the nature of all the sneak-peak goodness we’ve been blogging about for Orion 10 (things like using a trap to change the status of an interface, new map icons, alert notifications that provide direct linking to node details, and simplifying syslog message forwarding), I wanted to give you a sneak peak at two extremely…