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The Problem: Node‑Level Health Isn’t Enough For modular Cisco platforms—Catalyst chassis, Nexus spines and leafs, big ISR/ASR routers—most of the real risk lives at the FRU (Field Replaceable Unit) level: Power supplies going in and out of service Fan trays limping along in warning state Line cards bouncing or failing…
In Observability Self-Hosted 2026.1, we introduced Routing Insights — enriched routing tables and routing peer data that connected routes to their forwarding interfaces, next-hop peers, VRFs, and flap history. Observability Self-Hosted 2026.2 delivers Routing Summary Dashboard. This post walks through what the Routing…
HA Pool frequently flapping between Primary & Standby post upgrade to 2025.4.0 version automatically.
Are You Observing Your SD-WAN at the Right Level?SD-WAN has changed how networks are designed, deployed, and operated. Control is centralised, policies are abstracted, and traffic decisions are continuously optimised across multiple paths. SD-WAN platforms already expose rich, fabric-level telemetry through their…
I am trying to make an alert in SolarWinds that will let me know if a firewall in the meraki api is down. I didnt have an issue doing an AP is down because I can alert on wireless controller. How am I supposed to go about this? This is the query that works but it will only show the display name as orchestrator. SELECT…
Has anyone ran into this issue at all ? I added a large amount of Ubiquiti access points to monitor via ICMP only and even though the AP \ Management IP is up and reachable some are failing and showing as down on Solar Winds. I ran into one article that advised me to make some changes as per below ICMP Node can be pinged…
Has anyone else run across an issue with making API calls to solarwinds after the most recent windows updates. Everytime we attempt to make an API call to solarwinds anyone on our team recieves the following error message. "A certificate is required to complete client authentication" This issue seems to have started after…
We discovered that some of our switches had an internal error, resulting in them not generation or sending logs for months. We would like SW to monitor this somehow. I first tried creating an alert, but that requires a field with a date of last received log from a device, which - to my knowledge - does not exist. Then i…
Hi everyone, I am currently monitoring our system and need a dashboard widget that displays down interfaces. I found an existing "Down Interfaces" widget, but it currently sorts the list alphabetically by interface name. I need the interfaces that went down most recently to appear at the top of the list. Is there an…
I am looking for a query where if any monitored entity like nodes or volumes or interfaces has no alert configured. Can anyone assist here? Thank you.
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