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We are super excited to partner with Packet to provide simple, powerful and on-demand infrastructure. Unlike other cloud providers like AWS and Google that provide virtual machines, Packet gives you 100% dedicated servers in just minutes - making it perfect for GNS3, but also your other cloud workloads - from VMWare to…
Hi all, We run NPM 10.7 and monitor our entire Retail estate, these run ADSL connections which sometimes give connectivity errors. I'm looking to report or alert on average packet loss over the past 7 days so I can flag anything with over 5% ... all I've found so far in Orion is current packet loss, which is of no real…
Hi everyone, I really need your help with this. I want to monitor the packet loss in my network, and we're doing so through Kibana, integrated with SW via Orion web interface. We had to shut down Kibana and now we either install the latest version and integrate it with SW again, or use SW alone. The question is: can I…
If you have been troubleshooting networks for any length of time (or hanging out on the SolarWinds Thwack GeekSpeak forum) it should be obvious that packet inspection is a technique well worth learning. The depth of insight which packet capture tools like WireShark provide is hard to understate. It's also hard to learn how…
In my last post I talked through some of the reasons why mastering tcpdump is useful. Building on our previous example in this post I’ll focus on using TCP flags for troubleshooting. Even with our cleaned up filter, we can still see quite a lot of traffic that we don’t care about. When troubleshooting connectivity issues,…
Well hello there, returning like a bad penny, I am here to talk again about Deep Packet Analysis. In my last series of blogs I talked about the use-cases for Deep Packet Analysis but conspicuous by it’s absence was a lack of real world applications. This time I thought I would dust off my old-timey packet analysis skills…
I am sure all of you are familiar with Heartbleed now. If not there is good info available here and an excellent graphic at this link which explains how it works. So the next questions is, does it impact in you. If you use any online secure service then you can use this tool to check if the service is vulnerable. The next…
We recently migrated our NPM web server, going from a 32bit Windows 2003 server to a 64bit Windows 2008 server. After the migration we have noticed that almost all our nodes are reporting a lot more packet loss then they were before the upgrade. Strangely, the actual response times have actually gone down after the…
Hi, I have this issue where orion reports our VM hosts have a high packet loss, we have rebuilt the hosts and changed the IP`s but still we have reports of high packet loss which results in our nodes as showing down. All our other toolds for managing and monitoring the virtual estate say there is no packet loss., in fact…
Hey, So i have this issue where ORION reports our Virtual hosts have high packet loss, we have rebuilt the hosts and changed IP`s but still we have reports of high packet loss which results in reports of node down. This happens every half hour or so-Day and Night. All our other tools for managing and monitoring the virtual…
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