How to check if the clock/ntp is correctly configured and synch'd?

just to check, what other Solarwinds modules do you have apart from NCM

Hi mcam,

Thanks for the reply. We are licensed for:

NCM - Network Configuration Manager

NPM - Network Performance Monitor

LA - Log Analyzer

NTA - Netflow

Regards,

Irfan.

you may find it easier to use NPM, as you already own it.

Create a poller to check the snmp using OID that saw10 mentioned

That will give you a specific method to at least know when something drops out.

For added points you can build an alert that looks for specific return codes to attempt remediation before alerting you :)

you may find it easier to use NPM, as you already own it.

Create a poller to check the snmp using OID that saw10 mentioned

That will give you a specific method to at least know when something drops out.

For added points you can build an alert that looks for specific return codes to attempt remediation before alerting you :)

Yea, that would be two different things. 

 NCM Compliance manager can check to see if its configured right as previously said.  

 NPM's custom pollers can poll the OID you mentioned and figure out if it syched ok and alert on it if not.

There was a discussion some time ago on the NTP question, specifically making sure that only the right servers were configured, and potentially remove any others that might be there.

Link for that discussion is here:  https://thwack.solarwinds.com/t5/NCM-Discussions/Automated-Config-clean-up/m-p/312578

Hi mcam,

Are you able to provide the steps how to create a poller for the snmp OID check please? I'm new to this so may struggle here. Apologies and thanks in advance.

Thank you.

There are a lot of good resources for doing it which are better than I am.

Here are a couple...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5LrXdwwqf4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5RgUvtz7Xg

https://support.solarwinds.com/SuccessCenter/s/article/Create-custom-poller-alert

Let me know if you have any specific questions on it after watching these!

What you're after are the Universal Device Poller in NPM aka UnDP

They will let you create a custom device poller for NPM that can pull almost anything out. You can do a similar thing with SAM monitors as well.

Check out these articles/videos to give you way more info

https://support.solarwinds.com/SuccessCenter/s/article/Create-a-Universal-Device-Poller-UnDP
https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/Success_Center/NPM/Content/Core-Mapping-Universal-Device-Pollers-with-Network-Atlas-sw539.htm
https://support.solarwinds.com/SuccessCenter/s/article/Create-a-web-based-report-from-a-Universal-Device-Poller

That last one gets you the report you were after as well :)

Thanks, i am looking for a way to poll our Velocloud edge devices.  I think there is a community poller available but i haven't been able to test.  I will look at leveraging a universal poller as well.