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EE Toolsets do not have any sniffer programs. If you want a good program at no expense, use Ethereal. This sniffer application is open source, runs on most operating systems (Unix, Windows) and is equal to costly programs such as Network Associates Sniffer Pro. Lockheed Martin Atlas V Launch Operations Network Engineer

The best tool for monitoring traffic across a network is Netflow Analyzer. If your running cisco routers, configure up a flow and send it to your network monitor. Netflow Analyzer is free to try and tracks all IP communication, both source, destination, protocol, size and amount of traffic. Lockheed Martin Atlas V Launch…

Well short of setting up the graphs and just letting it run, you'd have to start the graph each time you want to capture data. I can't think of anyway to automate the process? Lockheed Martin Atlas V Launch Operations Network Engineer

Did you change the name of the database that you backed up? As long as the database is named SWNetPerfMon.cfg, the application should read it. Lockheed Martin Atlas V Launch Operations Network Engineer

Are you actively monitoring these "down" ports? If so, just delete them and then re-add them. I think I had a similar problem a while ago. Lockheed Martin Atlas V Launch Operations Network Engineer

I don't think there is a problem, the new verion (7) of NPM is capturing alot more then the previous version. It would be nice if there was an option to allowing the data to be stored in SQL server. I too have the same issue as you. I have just made it part of my routine to compact the database every friday. Lockheed…

Are the spikes chronic? Do they occur at the same times on the same days? Maybe someone is doing server backups? If you router CPU is peaking with high traffic, you may need to adjust your buffer sizes to prevent overflows. Lockheed Martin Atlas V Launch Operations Network Engineer

Partly answered my own question here. Seems there is a new upgrade for $695 that allows you to use SQL with NPM. This is called the project management edition. Lockheed Martin Atlas V Launch Operations Network Engineer

The only way possible is to manually input into the SNMP monitor application. There is no way to put these MIBs in the MIB database used by Network Performance Monitor.....etc. You can contact tech support by email or phone and request they add these MIBs in future database releases. Sucks don't it! Lockheed Martin Atlas V…

I beleive that there is a setting under the configuration for that tool that says "View Config after download", make sure that is checked. What OS are you running? Lockheed Martin Atlas V Launch Operations Network Engineer

There is no native HTML support to web surf to the tools. You can however use the XML to build a web page and then retrieve the XML snapshot generated from NPM. I run the engineers edition but also use "Big Brother" www.bb4.org to allow me a quick picture of the networks status. Lockheed Martin Atlas V Launch Operations…

They can use notepad to view the config files. Lockheed Martin Atlas V Launch Operations Network Engineer

Well as far as udp goes, it is mostly associated with broadcasts which do not send back acknowledgements. This is probably why you are only showing transmit traffic. Lockheed Martin Atlas V Launch Operations Network Engineer

Have you gone to the support section of SolarWinds and downloaded the newest MIB database? Lockheed Martin Atlas V Launch Operations Network Engineer

You should be able to copy over the SWNetPerfMon.cfg file to the new machine and you could be able to start right where you left off. Lockheed Martin Atlas V Launch Operations Network Engineer

I don't believe you can add your own mibs. I think I called SolarWinds about that before and they advised me that wasn't supported. If you have a MIB that you need supported, I'd suggest you email solarwinds with a suggestion to add it to their next database revision.. Lockheed Martin Atlas V Launch Operations Network…

I launch all my monitoring applications using that method and never encountered any errors. I also envoke a password protected screensaver to lockout access. Works like a charm! Lockheed Martin Atlas V Launch Operations Network Engineer

I have also noticed the same thing. The database maintenance will compact and repair it down to a minimal size. Mine goes from 2gig to 200k. Just perform this operation once a week. Lockheed Martin Atlas V Launch Operations Network Engineer

Just select custon period from the bottom of the chart. You can then specify the date and time range.. With this method, you will have to perform this for each day of the month, but it will give you an accurate chart package. Lockheed Martin Atlas V Launch Operations Network Engineer

Sounds like your DB has reached the 2 gig limit. The application will still run, but no new data will be saved. Kill the application and there is a compact and repair utility. Run the compact and repair and restart NPM application when done. Lockheed Martin Atlas V Launch Operations Network Engineer

You can specify VLAN's to scan with the mapper.. Try putting your servers on a seperate VLAN from your users. This is good practice anyway. Lockheed Martin Atlas V Launch Operations Network Engineer

If you go to NPM and click on help ----> About Network Performance Monitor. How many nodes/interfaces are you monitoring. I'm monitoring 32nodes, 782 interfaces and I have been running NPM for about a year and only had to rebuild the database once in that time because it exceeded the size limit. Maybe you are monitoring…

You need to call solarwinds and have them reset your licence. There is a registry key that links the licence to the hostname during installation. You may have to reinstall the app over its self and put in a new licence key. They didn't give me any problems when I had to do it. Lockheed Martin Atlas V Launch Operations…

I think you'd have to set up another node down event notification. It would be like grouping your nodes by event and who to notify. Lockheed Martin Atlas V Launch Operations Network Engineer

Call solarwinds there is some database optimization that can be done. Also try closing the application and then open it within MSaccess and then use the database utilities to repair and compact. I have had that problem in the past and this seemed to fix it. If you call solarwinds, they will instruct you to add a "key" to…

I am running something similar with a workstation. It works fine, you may need to tweak your computers routing table by adding some presistant routes. But it works! Lockheed Martin Atlas V Launch Operations Network Engineer

You can enable netflow on your routers and use netflow analyzer to view all of your network traffic. Works great for me. Ethereal is a good free sniffer if you decide to go that route. Lockheed Martin Atlas V Launch Operations Network Engineer

Sorry I forgot to mention that. I had also used to auto logon for the same reason. That way if the computer loses power, it will come back up on its own. I also invoked the screensaver.exe in the startup folder with password so no one would try and mess with anything... Lockheed Martin Atlas V Launch Operations Network…

I added a shortcut to the Network Perfmon executable to my startup folder along with the syslog server, tftp server and advanced cpu monitor. This seemed to fix my problems. I had tried to used a program called srvany. This creates registry entries for programs so they show up as services. I noticed problems with certain…

You can export the data several ways in several formats. The tasks are all manual, although you can use the snapshot feature to export some data in XML format. If you want to run a report for say bandwidth utilization from point to point, you can export to excel, html, text file....etc. You cannot however automate this.…