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I agree, knowing your layer 2 topology can be very helpful. Currently, LiveAction and LoriotPro are the only 2 programs I'm aware of that perform this function.

Yeah, my boss wanted a report with bandwidth utilization charts for all our telecommuters, grouped by ISP. You have NO idea how hard this was to do as a custom view. And, since we keep adding users, it's a never ending process. Now he wants new ones and it took me more than 2 solid weeks to create the view I have in place…

I added the CBQOS resources to the Netflow Interface view. Doing that allows you to change the time window and look back at an event that happen as much as a few days back in time. VERY helpful! I wish I would have thought of this before! Dan Goodale - Triwest Healthcare

So it's nearly August and I have the same problem. Is there any word on a fix for this? I hoped Service pack 1 for NPM 10.0 would fix it but it didn't...at least for me. I also have a ticket open but no one talked to me about a workaround. Is there a workaround for this for IPSLAM? As a military contractor my company is…

Great! Thanks for the info, Craig. :-)

Thanks for the help Captain. I'll remember this the next time my polling stops working. For some reason, it's working again today. The server hasn't been rebooted or anything but the router serial number is correct now and the last poll was an hour ago. Go figure. (shrug)

Having both CiscoWorks and NCM, I think I see where we are getting all the extra incorrect info. In the version of CiscoWorks I have, 2.6, User Tracking doesn't pull mac-address tables from trunk ports. That causes me grief in our virtual environments that have trunked ports because the virtual servers behind the trunked…

I guess this isn't ever going to be fixed. I never heard a word back about this ticket. I was hoping the problem would be resolved when I upgraded to Orion 10 and IPSLAM 3.1 but the problem is still there. A router reboots and the "ip sla monitor responder" command line is missing. Oh well, at least I know how to fix it.

Not a problem. Thanks, Christine :-)

I don't even use the web interface. For me, SPEEDY access is about 45 seconds to load the first page. I also had to optimize my inventory jobs, pulling mac address data from my switches every night so I can track port usage and running full inventory jobs on the weekend since it takes a day and a half to inventory my 404…

Thanks, pacetti, that's about what I suspected. I have a server with hundreds of gigs of free space and I can't keep the data in a useful format for more than a week. I guess I won't be retiring my Netflow Tracker server.

Not a bad idea. I'm sure my SQL Admin could delete the Serial number in the database if he could figure out what table it's in. So...you're saying the procedure you wrote would find it by itself and delete it? I guess you're suggesting I back up the database first because we're not sure what NPM would do when the serial…

I have a ticket open for this but it's in the developer's hands now. I had a router lose power and reload and I can easily see what the problem is. Orion forgets to replace the line "ip sla monitor responder" so the router doesn't respond to any if the other routers trying to test against it. I'm also getting random…

Permissions look ok. If there was a problem with asp.net would that keep urlrewrite from loading? One of our web folks says there's a problem with asp.net but IIS seems to think it's loaded.

Thanks for all the advice, folks! :-) I went ahead and ran the upgrade yesterday. It got a bit hairy when we encountered a permissions issue that Support said was caused by forklifting the database to the temporary SQL 2005 backend instead of doing a backup/restore. Ultimately, we had to move the database again to the SQL…

Thanks, Jason. Info on what IS working as opposed to what SHOULD work is always a GREAT thing to have! :-) Dan Goodale - Network Engineer

After reading this post, I tried re-installing SP2 since I have the same problem with urlrewrite/dll not loading. Unfortunately, it didn't resolve the problem for me.

I had nothing but problems with SNMPv3. After trying to struggle through it with my Orion and CiscoWorks servers, I finally gave up after 3 months of grief. SNMPv3 is much more secure than SNMPv2 but requires extensive configuration changes on the devices themselves to allow access to the data in the MIB tables. I had a…

The Web Management works fine, once you know how to use it. But, it's not as fast or versatile as the system console. So, is this the way NPM is going to be from now on, you can only ADD devices from System Manager but can't make changes? I'd certainly prefer to be able to use BOTH. Dan Goodale - Network Engineer, Triwest…

Huh....well that would be annoying, Warbird. I've been using System Manager for about 8 years now and I'm pretty conmfortable with it. But, with my new servers, the web interface is so fast I guess I should just quit bitching and get familiar with the new interface! :-) Thanks for the sanity check! Dan Goodale

To begin with, I got an error that the account didn't have the administrator role. I use a server administrator account to log into the server that doesn't have rights in Orion. So, I gave that account Admin rights in Orion. That didn't solve the problem with everything greyed out in System Manager but, now that you ask, I…

Thanks for the info, Larry. At least I know it will work...IF I can figure out how to get there.

At some point I'll either have to upgrade to 9.5 or get my money back for the modules I bought that need 9.5. Modules for SLX cost WAY too much to be shelfware.

True, BUT, it would have been nice not to have to migrate twice. I had to move the database to a SQL 2005 server, perform the NPM upgrade to 9.5, which didn't work correctly, but DID get far enough along before it crashed that I could move the database AGAIN to the SQL 2008 server and succesfully complete the upgrade. Dan…

Oddly enough, this sugestion worked AFTER I had my server rebuilt. Urlrewrite.dll STILL wouldn't load during the new install. We had to allow "All Unknown ISAPI Extensions" on the Web Services Extensions page to get the dll to load. Thanks for the suggestion, jstuner! Dan Goodale - Network Engineer

Sure, Brandon. :-) My new server is a rebranded HP DL380. Cisco OEMs them. It's a dual quad core server with 4gb of memory running 32 bit Server 2003 standard, Service pack 2. 700gb of raid 5 drive space spread across 3 logical drives. SQL 2000 is the back end, running on a separate SQL cluster. (SQL upgrade is next, once…

I was getting ready to upgrade and noticed I'm having exactly the same issue. I opened a ticket since the fix didn't get posted to the forum. Dan Goodale - Network Engineer, Triwest Healthcare

Hey there, I was wondering if NCM would start supporting the Cisco WAAS devices any time soon? Since I have 100 of them I'd love to see NCM able to back up the configs. Thanks, Dan Goodale - Network Engineer II Triwest Healthcare

My DBA says: CREATE NONCLUSTERED INDEX [i1_Traps] ON [dbo].[Traps]( [DateTime] ASC) WITH PAD_INDEX, FILLFACTOR = 80 ON [PRIMARY] Another thing to watch, though, is how many records you keep. In my environment, I have no need to keep syslog messages or snmp traps for long periods of time but somehow my Orion installation…

Always glad to post a helpful hint. :-)