Dan.Wendeln

Ron, If the SQL backend is setup in a Clustered environment then you reduce that single point of failure. Cheers,

Shailesh, As Mithrihall has pointed out, Orion must be able to ping the device in order to add it and allow SNMP monitoring to the device. Cheers,

There is no need for a seperate SQL server in the senario, especiually with the availability of SQL Clustering. In fact doing replication on highly loaded Orion databases does not seem to be too stable. I think the transaction counts are too high. That being said, most implementations would include SQL running in a…

Warbird, From what you have said it does appear to be a disk IO bottleneck. Converting to a RAID 10 configuration was a good step, and one that we generally recommend. RAID 5 is very detrimental to the performance of write operations which is primarily what our apps do. Next we should look at the RAID controller. I am not…

Torrie, Decomision the old system and give that IP address to the newer Orion system. Cheers,

Bryan, Both answers in essence are corect. What it really boils down to is the type of READ that the third party app utilizes. There are several types of READs that can be done based on the isolation level used. It is the isolation level that will determine how restrive the READ is and the effect it may have on other…

Stan, One ping per poll. Cheers, Dan

We use to provide a doc on how to do this under the Additional Components section of the Customer area. I have included it to this post. Cheers, Dan.

Shailesh, The port numbers that you reference are all normal. the source port will always be some random high port. THere is not a way to specify the source port. The destination port, however, will always be the same, 161. From what you describe it is not the SNMP side of the conversation wich is the problem, it is the…

Cam, Sorry for the delay in following up on this thread. I travel quite a bit in my position. So lets go through the fllow-on questions. 1. The Report Writer will not do any sort of roll-up on its own. If you are ever curious to what the Report Writer is doing you can view the actual SQL statements by selecting the View…

Also there are two View Resources that can be added to the Node Details view to accomodate the display of custom information. One is the 'User Defined Properties For a Node' Under the Node Detail Reports listing. The other is 'Edit Custom Node Property' under the Miscellaneous listing of Resources when adding Resources to…

JDS, As Denny suggested please open a ticket with the support desk so we can start to track it and give it the attention it appears to deserve. Thanks,

Torrie, OK, just confirm that the Syslog service is running on the Orion system and then re-point your devices to send the syslog msgs to the Orion IP address. Cheers,

Euphorik, You are positive there is not an OID that could be used to collect this information via SNMP? If you can find one then it would be a simple matter of setting up a Custome Poller to collect it into the Orion DB. Cheers,

Eric, If my memory is correct the reported packet loss is a 10 poll moving average. So if it says 60% and you ping it then and it replies that is to be expected, unless of course the node is totally down. It means that over the last 10 pings 4 did not get a response. As for the interfaces involved, Orion will send the ICMP…

Dan, Yes, that is a possibility, however, rare. Cheers, Dan

Shailesh, As to the Polling Engine status on the website, it is likely false. The best method to see if the polling engine is running is to look at the Polling Status window from the Systgem Manager. For your interface monitoring on the Bayshore device your best course of action is to open a ticket. Looking at a sniffer…

Cam, I am checking/testing on the behavior you have seen with the recording of availability. One item we should cover is the Node Warning Interval ( this is set in the Advanced setting of Orion) which is integral to when a node is actually marked as down and when a Node Down alert would be triggered. The Node Warning…

Andrea, Are you using the original SNMPd that comes with the OS or have you installed NetSNMP? I would suggest using NetSNMP from http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/. Version 5.3.1 should give you better results than what you are currently seeing. If you continue to have trouble with this I would suggest getting in contact…

Pete, It is the SNMP agent on the HP-UX systems. I would recommend changin the Net-SNMP which for most customers allows them to monitor the CPU, Memory, and file systems. You can find out more on Net-SNMP at http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/ Cheers,

Pat, You may be refering to mutliple interfaces on a single graph which Orion does not currently support. This is a feature that should be slated for a future release. Cheers,

If you are SQL savvy you should be able to acomplish what you want by editing the Orion database directly. You'll want to make sure that the services are shut down before you make any changes. I found out the hard way you need to have then sutdown otherwise you edits don't stick. Cheers,

Orlando, Your client is running the Broadband Edition of Orion, correct? What version of this package are they running? Cheers,

JP, I think you may be overcomplicating your appraoch. If you explore the field in t eh database wuo will see that there are already fields for In and Out total byte and packet counts. I would use those myself. Alternately you could use netflow. Cheers,

Ste, The Unmanaging and Managing of nodes is recorded in the Events table of the database. There will be a record for when the device was Unmanaged and another for when it is put back to a Managed state. You can write a custome SQL report to go through that table and extract the time that devices were in an unmanaged…

Torrie, I may not be understanding your situation correctly. What Syslog Server are you refering to, the one in the Toolset? Orion has a built in Syslog collector which would feed into the Orion database. Also, depending on the size of your Orion installation, it is usually advised to not have the application run on the…

SysWiz, The normal rediscovery process should have picked up the new interface indexes and accounted for it. As long as the names of the interfaces stay the same you should not have had any issues. I know this is 7 days later. If you have any update from SW support let us know. Cheers,

Mark, It is likely that the IfTable that Orion pulls back from the router does not have values for In and Out Octets or Packets. This can be confirmed via getting a raw dump of the IfTable with SNMP MIB Browser in the SW Toolset or similiar SNMP polling application. Cheers,

Steve, The date/time exclusions which are built in to the Report Writer will only be available for some report types. Depending on the type of report you may not see these options in the filter setup. As for the solaris systems have you tried using NetSNMP as your SNMP deamon on thise systems? The normal recomendation is…

Wallaby, The packet loss and availability statistics are gathered via ICMP Pings of the device and are considered a Node level statistics. In that way they will only gathered for those objects added as Nodes. Cheers, Dan