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Rob, At this time it is not recommended to have polling engines across a WAN from the core SQL server. SQL can be very sensitive to latency and the result can be lost data. Best regards, Dan Wendeln SolarWinds.Net Customer Support Services

Claudio, You say that these vlans are routed, do you see any traffic statitistics for these vlans in the standard Orion Interface Details view? Cheers, Dan

Magman, That is the trick when useing a Summary view and trying to display individual node or interface properties. I think you would need to use the entire resource link for the individual value to display. So got to a page where that value is display -> detach it and view is a seperate window -> copy that link and make…

The examples given are to some extent generic and meant to get you on your way with Netflow statistics. There are caveats for various hardware/IOS combinations. 4500 series routers for example may require "ip flow ingress" to be changed to "ip flow ingress infer-fields". For more information you can refer to Cicso here…

Lee, We've all been newbies at some point, no worries. With Orion 7.8.5 you will not be able monitor the temperature. With the 8.X version of Orion, however, you can crreate custome pollers to do exactly that. Cheers,

AMSW, What you would need to do to know for sure is pull the ifTable from the device and look at the stats available for the interfaces. It may be that those particular interfaces do not have the various statistics fields populated on the device itself. This would explain why you do not get the option to collect traffic…

Kreischl, Yoiu are not bound to what is in the MIB database that come with Orion. You can specify any OID as long as the device will respond to it. You may have to adjust whether Orion does a GET or GET NEXT, but it should work. Cheers,

Jeremais, You actualy have several options. One you could gor through and try to delete old data. You accomplish this by simply setting the retention period shorter via the System Manager and File -> Orion Network Performance Monitor Settings then select the Database tab and move the retention slider as needed. If it is so…

Without more detailed information it may be that there are a large number of nodes on the map and that the loading of the map is timing out. You could try creating a simple map wit one or two nodes on it and see if it will load consistently. Dan Wendeln SolarWinds.Net Customer Support Services

Sam, Sure thing. Custom properties can be displayed on the website as part of the Node Details and Interface Details views. There is a Resource you can add to those Views to make this happen. I believe it is called Selected Node Properties. There is also a Resource that will allow you to edit Custom Properties via the web…

James, Due to the design of the interface it is a rather manual process. The thought process was that you would create a poller and then assign it to multiple nodes or interfaces. As for using a SQL statement to do this it would be difficult as application created GUIDs are used as part of the assignements. Cheers,

Well there is no 'mystery' behind the numbers. The two counters that you reference for SNMP and ICMP reference the jobs or activities that need to be accomplished per full polling cycle for status and statistics. There are multiple different jobs for gathering all of the data for each type of element that we monitor. For…

It is doubtful that this particular tool will get much attention as the push it to migrate all user interface activities to the website. In fact aspects of this tool have already been transfered to the website. You can view these under the Admin -> Polling Engines view of the website. As for the accurate depiction, this…

Bryan, For the website on the core system to have the VoIP resources just install the VoIP module on the core system. When asked to license it, don't. Run the configuration wizard again and the websiote will then be updated with all of the VoIP resources and pages. Cheers,

Jay, I would try using a later release of Net-SNMP as the SNMP service on one of the Solaris 9 systems to see if the behavior changes. Cheers, Dan

Lewisx, First solution that comes to mind is the use of custom properties. You can use the Custom Property editor to add new fields in the datas for Nodes and Interfaces. These values can be viewed and edited via the Orion website. You will have to add the Edit Custom Property resource to the Node or Interface details…

Clint, The simple answer is yes to both questions. Cheers,

This is not an uncommon question. The Last Status change is calculated based on the sysUpTime counter values. What can happen if the sysUpTime counter rolls over the calculation of Last change can then jump into looking as if it is in the future. Best regards, Dan Wendeln SolarWinds.Net Customer Support Services

Gbrance, This is the first that I have heard of any directories or data being lost via the upgrade. We have doen extensive beta testing but there are too many possible environments. It there was anything non standard about your particular installation it would be good to know so we can account for it in a future build.…

Magman, The Trap service does not have a connection to the Advanced Alerts system at this time. I believe this will be changing in the future as Orion gets a unified Alerting mechanism. Cheers,

Pat, At htis time that is the behavior you will see via Advanced Alerts for the Interface.Status variable. This should be corrected in the next release. In the meantime the Basic Alerts will give you a textual status display in your alert emails. Cheers,

mjhodge, You are correct in your logic. Orion was designed that at the first missed ping the node will go into the warning state and fast polling would begin. At that point the system is polling the device every 10 seconds for the duration of the fast poll interval. If the device responds to one of these polls then the…

Scott, Orion does support setting up mutiple graphs for multiple interfaces on one web page. The instructions can be found here, Display multiple Interface resources in one page - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support The document steps you through creating a page with multiple gauges but this procedures works…

Jon, I assume you have this automated and scheduled for a particular time of day. The Database Manager uses the SQL job scheduling function for its backups so if there is a failure it will be logged by MS SQL. You may want to check the event logs on the server to see if the failures have been logged there. If so, you can…

It is not possible to disable the fast polling system. You could reduce the interval to 1 second but then the node would go straight to a down state every time it missed a poll. Dan Wendeln SolarWinds.Net Customer Support Services

What you will need to do is grab the table that contains the indexes for the volumes. With that information in hand you can then create the custom poller is the full OID required. You will need to make sure and select the Get setting as opposed to GetNext when creating the poller. This should allow you to get the specific…

Depends on what version of Orion you are running. If you are on 7.X then you need to get the Date/Time exclusions plug-in to do this. If you are on 8.X then this capability is built in. Cheers,

Jackie, A -2 is usually used as a place holder within Orion for when a poll was completed but no data was collected. The first thing I would do is stretch out your polling intervals for statistics. Its important to remember that snmp data on devices is not always real-team and my only be updated every minute or two…

Cam, Good questions. 1. The ResponseTime_xxxxx tables are the repository for the Availability statistics. 2. In it simplest form it is 100% up if it reponds to a ping and 0% up if it does not. Take all of those data points, average them for the time period in question, and that is your availability. The alternate is to use…

dbakula01, There is no reason you should not be able to do this with the method you described or the use of regular expressions. *CMS* ; *exit*. Cheers,