Daniel.Chambers

Basically, you have to set it up fresh. Before setting anything up, set the property to monitor as Node, and after that, create the Trigger Condition for Node Status = down. This should then allow you to alert for Node down. Before you had it set to monitor the interfaces, so it looked at that type of monitored element. 

I would imagine that if you add the same group to two different groups, then when you scan there would be 1 set of data, with 2 groups accessing it. So any changes would be seen by both parties. If you want them to be discrete from each other then you would need to enable the support for Duplicate Subnets as someone…

 Well it would be the nodes that you define, just saying any interface on any of these nodes. But custom properties would be better, because then you will have it available for other features and possible future features that you may want them in a group.

 Really quite easy, just adds another column to the DB that you can call what you want and it can be called upon in these instances, you can also show them on the web interface. The other option is that if there are only a few then you could nest a second Condition Group that is inside the first condition group. Then…

TO replace a MIB file, you should just need to paste it in over the old MIB file on your Orion server (unless this has changed from older versions). From this, you should be able to use the tools to inspect the MIB and see if your Device MIBs are there or not! Hope this helps

By the look of it, you have individual IP Addresses listed, for this you can import them using the spreadsheet. Have you try the Spreadsheet import?

 Get a friend to help update? Overtime maybe?!? haha

Hi Mavturner, I only have a few DHCP servers, but I see the potential problem that nbjeter3 is experiencing. Maybe you can implement something like the options that is offered with APM? Where you have a template, and you can apply the template (or credentials) to all, however you can still override the credentials for…

As a service provider, we only really care about allocating information to IP Subnets, not individual IP addresses. We have a spreadsheet with the subnet information, however we would lose all the attached information to the Subnet as we have to just paste them into the Import Box. Could there be a way that we manage IP…

 Sorry, didnt read it fully, my bad! How is it you are defining the group of interfaces? You could Monitor the Type Interface and then have the following rules: 'Interface Status' = 'Down' 'Vendor' = 'Cisco' Then this will monitor all Interfaces that are on a cisco device. Is that what you are looking for? Then if you…

Did you have to create a local account on the IPAM box to be able to poll the DHCP server? I know in my environment we have to add a local account with the same password, as it runs a process locally before remotely connecting to the DHCP server. If this is the case then you would need to change the password to the same on…

Did you update the SNMP string by using SQL? If that is the case, then you may have caused a problem with the Database and you may have added an extra column or something in? Do you have the SQL code that you used to change the Database (if you did it via SQL and not SolarWinds)? But opening a support case may be best - or…

Also, along with that, if you have multiple internet connections, you can monitor each entrance to the network, by either pinging the default gateway of the different internet carriers. I know this will only provide a low layer work around, but it will show if the DG is replying. 

I am not 100% sure about this, but would it be something about the account that is used by SolarWinds to run has Run as a Service permissions, as well as file permissions to access the file it should be running? Just a thought, I am no guru around this area, but worth checking? (going on the fact it works when you are…

I would definitely look at the Disk IOPS, as this is something that we had issues with on our old NPM server. I know it is a different product, but if you are using them both together, this is something that should be investigated. Is this running on its own server, or is it running parallel to anything like NPM? 

We have an issue similar to this, where a server has failed, so we unmanage it, but the alert is still showing as active. Even if you set it to unmanage, it doesnt remove the alert. So the way we get around it is to go into the Database and find the table for Active Alerts, and then delete the row for that alert. Now that…

Adding onto njoylif, if you are not worried about the amount of interfaces, you should add all the interfaces, and then any interfaces that are not in use and down should then be set to Unplugged. This will stop them showing as down, and you should then be able to see when they come up and down. When a unplugged port comes…

I think you can also use a Custom Poller to be able to get the response that you would normally get, then you are able to perform calculations on it. For example, when monitoring Brocade switch's temperature, it reports it back in units, with each unit being Half a Degree. So to get the real temperature, I had to set up a…

 If you go to the System Manager Right Click and open the Node Details On the right hand side there is a Rediscover Node button, This may refresh the host name. Its worth a try! 

 This is possible under Advanced alerting, In the Trigger Condition Tab there is an option at the botton for "Do not trigger this action until condition exists for more than [X] [Seconds/Minutes/Hours]" Here if you put just over your polling interval then it shouldnt only trigger if there are two polls that show that…

Hi, I can answer your first question; using the MIB Browser, you can see the list of possible answers if they have numbers as states, they are: BGP4-MIB:bgpPeerState OID 1.3.6.1.2.1.15.3.1.2 Type INTEGER Units Access read-only Status unknown The BGP peer connection state. Possible Values : idle(1) connect(2) active(3)…

You have run the Configuration Wizard right? Just checking that after the install you need to run the config wizard to point to DB etc.