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Marlon, Network Performance Monitor discovers the port speed (bandwidth) from the router or switch. If for some reason a 100MB switch interface is set to 1MB in the switch, then Network Performance Monitor will discover it as 1MB and calculate percent utilization base on that value. If you still want the switch to be set…

kevbo, Stop the NetPerfMon Service, make your changes to the database and then restart the service. The NetPerfMon Service builds an in memory model of the network.

I suggest you perform and complete MIB walk on a Nortel switch before and after the upgrade and send the information to SolarWinds support. From this information, they should be able to tell you what happened.

The easiest way we have found to use Visio icons is ..... Bring up Visio and place the icon on a diagram. Select the icon and then Edit->Copy from the menu. Then switch the Map Maker, open a Map and select "Edit->Paste Special". Select "Paste the Image from the clipboard as a new object" and give it a name for the new…

Try this from Sonar.... Select "Discovery->Select Subnets to Include in Discovery". This will bring up a list of Subnets. But it also displays a Subnets menu. Click on "Subnets->Add Subnet". You can now add a /24 subnet to search.

Each Time Period has it's own set of default Sample Intervals. For example : "Past Hour" has a sample interval of 10 minutes "Last 2 Hours" has a sample interval of 10 minutes "Today" has a sample interval of 30 minutes "Yesterday" has a sample interval of 30 minutes "Last 7 days" has a sample interval of 1 hour Last 30…

Network wide Inventory reports is in development now.

Yes, that is an obvious enhancement to the two products. We are are gathering customer input on what kind of features they would like to see and how the two products should be integrated. Please post your comments here or forward them to Development@SolarWinds.Net

Building Alerts based on Custom Properties is easy within the new Alert Engine.

A new Alerting Engine is also under development. The new Alerting Engine will completely replace the current Alert Engine. These Management Packs will use the new Alert Engine. So... no alerting will be available within the Management Packs until the new Alert Engine is released. It should be available as a pre-release in…

The SolarWinds Map Maker update in Version 7.1 will allow copy and paste of device icons directly from Visio (or other graphics programs). Select the device icon in Visio and select "Copy". Within Map Maker, select "Paste Special" from the Edit menu. Version 7.1 or Orion should be available by the beginning of March 2004.

tony, yep. that's right. The Application Monitor does not have any support for Alerts at this time. The Management Packs (Application Monitor is a Management Pack) were designed for the Orion V8 release. But, since the Application Monitor and Wireless Networks Management Packs were completed early, we decided to go ahead…

This is a known bug in the Pre-Release version.

If you are not using the Browser Integration (Launch Engineer's Edition Toolset from the Web site), then it should be disabled. The client browser will request the active-x plug-in from the web site on every page until the client acknowledges it. Then it will no longer request it. If you have active-x objects disabled in…

Wow ! That's pretty wild. You can get a detailed status of what object within the web site is eating CPU resources from Component Services. Start "Component Services" from Start Menu->Programs->Administrative Tools->Component Services Expand the "Component Services" tree until you see "SolarWinds Orion NPM". Expand the…

Jon, I believe there is a section in the Cirrus manual that shows how to do this with the current Cirrus release. It's in my copy of the manual If it's not in your copy, it will be.

gbrance, We have customers upgrading from Cisco Works to Cirrus Configuration Management. We have received a TREMENDOUS amount of interest in Cirrus from customers who already own CiscoWorks. Cirrus was designed to be easier to use and provide more functionality. Cirrus also includes detailed Inventory information about…

Good question Ron. Alerts within the Orion Version 8 Alert Engine are not longer Engine specific. They will no longer need to be migrated or copied between polling engines. Also, you can start muliple V8 Alert Engines running on multiple servers to provide load balancing and hot standby. You can download a pre-release of…

Ron, Alerts can easily be migrated between polling engines using the database manager. Copying or duplicating Alerts can be done using the Database Manager, but it gets a little more complicated. Within the Alerts table, there is an EngineID field. This tells the polling engines which Alerts are assigned to it. To move an…

Run the "Monitor Polling Engines" program from the "Windows Start Menu->Network Performance Monitor->Advanced Features" Then select "Servers->Poller Load Balancing". This will let you move Nodes between servers. Highlight all Nodes and then select "Polling Engines->Move Selected Nodes to..." from the menu. The Alerts are a…

Product update notice from Don ... The next major release of Network Performance Monitor (v7.0) will include a number of methods to group Nodes. This is one of the most frequently asked for enhancements. The development for Arbitrary Node Grouping is complete, but still requires the NPM v7.0 engine. Most of the development…

jeff, This is a good idea. I'll bring it up in the next development meeting. I wonder how difficult this would be to add ?

Jeff, There is not an automated way to do this. Many network engineers will place the name of the connected device in the interface description on the switch/router, or simply change the interface/port name in Network Performance Monitor to include this information. Within the Orion version of Network Performance Monitor…

You must have an older version of Orion. That application ships with all releases at this time. You could also migrate the Nodes manually using the Database Manager. Using the Database Manager, right-click on any table and select "Query Table". Enter this SQL statement and click the "Refresh" button. Select…

From the Windows Start menu, select "SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor->Advanced Features->Monitor Polling Engines" Then from the "Monitor Polling Engines" menu select "Servers->Poller Load Balancing"

If you added the Nodes manually to the new server, then you now have two copies of each Node. One on the new server and one on the old. The Nodes on the old server will not get polled since you shutdown that server. Instead of readding the Nodes, use the "Polling Engine Load Balancer" within "Monitor Polling Engines" to…

Run the "Monitor Polling Engines" program from the "Windows Start Menu->Network Performance Monitor->Advanced Features" Then select "Servers->Poller Load Balancing". This will let you move Nodes between servers. Highlight all Nodes and then select "Polling Engines->Move Selected Nodes to..." from the menu.

meethos, There are many companies who have implemented this type of design. Some as large as 60 seperate distributed servers. I would definately reccomend your initial approach... seperate databases and periodically roll-up the statistics you need to a central database. I would not dump all the data into a central…

Jon, I don't know if this is the issue you are seeing, but.... After much investigation, we have noticed that some devices will disreguard a second ICMP request packet if two or more ICMP requests are made from the same IP address very close together. This can cause an artificially high "packet loss" number. Technically,…

Martin, Can you send a MIB Dump from this Notes server to Development@SolarWinds.Net ? In particular I'd like to see the HOST-RESOURCES-MIB:host tree.