DonYonce

The Orion server monitors the amount of total commited memory including swap space. So, a 180% utilization may not be bad. It simply means that the Windows OS is using 180% more memory than the physical amount installed on the box. You have to decide if this is a problem for your particular application or not. For example,…

Download the "Orion Account Manager" from the SolarWinds Customer Area. This will let you reset Web Accounts.

The IP Route Table Inventory package should be available in the Cirrus Customer Area in a couple days. A Windows Inventory package will also be available. The Windows Inventory package will collect Installed Software Packages, Services, and Windows Accounts from Windows servers and workstations. The Windows Installed…

Bryan, The device inventory can be extended easily. Cirrus is using the Sonar Inventory Engine that previously was only available to OEM partners. It can be extended to included other device details and other Vendor specific information. I'll build you an example inventory add-on to collect the Route Table Which one do you…

Leon, Try this.... open Windows Scheduled Tasks. There you will see a list of the Config Management jobs. Right-Click on the job and select "Properties". You can now change the schedule from daily to hourly. Select "Schedule" tab and click on the "Advanced" button. For example: you can create a schedule that starts every…

Saving the results of any scheduled job to a file will be added. You can save the results of a "show command" by selecting File->Export. I'm not sure what you mean by "saving the results of an upload config snippet". If you are talking about after uploading a config snippet interactively, you can save the results by…

What a great idea !quote:Originally posted by snowjay So far I love this tool, so much easier than the clunky old CW2k. I do however have one recommendation/request/feature enhancement that I think would really be beneficial to some of us. How about autodiscovery based on CDP? Sometimes switches will be put into service…

Also... select "File->Customize Menus and Toolbars". Once the customization dialog is displayed, you can now change the icon or text for any menu item or toolbar. For example... click on the "Show" menu to display it. Now right-click on any item to change the image or text.

You can right-click on a Snippet and select "Upload to Devices". This will bring up an Execute Command window with the devices you selected listed and the command script containing the Snippet. It's two clicks instead of one. As for rearranging the Show menu. Select "File->Customize Menus and Toolbars". The customization…

Mithrilhall, Those are excellent ideas for improvement. 1) Here are a couple of methods to collapse all on Node List refresh. Select File->Settings. From the "Node List" panel (top one in the list) select the expansion level from the "Automatically expand the Node List to the XXXXX level" drop down. If you set this to…

The problem is related the database engine driver (Jet 4.0) from Microsoft. If will only recover unused space when the database has been closed by every process. Network Performance Monitor routinely deletes detailed records and summarizes them into hourly and daily records. This causes unused space in the Jet database…

Having a WAN link between a polling engine and the SQL server is not a good idea. But, many SolarWinds customers place remote Orion servers, each with its own SQL server across a WAN link. In this situation, the remote polling engine has its own SQL server. Customers then will remotely roll-up the data they need via…

Marlon, Looks like you are trying to send an HTML export from a Report Writer report. I'm making that assumption because of the "E:\" in the URL instead of an actual URL. The Report Scheduler actually downloads and sends WEB PAGES, not files. When setting up a Report Scheduler job, surf to your Orion server and select the…

Marco, I am very interested in more information on this. Orion NPM V7 has a completely new alerting engine that allows plug-ins to be added that support things like Sending SNMP-Traps, Syslog, Event Log, text-to-speech, etc. Can you send more information to development@solarwinds.net on what you are trying to do with the…

Yep... that makes sense. Since the value is outside of the allowable range, you should get an error.

You are exactly right. You can change the registry setting to increase the hourly retention period.

Contact SolarWinds support for a pre-release of Orion 7.2 Also, we have seen some SNMP agents on Sun machine report incorrect CPU utilization.

Support for Net-SNMP agents on Sun , HP-UX, Linux, Red-Hat, etc. is available in Orion NPM version 7.2. The pre-release of 7.2 can be downloaded from ftp2.solarwinds.net/.../SolarWinds-NetPerfMon-V7-SLX.exe Note: This link is for SLX customers only. If you would like a V7.2 beta for the SL100, SL250, SL500, or SL2000,…

All, We have begun testing the "UCD MIB" for CPU load and Memory on Linux, Sun, and HP machines. The 1 minute stat will often show incorrect numbers, but the five minute average seems to be correct. We will be implementing CPU Load in Orion using the UCD 5 minute decaying average. Also, the percent memory will be based on…

Dax, The OIDs and MIB entries within Network Performance Monitor are in configuration files that are not human readable. To answer your original question, "Which MIBs are used for CPU, Memory, etc?" .... It depends on the type of device and what MIBs are supported by that device. When polling Cisco routers and switches for…

Does SUN and Linux have a different MIB that provides CPU Load ? We have not seen one. If so, please forward the details to development@solarwinds.net

Later versions of Orion also include supoort for \Domain\* to enable all acounts in the Domain. Be sure to enable NT Authentication within IIS. Another Tip: Add the \Domain\* account to Orion and set the default permissions for this account. Then add another account such as \Domain\DonYonce and set the permissions for this…

The development of SSHv2 is complete. It should be available as soon as the Testing Group releases it. They know it's a priority. I would expect the update to be available within a week.

SSHv2 is also a strict requirement for goverment and miltary installations. SSHv2 support is in development right now. Sorry, I do not have a release date yet. We normally do not post a release date until a product has made it through at least one round of full testing.

I suggest you turn off "Secure Data on Web". From the Orion System Manager, select File->Advanced Settings. Then select the "Secure Data on Web" tab. Turning this off will remove access to SNMP Community strings and login/password information for your managed devices from the web. This setting is off by default.

Total memory on a Cisco device is retrieved from OLD-CISCO-CHASSIS-MIB:processorRam (1.3.6.1.4.1.9.3.6.6) You can use SolarWinds MIB Browser to look at this value directly on your router and see what it is reporting. This MIB reports total memory available to the CPU.

Dax, The set of available charts depends on which Orion packages you have installed. There are about 30 in the base package and about 100 if all extensions are installed. Login as Admin and view this URL from your Orion web server. /NetPerfMon/admin/SupportInfo.asp Scroll down the the "Installed Charts" section. There you…

The NPM polling engines are designed to handle exactly this kind of issue. SolarWinds has many installations that monitor end-user networks with overlapping 10.x.x.x networks. The largest installation has over 60 overlapping private networks. Here's one way of doing it without NAT-ing the end-user networks and assuming two…

Create a new Alert. Set the Property to Monitor to "Last Reboot", then set the Trigger to "Any time this changes".

I would change this alert from "anytime the status changes" to trigger when the switch port is "down". It's probably switching into "warning" or "unknown" and then back to "up" before the notification gets out.