Donald_Francis

If you have indeed opened a few tickets on this and not gotten it solved obviously that is not acceptable. I would open a new one and send the ticket to your SW rep for escalation or if you post it on the board one of the mod's might be able to do it for you as well. Or that's what I do when I have a problem that is not…

Here are some answers to the best of my ability. (1) How many IOPS will Orion typically generate for the SQL server? not sure of a number but it will be considerable especially if you use netflow, most of the larger installs in my opinion will need a seperate SQL server (thats what we did) (2) Will the SQL DB be an OLTP or…

Um yes, I know. I have used Google once or twice. :P The typically malicious use of the port is why I am asking.

Lucky you.......

Lchance, that sounds scarily similar to the issue I had on a couple of Cisco chassis's where I had to stop SNMP for the CPU to not peg out after getting "snmp queue full" errors from the chassis.

Opening one now.

I have the opposite issue. I am on a high performance SAN and my write queue's are fine but read queue's are normally averageing around 5+ or hgher.

There are a few theories on that. In my mind however, there is not much use for partitioning the same disk without a specific reason. You do not get any performance benefits from it. And more often than not the only thing that becomes of this is problems with your OS drive running out of space. I used to partition…

Just an FYI for everyone else in case this can help. I solved this issue. I had an eval of Profiler installed on my main Orion box. Looks like they do not play nice together and this totally hosed wireless until I uninstalled Profiler.

Most switches from Cisco (or anyone else that I know of) do not support netflow. You will generally only find it in the larger chassis switches. However it is a feature in all of the routers. However there are other things you can do. You can pick a point in your network where most traffic passes and span a switch port and…

I think you are missing the NDE portion. This command in particular if I get what you are saying. MLS NDE SENDER VERSION x

I have tried that one I think it is for an HTML form only. Mine I believe is a java page as the file extension ends in JSP.

While that will work for alerting, it won't allow me to create a view where you can see if your Apps are up or down and then click on it to see which portion is failing kind of like a node to interface relationship. Are there any plans in the near future for APM to function in this way?

We are about to implement these as well so I cast my vote.

Also 12.2-46 is horrid. It breaks autoqos and causes random queue drops. Go to the 50s.

Thanks for the info! I am sure everyone , including myself, very much appreciates the extra testing despite my anxious rants.

We use APM. Under the "VOIP" template is the following -services for Unity server 1 -services for Unity server 2 -Services for IPCC -and just to get CCM 6 in APM we watch the CallManager process on all 5 boxes (this is where I think there is a lot of room for imporovement , the current canned items do not work well)

Netflow is more of a statistical tool. Where wireshark actually captures the entire packet of a communication netflows are just a "report" of communications. Basically after a flow ends the sending device will send information about that communication to a netflow collector. So it would be something like 1.1.1.1 talked to…

You can configure NTA to listen on any port you want but I think by default it is 2055. When you say between NTA and NPM there is no such thing really. Netflows are delivered to NTA and the NTA service takes those flows and puts them in your SQL DB. I do not think NPM itself ever plays a hand in it.

The answer was that out of the box NPM does not monitor those MIBs. It can be done with a custom poller however.

OR you could just exlude it from you reboot alerts.

Sohail , I know about the interface issue I was the person whom actually filed the bug with Cisco and worked with SW on it. But in 8.2(1) there was no such issue. What I found was that the system said it was sending netflows but it actually was not. When I jumped to 8.2(2) with no other changes I had netflows going out…

As of that software release The ASA DOES support netflow and as of SP2 so does NTA. However it is not available on the PIX. The PIX does not have the TCAM tables for it. As far as the functionality it looks pretty good to me minus the small ASA bug that should be fixed soon.

More than likely they are because of congestion. This will mean that your router queued as much as it could and had to begin tail dropping the traffic.

I think 2 other things would be great to add to this area. 1) The ability to easily see which credentials are use by which monitors. 2) The ability to change options on multiple monitors at one time.

I would again like to thank you guys for going right at this issue and not side stepping it or making excuses for it. I think that shows that SolarWinds is a customer oriented company intent on making customers happy with their products. Being more concerned with your support instead of pollitics is refeshing.

For anyone with the same issue the solution is to set the root directory from within NCM settings and not through the tray program.

OK now both are showing correctly. I am not sure what percipitated that.

I have a slightly bigger install I think. NPM (21,000+ elements), NTA (450+interfaces), APM, IPAM and IPSLA. We have a dedicated SQL box, 2 web servers load balanced and 5 pollers. My website runs pretty speedy. My point to all that is that you should be able to get yours acting within reason. I think like the others that…

Well shessh gimmie some kinda credit. I found that too, that is old and outdated. They are on version 4 now and none of those exist currently from my MIB walk. I was just hoping someone had gone through this pain already. I will list them out when I am done if no one replies.