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Hello BTSpaul, You don't really need to change anything, but if you wanted the backup files to reflect your new version, you would change the pattern from: .\backup\ipm8_week%week%_%weekdaytext3%.ipm8backup to .\backup\ipm9_week%week%_%weekdaytext3%.ipm9backup You could also simplify it and change it to…

Good day Chaldz, Mass-Edit will allow you to modify specific values such as minimum/maximum threshold, SNMP community name, the "use delta value" option, etc. However, it does not allow you to remove entire boolean operations. In order to perform this on a mass scale, you would have to export all of your Monitor settings,…

Hi Licensing, One thing to keep in mind is that the following 3 Monitors are not designed to fail. They simply look for content and send you an Information Notification about it: * File Watching Monitor * Event Log Monitor * SNMP Trap Monitor In order to ensure that the Action notifies you if and when these Monitors match…

Hello StipMan, This is not possible. Yellow is a Warn state, which means the Monitor is failing but no Alerts have been triggered yet. Red is a Down state, which means the Monitor is failing and Alerts are being triggered. Alerts are triggered based on the Monitor's "Accumulated Failures per Alert" value. If this value is…

Hello Alemobet, It appears ipMonitor is having difficulty talking to your modem. Can you try Peter Cooper's steps within the following Thwack post: Hope this helps. Sincerely, Chris Foley | Support Specialist SolarWinds | IT Management, Inspired By You Support:866.530.8040 || Fax:512.857.0125

Hello, This normally occurs if ipMonitor cannot communicate with the remote device using SNMP or WMI. -To test SNMP, use the steps in the following article: http://knowledgebase.solarwinds.com/kb/questions/314/Troubleshooting+SNMP+connectivity -To test WMI, use the steps in the following article:…

Hello agrm, Custom NOC views are normally done via ASP or PHP using SOAP calls against the ipMonitor HTTP server. For additional information, visit your ipMonitor installation's SOAP documentation: For Status information: http://[ipMonitorAddress]/soap/status.asmx For Configuration information:…

Hi Dave, SNMPv3 was added to ipMonitor 10.8, which was released a few weeks ago. Sincerely, Chris Foley

Good day Groovepig, I originally started working for ipMonitor on August 23rd, 1999. I have been supporting it ever since. At that time we were about to release ipMonitor 6, which was sold for 699$. The upgrade from Enterprise Monitor 5.2 to ipMonitor 6 was 199$. As with all things, the price of the application has…

Hello zdalley, In order to accomplish this, simply group the Devices that share the same subnet and then add the Ping Monitor to the router as a Dependency to the group. As a result, if any Monitors fail within the Devices contained in this Group, the status of the Ping Monitor will be verified before any Alerts/Actions…

Hello erharj, ipMonitor cannot perform this out-of-the-box. You would need to find a utility that can initialize a modem and verify for a dialtone and that utility would need to be command line driven. As modems and commands lines are becoming rare gems, I am not sure if you will find such a utility. Perhaps the following…

Hello Brink668, To your questions: 1. Go to "Configuration -> System setttings" and set the "optional defaults" as needed. 2. When going through the Network Scan wizard or when viewing the Previous Scan results, there is a "Smart Monitor Settings" button/link. Click this and it will allow you to select what Monitor types…

Hello Darksiders, In order to change the default timing settings, simply click the "Configuration" tab, click "System Settings" and scroll down to the "Optional Defaults" section. Here, you can set the default timing settings to the desired values. In order to mass-change timing settings on a group of Monitors, simply…

Hello prafulnama, Parking the license is an option as long as the old installation is still available. Otherwise, you have 2 options depending on when the "disaster" occurs and how many Monitors you are licensed for. -If the disaster occurs between Monday and Friday, simply contact the Solarwinds Customer Service…

Hello techveen, Before upgrading the operating system, I recommend deactivating your ipMonitor license beforehand as the Unique Machine ID will no longer match the License Key. To deactivate the license, simply use the Solarwinds License Manager. It is available at the following location:…

Hi Greg, Most of the resource-based Monitors (CPU, Drive Space, Memory) use the Host-Resources MIB, which is likely supported by the Novell SNMP Agent. In order to test this, I recommend going through the steps found at the bottom of the following post: Let me know what comes back. Thanks Fodome

Hello gibsond4136, It sounds like you might have the Log to Kiwi Web Access Action entered twice. Check all of your Rules and make sure this is not the case. Let me know if this helps or not. Sincerely, Chris Foley - SolarWinds - Support Specialist Support:866.530.8040 || Fax:512.857.0125 network management simplified |…

Hi Tom, Based on my experience, most GSM modems made by Siemens or Sony-Ericsson work well with ipMonitor. Modems made by Multitech and Wavecom also work, however some clients have reported having a difficult time setting them up. To my knowledge, there is no advantage or disadvantage between USB and Serial modems. Hope…

Hello mstampfle, These errors can be generated for a number of reasons, but the most common are identified below: 1. The target system is turned off, restarting or does not exist. 2. A firewall is blocking RPC communication to the target system on TCP port 445. 3. The RPC Server on the target system has reached its…

It will send you a new SNMP database that you need to insert into your ipMonitor installation. You simply need to stop the ipMonitorSrv service, extract \ipMonitor\internal\mib_base.bxml (replacing the current one) and start the ipMonitorSrv service. Hope this answers your questions. Chris Foley

Hello mcdsweet98, To your questions: 1. Using the Default Rule with 1 Log to Display Action and 1 Log to File Action, Kiwi Syslog Server can handle approximately 400 Messages per second. More on this is found here: http://knowledgebase.solarwinds.com/kb/questions/7/How+many+messages+can+Kiwi+Syslog+Daemon+handle%3F 2. The…

Hello gftarbert, At this time, none of these are possible. You would need to submit a support case at http://www.solarwinds.com/support/ticket for each item and we will create a feature request for each. Sincerely, Chris Foley

Hi Tsommoore, You should be able to do this using a 3-step process. 1. Create a SmartGroup to display Monitors with a status of Down. 2. Create a report based on the SmartGroup. 3. Create a Report Publisher to email/save the report every morning. Let me know if you have any additional questions. Sincerely, Chris Foley -…

Hi Nerdbebo, ipMonitor uses 2 SNMP OIDs to gather this information; ifInOctets and ifOutOctets. These OIDs provide the number of octets (or bytes) transfered since boot. In order to calculate the amount of bytes transfered, one would perform a delta between the sum of the current values and the sum of the last values…

Hello Paul, From what I can see, Variations have not been added to the Aruba.ArubaOS.General Device type. Having that said, can I assume you are using the Generic.Device Device type in order to use Variations? If so, can you enable capture mode, run the Activity against the Device and then provide me the debug file for the…

Hi Eric, There is no specific OID that you can use to monitor the memory as the OID is partly built by a unique identifier. Typically you would want to walk down one of the following OIDs: -1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.4 This is a branch from the Net-SNMP MIB, typically used for UNIX and MAC…

Hello Brink668, Within the settings page for the Drive Space Monitors, set the "Maximum Alerts to Send" to 0 and/or "Accumulated failures per Alert" to 999999. Hope this helps. Sincerely, Chris Foley

Hello Humc, I just happened to trip on the following document this morning and remembered your post: ========================================== Stage 1: Prepare the client certificate on the ipMonitor server. ========================================== a. Log in to the ipMonitor server with the Windows account associated…