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I'm not sure, but I think this will still do what you want. If you take the example of the ACE Device Template created by Jiri Cvachovec at http://thwack.solarwinds.com/docs/DOC-170787 it pretty much does the same thing: Uses the command name "*_Context*" to select the relevant location for what you want to download (in…

thamizh85 wrote: We are running a higher version (that particular bug should be fixed on 12.44 and above) but we are indeed plagued by newer bugs. And upgrading all switches is also a PIA, since we run well over 400 switch stacks serving 24 x 7 operations. But somehow we need to keep the ball moving and upgrade IOS (some…

Ah, I think the unpluggable option is best used for interfaces rather than nodes themselves (i.e. for switch interfaces that support end users so you don't get a "down" alert when they turn their PC off etc). The status of the WiFi point itself will show as unreachable when it's not online simply because it's considered a…

No problem, the Auto Determine is reasonable but it's always worth setting to a specific template if there is one. Regards, John

Hi, There's no way of doing this that I know of, there are a number feature requests along these lines (http://thwack.solarwinds.com/ideas/1182 ) but nothing that deals with offline configs particularly - it's a good idea though (I can see a few uses for it in my organisation!!) Regards, John

Hi Hanif, The Cisco WiSM template works nicely. I'm not sure if it's included automatically in NCM these days but there's a good guide at https://thwack.solarwinds.com/docs/DOC-167109 Regards, John

I'd echo deverts response - each VDC should have a different address and be accessed (and polled by NPM) that way - it's how we manage them. It's especially true of the N7Ks, as they are usually "core" units using "switch vdc" leaves you very open to a bad case of fat finger syndrome.... Regards, John

Do you get any details from the switches at all or is the report just blank?

RG - How NCM gets the config depends on how the device is configured in NCM: there are a multitude of options: By default NCM will use whatever is configured as the $GlobalConfigRequestProtocol to get the configs, so if your ASA is using SSH (as it should be!!) and your global value is set to Telnet then it will fail etc.…

The more I dig the more annoying this gets. As far as the VSS switch is concerned, the transceivers haven't even bothered the threshold levels that are set: #sho inter trans threshold violations switch 2 module 2 Transceiver monitoring is disabled for all interfaces. Rx: Receive, Tx: Transmit. DDDD: days, HH: hours, MM:…

Thanks Andy, that did the trick For info in case anyone else has the same issue, I tried the following options to get rid of this that didn't work: ^: Written ^:Written ^! It seems to require both the lines that Andy suggested, just having one or the other does not work. Regards, John

Hi Beth - Do you want devices to be managed by individual user credentials (i.e. if user A wants to execute a script via NCM use their logon for the device, user B's credentials if they want to run the script)? Or do you just want solarwinds to logon via SSH? Regards, John

Hi Bill - I'd kind of got to this point, but I've got that many different types of Catalyst devices the list of inclusions is getting lengthy I'll try excluding the unwanted as you suggest, it may well be quicker!! Thanks, John

Hi Lada - cheers for the quick response :-) Next question is, how do I identify the report ID of the existing reports?!? Ta, John

Kweise - I can see how that would work, however I really don't fancy editing the properties of 19,000 switch ports to tell NPM that they are access rather than trunk :-(

Where do i set this within Orion?

Hi Tom, Apologies, should have closed this one off earlier. I raised a case with Solarwinds (898609) and it boils down to the fact that the Cisco MIB isn't reporting the status directly. From the case notes: Hi John, We have reviewed all of the items you sent us, the reported issue of StackSub-STx-x interfaces showing as…

Knew it would be something obvious!! Thanks for the quick reply :-)

Thanks Andrew, I should really learn to RTFM

Hi Andy - Thanks for the response, I've been playing around with similar settings to the ones you've suggested, but because some of the lines are of interest for other types of interface (i.e. description XXXXXXX can apply to the static trunk and ethernet interfaces as well as the dynamic Vethernet ones) I can't hit a…

Can you post back here with the results of the case? Thanks, John

Ignore, I had fat finger syndrome.

Sadly they are all active interfaces on our VSS pairs

Brandon - Yeah, we thought the same until a major SAN issue left us unable to either boot any servers (we are fully boot from SAN) or restore anything (as there was no disk to restore to!!) - and this was with a dual data centre solution Fortunately the network etc stayed up, but if we had suffered a network issue we would…

Hi Jiri, Can this be scheduled? Regards, John

Hi Peter - Your response helps me decide it doesn't do what I need What I'm after is an alert that triggers when a MAC address changes a port only - I'm not fussed about those that disconnect and reconnect on the same port as they raise a large number of false positives. Can this be done or is it a feature request?…

Yes, it should do (although I haven't got one to test with). Regards, John

Hi Scott - What model switch were you running it on? the script definitely should not delete files such as vlan.dat or the config files, however the /overwrite switch does mean that the previous version of IOS (plus the various web files for the http device manager) will be overwritten with the new versions. Can you…

Hi - As stated in the description, the archive download-sw command doesn't work with the BIN files, so you'd have to use the older method of copy tftp: flash: etc. However, this is complicated on the more recent switches by the fact the the actual IOS file is normally stored in a subdirectory: Directory of flash:/ 2 -rwx…

Never tried it, but the Archive download-sw command should error if the target switch doesn't have enough RAM to run the image you are trying to update (it checks beforehand). The script does contain the /overwrite switch which means it'll overwrite the existing image files. Bear in mind that the reload command issued is a…