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Dear strongbrave If you paid attention to your cousin strongmad you would know that we need a little more info in order to solve this here problem. 1. What version of SW are you running? 2. Are you using the canned alerts or your own creations? 3. What are you alerting on: nodes or interfaces? It is likely that you have…

Hello lenney, Don the Jedi master may correct me on this but, if you are not able to hit the device with a ping I think it will always show as down. This sucks for you. You may want to convince your FW goons to allow echo replies through the firewall. That way they will not have to compromise security (ICMP pings will not…

hello keegan, The previous admin was feeding you a line of monkey poop. Orion, previous to version 8, has no facilities for managing MIBs. You had a set of standard MIBs provided by SolarWinds and that was that. SolarWinds toolset has a MIB download and import facility, but this is an entirely different product. Be…

Hi Denis, You may want to ask your vendor what MIB they are using. If it is a custom vendor MIB it is unlikely to work with Orion. Orion only looks at a fixed set of MIBs which include standard interface info and host resources (CPU, MEMORY, etc). In addition, they have some Cisco specific info thrown in (because Cisco is…

Hello Yasin, You can't. Custom MIBs are not currently supported. This is one of the most requested features for the next major release of Orion. Hopefully the kids at SolarWinds have been working hard to deliver this feature to all of us loyal geeks. Be fantastic.

Not today. This has been requested repeatedly in the request new features thread. To date there have been no replies. Ask for it enough and you may get it. I would recommend contacting SW support to see if anything like this is in the pipeline if it is critical to your organization. Be fantastic!

Hi R. Hernandez, Take a look at this post: http://www2.solarwinds.net/SolarWinds-Forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=214 There are 21 messages about the ever so rewarding task of getting memory and CPU utilization on UNIX boxes. Be fantastic or not

Hi Chris, The volume index change, particularly for memory and virtual memory, is nothing to be concenred about. This is simply a change in the SNMP index value for the volume in question. This can occur because of a multitude of factors related to the vendor SNMP implementation and conditions on a host (reboot, more…

The mib that is read for total system mem and percent mem used accesses only the memory available after IOS load. In other words the true system memory available on your routers is the value provided when you issue a sh proc mem command.

hello bryan I have been running the syslog server for over a month (version 7.6 beta) without issue. We have 320 nodes and over 1500 elements. Of those nodes approximately half are using the SW box as a syslog server.

Hi licorna77, Are you running a layer 2 or layer 3 image on the 3550? Why do you want to know which interfaces are assigned to each vlan (other than for documentation purposes)? Orion is designed as a monitoring, alerting, and reporting system. It isn't really made to provide deep inventory details like which interface is…

Hello Denny, Add / Delete Nodes and Interfaces Change Node and Interface names Change Custom Properties Define Alerts Be fantastic.

You can monitor your Linux and Sun servers as long as they have the host resources mib loaded up. NET-SNMP seems to be the most popular route in terms of providing the necessary MIBs for SolarWinds. Look at this post for further direction: http://www2.solarwinds.net/SolarWinds-Forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=214 Be fantastic

Hi trini, If you are attempting to alert when interface utilization goes over a certain threshold use the Alert configuration utiliy. It has built in alerts for bandwidth utilization on interfaces. If you are attempting to alert on the total amount of traffic sent or received from a particular host, that is a bit more…

Hello Richard, What, exactly, are you attempting to accomplish? If you simply wish to send some data to a web processing page this should not be too difficult. You can run either external or internal VB scripts as an alert action. We use scripts to generate a file for our paging system when certain alerts are spawned. In…

Hello Richard, 1. NO. Although this would be a nice feature for portions of a network that are not ICMP/ping enabled. 2. I don't think this is currently possible. However, version 8 of the Orion product will supposedly include several enhancements to the alerting system, one of which is to allow the configuration of alerts…

hi mcobb, I have experienced the same problem with my 3800 series routers. My guess is the OID that Orion is polling to fill the Machine Type field has a value of Cisco on 3800 series routers, rather than the actual model. We have multiple switch, router, CMM, VPN concentrator, and wireless access points from Cisco all…

Hi Chad, See this thread: http://www2.solarwinds.net/SolarWinds-Forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=930 It doesn't look good. Be fantastic!

Hi huweimail, I doubt it. You will have to wait until the next major release of Orion for custom MIB support. The kids at SW have not given a specific time table, but they are working on it. Be fantastic.

Hi NG, It seems odd that they would have this info available in report writer but not on the web interface. I found what you were describing for interfaces in RW but was unable to find any similar option for interfaces on the Orion web front end. Curious. Be fantastic.

Hi Joe, I don't think so. Where is it that you found "Average Packet Size"? There are a whole host of other interface specific metrics and charts, but Average Packet Size is not one that I can find. Be fantastic.

Hi there zikona, Not in version 7.8.5 or earlier. It looks like version 8 will support custom MIB. You will be able to monitor any OID on any vendor box (or so it says in the marketing material). Version 8 is scheduled for a December release. Be fantastic.

Hi Jonathan, I would turn the MIB browser or some other SNMP querying tool loose on your linux boxes to see if the MIB is reporting the right data in terms of the memory on each box. My guess is you will see 2GB of memory being reported by the MIB. You want to look for the hrMemorySize value. OID: 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.2 Be…

Hello alteon, I have a similar situation with my Cisco core switches. The monitoring interface that is being polled is a loopback. However, any communication sent to my Orion server would normally originate from a routed interface with a different IP. Luckily for me Cisco has a little feature that lets me do this:logging…

Hello JA, You cannot see the actual physical NIC? Or you cannot see the virtual teamed NIC? Either way I would do an SNMP walk on these servers to see whether or not Windows is considering the missing NIC in terms of its ethernet interfaces. The MIB you are looking for is: 1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1 This is the ifEntry MIB. If you…

Hi Richard, First let me start by saying NO I DON'T. However, if I was going to attempt this I would do so by writing a job on my SQL server to do a SQL UPDATE against the Nodes table in Orion. The syntax of the SQL statement would look something like this: UPDATE Nodes SET UnManaged=1 (This is a bit value which accepts 0…

Hi Josh, Thanks for the heads up on the custom MIBs. You are my hero. We would like to see: Cisco NetFlow Support for environmental conditions (temp, voltage, fan, power supply, etc...) Cisco VPN monitoring (site to site and remote user) tunnels and security parameters Support for major server vendors (HP, Dell, Sun, IBM)…

Hello all, I have 7.8 installed with the Application Monitor and Wireless management packs. I must say the the kids at SW have been busy. The features of the 7.8 upgrade are significant both on the back end performance and the front end web interface. Monitoring processes on the Windows boxes and being able to alert on…

Hi there Jose, Orion looks at the standard mib for discards: 1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.13 receive 1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.19 transmit Are your backbone devices Cisco? If so there are a number of scenarios in which you will see discards even if a link is not being saturated with traffic. In my experience it is either a cabling issue or…

Hello gentlemen, Orion currently has no means to do what you are describing. The kids at SW are working on a new alerting engine. Once they have it complete they appear to have custom MIB support set as the next big enhancement. When that is complete you will be able to take nearly any vendor MIB and look at/graph/alert on…