Josh_Stephens · CTO, Founder and Managing Partner

Great article @Patrick.Hubbard! I've been using a Whoop device for a couple of years now and it's been great for tracking sleep, recovery, and workout performance. It's been a HUGE help as sleep became a hard thing to find over the last year.

Thor, I appreciate the kind words. Do keep in touch as I'll still be around and up to my geeky ways Josh

Good question. No, the Hot Standby Server won't pickup this change automatically. You'll want to change it directly on the Hot Standby Server. Same thing for any polling engines you might have. Josh 

For the Enterasys switches, this is an issue with the implementation of NetFlow version 5 on the switches. An easy workaround is to use NetFlow v9 instead. The reason for the issue is that the Enterasys switches us 32-bit interface indexes and within NetFlow v5 the interface index field is only 16-bit. For this reason,…

Rdmott, I'm not sure I understand the question. Are you trying to have your SQL cluster send traps to Orion or are you trying to poll the cluster from Orion? Josh

Clucas, This looks pretty interesting. If you have a little time I'd be glad to connect to your server and take a look. Josh

rwlasha, Sorry about that. I misread the post. Yes, you are of course correct - this command is global. If you have entered the ip route-cache flow command for the VLAN interface, then I have two thoughts. First, are you certain that traffic is routing in/out of that interface? Secondly, I'm wondering if the routing engine…

Jon, Actually, the reason that we discontinued the Polling Engine Load Balancer is that we included this functionality within the Monitor Polling Engines application that ships with Orion. It's under "Advanced Features". Once you open the application, choose "Server" --> "Poller Load Balancing". Thanks, Josh

rlawsha, I'm a bit confused. You mention that you're trying to receive netflow records for vlan1 but the config snippet above references a gig-e port. Have you configured the VLAN interface for netflow export? Next step would be to use a protocol analyzer and take a packet capture of the data leaving the router to see if…

Andy, Depends on how you created the map labels. If the map labels are variable based - like $<NodeName> - then they should update automatically. However, if the nodes names were added as static entries, then you'll have to update them manually. HTH, Josh

Euphoric, No need to use the Advanced Alert Engine or to worry about polled values. The SNMP Trap Receiver within Orion includes its own alert engine - it's disguised under a menu option called "Rules" We've gone back and forth about changing this terminology, and I think this is good point in favor of changing it :)…

No, not a bad idea at all. It's possible that what I saw only looked odd because it was a point in time. Does your Outstanding SNMP requests stay over 700 or does it fluctuate up and down by quite a bit? Josh

Jedski, Great hearing from you. What country are you located in? Are you looking for something local? Josh

Professor Zoom, I'm really happy that your boss came and saw us at InterOP and that he liked what he saw. In addition to what Patrick posted above you've inspired me to blog a bit on this subject. Also, if there's interest from other readers we'll host an ad-hoc webcast on this subject over the next couple of weeks. If…

rlawsha, Yes, usually this is possible. NetFlow reports on traffic traversing between different layer 3 connections. So, I would expect that if you're routing from either of the two other interfaces to/from the VLAN, you should be seeing NetFlow data. Thanks, Josh Stephens SolarWinds

Like NG said, if you decide to delete the nodes directly from the database be sure to stop the Orion polling service(s) first and backup your database. A good practice when doing bulk deletes like this is to run a "select" query first and then when you've verified the results change it to a "delete". For instance, you…

We didn't receive your database. Please drop me a note at josh@solarwinds.net and I'll set you up with an FTP location to upload the file to.

In most cases, this issue can be resolved by re-running the Orion Configuration Wizard. If this doesn't resolve the issue, please contact the SolarWinds Tech Support Team at Support@SolarWinds.Net and they'll help you resolve the issue. HTH, Josh Stephens SolarWinds.Net

Jason, To generate high amounts of traffic, you can run multiples copies of WAN Killer either on the same machine or from multiple machines. HTH, Josh Stephens SolarWinds R&D

Problems connecting to a SQL2005 server from Orion are typically caused by one of the following: 1. Older versions of Orion are not compatible with SQL2005. Be sure that you're using Orion Version 7.8.5 or later. 2. If you're still having trouble connecting, try manually registering the SQLDMO9.dll from within the…

If the device is sending traps to the Orion system they should be visible on the Orion website. If the traps are viewable from the Orion Trap Viewer, then they're being stored in the database and should also be viewable from the website. Are you seeing the traps within the viewer? Regarding the trap definitions, if you…

Bezaa, This is an interesting request. What exactly are you trying to see? What type of device is upstream from the Windows server (what kind of switch is it connected to)? Many of the newer switches will support layer 2 netflow data which will show you all of the traffic to/from the Windows server. Josh

You inspired me. Answer here... geekblog.solarwinds.com/.../understanding-when-to-deploy-a-distributed-network-management-architecture.aspx Josh

The updated version that Tech Support was referencing, 8.0.1, has now been released and is avaialble for download from the SolarWinds.Net website. Sincerely, Josh Stephens SolarWinds R&D

Martin, To resolve this issue, open the Orion NPM database the Database Manager. View the "Engines" table by right-clicking on the table name and "querying" the table. You should see two entries - one for your test server and one for your production server. After you've verified which one you want to remove, simply…

Anders, Within the Engineer's Edition is a tool called the Network Performance Monitor. It will provide the features that you're looking for. HTH, Josh

rangerdtc, Sounds like either there is a configuration issue on the box or there's an issue with the beta. Drop us an e-mail to development@solarwinds.net and we'll contact you to troubleshoot. Thanks, Josh Stephens SolarWinds.Net

Martin, From what you're describing, you should be able to monitor these devices with the Custom MIB Poller. The "List Resources" function is only used when trying to monitor intefaces, CPU, volumes, etc with the standard Orion poller. When you use the "File", "Custom MIB Pollers" option, are you able to define and assign…

rangertdc, There are a couple of things that could be causing this issue, but I'm wondering if it's an item we've seen in the labs and resolved after the latest beta was shipped. When did you download Orion v8 from the FTP server? Thanks, Josh Stephens SolarWinds R&D

For the devices like the Sensatronics device, I haven't worked with these in a while but last time I did they had a very limited SNMP agent. Orion requires that monitored devices support some of the minimally required, RFC mandated MIBs. For instance, the device must support the SysObjectID (1.3.6.1.2.1.1.2) for Orion to…