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Denny, I must be dim, the only LDAP monitor I have is the LDAP Connection Monitor. Where can i download that one from? Runing APM 3.0 Regards Miron

:-) *light hearted response* Lawyer - not at all:-) When I visualise the office where you guys all sit around sorting the feature requests from customers I always envisage little post it notes with for example User Experience Monitor: Radius floating around there somewhere and a big board with it placed in what you guys…

 Yann, Thanks mate, I was sure I upgraded when it came out. Thats why I was looking for some info on the server that would confirm. I will run the upgrade again. Regards Miron

Hi, I remember a while ago asking if any one had had there installation pen tested, dont think I got any response at the time. We are considering having ours externally tested in the near future, however I am concerned that there is much to do with regards to creating a robust base secure platform for all the orion modules…

Roger, I have altered the script that when run from the command line it outputs either: Message: Success Statistic: 0 or Message: Success Statistic: 1 when building the monitor in APM I have copied the script into the script body and replaced vbscript with perl. At the moment this is failing do you know if there is…

Brandon, Should we be seeing the version in our portal now? Miron

Hey mate, are you able to give an example of one of those labels. Just looking at the format of the text? Regards Miron

Davor, On cisco devices you can enable traps for snmp-server enable traps snmp. This will trap a number of items particulary authentication failures. Miron

Hi, I suppose what I would be looking for is the ability to alert on the status of a group of devices or devices which have a common tag/custom property. Real life example. We have a VPN to a third party and poll a number of systems on there side of the VPN. What we do want is an alter to be triggered when all devices on…

Hi, The thing is if the alert is an email message you are writing SW gives you the option it looks like to build a sql query to fill in the response. Is there no way to then have as an example node.customerpoller.status if not it would be good to add this as a feature request. Regards Miron

 Vic, I spoke a bit soon about it all being fixed, now it does make the node an hyperlink however it fails because it is trying to put the hostname of the server into the url this is not registered in DNS as it is behind a loadbalancer. Is there a way to have the web url reference the front end server where the clients…

 Thanks Denny, Do you think that the idea of groups element maps are feasible or unrealistic ? Regards Miron

Denny, That sounds like a great start. Im sure after a while that SW or someone else can make it test a username. Awesome thanks. Miron

Hi, Must say I upgrade our orion servers to V10 and APM 3.5 yesterday. Was one of the smoothest upgrades I have ever encountered, while not a feature rich upgrade the performance improvement is worth the upgrade - so wanted to say thank you. I must also thank you for the Radius and Tacacs+ monitors , those are great.…

Hey Mate, I will be honest it sounds odd to suggest that a feature that was present and working in the previous release and then discovered not to be working in the current release - (even though support kept insisting it was possible) sounds like a bug which is what SW have stated in previous comminications is what…

Hi, I thought I would add to my feature requests: Simple URL Check. At the moment when you want to add a URL to monitor you have to create a new Application Template and assign that tempate to a node. Now while this is not to bad It would be simpler to for instance just as you add a node, you select add URL. This would…

Denny, One of the things that I find missing as a SW customer is having access to the product roadmap sometimes available through NDA through some of my other product vendors. There are many of us who have been SW champions for a number of years who may have been requesting enhancments/features for a number of years who…

Yann, The reason why I asked was because I was weary of giving it a WMI user account as I was unsure of how the username and password were stored within orion. What sort of encryption is applied to the credentials. Regards Miron

Hi, I would agree that major UPS should be supported however, I hope that it would not only be major US brands. Regards Miron

Hi,I will expand and add further detail to the items listed and commented on:Network Atlas:* Being able to resize labels/text boxes At the moment there is not much different between a text box and label. You used to be to drag the handles of the label to create a label of the desired size regardless of quanity of text. So…

Sham, Nope personally would find very little use of that. Looking for script to query remote urls and determine cert status. Similar to the one available for nagios. Miron

Dale, Can I just confirm if I understand correctly which is where I may have misunderstood. Following your approach does this require any further work to be done to a web server in order to monitor the age of its certificates. By web server i mean any web server hosting SSL pages that that you wish to monitor either…

 Denny, No worries mate, i know you werent trying to shut me down:-) I suppose what I was trying to get at is imagine application providers being able to say that they are solarwinds complaint in that they provide a monitor with their app designed to be used by solarwinds. Like having the Solarwinds stamp of approval:-)…

 Denny, that would be great and at the same time it would potentially allow you to audit changes to maps, as currently you have to give a large amount of access to the server the server directly. I suppose that in time you would be able to give users permissions to varios maps so you can have team members responsible for…

Davor, Also if the device supports some kind of access list for snmp you may be able to log against that access list. I must admit the logging that i have seen is rather simple just letting you know that the device has been queried rather than what was queried. Miron

Hi, The table would have to be extended to include indicative pricing based on number of nodes supported. However this would be easily enough to add to the existing table and break it into 100, 500, 1000 etc nodes. Concentrating on the software cost would be better as its easier to define. We could do it ourselves and…

Hi, We run both Solarwinds Orion SLX and Ciscoworks. We started off with CiscoWorks years ago and back then it wasnt to bad in the fault reporting in that it had a neat fault screen which you could use on the NOC , however in later updates they removed it and replaced it with a pretty useless fault display system. We have…

Hi, I agree with jswan, UnDP is good, however its not as visually good as the obvious inbuilt resources, and it is only associated to an object. I would go to extend the wireless tab to be able to treat an SSID as an object and do reports on this object. FOr instance if we run 3 wireless networks it would be great to…

Alison, One thing I do find disappointing with support occassionally is the time it take to understand the problem and the seeming reluctance to do a 5 min webex to understand rather than sometimes days of back an forth emails. In general all the support tickets have eventually been solved and you guys are as helpful as…

 Peter, I believe you have misconstrued the essence of my reply,(mostly meant to be lighthearted) yes a HW solution is not appropriate for the majority of solarwinds users. However for larger organisations that may have the capability or the unit running already for their existing webservers this is a potential solution so…