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Did you install v7 or v8 on the new server?

I haven't called in for support in quite some time (before version 8) but it used to be top notch. I'm sure it'll be better than it used to.

Has anyone else noticed a problem with Internet Explorer not refreshing after a certain amount of time? If I leave Internet Exploder open for too many days it stops refreshing. A manual refresh works but it just will not do it on its own. Firefox on the other hand works fine.

 Any chance there is a new beta of this? I was traveling when the last one came out and when I tried to install it today it says it has expired.

I'll be installing it today.

I was just getting a ton of receive and crc errors on one of my routers the other day. Turned out to be a bad smartjack.

I believe you would need SolarWinds' Cirrus product to do that.

Couldn't you just use Orion to monitor disk space where the Database resides and fire off an alert(email) when it gets to a certain point?

I agree. Check you database size and the amount of disk space where the database is located. I just went through a bout of my service shutting down. I believe my problem is my polling engine is being taxed to heavily. I ended up installing the Poller Tuning tool and lowered my polling (so far so good...now I just need to…

Another feature I would love to have added is animated backgrounds supported for Maps. Animated gif support would be great but if they could add swf support as well that would be even better.

3rd Quarter......Oh well. I guess I'll just keep adding custom pieces until then. On a side note... I found this today and it works pretty good for spicing up gauges and graphs. www.maani.us/.../index.php Now, if Solarwinds could build something like this into Orion I would be ecstatic.

Things I would love to see in v8: Custom MIB support (just like everyone else wants) ASP Pages that are modular (I know the code is encrypted but if they could break it up a bit and add in some comments it would make my life easier. I would love to add some custom features for our equipment...such as displaying the MAC…

Have you checked out Solarwinds new tool; Cirrus? It's not part of Orion but it is "supposed" to work with it like the Toolset does. Cirrus is a Switch/Router Config management tool.

I just did a test install yesterday of 8.1 with the hotfixes and my network map wouldn't show as well (I don't have the add-ons/modules you have). I ended up uninstalling/reinstalling, which worked for me. I don't know if installing over the existing install would have worked or if you there is a repair option.

I don't think you'll get statistics like cpu, memory, etc... The only thing it will show is that the node is up (ICMP).

The only thing I can think of is...the Orion website updates every X minutes. The weather.bat files runs every 15 minutes (I believe that's what you posted). It could be that Orion and the weather.php are fighting over the file? Try running weather.bat without "/q" and you'll see it get stuck in a continous loop. Ctrl+C…

I've had that problem with my map occasionally. I don't think you need to run the script every 15 minutes..I believe the map only updates every 30 minutes unless you're using a different map. When I get the gray circle I just manually run the php script and all is ok. What's happening is the php script is stuck or in some…

Okay...I just tried it again and it worked this time. 1. Find an image online or on your computer that you want to use on your maps. 2. Right-click the image and choose copy. 3. Open MapMaker via Start-->SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor--Map Maker. 4. Create a new map. 5. Right-click the map and choose "Paste…

Taken from here: http://us2.php.net/fopen Just search for "Proxy". It looks like a pretty straight forward example. So I added some code to enable http get through a proxy with user authentication. <?php function proxy_url($proxy_url) { $proxy_name = '127.0.0.1'; $proxy_port = 4001; $proxy_user = "user"; // added…

Here is the code to my script: <?php $dest = fopen("E:\Program Files\SolarWinds\Network Performance Monitor V7\Maps\NetObjects\Imported\weather.wmf","w+") or die ("Local open failed"); $source = fopen('image.weather.com/.../5L.jpg','r'); while (!feof($source)) { fwrite($dest,fread($source,1024)); } fclose($source);…

I created a script in PHP (you could do it in ASP, VBScript, etc..) that downloads the map to the server. Once your script is complete run it. You should now have a copy of the image on the server. Right-click the image and copy it. Now open the MapMaker. Create a new map or edit an existing map. You'll want to choose…

Anyway you could post some screenshots? This is what our main network map looks like:

You could actually use this for smaller maps as well....just use ImageMagick to resize it.

When I first talked to support they told me that I was the only person that was having this problem. After about a week of working with them I came in on a Tuesday after Jury duty and noticed one of their networking or programming guys left me a message to call him. When I talked to him he said he was going to send me a…

Sounds very similar to a problem I just had. Every few months it would look like Orion stopped polling. I would have to stop and restart the service or server to get it to work properly again. Last week I had the same problem so I rebooted the server. It would poll during the Baseline calculation and then it would stop…

Sounds possible depending on your setup. If you use Microshaft's Outlook you can use VBA I believe. Write a custom vbscript and fire it off when a specific email comes into your mailbox. In your vbscript you can use snmp to 'shut/no shut' the interfaces.

Contact Solarwinds. They would probably add it.

As soon at I'm finished I'll post the code.

Nice, I like it. I'm working on a piece to download switch/router configurations to a tftp server as well as save the runnining configuration to the startup configuration. The switches that'll be supported at this point are: Dell PowerConnect 3324 Dell PowerConnect 3348 Dell PowerConnect 3424 Dell PowerConnect 3448 Dell…

I'm sure you fixed this by now but if you didn't try this: On the server running Orion bring up the VirusScan Console via Program Files. Right-click Access Protection and choose Properties. Uncheck "Prevent mass mailing worms from sending email". If you're using ePolicy Orchestrator or Protection Pilot you'll need to edit…