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CBQoS is in the NetFlow package they sell called NTA. Check out this link http://www.solarwinds.com/products/orion/nta/network_performance_views.aspx. I just wish it was a standard part of Orion NPM, seems to me it belongs there instead of with netflow but I understand it as well, netflow requires all the joins in the data…

I am polling almost a thousand elements with NPM and 2500 addresses in IPAM. I am set to store 14 days of detail, 2 months of hourly and 2 years of daily. My database is only 11GB after running for 16 months. (I run RAID 5 btw) The reason RAID 5 is slower to write across 4 disks is because it has to break the data up and…

It was not one of the reasons I bought IPAM but I do have to say, knowing that their is a port mapper in the Engineer's Toolkit, which we purchased as well, it would be a truely nice addition to IPAM for us. I for one would love to see port mapping added to IPAM, very very nice tool.

I think we might need Neo for your suggestion Peter. =)

Syslog will not give you the ability to monitor statistics over time so there wont be a baseline to compare to. I would also like to do what the original poster asked. I have done a lot of MIB walking/browsing and hunting on the web for those OIDs but can't find them. Any hints?

I am just starting to use NPM in my environment and anyone can correct me but it should be possible if I understand your question. After you create the UnDP and assign it to all of the devices to be polled you can create an alert trigger, or more then one, that fires off when certain criteria are met. In other words.…

You can do "and" and "or" conditions.

OK, WOW! I did not know that that option was available in the web interface or where to go to find it! I wonder how many more little nuggets exist in there like that. I have write access to my devices disabled so I wont ever use that function, but very cool!

I also have an environment where we have to test upgrades or changes to software before being placed into production. A Lab Edition would be a great help for us here.

6) Be able to grant users node management rights for nodes flagged with custom property X having the value value "foo", limited node management in other words, limited by view limitation :) //This would be very high on my list also :) I love this, wish I had it already, I would use it a lot.

Yes, yes it would. Sorry about that. But it is the only way I know of to tell Solarwinds the speed of the circuit.

The reason they are not differentiated is because Solarwinds uses the generic SNMP OIDs to pull the information and Cisco decided to dump all discards into that bucket. This way they can pull the information from any system that uses those OIDs. If you want to take the time to find the OIDs for your particular device, or…

On #1 I agree. #2: You can do all of that except have an arrow head on the line. Curved, really bent, lines are available. You can copy and paste a picture into it, you can create a circle, just don't assign a node to it. Yep, it is very like visio right now. Oh and line width is also changable.

I am by no means a RAID guru but I would configure the 2 146GB drives as a mirror for the OS and swap (maybe on a seperate partition from the OS maybe not. The only reason to go RAID 10 with 4 drives, as I see it, is to be able to lose 2 drives and still continue to run. Personally I want the capacity so I would go RAID 5…

Add a resource to your main page, it's called "Down Interfaces". Once it is added you edit it and filter for the ones you want to monitor. As an example I have a custom property called "CoreInterface" so the filter line says "CoreInterface=1" (it is a yes/no field). Now on my main page I can see just the information I…

On the interface add this command: bandwidth 5000 That means a bandwidth of 5Mb. If you want a T1 use "bandwidth 1544". We have added this to all of our interfaces and it works perfectly.

First create Custom Property in the Custom Prooerty Editor. Second when you go to add the Top XX choose exactly that, Top XX, then once it is on the web page you can edit that specific resource, and add a filter to it. The filter is where your new Custom Property equals what you are looking for. Here are a couple screen…

Not sure if I totally understand the question but here goes. The System context is not really a context and therefore has no external monitoring available to it. Once you have created a context you can set up SNMP for each of those separately. You monitor each context as if it were a different firewall that's the reason…

Any packets that are dropped by the interface due to the firewall rules is counted as a drop on the interface. Nothing to worry about here unless you weren't seeing any, that would be bad.

Yes you can and it is very easily accomplished. In the box that has the title "Top xx Erros and Discards Today" click the Edit button. On the screen that comes up in the box that says "Filter Interfaces" add this line: MachineType <> 'Cisco ASA 5550SC' and MachineType <> 'Cisco PIX Firewall 525sc' I added the two firewall…

A firewall monitor is what you are really needing. The problem with monitoring firewall rules is that there are so many of them. As an example; if you have a rule with 2 sources, 2 destinations and 2 ports the firewall actually creates 8 rules for that even though you only created one. One of the other very nice features…