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I asked this same question last year: http://thwack.solarwinds.com/thread/44917

Thanks marunderwood, that report will come in handy. After some trial and error, I found that if I edit multipe IP's and then change the status field from available to reserved, the custom properties become availablel for editing. However, I'd still like to have some means of export a few IP's to Excel, rather than say a…

That works great only with user intervention. I want to e-mail the Excel file on a scheduled basis using report scheduler. Sadly the report scheduler cannot click the OK button to attach the file to the e-mail :-(

AFAIK, the data is not actually deleted from the DB until the nightly DB maint. runs. I supect it just deletes the NodeID and InterfaceID numbers, from the DB. Notice how the Node Removed event is only kept for that day. Once the nightly maint. runs, there is no record of the deleted node left in the DB. I saw this while…

We just got burned by this "new polling feature". In the old Orion pollers it used the SNMP "GET" function so it always polled only the first CPU in the table. The new CPU poller uses the "GET BULK" function. Because the average CPU was diluted by 8 other CPU's running normally, the Supervisor CPU which went from 20% to…

Yes, looks like a cool product... You can also accomplish this using custom properties (there was a post about this here several years ago).

All this functionality worked in NPM V8.5.1 There is other funtionality that was also removed in newer releases, such as clicking on the node name in a chart or interface view to return to the node details page. This functionality seems like a minor inconvenience, but when you have something taken away from you, it…

Totally agree with this request. The FUD of all these additional new pollers is preventing me from upgrading past 10.4, especially after causing outages when I upgraded to 10.3 and the L2 & L3 topology pollers were introduced. It took me a few weeks to figure out Orion topology polling was killing WCCP on our routers by…

There is an option in NCM to backup only changed configs. That way you are not saving the same config daily. If a config changes on a device 6 times in one month, then you will only have six configs saved in 6 dated directories for that month.

This was requested in 2010 and now has 219 upvotes. Are we getting close yet?

Is this still the case? Do I have to download the full 1.8Gb to get the smart installer to license stacked APE pollers?

I really need this feature as well. I am trying to create Tabbed views by network function on my Home-Summary page. One tab for Backbone routers, PEs and ABRs (transport network), Telepresence, Edge DMZs, etc. I also find it cumbersome having to recreate the same view many times for each tab. Copying existing views to new…

Only 16 votes in ~ 10 months? If our CIO finds out Orion crashed the network, it will be the end of this product in our company. I'm currently doing an Orion server refresh and with the added capacity, will be polling all nodes on our network. It seems I will have to ask my DBA to create a custom script to disable topology…

Overall I find Atlas has some really good features that are not available with any of the other Orion resources (customizable thresholds for everything). However, I would like to use the dynamic baseline values in my map as the thresholds for changing the child status of an object. I use this for latency in NPM, but the…

Running, NPM 10.3.1. I'm trying to get the "REAL" uptime of a linux server. I added a custom poller for hrSystemUptime, but even that does not report correctly. Last Boot shows 10/02/2014 CLI shows server uptime as 680 days hrSystemUptime shows 183 days 680 - 183 = 497 days = 32bit SNMP counter rollover interval Node SNMP…

Thanks Rob, that is great to know this feature now exists. That makes this poll redundant now - N/A.

Right click and > 'Export to Excel' works on any Report Writer report (using IE), but there are other pages that would benefit from this functionality, such as UnDP tables, Events, Syslog and Alerts pages.

Agreed, my goal in Orion is to create exception reporting & stats. Only show me the bad stuff, and hide the good stuff unless you are looking for it. I use report writer to highlight chronic issues; * number of reboots in the past week/month. * number of time and minutes a node/interface is down for the past week/month Of…

This is doable today using a workaround of sorts. Create a Custom Property called Maint. Use this property in all your alert configs. Under the trigger conditions you would add this as a trigger condition: Maint = 'no' Now you can mute the alerts using the Web Gui by changing this Custom Property to 'yes' (or something…

Oh great, just what we need, another way to leak data out of the company, &/or bring in viruses & trojans. Now millions of credit card records can be stolen using a sticky note instead of a USB drive. I wonder if Target will be selling these ?!?

Agree, the NPM route monitoring can potentially cause CPU spikes as well. My first rule of Network monitoring is: "cause no harm": SolarWinds NPM 10.5 Beta1 Survey Art replied (in response to michal.hrncirik) 1 week ago This looks really interesting, but I'm worried about the performance hit my routers will take when…

Oddly enough, these features are missing from Orion NPM & NCM itself. Most software products do not have a true Admin function, as per my post 4 years ago here: Extreme Disappointment in NCM 7.0 Integration Configuration I'd like to give some users "admin" access, without access to add or remove users. There needs to be an…

Different credentials and connection protocols based on a custom property would work well in my organization. Here is how it would work: Create several different NCM templates for login and connection type. Then assign template 1 if custom property a = x

This information was 1st published in November 2018 and can be found here https://support.solarwinds.com/SuccessCenter/s/article/URLs-used-by-the-Orion-Platform?language=en_U...

I haven't heard anymore about this, but "upgrading" to NPM 10.5 or above is out for me, until I hear there a global disable buttons for both Topology and Routing tables. I cannot risk my whole network to a new feature added to my monitoring software that I have not requested or desire to run. Please advise if/when a global…

I see this was requested back in 2008, along with a "work around": https://thwack.solarwinds.com/message/38812#38812 I wonder if this has been investigated further by Solarwinds?

I believe you can use the Report Writer to create a report like this.

Nice work Leon (I've started implementing this in NPM already), but I'm looking for alert suppression for syslogs as well, as per this post: NEED syslog alerts to be included in Orion alerts -=Cheers=- Art

There are a couple of ways of doing this. Firstly I monitor all stack ports for status and have an alert and custom view on the home page to show any interface with 'stack' as the type which is not up. Secondly, usiing UnDP I poll each switch for it's member status, and have another alert and view for any switch which is…