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I recommend using the Orion Database Manager to compact & rebuild each table before doing the upgrade. You may be able to get this down to 25Gb or so. NB. when doing the compact & rebuild of the indexes, your DB is locked & polling stats are no longer collected, so this should be done during off hours as well.

 I suspect this is the Orion polling engine rediscovering the devices at this site. It does a detailed SNMP scan of the devices every few days, depending on what your rediscovery interval is set to. You can find this in the System Manager: Settings>Polling>Rediscover Resources AFAIK there is no way to completely disable…

My UnDP stopped polling at 2:51AM this morning (Running Orion V9.1 SP4). I'm seeing a whole bunch of these in the NPM.BusinessLayer.log: 2009-02-10 02:28:27,853 [Scheduler] ERROR SolarWinds.Common.Utility.Scheduler - Woke up too early! 2009-02-10 02:28:57,872 [Scheduler] ERROR SolarWinds.Common.Utility.Scheduler - Woke up…

A picture is worth a thousand words - CPU last 30 days. You can clearly see the leap from V9.1 to 9.5 & then SP1: This is SL2000 with APM, VoIP and of course now the built-in WiFi module.

Thanks Denny, What about this feature request? Even just being able to report on the nodes with less than 100% uptime with report writer would be a start. Currently I'm doing this with the weekly outage duration report, but it should be easy to do this with the last 7 day availability report. (apparently it requires some…

I just found this request, but you can add my name to the list, as per this rant here.

Be aware, this is also dependent on your polling interval. My default statistics polling interval for CPU and Memory is set to 5 minutes. In this case you really don't need the delay if you want an alert based on a 5 minute interval. Just set the alert threshold and you are good to go.

+1 on prioritizing the fix for this multiple IP discovery issue. I've seen this issue for years on our DR's with 300 Vlan interfaces, but never reported it, since it seemed like such a major bug, that I assumed many others had already reported this issue, and SW would see the value in resolving this ASAP. The…

Rather than using the "retrieve printable version" feature in Report Scheduler, have you tried selecting the web page URL returned when you select the "printable version" button on the page you want to send? I'm not sure if this will work, but it's worth a try as a workaround, until this is fixed in the Report Scheduler.

Personally I think it is a mistake to upgrade to a newer release if your current installation is not running correctly. This can just mask the problem & has the potential to break other things as well. Unless there is some new MUST HAVE feature or functionality, upgrading to fix a problem is not addressing the root cause.…

Sure Rob. just PM or e-mail me.

I went the manual route and created a custom interface property called 'if_IP'. I added the IP for all interfaces on our Backbone routers & display this property on the interface details page like this; \\Inetpub\SolarWinds\NetPerfMon\Resources\3-1-InterfaceDetails <tr> <td class="Property" width="10"> </td> <td…

 All information in the Orion web "console" is exportable in Excel format on any PC with Microsoft Office installed. Simply right click anywhere in the table of the information you wish to export & select "export to Microsoft Excel". Note; filtered tables will be exported as unfiltered data I.E. filtered syslogs, events &…

I've done something similar - I added a Comments field which can be updated from the Node Details page. These comments get displayed in the Nodes Down property at the top of the Home page. Here is the code to add this field to the Down Nodes resource here:…

Why not disable "Allow View Customization" for those users whom you don't want to see the Edit icon? Because with "Allow View Customization" disabled "those users" will no longer be able to update custom properties in the Web interface. Hence my workaround/hack to use the "Allow Event Clearing" permission to allow users to…

The solution is here: I'm was also struggling with this issue on full version 10.1.2 SLX NPM with Admin accounts. Stops an admin from adding nodes, viewing the poller engines status to name a couple of problems this it causes. So, I ran the OrionPermissionChecker.exe and found that two of the locations were having issues…

My retention settings are exactly half of yours 'murder'. Another big hitter for performance not yet mentioned is number of elements polled and polling interval. Status polling is mostly innocuous, but statistics polling intervals are the heavy hitter. The majority of our polled elements are interfaces and these are…

Actually you can also do it without the script. First find a common property that belongs to all the nodes you want to delete. If they are all different types of nodes, then open the custom property editor and create a common property. I added the word "delete" in the custom property 'serialnumber' for all the nodes I…

I'm running NCM6.1 and still can't get the running config to match the startup config, even using the 4 default regex criteria exclusions for crypto certificates. Rather than wasting more time on this, than I already have, I was going to change the show running-config command to include brief. However, there is no such…

Since I am not a SW employee, I'll defer this one to you Denny....

 If you remove the Node Name from the custom grouping tab, then everything will display on a single line & you should also have your sorting capability back. I suspect you are using a report created by someone else? 

Thanks for the link Jiri, I somehow missed that post when I searched for "Pending Approval" before posting this question.

If you are monitoring 100 elements that's fine. If you are monitoring 10,000 elements - that is very aggressive.

OK, so I got creative and figured out a workaround. Create a new Menu Bar with just the Logout button on it. Assign this Menu bar to the users Domain ID (pass-thru account). The user must logout and can now login locally into the custom account/profile. (I just upgraded to V8.5.1 and tried this).

I suspect the CPU is getting pegged & the switch locks up. See this post -

I wasn't going to say it Richard, but that sums up the issue very nicely

I suggest you experiment with alerting using lab equipment or setup some devices at your desk. Add them to monitoring and your Custom Properties. Then unplug them from the network, in order, to test your suppression logic and or variables.

I went ahead and created a CP giving each site their own storenumber (is assume this is what you call 'grouping') You have created 300 groups of one store each. I suggest you create one group with a common CP for all 300 stores. Using my my example of a CP called Store_tier; tier1 ----wan----> tier2 ----lan---->tier3…

Wow, that's cool, thanks for that nugget of info Denny! I just tried this in V9.1 and it works great. Open the Orion DB Manager and open the Nodes table. Run a query like this: Select Top 1000 * From Nodes Where ObjectSubType = 'ICMP' This will show you the first 1000 Nodes which are set to poll with ICMP only. Find or…

I use Kiwi Cattools to run a set of commands every morning and link to the "show-IP-commands-output.txt" in my Orion map. Specifically, this one will give you the info you are after: "show ip int brief | exc unass"