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 There is some good info & ideas in this post for capturing serial numbers with Orion.

The KB article above did not work for me. Just bumping this topic, as the Nexus 5596 switches in our Data Center are being affected by this issue as well. Rediscovering each switch manually just to disable topology polling is not sustainable:

You are correct, there is no easy way to do this. You could write a script to manually change an entry in the DB & have the alert manager execute the script, but that is hardly a scalable solution. I suggest you add this to the list in this post:

Do you have IIS configured to run on 127.0.0.1 (or all interfaces) ? If so, can you ping your loopback and/or telnet to port 80?

FYI, I'm running 10.7 with SAM 6.1 & the template has not changed for this. My counter went from 0 yesterday to 781 today, and is stuck at 781 now. Of course is flagged as a critical problem in the Orion server template. ....I'm modifying the template for this now.

I believe you are referring to this post Denny? I believe the biggest outstanding APM GUI issue is the Y axis not displaying the days and time correctly when view more than 1 day of data. This graph of 3 days is basically meaningless: Further to this, when exporting the chart data, the Date/Time column data is not in an…

I've modified the SearchforNodes.aspx code on my Orion V9 SP2 server to limit the number of properties displayed. However, I just realized this search code is "broken" compared to V8.x. Doing a search in previous Orion versions would return a page which included a column with the results of the property that was searched.…

Hi Mark, There is no such file on the server. The server updates are managed by our Windows Server team, and they have the Windows Automatic Updates disabled on all our servers. I'll see if I can manually download and install the latest Windows Installer. Here is the Dr. Watson error from the uxeventlog.txt on my server:…

Have a look at my post here: Here is what I received from Solarwinds support (I have not run this yet, as I cannot shut down my pollers without a scheduled change). Please have your dba to run this query, Please stop service before running the query, USE (this you data base name) GO Print 'Selecting Index Fragmentation in…

BTW. If you are using Cisco switches in your Campus, you can enable DHCP snooping on all the access ports. This will prevent the DHCP server running on the SOHO from receiving the requests from any other switch ports. Basically DHCP replies are only allowed on the uplink port on your switch. www.thtech.net/.../10

This does not make sense. Switches are L2 devices and do not have IP addresses on their interfaces. Switches are usually managed through a dedicated Vlan/Interface, not loopbacks (but some switches can be configured with LB interfaces and IPs). This sounds more like a L3 or FW problem. As superfly has mentioned, you must…

So does that mean that I can run the config editor and point the other orion server to start recording its stats to my database? I would prefer to keep all the data in my single db cluster, and just use the other SLX license as a remote polling engine. I just wasn't sure if they would conflict somehow, if they tried to use…

Have you disabled the Toolset integration in the users accounts? (I requested that this option defaults to disabled when creating new accounts some time ago.)

The same goes for the hotfixes, In V8.1 some hotfixes stop & restart the polling services, while other's do not. I prefer to stop the services myself, install all the hotfixes and then restart the services. Nothing like bouncing the services several times in a minute and sending our 100's of false alerts to everyone.. I…

 It was just released yesterday :-D

You can also do this manually using the Export and Import function of the Custom Property Editor. Export the IP and the polled field as a .csv file. Then import the .csv file (match by IP), and put the polled field into your custom property field instead.

This sounds like the advanced alerting engine connecting at the interval specified for each alert. I suspect if you have 10 alerts configured with checking every minute, then you would get 10 connects and disconnects per minute. Perhaps not the best application design for Orion users with 100's of alerts setup? <edit> can…

Thanks for the response. Its a shame that this can't be done on Orion. I think you have jumped the gun here - no one said it can't be done... Check this post - it has all the code required to view the number of nodes down for a particular site. This can be filtered for displaying each customer using a custom property. Just…

I second this request! In Custom Property Editor, I end up dragging the column in question next the others in the group I want to edit, but of course when the app is closed it reverts back to the default order. Another feature I requested was the ability to save your filters as favorites so you don't have to recreate them…

Monday was a holiday in Canada & I spent 4 hours trying to get this working from home. I've just rebooted the server after doing a repair on APM3 yesterday and being prompted to reboot. I just opened a ticket - Case # 115800 Created: APM Upgrade fails

I'd be interested in how you have this working as well. I've tuned my polls per seconds below the recommended values & my polling completion percentage has increased from 98.6% to 99.1% for the remote poller. I now have it running across a lightly loaded OC12 WAN link (622mbps) to the DB with 36ms latency. However I still…

Thanks for the detailed info JR! I didn't think it was worthwhile adding to the CSZ, since it was quite simple to create with Report Writer. BTW, Is this a canned report or something I created many years ago and just forgot about? (do you have a report like this in Report Writer already?) As for the top 10, I don't like to…

I'm having a similar issue. We have a homegrown IP Management application using an MS Access 2003 DB. I have created the same custom fields in Orion IPAM as my Access DB, but when I import a subnet, it gets stuffed into the root folder in Orion. Example, I have the following Hierarchy setup in IPAM: Country, Region, City,…

 Nice! That's one way of learning from your failovers ;-)

I think the verified answer and post points should go to Larry, not Trey

Yes, you can display your custom properties in the mouse-over pop-up box, as explained in the previous link. Here is what I currently have set in mine; Custom Tool Tip Template for Nodes ${NodeName}${CR}${Building}${CR}${IPAddress}${CR}Node Status ${Status}${CR}Type: ${MachineType}${CR}IOS Image: ${IOSImage}${CR}IOS…

 Works for me, as long as it's only being used internally.

Hi Don, I'm not sure if this is what you are looking for, but vcato & I have posted code in this forum which seems to do what you are asking for. It allows you to edit any listed custom property for a node directly from the Web page. Vic has even posted the code & detailed instructions in the Content Sharing Zone. I just…

 I just read the release notes & 8.5 requires Microsoft .Net 3.0... Also I just found out this is a known bug. 

Of course, how silly of me to think that M$ would put processor stats under the Processor heading.... BTW, I found a whole bunch of Orion polling performance counters which I'm just checking out now. I found one called Orion Node poller on my main SLX 8.1 server, but the counter performance object does not exist on my SLX…