Network_Guru

Ditto, It seems like the ticket gets passed from one tech to another or up another tier & they don't have time to read the case notes. It's easier to just ask the same information over again.

I've got my router OSPF configurations set to log any OSPF adjacency changes. These get sent to my SW server as syslogs - no traps required. ioshints.blogspot.com/.../enhanced-ospf-adjacency-logging.html You can then setup alerts based on these syslog messages. 

BTW, there is now an KB article on how to disable this manually here: SolarWinds Knowledge Base :: How do I disable topology polling calculations?http://knowledgebase.solarwinds.com/kb/questions/3523/How+do+I+disable+topology+polling+calculations%3F.

Jim, any word back on this issue from SW support. I have over 66K elements being polled and am running into this issue as well. I'll try your config file edit as a workaround, but a simple Web page coding design issue should not be that difficult to fix....

Well it appears I am in this exact situation now. The DB will be separated from the secondary poller via an OC12 WAN link with 40ms latency. Does anyone have any experience with this? What is the performance like ? Any issues with the DB or other services timing out?

Here is the forum for feature requests: thwack.com/.../50.aspx I suggest you put the version no. in the subject line, as there is no specific forum for V9. Some of these requests pertain to V8....

In short Orion ignores the top 5% <NOT>and buttom 5% of the polling results</NOT> (in other words ignores spikes) That means that if you have a 256 kbps line and you're monitoring traffic - and the usual load is around 128 kbps but one reading pushes the load to 256 kbps Orion will ignore this reading as it doesn't really…

I use a Log file analysis program called Sawmill to chew through my IIS logs (among many others). They currently support over 500 log file types.

Of course the next obvious question is, how can I search for these words in all of my custom properties? I was considering using Report Write for this, but I'm not sure that would work. Perhaps a custom SQL query exporting all the unique CP's and doing a search on the data in Excel? Please advise if you have done something…

Have you done a "rediscover resources" from the System Manager node details page? It will no longer recognize the interfaces you were monitoring on the old routers.

I use a Domain Account with admin rights, but I had to add the domain account to the local administrators group. When specifying the acccount name, I use the following syntax: DOMAIN\username This works for me in both NCM6.1 and 7.0.3

 You can also group devices by any custom property you have defined. Custom Property Editor [CPE] is very powerful & is your friend when working with alerts or reports in Orion. 

Further to this, I'd like to note an issue with the MOS score charts. Looking at this chart, there are 2 things wrong: 1) As noted in other threads, 95th percentile is not an average, and this word should not appear below this chart (I noticed this is fixed in NPM charts, but not in the VoIP monitor module) 2) 95th…

Do you want to run Ping from your PC or from the Orion server. I've been looking for a way to run ping from the Orion server through the Orion browser interface. Sadly that requires running an executable on the server through your browser, which is a security risk and is locked down in IIS. Years ago I created an AANT…

 Yeah, but does 8.1 have the "no alerting on Sunday" hotfix? I had about 20 devices go down this weekend due to a scheduled power outage & was wondering why I didn't receive any alerts, until I remembered this bug.... I'd definitely migrate all my alerts to the advanced alerting engine, were it not for this bug.

What is your refresh time set to in NA? The default is 5 minutes. You won't see the status of the node change until the next refresh....

I did a search for "Incorrect syntax near" and came up with this post, which sounds like a similar problem. This may fix it for you. I agree, upgrading to a newer release is not a fix, when it worked fine before. V8.5.1 also has bugs (memory leaks, etc.) so "upgrading" is not really an option for me. I need stability more…

I'm still lacking this functionality. Any word on adding the scheduled jobs to the web interface? Here is my nirvana scenario. Run 'show standby brief' on 800 routers & export output to a file. Run some type of compliance report show routers which do not have an HSRP neighbor. Or run a complinace report to show wich…

Reply from Solarwinds Support: The audit logging is a new feature, so it will still need to be fleshed out. The IP history portion has been in place for quite a bit longer, but it's only ever been from an IP alteration point of view, not from an Orion point. Hopefully the expansion of the audit logging will expand this out…

Thanks Chris, I was looking for the release notes but did not see them initially. I expected the release notes to be in the downloaded ZIP file in PDF format, but I see it is only available on-line in HTML format here: www.solarwinds.com/.../releaseNotes.htm

Thanks for the info. I knew how to do this in the old ASP code, but the new .NET code is a little more confusing.

Jon, what version are you using? I'm still using 8.1 and the mapmaker is functioning flawlessly (after the slow load bug fix). Has the functionality been impaired in newer versions?

Have a look at this post - This is for V7, YMMV.

Transmit %Utilization on a Wan link can be gathered from any location. What you need is IPSLA enabled on your Cisco routers to monitor latency between sites. This will be available shortly when Solarwinds releases their VoIP Monitor plugin for Orion.

I think the answer to question #2 is no, not exactly. Basically you can only select the resources you want to monitor when adding the device in System Manager. The only time I have see where you can select what resources you want to add to monitoring on each node, is when you use the Network Discovery tool to import nodes.…

I'm running the latest NCM V7 and this functionality is still not there? I'd even settle for a simple link between the NCM Details page & the NPM details page. Solarwinds has done some strange stuff. The NCM node details resource does not show the System Name. There is no way to edit the NCM node details fields whcih are…

Yes, mine does Chris. Will you be updating this app to work with a proxy autoconfig script?

Thanks Rob. The Cisco link you provided appears to be for older devices running an IOS operating system. These Nexus switches are based on Linux Kernel and I suspect there other counters at play here. I may do an SNMP Walk on a Nexus switch and see if I can pickup which interface counter might be incrementing to cause NPM…

I really could have used this feature today. The latency between my poller and a Data Center has almost doubled this AM. If this feature was available, I would be able to determine if this was due to a Layer 3 re-route to this node, or if it is an issue with the POS transport circuit itself.

Using the Firebug plugin to Firefox will also show which components are taking the longest to load.