Network_Guru

Nope. mine were all stopped after the wizard completed. I expected to see them all restart in the command prompt window, but did not. I assumed they had, but when I checked a few hours later, they were all stopped. Fortunately this server is not in full production yet. I'm running APM and VoIP monitor on this server with a…

The AppInsight poller has finally caught up with the actual indices fragmentation data. I did click the poll now button several times without effect. I guess this data does not get updated very often.

 Sounds very similar to this post....

I've seen a thread where it's mentioned that this can be caused by malformed data causing the syslog service to crash. I'm sure Solarwinds support has some debug switches which can be enabled to troubleshoot this issue. Just open a support ticket.

Will do. Thanks.

I had this same problem and contacted support about it. Here is what support told me to do: To resolve this, please use the following steps. Go into Add/Remove Programs and choose the Job Engine install. Click the Change/Remove and uninstall this application from the server. Once done, go to C:\Documents and Settings\All…

Hitting search is fine, except if you are looking for something related to a specific version. Now that there are posts for V6 7, 8 & 9 in the forums, it is becoming increasingly difficult to find info relevant to the version you are using. Many posts do not specify what version the user is running, hence the request for…

 OMG Denny, talk about bringing posts back from the grave.... that was posted over two years ago ;-) Here's one a little more recent.... Sadly our travel budget was nixed for this year, so I was unable to attend (Networkers @ Las Vegas was great last year).

Well Orion V9 is here now. However, we have since built a new Backbone using OSPF instead of BGP. I've been search for the IP routing table MIB for the past couple of hours, but have been unable to find it. If anyone finds the MIB table that displays the summary of the number of routes in the routing table, please post it…

Along these same lines, I'd like to monitor the routing profile table on Cisco Backbone routers (similar to doing a "show ip route summary"). See this link for more information on this feature.

Any update on this? We are having the same issue while managing hundreds of Groups/Supernets/subnets. We have created the groups and now must move the subnets into the correct groups.

Sadly, the update requirements for V8.1 are gone from the release notes. Mithrihall is correct - you need .NET 2 for V8.1 & .NET 3 is installed automatically as part of the V8.5 install. Here is my upgrade experience. 

I also noticed there is really no "easy" way to use these new Wireless custom views. I created a new Menu item called WiFi, but the resources used to create these views are not available to add to a new view. As I see it, you would have to create a new Menu item for each of the 3 new Wireless views, and use up the precious…

Cisco (Altiga) 3000 VPN concentrator session stats (see attached MIB file). List the users connected, rejected, etc.

That should work, but you will lose all your custom view, maps and data. I would un-install 9.5, restore a backup of your 9.1 DB and re-install 9.1 using your old DB. (You did back-up your DB before upgrading to 9.5?)

I'd like to be able to create custom Menu Bar tabs for each type of test, as we have 100's of tests from many routers to the same destination. Example, we run DNS tests from all out routers to multiple DNS servers. We run HTTP tests to multiple Web servers on all out IPSLA routers. We running IPSLA tests for our Cisco…

 I use Sawmill to process the IIS logs - it's nicely preformatted for this.

It would definitely be cool to have a dropdown menu/submenu. I just use a Menu Item called "Links" to display additional links to other views, reports, applications & software, using a combination of "RAW HTML" & "User Defined Links", using a 3 column layout. I did play around with a floating menu using Java Script, but…

Have you try using the Windows eventlog to send SNMP syslogs or traps to your Orion Server & alert that way? I use Snare to send syslogs when any System eventlog with 'Solarwinds' is recorded to tell me when a service has stopped or started on my server. If there is a specific eventlog entry that indicates when a server is…

 This feature has been requested for years - not sure when we might see this, but it would be nice to have, especially in the case of dial-backup interfaces.

Perhaps dgreen is not using this account to authenticate, but a directlink account or some other local account? Can this user still login if you disable this account?

The software should be installed as close to the devices being managed/monitored as possible. The second choice would be on the NGs PCs. Just be aware some of these tools (switchport mapper) can drive up the CPU on a heavily loaded chassis such as the Cisco 6509 to almost 100%. 

I suggest sniffing between your Orion server & switch & look for the interface OID that Orion is polling to collect the Multicast stats. You should be able to compare this to what you have already discovered with the EE toolset.

This does not look like you are anywhere near the maximum polling limit. Do you see gaps in the ICMP graphs as well, or just the SNMP polls? What is the interval on that CPU graph - 15 minutes? I find that Solarwinds support has taken a downturn in the past year. Rather than trying to fix a problem, they take the Microsoft…

I think the VM adds overhead as well. If this was a dedicated hardware platform & your polling is left at default, you should be good for close to 8000 elements before having to look at a second poller.

Here is the Report Writer SQL query for TX Discards (it is actually limited to the top 10 interfaces with discards on a device): SELECT TOP 10 Nodes.NodeID AS NodeID, Interfaces.InterfaceID AS InterfaceID, Nodes.Caption AS NodeName, Interfaces.Caption AS Interface_Caption, Interfaces.OutDiscardsToday AS OutDiscardsToday,…

Same here. It doesn't make sense to update the cache for all compliance reports when you've only made a change to one and want to see the results.

The second one, if I understand it, is to allow you to create an account limitation on your list of custom properties. I believe the Account Limitation Builder already does this?!?

 I've been thinking about this problem for some time now. I've created a Report Writer report which shows interfaces & volumes in an unknown state, in an effort to identify the nodes where SNMP has broken. Perhaps a better way would be to create a daily report based on uptime. Filter it on any SNMP node where the uptime…

 In V7 and earlier you could open the node details in System Manager and just check the SNMP box and enter the SNMP community string to change from ICMP to SNMP polling. I don't see a way to do that anymore in V8. You will lose the ICMP data when changing to SNMP polling.