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What Macro are you using for the Percent Memory utilization? It should be ${PercentMemoryUsed} I don't use this feature myself, so I have not seen this issue, but it works correctly when sending it via e-mail. -=Cheers=- NG

Create 3 separate reports and add them all on one web page? Publish each report on the same web page using the "Customize view" option & selecting a "Report from Orion Report Writer" from the add resources menu. This will display the actual report data on the web page, not just a link to each report. -=Cheers=- NG

Display the 3 reports on an Orion webpage & e-mail the webpage out using the Report scheduler? -=Cheers=- NG

I tried this as well, as it seemed like a cool feature. The auto-refresh does not work on the active desktop, so you would be looking at a static webpage. -=Cheers=- NG

This post should be in the Orion forum - next door. Orion cannot monitor services. It is an ICMP & SNMP based monitoring tool only. -=Cheers=- NG

Along the lines of what Isaac said.... As long as you base each layer on a different custom propery, you should be able to do this. If all your groupings will be the same - location >router >switch, then base your groupings on those 3 custom properties, and you should be in business. You may have trouble linking a…

You can create a custom web view which hides nodes, but unfortunately you cannot hide interfaces on a node. Therefore, if your router has other interfaces which you want to see in the web page, then this is not possible. Perhaps a new feature to be added for the next release? It would be great to hide interfaces from…

Hi Don, I'm no DBA but I think I know what you're saying. I found that the report performance is dependant on the order of your filter. I created some 90 day interface reports which would sometimes timeout (depending on how busy the Orion DB was when running the report). I found that changing the order of the items in the…

Still waiting on this one.... What I'm really after is full integration into the NPM DB, so that I can use the customized alert suppression as per this post:TIPS & TRICKS: Stop the madness! Avoiding alerts but continuing to pull statistics. Example: We have many WAN circuits using ethernet interfaces (DGE). In the past we…

Set the report time frame to last 30 days & set the summarization to "date". -=Cheers=- NG

Sounds like you need to run the comapct & re-index job in the database maintenance app. I ran an advanced database maintenance tool in V6.4 but it appears it's gone in V7. Be aware, this could take some time, and your polling engine will stop while this is running. Make sure it is running once the job has finished.…

This is an easy one. In System Manager, expand the node with the interface you want to monitor. Right click on the interface and select Assign Custom MIB pollers. I am collecting CRC stats using the same OID.

Hey Duncan, you cannot really measure Jitter using regular ICMP packets. I suggest you do a Google Search such as the following: www.google.com/search I found this description on the Cisco Web site here: www.cisco.com/.../tsd_technology_support_sub-protocol_home.html quote:Service Assurance Agent (SAA) is embedded software…

Measuring jitter requires something like Cisco's IP SAA. It's not part of the Solarwinds package at this time, but may be in the works.... -=Cheers=- NG

It depends on if you want to pull reports straight from the SQL database using something like Crystal Reports or <ugh> Access. With the functionality of Report Writer you probably don't need these tools, unless you want to graph any of these reports. -=Cheers=- NG

Hi Jake, welcome to Solarwinds. I did a search in this forum and found the following which appears to pertain to your issue: www2.solarwinds.net/.../topic.asp -=Cheers=- NG

If your Orion server is part of your AD domain, then you can just enter the users login ID & it will send the alert to the first machine they log into. -=Cheers=- NG ~seek & ye shall find---> [url="http://www4.solarwinds.net/SolarWindsForum/search.asp"] <---no more waiting for answers~

Have a look at this post; www2.solarwinds.net/.../topic.asp I have since created a page which compares 2 WAN links which are load sharing between 2 sites. I just created a Custom page with 2 columns and pasted the html code for each link in each column. I have 4 graphs in each column - today, last 7 days, last 30 days &…

You can copy and paste the cisco icons directly from Visio into mapmaker. Check the following reply in this post: www2.solarwinds.net/.../topic.asp -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The SolarWinds Map Maker update in Version 7.1 will allow copy and paste of device icons…

My server has 3Gb of ram & SQL process always takes 1.7Gb of ram. You can also control the max amount of ram SQL uses. -=Cheers=- NG

You would have to get the RSTP value using the Custom Poller and know which OID to poll. If you wanted to display this in a map as a colored icon, you would run into the same issue as this user.

One word - backups Restore an earlier version of the database file, or contact SW Tech support. -=Cheers=- NG

What are you using for your alert trigger action? Simple or advanced/complex condition? I have not really figured out the difference between the 2, as they both seem to do the exact same thing. I tried using the advanced condition to create an alert only when more than 10 nodes are down, but it does not allow you to do…

You must set the "keep event history" In the System Manager "settings" to something longer than 30 days. I keep mine for a year just for reports like this. -=Cheers=- NG

You can edit the DB directly to remove the nodes, but you must stop the Orion polling engine first, delete the nodes & then restart. You could also just restore the DB from last night's back-up. I have my DB scheduled to be backed up every night at 11:15PM to a flat file on my C drive. At most, I will lose 24hrs of data.…

Hi Jeff, more information is required to even begin to hazard a guess as to the cause. What make & model of router? What Software version before & after the upgrade. I suggest opening a support ticket with the router manufacturer/vendor. b -=Cheers=- NG

Here's a few for starters; I'd like my team to be able to manage & unmanage nodes &/or interfaces from the Web Console. Create reports using the Web Console. Publish Report Writer reports as a graph & publish multiple data lines on one Graph. Use AD groups via domain passthru authentication to manage users. Managing 100's…

I believe Orion shows errors/time-interval, whereas the router MIB may be reporting total errors since the last reboot? The Orion value would be a calculated value based on the difference of the counter between polls. -=Cheers=- NG

Subscribed! I'm looking for the same functionality as well.

Ive been able to manually compress the database from over 5Gb to 1.7Gb using the Orion Database Manager app, re-indexing one table at a time. However, something must have changed in this util in V7.5, as pulling up the node details web page takes 10-15 seconds now, rather than the 2-3 seconds before the last compress. It…