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According to the install notes, you should be un-installing V7.0.5 before installing 7.1, at least that's how I did it. As always, backup your files before upgrading (see my other reply to a post on this). -=Cheers=- NG

You can change these in the DB directly with this query. You can see the data & fields in the DB using the Orion DB Manager. Edit the Community String in the database directly by running a query similar to; Update nodes Set Community=<new-name> Where Community= using the Database Manager. Make sure you have select the -…

Did you setup the TFTP app to allow the IP's & Write access to your TFTP folder? There's also a new tool - Cirrus Config Mangement which will do this automatically for you, based on a schedule. www2.solarwinds.net/.../Index.htm -=Cheers=- NG

There are several examples that come with the Download Config add-in: quote:Example scripts showing a couple methods of automating the Cisco Config Downloader. These examples may only work with Licensed version of the SolarWinds 2001 toolsets. Limited Support is provided for this component. It can be found here -…

You must login with your Customer ID & Password to access these components. In addition, you must also have a valid maintenance contract with SW. support.solarwinds.net/.../Unsupported.cfm -=Cheers=- NG

I believe there is an option in the TFTP server settings to have it shutdown after a period of time.... -=Cheers=- NG

Make sure the Solarwinds TFTP server is not already running? -=Cheers=- NG

Here you go BB (I'm not a programmer, but this does work). I created 3 subdirectories off the tftp-root folder. Basically I'm just shuffling the data down each folder before I grab the latest configs, and overwrite the last saved configs. rem @echo off cd /d c:\tftp-root\rtrs\old2 copy *.CiscoConfig…

They tftp the config from your cisco devices using the Solarwinds Cisco config upload app automatically with no user intervention required. If you have the yearly maintenance contract you can just download the scripts and modify them for your devices. -=Cheers=- NG

Once you have edited the scripts with your IPs and SNMP RW strings, you can run them with Windows Task Scheduler using wscript.exe ; C:\WINNT>wscript /? for more info. I created a batch file which archives the last three downloads, then calls the vb script. I just run the batch file every 2 weeks with task scheduler.…

Thanks Levi, I downloaded the VB scripts and have setup the task scheduler on our server to grab a copy of all our configs every 2 weeks, and archive 8 weeks of configs. These scripts work great. -=Cheers=- NG

The built in Report Writer is quite user friendly. As far a "LAN" report, that is somewhat ambiguous, so it's hard to give you any specifics. As a start you could create a report based on all the uplinks between your LAN switches. To make it easier to specify the interfaces to be used in the report, you will want to open…

Unless you have servers at the remote office for the users, why would you NOT want to poll them from the Main office? I know what you're asking, but wouldn't you want to see what the latency & performance is for the users at the remote office connecting through the VPN? You would have to deploy a second polling agent at…

Hey all, I just noticed the following fields in the list of Events to display in the dropdown box; Type of Event: "Application Stopped" & "Application Restart" as well as the newly discovered: "UnManage Node" & "Manage Node " Could this possibly mean the next version of Orion will support application (service) monitoring?…

Hi Clickster, you can do this with the Custom Property Editor. Have a look at this post.

Sorry Clanger, this has been a much requested feature, but is currently not avaiable in V8. (Hint use the search button). -=Cheers=- NG ~seek & ye shall find---> [url="http://www4.solarwinds.net/SolarWindsForum/search.asp"] <---no need to wait for answers~

I'm not sure this is what you are looking for... Have you seen this post which shows you how to create a "Custom Property Editor" page for a specific node? Basically I added a link on the node details page called "Edit custom properties for this node" which opens a new page with fields to update all custom properties on a…

I have the same issue with Cisco routers with certificates which show up in the running config, but not in the startup config. I've been searching for a few hours now on how to specify the comparison criteria used for the flashy pie charts on the default config summary page ?!? * Last 10 config changes * Overall Config…

 Netflow is not supported on the 3750 platform. As per Cisco, the only switches which support Netflow are the 6500's & 4500's with netflow module on the Sup. NetFlow is also supported by these devices Cisco 800, 1700, 1800, 2800, 3800, 6500, 7300, 7600, 10000, CRS-1 and these Catalyst series switches: 45xx, 55xx, 6xxx.…

CiscoWorks is a PIG. Any Netadmin I've talked to has told me the same thing. First of all it only works with specific versions of Java on your browser. It is very user unfriendly - non-intuitive to use. Our CW server/services frequently lock up. Outrageously priced for basic Cisco only functionality Some newer devices -…

You need to select a different report type - "Current Node Status" this will show you the real time status of your interfaces & will even be refreshed on the web page. You can even add some colorful lemon, lime & cherry flavoured staus icons to your report -=Cheers=- NG

Monitoring services is not support by Orion, but would be a great feature to add - ala BigBrother or something similar. -=Cheers=- NG

Sorry Keith, I've had this resource around for 3 years now & forgot that it's not part of the default Orion install. Here's the post describing how to create this resource yourself (see the post by Rix). www4.solarwinds.net/.../topic.asp I've ended up using this resource for many other customizations, such as adding…

Thanks for the heads up Greg, This is definitely the way to go. Start any app from your browser with a right click menu. However I'm still running V7.4 as I have not required any of the newer features in 7.6 Also, since I'm using passthru authentication I am going to wait until the following bug is fixed:…

Thanks for all your suggestions Isaac! I did get this working several months ago, but using a different solution. I've only used this with Windows PC's, not sure if it's do-able with 'nix workstations/browsers. First you must install the 'Putty' SSH client in your C:\Program Files\Putty directory. Then change your default…

I have the MindTerm SSH Sun Java applet running on the Orion server. I added this line to the '70-telnet.resource' here: C:\Inetpub\SolarWinds\NetPerfMon\Resources\9-1-Miscellaneous <tr> <td class="Property"><a target="_blank" href="">thwack.solarwinds.com/.../ssh.html">SSH to <%=Node.GetProperty("IP_Address")%></a></td>…

Actually I've found MindTerm SSH which launches an SSH client on your PC (using Java applet). I'm using this to replace the telnet functionality we have on the Orion web page to remote into our devices, using the browser to start your telnet session. I'll let you know how it goes.... -=Cheers=- NG

All my pollers are on the same LAN as the DB server, so no network latency issues there.

It seems some of my services did not install cleanly in my NPM10.4.2 install (even after repairing them). After upgrading to 10.7, MSMQ started working correctly on this one APE. However SAM was still showing problems with Orion Job Scheduler V2. Following the instruction from SW support, Last night I was able to uninstall…

I'm still fighting with this. This is on a fresh install of 10.4.2 on 2 brand new APEs. One server works fine with now issue and this one does not. I have a case open for this, but support is unable to find the cause, although they found the following error message in the diag files I sent: 2014-05-14 12:06:47,137 [16]…