Network_Guru

Not sure if you have already looked through the following; www.solarwinds.net/.../Alert_Macros.htm but my suggestion is to start out with the pre-canned macros, but copy them first, and leave them intact. This way you always have a baseline to work from. www.solarwinds.net/.../Alerts.htm "Tip: To send Alerts to one person…

Check this post: www2.solarwinds.net/.../topic.asp I've played with using AD groups, but it only seems to work for the domain\everyone group. I'd sure like to be able to use the built-in AD groups, rather than adding individual accounts. That way I could give our helpdesk(~20 users) limited access to the webpage and not…

Your server looks like it should be able to handle the additional load, but it also depends on your polling intervals & the number of interfaces you are polling. Also the DB maintenance settings can affect performance. Adding one server is less load on Orion than monitoring a switch with a dozen interaces. -=Cheers=- NG

Try re-running the Web site part of the Installation wizard again. Just cancel the install wizard after it has installed the web site. It sets up the permissions correctly for you. -=Cheers=- NG

Since the nodes are listed alphabetically, we use prefixes to group our devices - DNS-xxx, MSG-xxx by device type or WA-xxx, CA-xxx for state or Office location. This also allows us to create web accounts with views and maps of only certain device according to the prefix assigned. NG

I am monitoring a national network with 5000 network elements (see description of a network element in the Orion Admin dox). Status polling is every 5 minutes, statistic snmp poll 15 min. MS-SQL Enterprise Database is also running on this server: Dual P3 930Mhz CPU, Mem,4Gig, 2x18Gb disc, Win2k-Sp3 CPU Utilization varies…

Have you tried stopping and re-starting IIS ? -=Cheers=- NG

This "feature" was introduced in V10.7 and still exists in V11.5. Report formatting in NPM V8.1 was far cleaner than this. My VP could care less if the report cannot be edited on the web - he just wants to see the data! How about fixing existing functionality before adding new features? We have lost much functionality over…

No, Yes. www2.solarwinds.net/.../topic.asp -=Cheers=- NG

The short answer is no, although I did request this in the feature request forum some time ago. Basically create an alert based on objects in a map. All you would have to do is keep your maps up to date, and your alerts will follow. This could also include interface alerts. In some instances, this would be much easier than…

Hey new_guy - Welcome to the forums. Sure, that's no a problem at all. Just check the box that says - device does not support SNMP when adding it in the NetPerfMon System Manager. Then it will only be pinged at the preset intervals. -=Cheers=- NG

Your reboot alerts are(were?) based on the node "device rediscovery" interval. If you have the rediscovery interval set to 120 minutes, then it could take up to 2 hours before you receive the notification that a device has rebooted. The important thing is that you get notified that the device is down. The reboot alert is a…

This feature was implemented in Version 6.3 It is called "Alert Suppression" -=Cheers=- NG

I have to agree with JKeberle, My server has 3 - 36Gb SCSI disks setup in Raid5 for the SQL DB, and the disk queue length is horrendous. Generally anything over 2 means you are maxing out the disk queue. When running a report it peaks between 80 & 100 while the report is running. This is the single biggest bottleneck on…

I am seeing similar symptoms on my network, where a whole group of devices suddenly show up as no response. I have just captured the ICMP packets with a sniffer and am seeing 2 ICMP packets every ~ 300 seconds. The second polling packet is 150 - 170ms after the first polling packet, although in some cases the second poll…

First off, there is an option in EE Port-Mapper to export the data to HTML. You can either publish this to an Inetpub directory on the EE server if it's running IIS, or copy/export the HTML to your Orion servers Inetpub directory. What I've done is create a "Links" page on my Orion home page. I created links using the "Raw…

.../skaczkowski The web interface only allows account management & configuring the various views and reports available on the web page. All other management of nodes/interfaces/volumes/database/reports etc. must be done through the System Manager interface which runs on the server itself. We just RDP into the server to…

Grouping in the Web Interface is quite easy to do. It's the management interface where no grouping becomes an issue, as it's sorted alphabetically. I have pre-faced all our node names with Region, then by Building to make it easier to manage devices. You can also manage devices in System Manger using the "View" tab and…

Do a search for "memory usage" in this forum and you should find the explanation. -=Cheers=- NG

Here is how Underwood acheived this using this post: www4.solarwinds.net/.../topic.asp I also added an if to only show SNMP fields if SNMP was appliable: <% If Node.GetProperty("ObjectSubType")="SNMP" Then %> <tr> <td class="Property" width="10"> </td> <td class="PropertyHeader" nowrap>System Name</td> ... </tr> You can…

We are still using Kiwi for syslogs from our monitored devices. In addition to mailing the syslog message, we've set it up to include a link to the device in Orion. HOST: 172.3x.2y.1z ERROR: "%HIFN79XX-1-PKTENGRET_ERROR: Hifn79xx PktEng Return Value = 0x20000, Hifn79xx_PktEngReturn_MACMiscompare." Orion QuickLink:…

You can add the web account username & password to the URL you are using as the link on your webserver. Do a search in this forum for "login". www2.solarwinds.net/.../topic.asp Hopefully this works for you. -=Cheers=- NG

Create a "directlink" web account, as per the admin guide. -=Cheers=- NG

I upgraded to Orion 10.4.1 2 weekends ago and found out this past weekend that the Hardware Health monitoring was spiking the CPU on a pair of fully loaded Cisco 6513 chassis to 95% every 600 minutes (my node rediscovery polling interval). This had the affect of bringing down WCCP and bypassing our WAN accelerated Riverbed…

Have you tried using the SQL name for the node - ${node.caption} ? Since this engine is based on SQL & using custom properties, it most likely needs to be formatted similar to queries you create with Report Writer. -=Cheers=- NG

Hey Irwan, welcome to the forums. The general rule of security is to only allow a more trusted network access a less trusted network. Therefore you should be able to monitor the devices in the DMZ's without too much concern for security. Only allow ICMP, & SNMP outbound from your Orion server through your FW to your…

For any response requiring immediate remediation, customers should call support directly. I've just taken it for granted that this is not a public forum & any questions/ideas tossed around here will not get an immediate response. There is a public Solarwinds forum as well, but it seems to have fizzled out.....…

 Here is the V8.1 file.

Have you done a continuous ping from the Orion server to the devices in question just to verify this? -=Cheers=- NG

John, Have a look at this post; www2.solarwinds.net/.../topic.asp You can get down to 1 minute granularity on the web page by manually changing the URL query from 5 to 1 minute. It would look something like this; 127.0.0.1/.../CustomChart.asp ..where the sample size is set to 1 Minute. -=Cheers=- NG