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Have you downloaded and installed them from the Solarwinds Customer "unsupported" section ? It should register itself in report writer. The included .pdf file in the zipped download decribes this in detail. There is also some mention of this on their web site: www.solarwinds.net/NoMaintOrion.htm -=Cheers=- NG

It should work in V7.0.5 It shows up only in availability reports - as a separate item under the filter results tab. "Date/Time (Availability time filtering only)" -=Cheers=- NG

Thanks Jon, That worked like a Charm! -=Cheers=- NG

Jeff, Please see the following recent post regarding this "issue".

This is not currently possible with Orion V7.8. Orion version 8 should be capable of doing this once it is released. -=Cheers=- NG

Check this post - towards the end: www4.solarwinds.net/.../topic.asp I've got a reg hack there that launches Putty instead of the Windows telnet command. Just add a custom field on CPE called access & use that to launch Putty with either telnet or SSH. -=Cheers=- NG

There is no magic bullet when it comes to managing nodes in NetPerfMon. Here are a couple of tips; Elements (nodes) are sorted alphabetically. Right click and rename the node with a preface such as location, customer, group or W.H.Y. This will give you a crude grouping mechanism. Use the VIEW button & select the property…

Yes, you can create an hourly report & then modify it to use 15 minute intervals, using a Custom SQL Query. See this post for using the Custom SQL query: www2.solarwinds.net/.../topic.asp -=Cheers=- NG

Hi Craig, It seems you can't edit any of the discovered properties in Orion. As a workaround, I suggest enabling SNMP to discover the device once & then remove the SNMP polling in Orion System Manager. It will then keep the discovered properties in the DB. -=Cheers=- NG

What do you have your MaxStatsPolling set to ? Have a look in SysManager under: File > Polling Status Here is what mine looks like; Orion Network Performance Monitor Version 7.2.73 Network Node Elements 593 Interface Elements 2211 Volume Elements 84 Status Polling Index 1353 out of 2976 Statistic Polling Index 2879 out of…

Did you paste this code into the Custom HTML page you created(click the edit icon on the page header - right side)? quote:From the Webadmin page go to "customize views" > +Add Use the default "summary" type of view and name it something like - Custom Charts. Then under "add resources" select miscellaneous > Custom HTML or…

When you test sending the e-mail from Report Scheduler using the run job now button, it is using the account you are currently logged in with. If no one is logged into the server when the Scheduled report is supposed to run, then is can't send the job. Did you specify the Account credentials that will be running this…

First of all, you must have the Orion Report Scheduler installed. This is an add-on component for customers with mainentance support. You can download it from: support.solarwinds.net/.../Unsupported.cfm "Report Scheduler The Report Scheduler lets you schedule reports to be e-mailed or printed on a regular basis. Limited…

Ian, I actually made it part of the Orion website. From the Webadmin page go to "customize views" > +Add Use the default "summary" type of view and name it something like - Custom Charts. Then under "add resources" select miscellaneous > Custom HTML or text Once you have created the resource, edit the page and paste in the…

Create a custom webpage with RAW html which only has the graphs on it. Then add it to the customer's menu bar. Orion-server/.../view.asp Here is an example of what I have done for graphing the availability of our call centers and sending this out once a month using the Report Scheduler: Latency & Packet Loss - YTD Call…

You'll have to use Orion to get alert suppression capabilities. -=Cheers=- NG

What version are you running. There were some issues with this on some of the older versions that was fixed in 7.3 They were especially noticeable on the same local LAN segement/Network that the Orion server is on. www2.solarwinds.net/.../topic.asp Most likely you are running a newer version that this. Have you done a…

Yep, these are known issues with the Beta Alert Manager: www4.solarwinds.net/.../topic.asp www4.solarwinds.net/.../topic.asp -=Cheers=- NG

There was a bug in the older Switchport Mapper versions that you might be able to take advantage of. The commands in this post allowed you to map just one VLAN at a time. 

Those are all good points Marko. I think another question is what hardware is your DB running on? This may be the limiting factor on how quickly the poller can write all the data in memory to the DB before it stops, as well as reading all elements back into memory when it starts. Your need a fast disk array and lots of RAM…

I have not investigated this fully but here are my thoughts on this: Monitoring an L2 VLAN (unrouted) with NPM should show all VLAN222 traffic transiting the backplane on the 6509 (including intra-vlan traffic between ports in the same vlan. Monitoring a L3 VLAN (routed) is like monitoring an interface on a router - it…

You can use a program like Winbeep, and set Solarwinds to run this program when an alert is set off, rather than sending an e-mail via SMTP. -=Cheers=- NG

Download and install the Poller Load Balancing application. It detects the unused poller and will ask you if you want to delete it. -=Cheers=- NG

Some of the features you have mentioned are now supported in Version 7.0 - You can now add custom fields to the database to track circuit numbers, etc. - Grouping objects in the Web interface is also now implemented. As for the rest, Orion is only as good as the SNMP MIBs supported by the device you want to monitor. There…

There has been a Version 7 beta out for some time now, but no mention of when a new or non-beta version is being released. -=Cheers=- NG

Sorry Sandeep - I am not a Linux Guru.... Orion was originally intended as a Network Monitoring tool. The Server monitoring was added as a free add-on/bonus. As such it does not support the same number of MIBs &/or detail as the Cisco devices. All I can suggest is to do a search for Linux in this forum to see what others…

APM License Application Performance Monitor shortcut is pointing here: C:\WINDOWS\system32\SolarWinds2002.exe -PKG,Orion Application Performance Monitor 2.5.0 AL500,-KEY,OR:8030 I am never prompted to enter the new license info after running the upgrade. This program does not start when I try to run it manually.

I have not used SecurCRT, but Putty is free! I set putty to automatically log all my sessions to a text file, so I have record of all inputs and outputs for each session.

Unfortunately, I have not been able to get group authentication to work either. Anyone else have any luck with this? This would definitely be a huge benefit for managing accounts. -=Cheers=- NG

Hi Jim, As I undestand the pass-thru authentication, as long as the user is authenticated & logged into the Windows AD domain, they will not be prompted to login. If the user is not authenticated to the AD domain, then they will get the login screen & must use the password you have programmed for their account. This…