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Do a search for CPU Utilization; www2.solarwinds.net/.../topic.asp www2.solarwinds.net/.../topic.asp -=Cheers=- NG

The only changes that have been made to this system was upgrading th Engineers toolset last to 9.2 SP2. Other than that it is a pretty vanilla server not much in the way of customization. Windows 2003 4 gig ram Orion SLX 8.5.1 SP3. Am I missing something? I just installed SP1 for SW Engineers Toolset V9.2 today. Is there…

Not at this time. -=Cheers=- NG

 Hi Mike, "On average, every adult Canadian has one testicle and one braest". As you can see, averages can lead to very meaningless results. Generally circuit utilization and billing is measured using 95th percentile. Your circuit may be running at 100% for 6 hours and 10% for the other 6 hours and your average will be 55%…

Have you tried running: netstat -a from the command prompt? I had KiwiCatTools installed on my server which was conflicting with the SW TFTP tool. -=Cheers=- NG

Yes, this is one of the most asked for features. www2.solarwinds.net/.../topic.asp www2.solarwinds.net/.../topic.asp www2.solarwinds.net/.../topic.asp -=Cheers=- NG

Hey Steve, I've never really run into this issue, but you might want to try report grouping. It will reduce the width of the web page, by grouping common elements into a sub-group under a common heading. I use it to create monthly outage reports based on site. All outages for each site for last month are grouped under each…

Network Sonar can only identify a device if it is able to poll the device with SNMP. Otherwise it can only "see" the device on your network using ICMP. but cannot report any details. Windows SNMP used to be wide open using the default 'public' community string, but since XP & Win2k3, it has been locked down. You will have…

Here is the doc in the beta tools section of the customer login: This is an early, pre-release version of one of our new Security tools for the Engineer's Edition. The Port Scanner allows testing for open TCP ports across IP Address and port ranges or selection of specific machines and ports. Common port names are included…

Nano, Nano, Earth calling Ork..... I did a search for discard & found these posts by others who have also seen this: www2.solarwinds.net/.../topic.asp www2.solarwinds.net/.../topic.asp -=Cheers=- NG

Hi Kevin, You can use the Chart in in Orion to do this on a single Interface. Select the Node & Interface you want. Change the chart to show: Adjust Time Period for Chart = "last 30 days" Adjust Sample Interval = "every 1 hour" & then click "refresh chart" Now export the data using the "Chart Data" button at the bottom…

Nice write up ceclark! The screen shots make it much easier to see what to edit. BTW. You can just copy the code in my post & paste it into a new file named "telnet4putty.reg". I then store this file on our Network drive. Anyone that wants to use the telnet & ssh links in Orion can install putty & then merge the Reg…

Hey Rik, is this the post you are referring to? www2.solarwinds.net/.../topic.asp The Reg hack I provided will open SecurCRT or any program you want associated to telnet in your Web Browser. quote:[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\telnet] @="URL:Telnet Protocol" "EditFlags"=dword:00000002 "URL Protocol"=""…

With 2000 elements you should be OK running the Orion DB on the same server as the polling engine & web server. With aggressive polling your Orion DB will be around 10 - 15Gb. The Netflow DB should go on a dedicated SQL server - it is a very DB intensive app & can consume gobs of disk space. I'm using a competitors Netflow…

Sounds like you are having database issues. Perhaps running out of DB file space? When nightly maintenance runs it clears some room for another day or two of polling stats. Check the debug.log file in the directory where you have installed Orion. -=Cheers=- NG

You can use the SNMP MIB tool to retrieve the IPV6 MIB for each device. There is an Excel add-in which allows this data to be collected in an Excel spreadsheet. It's a bit of work to setup, but once it's done, it can be re-run at any time. (Note - I have not searched for or retrieved any IPV6 MIBs from any of my Cisco…

You must have the correct SNMP community string (read only is fine) & have UDP port 161 open between from your server to the device. Some devices must be setup to allow SNMP polling from specific IPs as well. If you are not familiar with SNMP, you can find more info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snmp -=Cheers=- NG

Install is quite straight-forward with the built-in configuration wizard. For training I suggest the on-line tutorials - www2.solarwinds.net/.../Tutorials.htm as well as just reading through the admin guide - www2.solarwinds.net/.../default.htm -=Cheers=- NG

What happens when you open a command prompt on the Orion server and do a continuous ping to these switches? Let it run for a few hours. If you have the Solarwinds Professional Edition or higher, you can run the enhanced ping util. and graph the response times. -=Cheers=- NG

If you have a DNS alias entry for the Windows server, this might cause the issue as well. If I use the Windows server name in the URL, then pass-thru works fine. If I use the DNS alias (Solarwinds.xyz.com) in the URL, then I get prompted to login. -=Cheers=- NG

I have just finished an eval of NetQos Reporter/Analyzer. It's a great product as far as ease of deployment and generating meaningful reports. It really opens your eyes as to what is going on in your network, especially WAN links. It seems like the following announcement was more PR than anything else;…

My guess is they want customers to phone or e-mail for tech support and keep this forum for customers to provide feedback and exchange ideas. Of course, as in most forums, there are users(not necessarily customers) questions which are already answered in the documentation or previous posts. I feel Solarwinds has a great…

See these posts from/with the founder of Solarwinds. www2.solarwinds.net/.../pop_profile.asp I don't know of too many other large companies that have the owner posting in a technical forum (although it would be good to know if custom MIB support is even in the plans - Yes or No?). www.solarwinds.net/Founders.htm There are…

Some of my alerts are not working correctly since the 7.1 upgrade. I'm wondering if this is due to not deleting the shared files when un-installing 7.0.5 ? Current packet loss for xxxxxxx is ${%Loss} at 3/26/2004 14:33 EST. Average Response time is 45 ms and is varying from 31 ms to 47 ms. The time macro and response time…

Most of the questions asked in this forum are spelled out plainly in the Admin Guide. Hint - do a search for "directlink account". -=Cheers=- NG

The statistcs collection method is explained in the Orion documentation. It would be a great feature to alert based on percentage change. This could be used for any kind of alert, such as utilization, packet loss, latency, cpu, etc. If your CPU normally runs at 15% & suddenly spikes up to 40%, then send a notification. It…

The alert is based on the utilization over the duration of the statistics polling interval. If you poll for the interface stats every 10 minutes, then you must exceed the threshold for the full 10 minutes before you get alerted. -=Cheers=- NG

On a large Orion SLX installation you might find polling your interfaces at 5 minute intervals is excessive. I only poll my backbone interfaces (a handful at best) every 5 minutes. All others are polled at 15 minute intervals. In this case you need a sustained utilization over 15 minutes to set off an alert, which is…

That's pretty hard to do here on the forums Mark, I suggest you check out the detailed on-line documentation: www.solarwinds.net/.../chapter 4.htm www.solarwinds.net/.../alert suppression examples.htm & tutorials: www2.solarwinds.net/.../Alerts.html www2.solarwinds.net/.../AdvAlertsV7.html -=Cheers=- NG

quote:Originally posted by mgibson I have done what was suggested and devices downstream now have a polling rate of double that of the upstream router. When setting up the alert suppression, how does it know to suppress alerts from the devices on the down stream side of the router as I have not identified which devices are…