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My bad, Sorry Pablost. As Gonzajoh said in another post, if you have paid for maintenance on your software, then it's best to get help from Solarwinds directly on technical issues. -=Cheers=- NG

Keep an eye on the processes using the CPU on your server. Older versions of Orion had a problem with the LSASS process consuming the CPU & causing gaps in the graph (do a search in this forum for LSASS more details). www2.solarwinds.net/.../topic.asp www2.solarwinds.net/.../topic.asp I have not seen this issue since V…

I would just run through the 4 steps you have listed. (First step is to stop all Orion services). If Orion does not recognize the new DB, then run the DB install portion of the Install Wizard & point it to the new DB. (I'm no DBA, so I don't know if the MS SQL DB will be found & used by Orion after the upgrade). I've only…

Looks good Cygnuz. You may have to run the Install Wizard again & point Orion to the new MS-SQL NetPerfMon DB. It will automatically setup DB permissions & passwords for the NPM poller & Web engine. -=Cheers=- NG

You can monitor a VLAN but you won't collect any useful stats. That's just the way SNMP works. You have to monitor the ports themselves. This is exactly the same as the Cisco VLANs.... -=Cheers=- NG

I totally agree this is a required feature. Navigating through thousands of subnets would be much easier if we could just search by the subnet name, rather than specific IP's in a subnet.

Leo, EE edition has MIBS for many network devices which are updated by the Solarwinds crew every few months. It should work with the Foundry devices just fine. If not, you can request custom MIBS to be added: If you would like to have your private MIBS added to the database, e-mail them to Development@SolarWinds.Net. See…

The Eng Edition data is saved in a Microsoft Database. I believe the documentation explains this. So if you shut off your monitoring PC, the data is still there in the database when you boot back up again. No loss. -=Cheers=- NG

On the Orion admin web page, open the Account List page & uncheck the "Toolset Integration" on the account having this issue. -=Cheers=- NG

Hi Mike, Others have had similar issues - usually it's a configuration setting on the server being polled (built-in firewall, antivirus or w.h.y.) www2.solarwinds.net/.../topic.asp www2.solarwinds.net/.../topic.asp Try doing a "netstat -a" & look for SNMP running on UDP port 161 on the server you are trying to poll. SNMP…

Actually, it depends on the type of Cisco device you are polling. A Cisco7206 has the serial number printed on the chassis, which is different than the processor board serial number - as Mike has posted. Integrated devices such as a Cisco800 series or 1700 series router use the Processor ID as the device serial number as…

Depends on what type of device it is. You can for most Cisco routers.... -=Cheers=- NG

Hi Ron, It looks like you will have to add a custom property and add a description to all the nodes you want that group to be able to access. Then select that description in the Web admin "accounts" page. -=Cheers=- NG

Here is what I'd like to see. Log Kiwi to the Orion database and view only the syslog entries for the device you are viewing in the "Node Details" page. Has anyone found a way to do this? This would be another cool tool to use in troubleshooting a node! One stop shopping is what I am after.... -=Cheers=- NG

There is no column with SMTP in it. The SMTP address is contained in each alert individually in the Target Addresses columns, right after the BCC field. -=Cheers=- NG

It's stored in the alerts table: I don't have the exact table names in front of me, but it goes something like this: Edit the SMTP name in the database directly by running a query similar to; Update Alerts Set SMTPServer=<new-name> Where SMTPServer= using the Database Manager. You can see the data & fields in the DB using…

You need to leave an account logged onto your server with this application running. We use RDP to the console and leave a local user account running to have the auto-publish feature working and updating every 5 minutes.

* If you consider yourself to be network engineer (analyst, admin, consultant), why do you monitor servers in Orion today? We do not monitor servers with Orion. other than our own NPM servers. * What other capabilities would you like to see us add around server monitoring and why? Port monitoring, but for routers &…

I agree, I'd like to see an updated "Program Updates" page with any new features or bug fixes listed here: solarwinds.net/.../OrionNPMUpdates.htm This could be limited to customers with Orion support contracts if this information was deemed a competitor marketing risk. Alternatively a text file in the downloaded…

Re-install the program in the exact same location, and then remove/un-install it. -=Cheers=- NG

How long are you keeping your hourly stats in the database? You cannot exclude hours of the day, if the stats have already been rolled up into one daily figure. -=Cheers=- NG

Try setting the polling to 64 bit counters, but if it doesn't work, you should set it back to 32 bit. You will see an error log in the NetPerfMon directory on your server if it can't talk to the Firewalls using 64 bit support after a day or so. -=Cheers=- NG

You cannot change any nodes from the web page, although you can telnet or browse directly to your switch from the web page. www2.solarwinds.net/.../topic.asp -=Cheers=- NG

Have you tried to exclude a date or time range instead? Just a thought.... -=Cheers=- NG

Update; I've been looking for a way to record PPP user connection times on a Cisco 3700 series router to our Syslog server. I found the following link: www.cisco.com/.../technologies_tech_note09186a00800ae938.shtml However, the 'calltracker enable' command does not appear to be valid with this hardware, but it may work on…

What you need is a AAA server such as a Cisco ACS server or one of the free Radius servers. You point your AS5350 to this AAA server & it will record all the stats you mentioned. User, Duration, Mb in, Mb out, time of day, etc. A product like Sawmill makes it really easy to run reports on the stats you want, although there…

This was the biggest improvement done to the Orion product. Unless they are planning on adding this to the Solarwinds products, you may need to "upgrade" to Orion if you want this feature. -=Cheers=- NG

Use Win2k or Win2k3 Server edition for your EE server. You can have 2 simultaneous RDP sessions up, or an RDP session directly to the console as well as one remote RDP session up. You cannot get knocked out of your session, as the user trying to login will be notified the maximum # od session has been exceeded on the…

It's not really a submenu per se. I just create a page with 3 columns. Each column can have multiple items. For instance, I have one item on the Menubar called 'Links' It opens a new page which has 3 columns. One for Western devices, another for Eastern devices & one with links to other Solarwinds tools, such as Port Maps…

Generally it's best to keep the menu bar short enough to fit on the page without scrolling. You should be able to get all the info you need by "nesting" it under just a few menu bar items. I just add multiple items to one view, and/or make this view open in a new page. -=Cheers=- NG