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Welcome to the forum Richard. Orion uses ICMP to determine node status. There is currently no other way to make that Red dot Green. As for delayed alerting, it is not supported per se, but you can just extend the statistics polling interval for the interface you are monitoring. The average utilization must exceed the set…

The names are retrieved by doing a "Reverse DNS Lookup". You can check to see if the names are actually in the DNS PTR zone by doing a "ping -a <IP.Address> from a Windows PC. You can also do an nslookup from the command prompt on your EE server and enter the IP Address of a node which did not resolve to a name. Either the…

Contact Solarwinds support & they can issue a new key if the rebuilt server has a different hostname. -=Cheers=- NG

Have checked the actual config on the port of the switch/router? If you have manually changed the port bandwidth statement on your router, Orion will use the configured value. -=Cheers=- NG

Do a search for Custom MIB in this forum. www2.solarwinds.net/.../topic.asp www2.solarwinds.net/.../topic.asp www2.solarwinds.net/.../topic.asp www2.solarwinds.net/.../topic.asp www2.solarwinds.net/.../topic.asp This question & feature has been asked for many times before - the current answer is no. Perhaps in Release…

quote:Originally posted by rossw Thanks for the info. I now see the Reverse DNS field. How can I get them to populate? I tried "Rediscover" but that didnt repopulate the field. Ross Warren Hey Ross, Have you tried doing an NSlookup from the Orion server command prompt to ensure the DNS reverse entries are resolvable?…

Eric, Do a search in these forums for LSASS; www2.solarwinds.net/.../topic.asp www2.solarwinds.net/.../topic.asp Basically there is no CPU left for the polling engine. This might be your issue. -=Cheers=- NG

The only time you might see data missing is during the nightly maintenance routine. Perhaps your routers get too busy to respond to the SNMP polls? -=Cheers=- NG

I requested this feature some months ago. However it is not currently available in any "pre-canned" reports. If you are an SQL guru, I'm sure it can be done. -=Cheers=- NG

Yes, I have seen that as well, however I stopped monitoring the virtual memory on all the Win2k servers, since there was never any data collected. All servers showed 0 Mb of virtual memory in use. Since I am only interested in the network devices, I never bothered submitting a trouble ticket to Solarwinds Support for this.…

Frank, The short answer is no. This has been a requested feature for the next release of Orion, but I don't know if this is in the works or not. I kind of doubt it. -=Cheers=- NG

James, The CPU utilization is based on the statistics polling interval you have set for the node. If you are polling the node every 5 minutes for statistics (memory, CPU & disk), then it must exceed 80% for 5 minutes before you will receive an alert. By default, Orion does not show anything more detailed than 5 minute…

Andrew, OOps, my bad. The CPU & Memory stats are not visible, but in speaking with Solarwinds support, they are working on making a universal MIB upgradeable version of Orion. -=Cheers=- NG

Marbel, The memory issue is a known MS Windows bug which is fixed in Win2k SP4. See the following: support.solarwinds.net/.../ProblemDetail.cfm We are using Orion to monitor 9 Nortel Passport 8000's. It works just fine - sees all the same resources on the Nortel switches as on our Cisco switches. -=Cheers=- NG

Hi Samson, Orion is a great reporting tool, but not a management tool. You can use the Solarwinds Toolset apps, such as Engineering Edition: www.solarwinds.net/.../index.htm It supports/manages almost any Cisco product, other than the 3000 series VPN concentrators. -=Cheers=- NG

I wonder if this functionality is now available in the latest version of NCM. The post marked as "correct answer" does not address the original request: Only issue the write mem command on devices where the start-config does not match the run-config. Here is my thought: There is a report that shows run/start config…

The URL you have specified is incorrect. It should look something like this; orionserver/.../chart.asp or 127.0.01/.../chart.asp You want to browse to the Orion webpage which has the report you want to send with the web browser. You can either copy & paste the URL from your browser, or use the built-in Report Scheduler…

Marlon, What do you see in the 'runorionjob.log' file in the Solarwinds directory? This should give you an indication of where it is failing. I had to redo all the reports when I rebuilt the server from Win2K to Win2k3. Previously I could use the 'directlink' account with no user login for the webpage authentication. With…

I run both Poller & SQL database on the same server. The most important thing is having enough memory if you are going to do both on the same server. I have 4 gigs of RAM and the Enterprise SQL database uses 1.7GB. The database is ~ 2.7GB. When all is said and done, there is around 1.5GB RAM free, so you could probably get…

You can do this using the Database Manager & a custom SQL query. Note you will need to stop all services using the DB before doing this change (Use the Stop NetPerfMon advanced application). You query will look something like this: Delete from Interfaces Where Interface Name = 'null0' Then restart the polling & alerting…

Have you stopped & restarted the Solarwinds Poller service? BTW, with those polling times, you are really going to tax the server and grow the DB in a hurry. Make sure you re-run the polling engine tuning app, as your polls per second will need to go waaaaay up. Also - be prepared for false alerts with those kind of…

Hey Bryan, Your Orion install is very similar to mine as far # of interfaces & nodes. Same server hardware & RAM, but my CPU's are only 2 Ghz. One improvement I made earlier this year, was to install 3 new drives in Raid 5 & move the DB onto it's own drive. I found there was a lot of contention for spindle time when we…

Hey P.B. Do a search for "icons" in this forum; www2.solarwinds.net/.../topic.asp -=Cheers=- NG

Hi Mark, I've run into the same issue. The only workaround I've come up with, is to either Export the CPE view as a CSV or create a custom report with Report Writer, publish to the web & grab the data off the web page with Excel. If you have dual monitors(sreens), it makes copying & pasting the data from Excel to CPE…

quote:Originally posted by Grabowski We are however planning to move the SQL database to a different server, to see if that will make some of the things that are a bit slow (primarily the web-interface) run better. Lars Grabowski Global Infrastructure Chr. Hansen A/S There is new release or Orion coming out shortly (later…

 I am doing something similar - upgrading server hardware & Orion software, as well as adding a second polling engine. I am building a new 64bit Orion & SQL2005 DB server on new hardware & want to make my existng all-in-one web/polling/DB Orion server in a secondary polling server. (I'm not sure I can mix 64bit & 32bit…

You must send this in to development@solarwinds.net & request that they add it to the next toolsets MIB release. They usually come out every 2-4 months. -=Cheers=- NG

You'd have to create a separate report for this. The data you are looking for is stored in the Events table. You need to make sure you are keeping the network events data for the duration of the report you want to run. I have set mine to flush after 370 days. Here is a query which I have copied from a built-in report I…

This question belongs in the Toolsets forum. Do a search for "mapper" in that forum, there are many posts regarding this issue. -=Cheers=- NG

Check the Documentation here: www.solarwinds.net/.../Chapter 10.htmquote: Grouping and Filtering Nodes Node lists can be customized for a user's View by use of grouping and filtering. To include a Node List, follow the instructions for Creating a New View or Editing a View on page 4, selecting Node List - Custom Grouping…