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There have been many posts regarding this issue. Please do a forum search on "port mapper" & you will find topics such as these: www2.solarwinds.net/.../topic.asp www2.solarwinds.net/.../topic.asp That's the beauty of a forum, your question has most likely been asked before, so you don't neccessarily have to wait for an…

Chad, This shows how to do what you want with Charts: www2.solarwinds.net/.../topic.asp As for report writer reports, you can assign a custom property to each interface in the group you want to report on. When you create your report, base it only on this custom property. Do not include the nodename or interface caption in…

Hi Snowjay, I'm not sure if you are using the regular alerts or the new Beta Alert Manager... My alerts are still using built-in alerter & are based on location, so that I can get the alert suppression to work. In your case, I would use the new Alert Manager Engine. Some ideas to try: - create a new custom property for…

quote:Originally posted by rgward Ross...I attempted to set up the SQL report but Report Writer didn't like the GO statement. Can you shed any light? SQL if not my forte. Ron, I believe you must use M$ Enterprise SQL Manager to run this code. -=Cheers=- NG

quote:Originally posted by rossw Interface availability based on Zoran's start. With Percentage. NOTE: I use the custom property Interfaces.Service = "Internet" to define my circuits. Thanks Yahoo chart guy! Im just talking to my self Ross Warren Brilliant work Ross, I wish I had this kind of SQL savvy! It just goes to…

I think it would be easier to build a Dependency rule something like this. Base the alert on a custom property such as 'site' or 'building'; If router 'ABC' is down, then don't alert me on any devices with custom property - 'site' XYZ and/or 'building' 1234. This shouldn't be too hard to do? -=Cheers=- NG

quote:On this issue of interface availability, how would I create a report based on down events to calculate interface availability? Would I use a report similar to the canned Outage Duration report for nodes? Thanks That is correct. I haven't actually done this with interfaces, but it should work the same as the Node…

You can track the interface down time (not the availability) using the events. Just create an alert for any interface down. This will show up in the events, which you can create a report for minutes of down-time per outage. You could then manually convert this into availability. -=Cheers=- NG

pancamo, The LSASS is usually caused by quitting your RDP session to the server without first closing NetPerfMon Manger (SysManager). Restarting the polling service will bring LSASS back under control. Apparently it is a Microsoft bug. Is this the same issue you are having, or is this something different? -=Cheers=- NG

One possible explanation for this behaviour could be the arp cache size on the Orion server. Since the nodes you are polling are all on the same segment, the server must cache the MAC address of these servers if it is to get an ICMP reply packet from the first ping sent out. If the arp cache on the server has cleared, then…

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That is Strange indeed. Once I've set the interface speed, it does not change, even after a rediscovery. Perhaps there are 2 fields in the DB, one for the discovered speed & one with the speed you want Orion to use? Try setting one router manually through the System Manager GUI & see if it changes after a rediscovery?…

quote:Originally posted by Seraphym As i'm too lazy to correct port speed manually on 800 routers (hey, grouping would be nice!), i disabled the alerts. You can change the interface speed on all 800 at once using an SQL query in the DB. Similar to this post: www2.solarwinds.net/.../topic.asp Update Interface<table where…

Jon, One way to fix this, is to capture ICMP packets with a sniffer to see what is actually happening on the ethernet segment your Orion server is on. You may have a problem on the segment, or it may be a legitimate problem with the polling engine. If the latter, you could e-mail the sniffer capture in .csv format to…

Bleearg, I don't see that as being related. You must be running an older version of Orion. Since V7.? I now get the reboot alerts within minutes of the device rebooting. Previously you would only get the reboot alerts when the device rediscovery took place, according to what you have the interval set to. -=Cheers=- NG

They have fixed the false positives in Version 7.2.2 which is a production release. I had the same issue with 7.2, although I still see groups of nodes show up as "not responding" (they seem to have done away with the "node status is warning" description in 7.2.2 Let me know if this fixes your issues, as I am still working…

I am troubleshooting a PCoIP issue at one site. I have 2 IPSLA responders at this site. The problem appears to be "out of sequence" UDP packets arriving at the thin-client devices. Looking at my shadow router in the HQ building I can see IPSLA stats on the router for out of sequence packets. Can we get Orion VNQM to report…

In the System Manager app go to: File > Advanced Settings > Node Warning Interval I have mine set to 240 seconds which should allow at least 8 more polls of 2 pings each (fast polling) before the node gets marked as down. Note, this will increase the time for receiving legitimate outages, so you should balance this…

What is your fast polling timer set to? I have mine set to 240 seconds, which in addition to the 300 second icmp polling interval seems to give very few if any false positives. You might also want to try continuous pings to some of these devices to verify there is actually no packet loss. -=Cheers=- NG

One workaround is to create a Visio drawing of your network with callouts with the IP address of each interface. Save this as a JPG & import this with the Mapmaker app. Then just drag and drop the icon for each interface onto this map, and now you have an interactive drawing along with the IP's and any other info required…

 Just use this URL to access the admin page: http://<ORION-SERVER>/netperfmon/admin

The Macro help page has been moved. Unless you are running the latest code - V7.8, you are out of luck using the built-in macro help link. I asked SW Support about this, and I was told they would not be fixing this. For those of us not running the latest code, the macro help link can be manually accessed here:…

Check this post: www2.solarwinds.net/.../topic.asp -=Cheers=- NG

The Report Writer Exclusions allow you to exclude hours, & minutes, as well as days. You should not have a problem doing this (You actually include the hours & minutes you want & specify the date). -=Cheers=- NG

If you are using MapMaker via Terminal Services (RDP to server) see the following post; www2.solarwinds.net/.../topic.asp -=Cheers=- NG

I can't see Orion running well in a VMware environment. It is very Memory & CPU intensive when running reports &/or with many users logged in, depending on how many elements are displayed on your home page. See the minimum server requirements: www2.solarwinds.net/.../SystemReq.htm Perhaps if you had the DB running on a…

Ian, I just edited the adminmenu.asp file and added some of the custom asp files to the admin menu on the left side of the page. Here are the last few lines of the AdminMenu.asp file: <%#@~^CAAAAA==7Ax[,q6PDwIAAA==^#~@%> <tr> <td width="25"> </td> <td nowrap><a class="NavBarMenu" href="MapToolTipTemplates.asp">Map Tool…

That's a strong statement Donald, but I have to agree. However, even more important for me is removal of functionality and features from previous versions. After years of using a function every day, and then finding that functionality removed in a newer version is a step backward. Example, the new graphs are a step…

(Un)Fortunately Orion does not rediscover the bandwidth on an interface when doing the periodic rediscovery of each node. If it did, then any interfaces which have customized bandwidth statements would be changed every rediscovery. We have 30Mb ATM PVC's on an e100 interface on our routers. I set the bandwidth to 30Mbps in…

If you use the search function in this forum, as others have posted this problem as well. www2.solarwinds.net/.../topic.asp www2.solarwinds.net/.../topic.asp -=Cheers=- NG