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Have a look here: www.solarwinds.net/.../Chapter 3.htm There are also text boxes that allow you to change the Transmit and Receive Bandwidth values. These values are used when calculating Percent Utilization. The System Manager sets initial configured bandwidth values when the interface is added. These values are not…

If you have Office XP or 2003 installed on your PC, you can just right click on any Orion report in your browser(IE) and select - "Export to Excel". Once you have it in Excel, just select the data and press F11. Voila, instant graph. -=Cheers=- NG

Do not use the Node Names in the report. Base the report on a custom property which is assigned to all 4 routers. Then use that only that name in the report. Then, under interfaces in the Custom Property editor create a description under something like 'Circuit number' such as "Outbound" on each of the four interfaces.…

www2.solarwinds.net/.../topic.asp This is also covered in the Admin guide: <www.solarwinds.net/.../System_Manager.htm "Another frequent use of the Transmit and Receive Bandwidth settings is for setting thresholds when monitoring customer circuits. For example, a customer may have a 10 Mbps connection (via Ethernet), but…

You can also check the Orion Account Manager on the server to find out what the last login time was for any user. -=Cheers=- NG

IIS can log web page access. Check the NetPerfMon IIS service properties - Web Site tab. At the bottom there is an Enable Logging box which can be checked. The log files are located in the following directory: %WinDir%\System32\LogFiles They can be rolled over daily, weeekly, monthly, etc. I'm sure there are utils…

It might also be a problem with the Reverse DNS 'PTR' zone for that IP. Perhaps the DNS reverse lookup times out sometimes when the Orion server gets too busy? Most Syslog apps use DNS to lookup the name of IPs in the messages - not sure if Solarwinds does the same? (I'm still on V7.5.9, so I have not had a chance to play…

Just use the name of the custom variable you created in the macro: E.G. For a new custom property called "fax modem number" use: ${fax_modem_number} It needs to use the exact syntax as what you see in the heading of the Custom Property Editor. -=Cheers=- NG

Bump, An word on this? I'm considering enabling this on my IPAM server to allow access to a single report.

I second this request. Since we use custom properties to group devices using the Ajax node view, any typos, leading or lagging spaces or uppercase/lowercase differences results in new groups showing up in this view. Also create a limitation that only allows the user to select from an existing custom property when adding or…

Still running V7.8.2 - waiting for the bugs to be flattened in V8. I'd much rather have a stable product than new buggy features.... Perhaps when 8.1 rolls out I'll build a new server & dedicated DB server. -=Cheers=- NG ~seek & ye shall find---> [url="http://www4.solarwinds.net/SolarWindsForum/search.asp"] <---no need to…

Call Solarwinds Support. They can check your license for you & regenerate a new one if required. -=Cheers=- NG

I've been requested to create similar reports for all our stores. One of the problems using the Events for these reports is the inaccurate outage duration. We are polling each router at 5 minute intervals. The fast polling timer is set for 4 minutes. So in the event there is an actual 10 minute outage, this would show up…

I did a search & found see this post: www.solarwinds.net/.../topic.asp You can use TFTP32 to get around this limitation. http://tftpd32.jounin.net/ -=Cheers=- NG

You can do this with the Syslog Alerting tool. Just Syslog the router to the Orion server & setup a custom alert. -=Cheers=- NG ~seek & ye shall find---> [url="http://www4.solarwinds.net/SolarWindsForum/search.asp"] <---no need to wait for answers~

Hi Dierick, I'm not sure I understand your question, but here goes. Basically you have created an Alert for any of the 500 Nodes go down, and another alert for any of the interfaces on those nodes being down? Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but if a node goes down, you do not receive interface down alerts for that…

Thanks for the feedback Isaac. I know everything has it's priority & stuff like this is "Nice to Have". I'll carry on working on something in my "spare" time. I noticed some of the ....edit.asp code uses the field "User" & "Customize". It would be nice to add a third user property - "update" which allows users assigned…

quote:Originally posted by Isaac Hopefully they will have it cooked up by the end of the summer (things seem to take a while with the interns). Be fantastic. Hi Isaac - I hope you had a good summer - fall is officially here now! <GRIN> -=Cheers=- NG

Hey Isaac, did you ever get a chance to try this out or get it working? I'm trying to create an HTML form to update the Custom Property "Comments" from the web page. Once I get this working, I was going to add 2 more columns to the Events table so that I can add Remedy Ticket numbers & a drop down box for Root Cause. I'm…

Hey Isaac, thanks for the ideas. I know this can be done with ASP code (as some of the admin functions are currently done), but unfortunately I am not a coder by any stretch of the imagination. I also have the same concerns as you mentioned, with permissions associated with writing directly to the DB. With MS Access the…

Russ, Have a look at this thread; www2.solarwinds.net/.../topic.asp Can you explain how you are able to update outage/ticket info via the web page? I think this a huge feature which could be easily implemented into Orion. Currently my team members must RDP onto the server and add comments for outages via the Custom…

See the following post; -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Don Yonce USA 68 Posts Posted - 11/23/2004 : 00:30:17 Orion V7.6 also includes support for Hot-Standby Polling Engines that many large customers have needed for mission critical applications. Don Yonce…

Definitely not - I would not even consider this. You are in for a world of hurt if you try this. Judging by the number of members upgrades that have had other issues, I wouldn't want to throw this in the mix as well . run away> -=Cheers=- NG ~seek & ye shall find--->…

I have just done further testing with this locked down account which should only have access to view the IPAM subnets their account was configured to allow. It seems, even though I have selected 'None' for all other Orion functionality this account has access to other views in Orion if the URL is entered manually.…

 I searched for 'browser integration' & found the following answer: quote:Originally posted by greg@solarwinds.net Custom menu options can be added to the right click menu on IE when browsing Orion pages... See the XML data located in "<x>:\Program Files\Solarwinds\SWToolset.MenuOptions". The format is fairly easy to…

SW is coming up with a Cisco Config package that will do this. In the mean time you could use the 30 day demo of Kiwi CatTools to do this. -=Cheers=- NG

See these topics: www2.solarwinds.net/.../topic.asp www2.solarwinds.net/.../topic.asp -=Cheers=- NG

You can hide the ISDN interface from the customer by not adding it to the custom view you created for that customer (It will still show up in the "admin" view as down). Then create the alert you want to send to the customer & select "change custom property" that you used to limit the view, so that the customer can see the…

It has already been requested back in 2003. No word on if this will be addressed in future releases... www2.solarwinds.net/.../topic.asp www2.solarwinds.net/.../topic.asp -=Cheers=- NG

bbc, You can graph average bps, as well as min/max/95th percentile bps. Just select the bps chart in the node details, instead of percent utilization Getting multiple interfaces on one graph is the challenge. Check this post for more ideas: www2.solarwinds.net/.../topic.asp -=Cheers=- NG