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That is very aggressive polling indeed (for the number of elements). Also, what is the network latency between your Polling Engine and your DB server? If they are not in the same location, then this will affect your DB polling completion. Is your DB running on hi-performance disk - Raid 0 or 1+0? Also, running the whole DB…

That is correct. You can customize any Custom Property with HTML tags & it will be displayed correctly on the web page. I believe this is by design, so that you can embed HTML objects & code in your Custom Properties. You cannot edit SNMP discovered data directly in Custom Property Editor. However, you can rename interface…

 Wow - now that's a detailed writeup - nice work Vic! I would be interested in the code you used to add comments to interfaces as well. Could you post that as well? -=Thanks=- 

Totally agree with you Andrew. Use Orion NPM for run server side commands like ping, pathping, tracert & nbtstat. Use Orion NCM to run commands like "show interface X | inc Y" or "show proc cpu sort" or "show ip ospf int brief" As an admin, we would add templates for this commands to the node details page, and users could…

The issue is relevant for me, since I am using the IPSLA portion of VNQM. I cannot monitor IPSLA nodes without adding them as VoIP nodes. I cannot add them as VoIP nodes due to the timeout issue. So in effect this means the IPSLA module is broken in VNQM for me.

I brought up a similar issue several years ago related to 95th percentile calculation. I'm not sure this has ever been addressed. What happens when the calculation is done over an extended period? For example, if your nightly stats rollover settings are set to: >detailed to hourly after 7 days >hourly to daily after 14…

So doing this will wipe out any website customizations. It seems 9.5 is having a lot of teething problems.... Just in case anyone comes across this error in future, these were the steps taken to resolve this issue: 1) Log into the server as a Local Administrator. 2) Open IIS manager, and locate the Solarwinds website…

 Hi Jon, Ever since moving the DB to another site with the Primary polling engine/web server, my secondary polling engine has 1 - 2 hour gaps in any SNMP collected data. ICMP stats are fine & are collected & written to the DB every 5 minutes. Of course Solarwinds Tier 3 support was no help & used the standard disclaimer -…

I had one WLC down for a few days, and even though the icon was red, it still showed 61 APs associated with it.

OK, we are making assumptions here. We assumed this was some kind of Cisco device. What type of vendor device is this and what type of "controller" is this? We need more info to assist you in troubleshooting this.

I believe the SW developers have included this code into the OOB search resource already. Just add that view to your page and you should be good to go. Here's a snippet from the V8.1 code here: C:\Inetpub\Solarwinds\NetPerfMon\Resources\9-1-Miscellaneous\99-SearchInterfaces.Resource (V8.5.1 uses ASPX code for this and…

The normal method of monitoring a router is to add a Loopback interface & IP address and monitor that IP. Then you would add all the discovered interfaces you want to monitor/gather stats for, using the "List Resources" button on the Node details page in System Manager. It sounds to me like the previous Orion admin added…

Have you allowed ICMP through the Firewall? Make sure you have applied the latest Service Pack, as some of the earlier versions had an ICMP payload size of zero, which was blocked by most Firewalls.

I've just added the Multicast chart to my interface details view, but would also like to add a Unicast Chart as well. I see the Unicast stats in the NetPerfMon DB, so the data is there. I can also add unicast in Report Writer, but I'd like to have a real-time chart. (I'm trying to figure out what resource I can edit to add…

Agreed, there are too many changes in a single point release. The DB Manager functionality can be restored by copying the old DB Mangager executable to the same directory in 10.4.1 (really not sure why this functionality was removed). In addition to this: * DB Maintenance logs are no longer written to the Orion folder *…

I'm running V8.1 and did have those errors in my event log. I ran the fix in the post I mentioned and the errors cleared. I have not seen them since.

Have a look at what Snowjay did here: and here:

 Well if you're only using 5 or 6 pollers now, do you mind sending a couple of the extra's my way ;-) <hehehe>Perhaps you can sell the rest on e-bay</hehehe> I'm running close to 8000 elements on my single server with integrated SQL DB & I'm pushing the performance limits. DB size is between 8 & 10GB & is kept in check…

 Mark - I'd like to submit this as a feature request: Have toolset integration turned off as the default. I have over 50 user accounts & find it very tedious unchecking 45 of them - one at a time, everytime I upgrade or move my Orion server. Not many companies that can afford a toolset license for every Orion user. Thanks

I also found these 'solutions' and applied most of them to no avail: forums.microsoft.com/.../ShowPost.aspx blogs.msdn.com/.../net-framework-3-0-setup-log-files.aspx

This turned out to be a bug with V8.1. They have improved the discovery process in V9.

Thanks for the info Jon. BTW, the polling engine load balancing tool is still there in V8, it has just moved to another application. Under Advanced Features, open the Monitor Polling Engines app. Select 'Servers' > Poller Load Balancing: This allows you to move nodes to any polling engine you want. <Edit> Thanks Josh, you…

 Have a look here for more info on configuring your Cisco devices to allow HTTP(S) uploads & downloads. You can even configure your devices using this method.

 See this post for further details - You can edit the registry directly if the tooltip box does not save your settings. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\SolarWinds.Net\Orion Network Performance Monitor\Settings Create these 2 keys if they are not already there. Interface ToolTip Template Node ToolTip Template 

What Version does this apply to? I tried this in V8.1. I see syslogs for the node using the regular syslog resource, but when I add this resource to my node details, it is empty - no syslogs are displayed.

 rotflmao.... There is currently a beta for VoiP Monitor - not sure if you can get on the trial if you ask nicely? Yes it is a separate module which must be purchased separately. There is a good demo on the product here.

Bump - has anyone in SW looked any further into this basic addition to the ICMP response table?

I've seen similar results, but not quite so far over the interface speed. I wonder if this could be related to the polling interval not being exactly as set for each interface? If the interface is meant to be polled every 300 seconds, but the poller grabs the interface counter after only 320 seconds, then the DB could have…

I've run into the same thing using Orion V8.1 (I assumed it was a bug in 8.1). I can MIB walk and poll the device using the Engineers Toolset installed on my Orion server but Orion cannot talk to it. Looking at a sniffer trace Orion is querying the System MIB, but if the device does not reply with the system MIB Orion…

I was going to suggest using the report scheduler for this as well. The report scheduler actually uses the Microsoft Task Scheduler so it should be fairly easy to find the Orion job you've created and run it every hour using the task scheduler instead. Open up Report Writer and select Settings. Under the Columns tab, add…