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any suggestions Craig?

did you get it to work?

Hi hoodbu, I am not too fond of servers, so I am not sure what you mean by provisioning a server... I am assuming it has something to do with the server not being reachable yet. In that case, you can (we do) reserve the IP. in the comment you can put a date and the server name for example... we also add the person who…

well... you are somewhat right... I wouldnt sat it so bluntly but yea... I wouldnt WANT to monitor SNMP with APM... I dont want to have any network nodes in my APM. If SNMP stops working on a node that might not be a serious issue but if during that time an interface generates a lot of traffic and/or errors, or a volume on…

Hi, of course I wouldnt write them offensive... I cannot re-post as it says I have already reviewed APM. I wrote the review on solarwinds.com, not thwack but I had to log into thwack to write the review...

Take a look at the Exchange 2007 Hub Transport Role WMI Counters and Exchange 2007 Mailbox Role WMI Counters

snmp-server community string is what i ment... you didnt mention it earlier... but you definately need to allow snmp traffic, you can do that over asdm under i think management traffic (its where you allow ssh as well)

Hi Christine, I assume user tracking will not make it into the next release?

how would it then decide when to not keep the data in case you do want to start fresh? :P I'd like to see APM working reliably without major bugs first before implementing even more features ;)

Hi Brandon, I think you misread... Its a request to have a resource to display overall health of Orion with all modules inside the web console.

Hi Jeremy, you could assign custom properties to these nodes (e.g. red,green,yellow) and assign the values for them. you could then create an advanced sql report in report writer that shows whatever you like plus whichever light you want to have. the report would have to return "Up.gif",Down.gif"Warning.gif" or something…

Hi euphorik, there already is a shared report in the NCM content exchange zone which filters out all the blank serials :) its what we use and we love it :) @Donald: same to you, I think that report would give you what you need if you do a nightly inventory of your devices =)

that would change it for all users

hi jonathan, you could either turn the logging down on all devices to warning level, that should do the trick, if you cannot do that you can create a rule which will be on top of all others that discards all syslogs with a logging level higher than warning (the first one would be the best option) you can also figure out…

you shouldn't need the "Node Status has changed" and it should work like this, try to leave the reset condition as standard (Reset when conditions are no longer true). If it does not and you havent changed anything in any of the other tabs, especially the alert suppression tab, I would open a support case... the email…

with those settings (assuming you are constantly refreshing either manually or by ways that kweise mentioned) or it should take less than a minute for the node to appear as down... maybe you should open a support case to investigate this issue PS: if you changed the polling interval for all nodes and you have a lot of…

Hi, maybe if you talk to customer support and explain your situation they can work out an adequate solution for the customer. The HotStandby Engine only includes the basic NPM module and is not as advanced as the failover engine, however it does give a limited possibility to "fail over", also it cannot do distributed…

or you can work with custom properties... create a custom report which will display all interfaces with that custom property and show the node corresponding to it... you wont have much graphical gadgets except for the colored up/down spots but at least its customized plus you can integrate the report into almost any view

yup, thats why I mentioned the free logforwarder. You can use that to collect eventlogs as syslogs and then browse through them via the web-ui or the gui-program! if its not urgent and you can wait a couple of months, I believe it is planned to include a feature request for better visibility into eventlogs from within SAM…

PS: we did the same thing for volume utilizations. It is a good idea to create the alarm with two condition groups, one with "cpu-util is empty AND field CPU (the actual utilization) > XX" and another condition group with "cpu-util is not empty" and the statement the_toilet stated above... that way you have a standard…

glad i could help (if it was my explanation that helped you) on a side note about your use-case, we use the PercentDisk_Marker custom property, for one this will change the bar on graphs on to where the "critical" value is and we use this value for alerting on disk space, if this value is empty, we alert on 80% usage, if…

well, we use the last boot time as timestamp in this alert and have another timestamp (the real timestamp) at the end of each alert email (not just this one).

Orion can read out discards from interfaces via snmp. You can alarm on that if you like. if you only want to do this for MPLS-links you can give those interfaces a custom property like MPLS-HUB and MPLS-REMOTE and create alarms that filter on this, views that filter on this, etc.

if you need it you can always browse the mib, but thats a pain and takes a while... I have other, more important nodes where I need to do this on first...

Maybe its your local computers time?

Hi Craig, everything you mentioned is possible with regexes! you can allow a whole management subnet etc. yes, regex is very complex but that is an easy way of covering everything which is not covered with basic methods! I had a discussion with Francois and we both agree that including a regex-creator or such is overkill…

I think this might have been an incorrect information, if not... I can basically stop the project of implementing policy reporting with NCM 6.1 before we even started. I am quite sure though that I read that you can use regular expressions for this... @Francois, could you please double-check this for us?

Wasn't this possible in NCM 6.0 with regular expressions (I might be wrong but I thought thats what I read)? If not, that would definitely be something needed

yes, in order to alert on services you need APM. you could probably create a UnDP in NPM to do that as well but it is much easier to set up and much more comfortable to check and alert on in APM. If you have less than a handful of servers you need to check a service on that might be an option but if thats a general…

I was actually talking about the component monitor. With the User Experience Monitor we do a sql query which checks if all databases are up and running, can't get any better than that to check if SQL is working, can it? Oh and yes, we also edited performance monitors to reflect the instance like the post above states :)