Rane

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  • Matt, you are correct. The SNMP implementation on ESXi 4 and 4.1 is sketchy at best. What you see is what you get and you can forget CPU/memory etc. Interface and is it up are about all you get. I have seen hacks on some sites to maybe get more information but I'm not convinced they are workable or worth it.
    in VMware ESXi version 4 does not show CPU / Memory / Volume information Comment by Rane August 2010
  • Documentation and support have been sub-par from Orion since we started and its gone downhill ever since.
    in More SQL Filter Syntax fun Comment by Rane August 2010
  • The problem we are seeing is that the Location field, supplied by SNMP service is present in a bunch of ICMP nodes. When you open up CPE we have three System property fields that are there as well (non-editable): IP address, caption and location. I have pulled open several of these ICMP nodes and it has Location setup as…
    in Location, Custom properties and ICMP objects Comment by Rane March 2009
  • Is that 2003 you are referring to or 2008? I had heard of a 2008 issue but nothing with 2003.
    in Orion running on 2003 Comment by Rane August 2010
  • We're not a huge shop so we don't have bunches and bunches of them. But we frequently have had APM templates setup for ONE machines apps (several components.. some may be HTTP most will be SNMP processes) and then have a alert tied to that single machine and its apps. What I would like to do is grab 10 or so app monitors…
    in best Practices fro APM related alerts in NPM Comment by Rane August 2009
  • I'm willing to accept that as a cause but how to I correct this. We did not have anywhere near this level of issues w/ 9.5.1. Roger
    in Problems with Un-manageing / Re-manageing nodes Comment by Rane August 2010
  • We use a advanced alert with a 10 minute interval. If its down for 10 whole minutes, then it is really down. Well, up to 2.5... then we started getting a lot of unknown applications.
    in Dynamic Polling Interval Change Comment by Rane March 2009
  • Its been my experience that the nightly job, if running right, does not have an impact on polling. Which is good, because for us it takes 1-2 hours, not the 15 minutes for most of you. Also, I saw a post farther up about moving your DB to a SAN. While I am not convinced, SW has some good reasons for NOT using a SAN for DB…
    in Polling times and gaps in 5min graphs Comment by Rane August 2010
  • No, we are using the default report folder. For that matter, I shut the reports off for the user with no difference. Just to make sure on the same page, I am using a view, not a report for the Availability. Rane
    in A problem with Views Comment by Rane March 2009
  • I will try that, except I will swap Node Status >= 2 to Node DOES NOT = Unmanaged, since it balks at using a number for that on my setup. I'll let you know but it seems like it should work.
    in Suppressing a reboot alert while unmanaged Comment by Rane September 2009
  • Is there a upper limit on how many servers should be on a APM app? We have 64 citrix blades and they are each monitored for 18 APM components. We broke these into two APM templates and split them up so as to not overload. if we went with a windows APM (10 or so somponents) and applied it to each of our 400 or so windows…
    in Best practices for monitoring lots of the same APM components Comment by Rane August 2009
  • Just a thought, based on what happened to us. We had a number of problems viewing the pages and finally tracked it down to a proxy setting on the browser that had it going outside the local network.
    in NPM 10 WEB page Comment by Rane July 2010
  • We had polling stop several times since NPM 10 Sp1. I heartily recommend a reboot of the poller and the SQL box as a start. We had issues with the DB connections timing out. Orion support busted our chops about running SQL on a VM on a SAN but its been that way since 7 and been running fine (course it may be that 10 is…
    in [Solved] Polling engines goes down after upgrading NPM to V10 Incl. SP1. Comment by Rane August 2010
  • Never mind.. I found the scaling control.
    in Mapping using Network Atlas Comment by Rane August 2010
  • We noted increased activity on the SQl box and some issues with connecting to the poller and a rather significant increase in the number of issues we have with getting devices into and out of un-managed mode. Other then that its been fine.
    in The impacts of migration of NPM v9.5 to NPM v10 sp1 Comment by Rane August 2010
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