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Hi Ishant, There is no NPM certification in particular. You have a Solarwinds Certification See link Network Certification | SolarWinds Certified Professional - SolarWinds Cheers

SD-WAN seems to be the only way forward with most enterprises jumping onto the SD-WAN bandwagon. Citrix Netscalar is also an option many enterprises have considered. Citrix SD-WAN 2100 series appliances, SD-WAN 410 series appliances do not show up as monitored devices under Solarwinds NPM even though they show up as Citrix…

You may also want to check credentials configured for Network Insight example Cisco Nexus devices, ASA's and others. Note these maybe different than the NCM credentials.

Were you able to resolve this .. we are plagued with this issue NetPath Service not getting created We are working with Solarwinds Support to get this out of the way Case # - 00191002 Netpath configuration abdhijasharma​ gangadhar.k​ csameer​ nikhil.n​

You gotta wear shades As pointed by chinmaychavan​ we have been waiting for a fix for these. Feature requests have been raised but in the current releases there is no way to change the chart colors. A Dashboard & Reporting solution should have this capability.

Hi lbrowne, NPM Summary page - * Node List grouped as per customer architecture (Core devices, Distribution devices, Security devices, Access Devices, Servers) * Maps (Core map, Distribution Map, Security Map - created as above groups) eg. Core devices could include 4 Cisco nexus switches with 2 Core routers) * Hardware…

Hi kevin.tran​ Cortex is a new service (Solarwinds Cortex Service) that was introduced in 2017.3 core platform. I believe the objective of this service is to consolidate all polling and monitoring activities across various Solarwinds modules. Maybe this documents should help Success Center - Solarwinds Cortex Service will…

After extensive troubleshooting we identified that our Poller had to be whitelisted in the email server. The TrapViewer configuration was alright. Just added this to our checklist of creating trap based alerts

We are using the TrapViewer.exe from the Orion server

Same here, my last 2 training sessions have not seen the points.

If this requirement can be achieved will be really helpful to customers with even SQL Standard Editions for the Solarwinds environments and may not have to depend on very very expensive SQL Enterprise DB licenses. Not just the expensive licenses, but DBA expertise in setting up Availability Groups and Distributed…

I have a suggestion that possibly will help the Solarwinds Users, Resellers & Customers. Why not Solarwinds Support hold a webinar on "Contacting Solarwinds Support". The webinar could include the following - * Solarwinds Support Model - how SW covers various geographies, Support center locations, Support teams * Various…

The new version of NTA now uses the Microsoft SQL DB itself. You do not need any other DB for NTA.

Solarwinds is still not stable - we have faced plenty of issues post upgrade and continue to do so despite applying the HF4: * Database configuration errors - Arithmetic Overflow error, conversion to int - indicating some tables have large values that could not be converted * Solarwinds Agents not responding * SWIS service…

Another Hotfix available for 2018.2 HotFix4 Orion Platform 2018.2 Hotfix 4 - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support Hopefully, stability will follow

A milestone !! Congratulations Eric CourtesyIT​

Hi feltonlewis​ It is always better to have a separate DB, but technically there are no issues with the Solarwinds Apps being installed on the same server along with the SQL Database. You have mentioned NPM, NTA and a few other modules to be installed. Now, this could be tricky. You need to follow some best practices for a…

Sent the SNMP walk of Nexus 5k and Nexus 7k via email

There was a recent poll on "What's missing in Solarwinds" https://thwack.solarwinds.com/polls/2779#comment-236366 I think it is time for Solarwinds to put some glam value to the Dashboards, NOC Views, Reports et al

SCP@200 and Renew@200 ?? Even the Solarwinds Resellers (like us) do not like this a bit. Our organization has 6 Solarwinds Engineers currently and we take pride in the fact that we have most of them as SCP's (the old one). $1200 a year and every year - not considering the fact that there would be churn.

WHD sigh .. Our customers have resigned to the fact that this product is not mainstream business for Solarwinds. May suit a SMB customer but is not "Enterprise grade". * Interface is clunky, UX team can kindly step in here * Form design or workflows cannot be customised to the level of an Enterprise requirement * Reports…

The problem has been resolved. Resolution: The server had a Security service running called URLScan 3.1 (provided by Microsoft). The URLScan logs showed #Software: Microsoft UrlScan 3.1 #Version: 1.0 #Date: 2018-11-15 02:50:30 #Remark: AllowDotInPath is enabled. Checksbased on extensions will be unreliable. #Fields: Date…

Consider some Best Practices for Solarwinds DB Maintenance Best practices for managing your Orion database - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support Ask yourself the foll questions 1. Is my DB Size causing me performance issues 2. What are my polling frequencies for devices 3. What is my Poll stats collection frequency…

Hi all, We use both NPM & NCM for our customers. One large setup is highlighted below - Key objectives of using NPM: * Monitor over 3000 network devices with about 16000 elements (yes, we do have APE's) * Use NPM in conjunction with NTA & IPAM * Devices are clubbed into various groups like Core LAN, Core WAN, Distribution…

This article is over 2 years old now. Did try to search for some guidelines around System requirements for Stackable Pollers, could not find any documents around that. We have 4 Additional Pollers each with 8 vCPU's and 16 GB RAM. We are in the need to do a HA solution for the Additional Pollers too .. A simple way would…

Count me in .. even if it means next time

Surely, you can have an APE at a location far away with under 250 ms ms latency. Also, make sure that you have the same time zone as the main polling engine.

Is there any update on this? We have most of our Cisco environment move from SNMPv2 to v3. UDT is an important module of the many SW modules and dont want UDT to end up as "UNKNOWN DEVICE TRACKER"

Hi, Just expanding on the query, what happens when the entire FQDN gets changed - including hostname.domain_name? Is there any document or reference that is available?