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Complain to the equipment vendor? It might be that the SNMP agent on the device is only returning 32-bit values despite what you set in Solarwinds or what the MIB says it should support. I assume you've got everything (device, Solarwinds Orion) set to SNMPv2 (SNMPv1 only supports 32-bit values). What happens if you do a…

I think this is more generalized as support for https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4805 (as this will work for Juniper routers, T1, and T3 circuits) DS3-MIB::dsx3LineIndex.571 = INTEGER: 571 DS3-MIB::dsx3IfIndex.571 = INTEGER: 571 DS3-MIB::dsx3TimeElapsed.571 = INTEGER: 257 DS3-MIB::dsx3ValidIntervals.571 = INTEGER: 96…

it's been more than a year since this was first noted as a feature request in IPAM.

We completed our NPM 11+FOE upgrade today. as part of that we use a spreadsheet (acutally a google doc) to keep track of what happens. Solarwinds Upgrade Checklist with FOE I've uploaded this to the FOE content exchange, but this might not be so obvious for NPM users. things that broke: cannot complete the installer with…

sec is licensed under the GNU GPL, and so you can't really incorporate it into commercial products as (2b) requires SolarWinds to redistribute/ license the sourcecode to whatever includes sec using the GPL. If it used the LGPL there is more flexibility to avoid the licensing issue. (There is also the option to obtain a non…

I would like to be able to generate alerts for PoE Denied. Development info: For some reason the Juniper EXs don’t increment the denied counter OID and for some reason the HPs don’t accurately reflect detection status. For HP e5406: pethPsePortPowerDeniedCounter OBJECT-TYPE [1.3.6.1.2.1.105.1.1.1.12] SYNTAX Counter32…

I had a phone call with cobrien​ the other week and the topic of this came up -- it turns out that they had overlooked updating the status on these ideas when they stopped working on them, As you can now see, this item is back to being able to be voted upon :-( In my department we have the concept of MTTI -- the mean time…

ok, as a start I would like all of the trace and logfiles written by all of the SolarWinds applications to be automatically loaded into this database so we don't need to look in random directories on the server trying to find the logfile with the SQL error in it. We're using fortianalyser for our fortinet logs; splunk for…

case: 538375 ; SolarWinds Failover Engine v6.7 Release Notes Orion Failover Engine services may not successfully start on an additional polling engine when the Solarwinds NCM Additional Poller Package is installed. The following error is thrown: SWREFID : 985 for more details Error text Failover Engine license does not…

NPM collects some LLDP information. It is stored in [NodeLldpEntries] I can't figure out why, but solarwinds keeps removing the LLDP poller from nodes, and I have a perl script that adds it back in. It's annoying.

They reached out to me too I've been given more jobs to do, I'm now the department's Event Process Manager, and from the product outline it's missing a lot of key features from the ITIL event process, and the things it does do (like page people) we currently drive as workflow from our ServiceNow installation, so this would…

I think this is the same as http://thwack.solarwinds.com/ideas/1466

report that one as a bug to your hardware vendor -- this won't help if the device is reporting it as a generic net-SNMP device rather than a vendor-specific device aka 'Unknown' NET-SNMP has a configuration directive the vendor could set in its configuration file to report a device-specific OID. This implies they have not…

My business-layer aka moduleengine died regularly because it hits the 2GB limit, at least until I got YABD last week. /RjL YABD: Yet-Another-Buddy-Drop

no; you're fixing the wrong problem.

I got tired of waiting, the syslog and trap servers can run vbscript; you can use these to set a custom property. you can then use that you trigger an alert. I use this to change the state of wireless access points to follow the state in aruba Airwave, but the same principle should work for Node[or interface] states. I use…

This is an Opportunity Time to get a budget for UPS and prime the deck for getting a generator for next time this happens. Articles like this: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one help here (we already make sure our business-critical services are geographically diverse with servers outside the…

I have a lot (about 3000 devices) of network equipment that does not support the HOST-RESOURCES MIB

We use a custom property to separate backups for the different sectors of the network we manage (a custom property). Finally we have a job that runs AFTER them all that runs backups for devices whose last login result was not OK for all sectors (which catches backups for devices that were undergoing maintenance in the main…

Yes, tried that. Deleting interfaces via SWIS works fine, from the webUI that uses MSMQ not so much (it looks to me like it's using a direct MSMQ connection with the ip address of thee inactive poller rather than the NAME of the poller which would resolve to the currently active one)

This is ridiculous!

We have the concept here of VLAN spaces; a router interface defines the VLAN space, so we can standardize the layer-2 configuration in a building. it's much easier not having to figure out what the management vlan is in a building when hanging a switch, because it's always the same...

Suggestion... the syslog and trap monitors work in near-real time on incoming alerts before they reach the database whereas the alert manager works in a batch mode on the contents of the database. combining them is somewhat hard, how about this as a suggestion for an incremental but powerful improvements: a) improve the…

sp_rename 'Nodes.OldPropertyname', 'NewPropertyName', 'COLUMN' (this advice worth what you've paid for it -- I've not had to try/do this myself, I normally export the values, delete the column, re-import the values)

Assuming non-overlapping IP address ranges simple VRF support is easy, and would be a good first step. think agile: implement the simplest functionality first, then add complexity. Possible solutions for ICMP scanning: a) your IPAM scanner could have connections to the VRFS, b) you could have a service vrf that can reach…

This only works in a LAN-failover environment. If the server maintained a BGP peering relationship with the nearest server it could make use of anycast for the polling IP AND be able to detect if the local router had died

I think this needs to be more generalized. logging/tracing in the solarwinds products is a disorganized hash of locations, sizes, purging rules, filenames, etc...

the logadjuster -- installed on the server allows you to change the logging level.

I am pretty sure that alert reset conditions are evaluated even for unmanaged nodes. Un-managing a node stops all polling, and set the state to 'unmanaged' which can be used as a reset condition. This is somewhat implicit by many of the out of the box alerts, e.g. Node down where the set condition is 'Down' and the…

can't you point the database server name at both IPs -- only the one that is actually running will work? note: we run in this setup, and I was surprised when we took the primary offline that the clients [solarwinds servers] all failed over to the secondary server and carried on working. I don't know why, I didn't spend…