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Ideally you want to mix your type of load across the polling engines so you can shift load around at will rather than being dependent on one particular servers for any particular load. the module engine aka BusinessLayer can be configured to run a separate process for each type of polling; you MIGHT want to take advantage…

for all except hardware health you add the right set of pollers for the device. $swis->Create("Orion.Pollers", { 'PollerType'=>$poller, 'NetObject'=>"N:$node", 'NetObjectType'=>'N', 'NetObjectID'=>$node }); Here's a list of the (current) pollers. N.MulticastRouting.SNMP.MulticastRoutingTable…

if you are running NCM there is more that has to be backed up (specifically the devicetemplates directory) plus any exported configurations

The proper way to do this is to use subqueries like this: 'A' and 'B' find the data for the two pollers (in this case it's the Juniper Chassis VCP port states Note, the A.custompollerassignmentid and A.Rowid could be used to lookup labels, and A.Nodeid could be used to join to the nodes table. ---- SELECT A.nodeid,…

the McAfee/Intel IPS devices have a custom MIB -- they have relocated the sensor interfaces statistics to a private/enterprise area of the MIB instead of overlaying the interfaces MIB. Open a support case with McAfee/Intel asking them to fix this (it's netSNMP based and truly is only a small matter of programming) In the…

open a support case. Because the Solarwinds applications are only 32-bits the most they can address is 2GB; the last time this happened to me they had to provide a fixed DLL.

Performance of various disk subsystems: 2-disk mirror ::= 2 logical read = 1 physical read per disk ; 1 logical write = 2 physical writes 4-disk raid 5 ::= 1 logical read = 4 physical reads ; 1 logical write = 4 physical writes 4-disk raid 10 ::= 2 logical read ~= 1 physical read per disk ; 1 logical write = 2 physical…

We are running NPM+NTA+UDT+IPAM+NCM against SQL 2008 Enterprise R2 SP2.

we monitor the BGP states and determine the health from that (note: we're the ones running the MPLS network rather than the ones simply using it from a vendor) If you're using MPLS from a vendor then enable BFD across the link and then monitor the routing protocols.

Only using custom SQL. this idea: will hopefully merge syslog and traps into one alerting engine which will be good.

What others have said, plus: check windows firewall allows incoming UDP/514 from any source (or at least those IP addresses on your network)

The Primary poller controls all of the operations of the system -- the additional polling engines will pull the data if it is down but all of the alerting and much of the functionality (e.g. syslog, traps) will stop with the primary application server is down. so -- sorry, I think you'll still need to schedule maintenance…

the upgrade modifies the database, so you cannot point a 11.x install at a 10.x database and get unicorns and rainbows. I'd personally go with move [and test] & then upgrade [and test] if the test fails you at least have the opportunity to roll-back..

no :-( I have NPM, NTA, IPAM, UDT, NCM, with four additional pollers and Failover installed. Our record time for Upgrading one product (NPM) from 10.5 to 10.6.1 is 105 minutes -- we have decided to only upgrade one product at a time. I would really like to be able to: a) install on app server b) have it push out the…

I've seen this where there is some issue with the child status propogating up to the parent and the UI/database gets confused. Part of the application thinks everything is up and working, and part of it does not. I don't recall what I did to fix it now (sorry), so I'd suggest opening a support case and attaching a…

not in the UI -- you can create them quite easily using the API though -- I've posted perl scripts that do it in the past.

Please don't change the current behavior, some of us make use of it (to overcome other limitations in the product)

Advertising to whom, how? When I see things like this I'm thinking a BGP peering announcement with an external peer, in which case you should announce what you have been allocated/assigned by your local RIR and recorded in the RADB, and you would not want to advertise a smaller block as well as the larger aggregate (a /28…

I'm monitoring an ASR910 [it's an evaluation box for edge-site WAN connections at 10Gbps] -- seems to be working okay. I think I shared the poller settings we're using to thwack

see this: Any means of mass enabling the "Hardware Health Sensors" resource detection?

This is an almost content free post; it takes me 2 hours to upgrade ten servers, but that's not bad (12 minutes/server). If you've got a problem with an upgrade what's the problem? What are you starting from, What are you trying to get to? What error messages? [I'm sure the solarwinds staff would ask for ticket numbers to…

I'd open a support case -- I've never seen this in any version up to 10.6.1

I'm planning on doing something like get a list of campuses and building names, then for each campus create a group, and then for each building on the campus create a group with a dynamic query of the nodes whose building matches the group name. This need arose when we had a campus power outage and knowing which buildings…

An active alert has two components: - the alert definition - the monitored object (node, interface, etc) what I do is use the TRAPviewer to tag traps of interest with a key, then use a CUSTOM SQL alert on a NODE like this: Trigger Condition: WHERE nodeid IN (SELECT nodeid FROM traps WHERE datetime>Dateadd(hour,-1,…

Isn't 100% packet loss a Node down alert?

Are you sure your database is actually growing in size? Yes, I know the files are growing in size, but that is not really an issue since recently accessed data is cached.. I note your moved to a new SQLserver database -- are the database server setting the same on both of them? e.g. autoshrink, etc? in my environment the…

Note: I've moved jobs so I have not looked at it on the platform here (cisco). Aruba Thin AP alert support is poor. 1. There is no way to mark an AP as out of service -- sometimes we have to take them down for construction temporarlyand it would be good to be able to flag them as out of service. 2. There is no way to…

1) What protocols/routing data do you need to monitor? BGP primarily, OSPF, LSP, 2) What value do you expect from this routing table monitoring (just actual state, do you want to compare it against older snapshots, what info are you looking for there) Neighbor state; I do not want NPM to download the routing tables:…

I would not worry about it -- I have devices that sometimes dump that many syslog messages into solarwinds in a day. it seems to me Solarwinds support has to deal with people trying to run their product on the free version of SQLserver and so by throwing these messages out they can point at 'performance problems' on your…

Actually, you think you can add them to NCM, and the API function to add them to NCM works okay, but there is some database glue that is missing so they are invisible to NCM in the Web UI, and you get unhandled exceptions trying to view any of the NCM tiles. Removing a swisV2 node from NCM and adding them back in does not…