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What have to tried? What actionable information do you hope to get out of this? Not sure how useful this report would be (in my environment) since I have a tens of thousands of devices roaming around campus and the RSSI is naturally going to go low at some point as they roam off one AP onto another. note: requests for help…

You have asked the same question three times now. Are you hoping for a different answer? or is it that you don't like the answer I have you several days ago? NPM12 works fine with FoE; the upgrade of our install, which is not small (5 pairs of servers), went very smoothly, and we completed the upgrade in under 3 hours.

Yes, the syslog 'viewer' on the solarwinds application server can be configured to take action on the incoming messages before they reach the database to discard them

That setting removes the stats and thin APS from the database -- I'm not sure when it is a good idea to automatically and by default remove APS from the database. (we have over 13,000 real AP on our network , but because of this setting Solarwinds Orion has chruend through adding and removing them so it appears we have had…

a) only if you want to write some SQL. select *from Nodeswhere nodeid not in (select entityID from ContainermemberSnapshots where EntityType='Orion.Nodes') [in the Database Manager] you could also use this in a custom report if you want to keep track of this frequently b) yes, groups can be in groups. I have sector ->…

have you allowed access to port 17777/17778 through the firewall on the server?

Yes, we've three Avaya phone switches (with tens of thousands of phones connected to them). open a private thread and I';l find someone who can give you the technical details.

In UDT 3.2.2 is is now possible to directly add switches/ports UDT without running a discovery. use 'Manage ports' on the 'All UDT Nodes' resource.

What version of UDT/NPM? In 3.2/11.0.1 you can perform a rediscovery and import only the ports; there is no need to delete the node, the additional port data gets added to UDT. You will need to write down the IP address and credentials because there is no way to select existing nodes. /RjL

I would do this in the trap viewer itself, and would not need any custom SQL. then use an alert action to send an email:

No -- our ServiceNow is integrated with our [pre-existing] CMDB to provide the CI. Our organization CMDB is integrated with our finance systems so when we acquire a device and put it into service we can track its asset and depreciate it properly. I'd be interested in how larger companies using discovery in Solarwinds to…

What manufacturer of Wireless controller? Are you sure you have removed the Unknown Thin AP from your controller? if you don't do that (at least on Aruba) they will keep re-appearing. there is also an advanced config setting to remove disappeared AP (this is the default) that might have gotten reset. I'd recommend opening…

yup, the alert will stay triggered until it clears. if you 'acknowledge' the alert it gets 'hidden' in the display. If you want to to repeat actions until cleared then that is set on a per-action basis on the actions tab.

There is a bug -- the name of the alert object is stored in the database table that keeps count of the number of times the alert has been triggered. it's not updated if the name of the node chnages, so you end up with alerts on the same nodeidhaving the wrong name on the alert, and confusion when you click on the alert and…

1. open a support case with solarwinds asking for this functionality because that is the only way that the product manager is going to give it any priority. 2. check out this somewhat long and complicated thread with some examples of how to get this working: Custom SQL Alerts based on the SNMP trap message content And…

Can we turn off all wireless client tracking and heat map generation? I am concerned about the volume of data -- a SNMPwalk of one our smaller controllers takes well over half an hour to complete if you're pulling client data; during that time 80% of our users (students) [around 150,000 clients] will have moved...

same here, as I discovered last Friday...

I think it's a bug in 12.0.1 and NCM 7.5x where the module versions are note quite synchronized properly between them. i.e. the main poller didn't know that NCM 7.5 was installed on the Additional polling engines -- check the JSON blob in OrionServers. I think I managed to cause a sync of this by visiting the advanced…

Which modules do you have installed on your app server (it's the text at the bottom of the display) Did you install additional pollers for all of the modules (i.e. if you have NPM and NCM to you run the additional poller install for BOTH NPM and NCM)

use enumerated as the data type instead of counter, gauge, or integer. if the MIB writer has documented it correctly then the UnDP poller will convert the values returned into something more meaningful.

My 3.0.2 issues: a) cannot cope with replies larger than a few KB [it uses getbulk, and there is nothing to say that the next blobs of data returned are not larger than this. The alternative is to switch to SNMPv1, or turn the number of repeaters in the SNMP request. Neither of which is a real solution. A fixed SNMP…

You also have to update the ipaddressGUID as well as the polling IP (the NodeIpAddress is updated when the node is rediscovered, so you do not need to update this) I'd really recommend to update this information using the API... it seems to me that you're asking for trouble to mess directly with the database as time goes…

The way I started automating things here newly added Nodes get a comment (custom property) set on them stating they have just been added. \ I can then go and do a 'list resources' on them and expand my scripts slowly to automate more and more of the addition process now if I could add UnDP and UDT polling I would not need…

You can run a program on receiving a trap -- this could be a powershell script that invokes the API to acheive this result.

I'm not sure what you want to achieve here; you must be trying to do something other than simply move to new servers? otherwise I'd personally do: 1. Move DB from server 2 to new server 4 a) copy& restore database b) run the configuration wizard on server 1 to point to the new database [if it fails re-run the config wizard…

How would you identify the loop if you did not have NPM? What network policies do you have in place that help prevent loops? For example, do you have spanning-tree active? This stops the simplest of loops and many switches will report loops that are blocked with syslog and/or trap messages that can be used to generate…

no, it's not possible to add/customize the tabs (without editing the website files, and that might not survive an upgrade); I repurposed the 'Virtualization' tab for this.

I monitor: a) interfaces that are pointing towards other monitored nodes using LLDP i.e. these (SWQL custom query resource): SELECT n1.ipaddress, LocalPortNumber, RemoteSystemName, RemotePortDescription FROM Orion.NodeLldpEntry NLE inner join orion.nodes N1 on NLE.nodeid=n1.nodeid inner join orion.nodes N2 on…

This isn't crazy at all. We have a separate CMDB that essentially performs discovery -- it grabs all of the node/interface data [I don't care about volumes] and presents it to staff to flag things for monitoring. the challenge I have is in deciding which interfaces to monitor, and discovery does not help at all with that.…

short of suggestion you upgrade? I'd start by moving the SQLserver to the latest version supported by the version of NPM/NCM you are running as that is the least painful