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I'd like the summary at the top, then for each device a single line like this: DeviceName Startup Running${caption} (${agentip}) OK/fail OK/fail${caption} (${agentip}) OK/fail OK/fail...${caption} (${agentip}) OK/fail OK/fail${caption} (${agentip}) OK/fail OK/fail

11.5.2 is now gathering this information and populating a table NetObjectDowntime, but not ready for primetime... SELECT TOP 1000 EntityId,NodeId,DateTimeFrom,DateTimeUntil,State,EntityType FROM [dbo].[NetObjectDowntime] where nodeid=X and EntityType = 'Orion.Nodes' 2011201110/9/2015 4:16 PM10/15/2015 1:02…

In NPM 10.3.1 there is a very nice spreadsheet import feature in the custom property editor. The input is a CSV file with column headings, as part of the import process you identify what fields to match on, and then what fields to update. I'd like this way of handling mass-updates to be cloned for all products, it allows…

I'm a little worried about the de-duplication of nodes; because the product doesn't support virtual instances on physical routers I have to have the same node in the NPM database for each one of the virtual instances, and I achieve this by making use of multiple pollers. Right now we have ~20 instances/router and I have to…

I believe it limits the number of routing entries it downloads to the first thousand.

At least you only had to drive there... Once I flew several thousand of miles, fixed a problem in minutes, and been heading home when I was called back to stay another couple of days because they can't admit/believe that I had fixed the problem so soon. Fortunately I had only made it to the airport, and so could change…

The change to a dedicated database for the netflow data while appreciated is a significant architectural chnage that will affect large deployments. For example our SQL server is designed for high write throughput, but the [application server] hardware we run NTA on does not have enough local storage for this product…

MIB to populate NPM_SwitchStackMember…

We have a concept we talk about at work -- the mean time to irrelevancy. As an example next week we will be switching from a 30+ year old cobol program suite that has been running our payroll to a cloud-based system.... then we'll move on to replacing our (even older) finance system, and then the student records system. So…

we have 9300 thinAP's, and increasing by about 300 a year; that's a whole additional polling engine [pair] worth of hardware and software

if you use a windows patch deployment product most/all of the good ones prevent you from (say) deploying a windows95 patch to a windows 2012 server. Why doesn't network automation tools provide the same level of functionality? A bad workman blames his tools; a master craftsman hates bad tools. As an example in NCM it would…

We have over 9000 aruba wireless access points; they all have two controllers: a primary controller and a secondary controller. Right now the thin wireless access points are non-sticky. What I mean by this is that if the WAP cannot be found on a controller then it is deleted fom the orion database, along with all of its…

4. remind them about the company policy on using a screen saver/lock when they are not present to avoid this happening in the future.

it is not directly possible (without this enhancement) One way is to update the lastpoll date in udt_job to be 1/1/1899 and to restart the module engine...

on Juniper devices you have the option of using confirmed configuration commits, which will rollback the configuration if not reconfirmed. This is useful if the commands accidentally disable the uplink port or break routing protocols because you won't be able to recommit the chnage and it'll undo your work.

see -- been out there since June of 2012 for NPM

I installed these upgrades today -- the IPAM application server install reminded me to install the IPAM additional polling engine (APE) servers, but when I did that the IPAM APE errored out saying that it had already been installed. (I could not find it installed). Solarwinds Techsupport told me that IPAM 4.3 did not make…

this is done -- it is in UDT 3.2.2 [tested, confirmed working] the 'Monitor Node with UDT' -- also works with ports...

nope, none of the thousands of Juniper devices I manage have suggested dates...

Seriously? not on the 10.6 roadmap?

there is already an idea for an additional polling engine support in IPAM: http://thwack.solarwinds.com/ideas/2298

In my world 'users' are the departmental IT directors.

We have over half a million users not [really] managed in active directory -- support for SAML would eliminate this for us, and at the moment this idea simply a nice to have it were there for me. (so I will withhold my vote up or down in preference to a solution that would give me two-factor login)

Run network sonar discovery (as in 3.1)

airwave has a SNMP-trap support -- you can get airwave to tell your Orion install the state of AP, etc. -- look at the NMP integration pages. if the Orion SNMP trap support was richer it would be easier to use this to (say) update the AP status dynamically (rather than polling the controllers)

This would be useful to allow statistics collection to still continue until the nodes become unreachable due to maintenance, and but should feed into the node availability calculations. i.e. planned maintenance does not count towards the time a node is being down for SLA calculations. A custom property to turn off alerts…

We have a similar need, but have privilege separation; the process that runs the reports can't be the same user that sends SMTP mail, and can't be the same process that logs into... well you get the idea. So, in my case I have lots of accounts that have lots of passwords that need to get updated indifferent places in the…

What might be useful here is if the RCD set some kind of flag indicating that the configurations were 'dirty' This could then drive a periodic backup job that backups up such configurations (in our environment with junipers we have two commits per change since we use the automatic roll-back functionality as a safety…

Solarwinds Orion NPM can do this for you today, with only a little effort: If you've RHEL6 servers and have configured net-SNMP to give access to the host resources MIB then the following universal device poller will pull the hrSystemUptime for the devices, and the attached alert definition makes use of it to determine if…

If you only have five routers then you're about the same size as my home network, and you might as well use an open standard like OSPF. cisco are not releasing any of the better features of EIGRP like stub areas, and they'll remain in charge of certifying compatible/compliant implementations, so if there is a bug in their…