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I would like for there to be somewhat for a thread to be closed & pointed as a duplicate (like you see on StackOverflow) and for others to be able to vote up answers. here is a nice example of this: Where's the "belongs on serverfault.com" question close reason? - Meta Stack Overflow sometimes threads on Thwack never die…

This is an old question, and since 2008 things have changed... In 11.x there is a neighbor down alert that is somewhat helpful, However in my network we run a LOT(*) of BGP, so the neighbor that is down is almost certainly the adjacent node that is down; actually, with MPLS and VRFS, one node down could also result in over…

you need to open a case for this -- if you look at the customer portal there are a good number of videos on how to manage licenses, but I believe you have to start by 'releasing' the licences from the working machine before you uninstalled and formatted it... (reformatting the machine generates a new unique ID used for…

We do this off our in-house CMDB -- basically I pull the current values from the CMDB, and the nodes, Diff the two, and apply any updates. 1. it's time-intensive to pull the values one at a time from Orion and compare them one-by one. it's much faster to pull all the values from both sources, and process it as a batch.…

I use it to get quasi-support for VRFS -- the instances have different community IDs. this allows UDT to collect the ARP and bridge mac tables from those instances.

in NCM this is a function of the Inventory collection module. Modern devices should support the Entity MIB, and you could use a custom poller to collect that information in NPM.

I'd have a look in the C:\ProgramData\Solarwinds\InformationService\v3.0 logfiles to see if anything is recorded there... you'll probably find things like: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException (0x80131904): Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to completion of the operation or the server is not responding. This…

You can do a direct upgrade to from 10.6 to 11.0.1; from the release notes: "Direct Upgrade from NPM 10.4 or Higher" SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor Release Notes The upgrade paths documented in the product compatibility matrix are not always the most optimal. otherwise what HolyGuacamole wrote is correct.

yes, but you have to think of it backwards. you're thinking "when B goes down run the action on node A" whereas you should think of is as "trigger an action on A when B goes down" so, using some custom SQL on the trigger alert... this is the general idea: WHERE EXISTS (select 1 from NODES N2 where NODES.caption='A' and…

Yeah, Juniper support is generally not as good, mostly because of Juniper's insistence on the .0 interface (and the .32767 if you have MPLS) If you're ideas, create/share them using the ideation process and see how many votes they get. Solarwinds: for a physical interface (xe-1/2/3) the error counters accrue there; for a…

Results of our upgrade: a) alerts table update broke some reports.. not that much of a problem b) one additional poller appears broken-- with SW Dev to figure out what happened there c) misc. config files stomped over by the installer -- separate cases opened for each of these. d) cannot add any new customize/add resources…

Yes. This just works; Orion sends a UDP/ICMP packet to an IP address. Windows consults its routing tables and uses the appropriate interface.

You'll need to define a custom sql properly to pull the varbind; Personally I'd copy the varbind you're interested to into the TAGS on the snmp trap receiver. then use a custom SQL variable into the message being logged. (untested) ${SQL:Select top 1 TAG FROM [dbo].[TRAPS] Where nodeid=${NodeID} and colorcode=255 order by…

KB Article: SolarWinds Knowledge Base :: How to stop the UDT log file

[late reply I know] 1. We run backups of our SQL database three times a day -- one reason I find the 'Have you saved a backup of your data' question so odd during an upgrade. [actually we run a full backup once/day and a save the transaction logs, but same deal] 2. yes, SQLserver backups are [supposed] to be restorable.…

for NPM you need to monitor the Physical [interface] (ge-0/0/0) to get the error interface states to mean anything for UDT you need to monitor the Unit [port] (ge-0/0/0.0) to get the L2 MAC data , and ARP info from the router; no need to monitor the units hence you don't normally burn through licences faster if you monitor…

* in_UDT (flag)* tells me if the device has been imported into UDT since there is no way to do this using an API. * Sector* We operate several adjoint networks, this tells staff if the device is in a medical center, at a school, at the University, or somewhere between Chicago and Qatar * assetTag* ties the device to our…

there is an additional webserver component to move the webUI to a new server -- the license quite cheap ($495 list) Orion Web Server Engine – increase user access I've not done this myself, because there has not been a need here. I would check on your database server load first -- to make sure that is not where your…

Applying logic: You do not care what the utilization is outside of business hours, so simply exclude all data in that period from your consideration; don't even use it for comparison. What is the 95th percentile during business hours? (it will take some SQL to write a report for this)

it installs its pre-requisites. It will need holes poked in the firewall to communicate with the SQl server and the primary poller, and any network devices. It doesn't require IIS<-- only used for additional web servers It will install MSMQ, VCredist, SQL client libraries, if not already installed; that's why the installer…

See this posting: Re: Can we create dependencies using the SDK? there is another on in the SDK forum on how to using by posting JSON

there is an Thwack idea for adding support to solarwinds -- please open a support case and ask them for it. we have a couple of hundred of these VCs -- the best way to is to configure UnDP to pull the values you need and create alerts based on those. (though to be honest, there is no a lot of benefit to this as most of a…

I have a bunch of perl scripts that basically do this across the nodes here. the scheme is: - get a set of noeds that are missing the pollers - add the poller to the nodes. script snipped below #!/usr/local/bin/perl# usual perl preludes to import SWIS API and connect to the server...# omitted because it's specific to our…

I'd disable alert actions (it's a checkbox on the alerts page for administrators) -- the alerts still show up in the console, and once the upgrade has finished you can re-enable the alert actions (there might be actions that are missing, but you could clear the instance of an alert, and when it retriggers the actions will…

this information is in the TCP connections table: http://www.net-snmp.org/docs/mibs/tcp.html you could build a UnDP poller for that table. what are you actually trying to do with the output of netstat? You could be better off with netflow/sflow and using NTA. or a different non-NPM solution... FGA: Put down the…

Input queue: 0/75/0/0 (size/max/drops/flushes); Total output drops: 4590 the output drops are probably being counted.

reporting is very spotty using the MIB d09h​ mentioned I don't get reports on 1G, 40G, or 100G interfaces on MX series I don't reports on ex series switches I do get reports on 10G and 40G on QFX series This is somewhat annoying, even more so since we have a truck loads of ex2200 switches and Juniper are pulling back from…

what OID is it polling for memory? have you enabled 64-bit counters on the node? whenever I hear 4GB in polling I think 'ah 32-bits'

You have asked a question about how to achieve something using a tool in a way that blatantly does not fit its paradigm. This is not really the NPM way; the way NPM expects you to do this is to define a UnDPthat polls the correct MIB and then a widget to display the returned values. NTPv4 MIB - Cisco The NCM way would be…

What vendor? with Aruba if you've a failover or master/slave controller configuration the the aruba polling if badly broken and you need to set a flag for SOlarwinds to retain stats and use custom SQL to get alerts to work properly.