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That's not a scaleable or functional solution. I have ~10,000 wireless access points. though I have the unlimited node licenses for NPM this would require a [pair of] Polling engines with additional licenses. In addition, even though an AP might be pingable on its public interface, with Aruba at least they build a VPN…

Juniper switches (of which we have well over a thousand) don't support shutting down a port using SNMP; for that you have to use NETCONF: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6241 NETCONF support (in general) would be a good addition to the product suite.

I think 'bad netflow streams' is really outside the realm of the functionality most of us need -- in most environments I'd expect that function to be handled by a dedicated ISS/IDS appliance, e.g. running snort/barnyard http://www.snort.org/ This then becomes 'receiving syslog output from my IDS system and processing…

The lack of a write API has essentially killed the product here :/ I'm actively evaluating alternative IPAM solutions.

Comments: a) the data should stay in the same database server -- this allows you to use some of the MS SQL services to migrate data b) please, please, read the The Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Complete Guide to Dimensional Modeling (9780471200246): Ralph Kimball, Margy… This is because many reporting tools make use of those…

... and yesterday afternoon someone deleted one of our routers with over 700 interfaces on it accidentally. I've hacked up the following database trigger, which I hope will stop this from happening again. Getting back the lost data is not going to be fun: if I could spend thwack-points on getting this feature I would! USE…

Your backup is only as good as your last restore.

You could build your own if there was an API into the IPAM product... In my environment this sort of thing has to come in through a request record rather than some one-off system inside the network management platform, so not much use here.

It looks like the logs of where/when you got points is displaying in milliseconds since the epoch... which is all VERY geeky but us mortals have to resort to Epoch Converter - Unix Timestamp Converter

I tried to complete the survey, but there were few places I could choose 'all of the above' e.g. We have three phone switches varying in ages; two are traditional PBX, one is PBX+voip, and the core connecting phone system components is currently a mixture of SONET and VOIP.

I'm not sure there is much that can be done by the network management vendor. Not every hardware vendor provides a custom MIB variable that could be polled, and then we're asking for custom device support, which we could get today by using a universal device poller.

My use case is for the UPS support bob to be able to update the date (and manufacturer of) the battery was replaced in the UPS [a custom property] without giving that right to everyone, or giving the UPS person the rights to do anything to a node.

if you have multiple pollers and/or the failover engine wait for 10.6 I can't delete interfaces in my 10.5 install through the webUI at the moment

This is something we would be interested in. The telecom foks here would be very interested in this functionality -- they have already been thinking about how they are going to measure IP-SLA metrics, and had even been thinking of deploying sensor nodes/routers to measure the IP SLA.

Our full Syslog data for the network devices alone is over 50GB/day; it would be bad to drop this into the NPM operational database. Trap data is quite a bit lighter at only a couple of GB/Day. It's orders of magnitude larger for the server logs. fortunately I don't have to take the whole feed for network events and I am…

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this information might also be available from the LLDP MIB

it's something that purchasers are going to ask for. In many installations there are a relatively few solarwinds orion users (they can be handled individually); by the time people join thwack they have solved their own access problems; if you have a small number of access groups then the current active directory…

This would allow me to suppress alerts for known bad access points

Yes. Actually I would expect to create a user that had API access and use that from within the solarwinds application to download the necesary data. this user would be saved in NCM, like other user roles I could see this API-level user leveraged in other NCM features to do things like: - open a TAC case (and attach the…

as far as I can see the neighbor information produced from the show virtual-chassis virtual-port (needed to determine if the ring is correctly cabled) is not anywhere in the MIB which would make doing anything other than up/down status on the ports challenging. I've asked the people who can @work to open a support case to…

I've volunteered to talk on alerting at the Seattle event since I think it's the thing I've posted most about. Looking forward to meeting people in-person!

Just to confirm after installing UDT 3.2.2 these were the values in NodeChildStatusParticipation Orion.UDT.PortUDTFalseTrueTrue /RjL

the alert manager doesn't take a realtime feed of data, so this is somewhat of a more fundamental change in the way it works, reaches deeper into the rest of the product potentially making it much harder to use for existing users and breaking existing functionality (1,2,3) really needs to be adding additional rules for…

deleting stuff is bad -- we're losing historical data, for example all number of interfaces, AP load, client density, and a whole raft of other good stuff.

We will shortly be coming up to the three-year anniversary for this request; I note that 11.5.1 shipped with DotNetOpenAuth (DotNetOpenAuth.net · GitHub) Is there documentation on how to enable/use this for authentication and authorization?

How about running under NeverFail? Does it support replication?

Groups (aka containers) can be automatically provisioned -- there is an API that works for that. I used it to build the hundreds of groups we have of devices based on their custom properties (sector, building). here's the perl peices: $swis->Invoke("Orion.Container", "CreateContainer", [ "$sector $building", "Core", "60",…

It's been a while since I play around with this (I've changed jobs), and I've not done anything with our alert engine since then (I'm now the director and my alert twiddling is limited to asking the manager to ask the engineer unless it takes < 60 seconds). The challenge is that you want the trigger condition to fire once…

The web page where you edit things is something like: https://server/Orion/IPAM/IP.Edit.aspx?SubnetId=26278&ipOrdinal=82&RefUrl=IPAddressDetail and this has some javascript in it that posts the results back...