RomeoG

It turns out that this is a known Cisco IOS bug. Check the Cisco link. There are other affected code versions, i.e., 12.2(55)SE5. The bug has been addressed in newer versions. Link : https://tools.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCtx16194/?reffering_site=dumpcr C3750 stack switches ciscoEnvMonSupplyState returns notFunctioning…

If there was a Thwack IRC chat, i might not ever get any work done. :-)

We spun up a VM for a PoC. You can use Splunk for free up to 500MB of indexing volume/day, but they gave us a short-term unlimited license so we could really test it out. We installed several of the pre-made apps, such as Cisco IOS, Cisco Security Suite, and Cisco ISE. I think we were in PoC phase for a couple of months,…

It's kind of ironic. We have all the things you addressed. Yet, we are still a long way from being fully proactive and complete in our monitoring and management. Many people (management) don't realize that this is not "set it and forget it".

We (our Network team) implemented Splunk this year. We are also grabbing firewall logs and server logs from our virtual environment. It's pretty crazy the kind of searches and dashboards that can be built quickly, once you understand the search language. And it's not just about pretty dashboards for management. It's easy…

I have been using Synergy with my desktop and laptop (both Windows 7) for several months, but it has been quite buggy. :-( I haven't given up on them yet.

Solarwinds tech support gave me the OID being used and our switch is definitely returning a different value for the one power supply that would indicate a problem. Here's the OID and a link to the Cisco MIB page: 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.13.1.5.1.3 Our switch is returning a 6 for the status. Reference this page for the possible…

Congratulations sir! I had already thought of you as a SolarWinds Head Geek, so it seems you're right where you belong.

Same here. We have several powerstacks without this issue, and 1 powerstack with this issue. Show commands all confirm good operation on the switch. I am going to open a support case. if nothing else, maybe I can find out what OID is being used to report this condition and go from there.....

+1 Either or both of these suggestions would be useful!

This is my first time doing a monthly challenge. It was enlightening and fun. Can't wait to see the next one!

Drag-n-droppable resources would be awesome in Solarwinds.

Filtering out unwanted traps is something I had not even considered before. I know there are some we could drop. We will be taking a look at this, too. Getting rid of background noise will have the added benefit of making it easier to sift through all the data to get to what we really want to see. Just wanted to say thanks…

Thanks for that tip Netlogix!! That gives some good insight into what is going on in our DB. Surprisingly, Syslog is not one of the larger tables. Looks like the bulk of it (by a HUGE margin) is Traps.Varbinds and then Traps. Netflow looks to be in third place, even taking into account that it seems to span several tables.

Chris, I was able to get the view to show up by doing everything you said to do...copy files into stated path, and modify the orion.cfg as stated above. It didn't show up in the web console right away. I made the changes during the day, and when i checked it later that evening, it was there. I know this is still a work in…

Now that I read that table again, I realize it does say that Netflow can increase the size to several hundred GB. Thanks for the tips. We will be focusing most of our efforts on the SQL server and also the fact that the DB is actually on a SAN. I wonder if anyone is getting satisfactory results with their DB hosted on a…

Rizwan, are you using some other tool for Netflow? I suggest that you use NPM interface utilization stats for bandwidth related info, but to keep some tool for NetFlow. While Netflow data doesnt necessarily match SNMP interface stats, the real value of NetFlow is in the information about top talkers, applications(ports),…

Hi Andy! Thanks for the info. Yes, that is the guide I am following. Can you verify the info about the 20GB size? This is what I found directly from the guide: "Total size of the Orion database. Normally less than 20GB for NPM with moderate syslog data and no NetFlow data." Maybe I am misunderstanding your explanation or…

Lauren, I am thinking the same thing that the device should support the entire MIB, though there could possibly be something hardware specific...as in specific to having a certain module installed. I also wonder if it is merely a coincidence that the OIDs not working are tables. Are you applying any SNMP views in the…

I had to add my +1 to this.

I see. I actually use the UnDP Poller Status resource on our node details pages, which combines all UnDPs into a single table, but I guess one downside is that ALL UnDPs go int a single table. But, if you group your UnDPs like we do, it groups them in the table as well. Let me know how you get the alerting working. I…

So, we are having our DBA people take a closer look at our SQL server. We definitely have a few issues to iron out with it. I wonder if anyone can chime in on the database size issue. The Orion Performance guide gives a general rule that the DB should be about 20GB, and looking at the MS SQL Management Studio, ours is…

I would do a full MIB walk on the device to see if it reports those values at all.

The help in the Alert Manager will tell you most of the Macros you can use to pass Solarwinds data to an external script. you would want ${IP_Address}. Here's an example of how I call an external script from an alert trigger: D:\Perl\bin\perl.exe D:\NOC\Scripts\alert.pl ${IP_Address} "${Nodes.Location}"…

Ahhh, OK. I gotcha. Ya, alerting on custom pollers took me a bit to figure out, too. The part I was missing was the "Type of Property to Monitor" pulldown on the Trigger condition tab in the Advanced Alert Manager has to be Custom Node Poller. Then, your filter needs to filter for that poller. I usually do it by Poller…

Hi Mike. Thanks for the response, but there has to be more to it than that. Based on what we see in our implementation, I can assure you that SolarWinds, is in fact, NOT getting that hostname from reverse DNS. In some of these cases, the devices have no DNS host entries and do not resolve at all. Others are properly mapped…

Hi cahunt! I explained the OIDs I use and how i use them in this thread. This seems to work for the different variations of the 4500s we have as well as Nexus 7k chassis. I need to get back to this project. I haven't done any more work on this since my original post. Can't believe it's been almost a year! Romeo

I think that's exactly what the SDK is for. I am doing something similar with a custom ticketing app. When a user views a ticket, the ticket queries Solarwinds using SWQL for the node status as well as other information such as location and machine type and displays it in the ticket. It's seamless to the end user. Check…

Hi Kalkenneth. I am curious. Why do you monitor the loopback interfaces? Also, we monitor FRU status with UnDPs...line cards, power supplies

Thanks aLTeReGo!! That's the good stuff! Romeo