William_Powley

See above in the previous post by Brandon (bshopp), who asked us to do a MIB walk and report what we get. That's what started me down this path, but I'm not sure what information he's looking for. Sorry for all the confusion on this, I was just trying to help zero in on the problem for the previous posters. This might be a…

Okay, I see that when I use the MIB Walker from the Toolset. I doubt you want all 7000+ entries in there, so are we looking for the specific entries associated with the number of AP's that the device recognizes or something like that? I see where you are going with this I think...if the MIB Walker is seeing that the device…

Hi All, Forgive me, I'm behind the curve here in learning the Custom Views and other fancy features this awesome tools has tucked away....but I'm finally getting back into it and have a few questions about my "ideas". I've organized many of my nodes in Groups, and have setup my Dependancies to suppress alerts based on what…

Okay, I'm doing a walk on the device now and its up in the 4000's so far. How would you like this information shared? In otherwords, I'm not very good with MIB's yet, and I'm not sure what you are looking for. Thanks, William

That is true. I apologize, I guess I misunderstood based on what I was doing. William

I'm curious as to how many of the above feature requests have been addressed in the latest released since this last post. I want to make sure I'm not requesting things that already exist, or start the requests again...especially for the alphabetical order and renaming of columns in Custom Property Editor. Thanks, William

Brandon, Who was that addressed to? Thanks, William

OH, I guess you've marked this as resolved...oops. I'll keep playing with it and see if I can get it going, and if so then post here, otherwise I'll move onto other posts :) Good luck. William

fcaron, Thanks a ton for your suggestions! Those definitely set me on the right path. Well done! William

One more thing. You might have to remove the existing Service-Policy if it's applied by default. Just remembered that, sorry. William

yes, there are specific policy map settings you need to configure on your ASA to allow NetFlow Traffic out of the device. Here is a little more information for a ASA 5505: ! the flow-export command on our devices are configured to go over a IPSec tunnel, so make sure you use the interface appropriate to your environment.…

Mazydizzle2K10, I've searched everywhere for a method to filter out the data to more than a month ago, to nodes with the 'down' state more more than a month, or just to simply see any events from a month+ ago. I'm had zero luck with this. Everytime I change the event time to: Eventtime < GetDate() - 30 the query returns…

Excellent! I just received my SQL book yesterday, so I'm starting to work with simple queries to get the hang of this so we can get more specific with your query...and others that I need to do. I haven't forgotten, and am still picking away at it. William

Hey gang, I thought I would look into our devices to make sure I wasn't seeing this as well...and I saw it but only in one particular case. First, our version: SolarWinds Orion Core 2010.1.0 SP1, IPSLAMGR 3.5, NCM 6.0, NPM 10.0.0 SP1, NTA 3.6 1995-2010 All Rights Reserved Second, I noticed this initially when I connected…

Mark, Thank you for the extra detail. I see your point. Now that I've setup the basic reports to send me availability information, and of course now that you've got me wondering whether I've missed any outages, I'm starting to dig deeper to make them as specific as possible. My boss has also just asked me to get him a…

All I want to do at this point is create a decription field on each device, that I can reference from within an alert. This field would show the Contact Information, Circuit Information, Network settings, and possibly have a link to SSH into some of our devices if appropriate. My ultimate goal is to make these alerts as…

I've never used the Engineer's Toolset version of NetFlow, but it's definitely a good way to test a machine. As long as there isn't a firewall blocking the traffic, which doesn't seem to be the case because you are getting that error message about the interface. Would you mind pasting the config for your interface up here,…

Good to go everyone. I'll move onto asking questions in seperate posts. Thank you very much for your assistance, and MarieB please tell your resource that this books is great. Thanks again for the reference. Regards, William

Ok gang, so far so good. I've generated the results I want using a query in Database Manager. Now, how do I insert that into Orion? I thought there was a place to view and insert sql queries into the report tool, but can't seem to find it now. Also, this query generates two columns (JOIN and COUNT commands), so how would I…

Okay, now I've received my SQL book and am ready to start scripting. No, I'm not going to ask where do I start... I'm curious as to where others are looking to get a description of some of the fields in the database. For instance I'm trying to determine if "Last Sync" is the field I'm looking for to see how long a device…

I think I was saying Enterprise Manager when I meant Database Manager, which is what I was trying to clarify. So that is within Advanced Features, and I think the others within Orion I've found within the Report tools. I believe there is a section there to type in new queries, but I'll work in the Database Manager for now.…

DNS Zero, I just stumbled upon this, which might help you out. As for the icon colors, everything I'm reading indicates that you are not allowed to change the icon colors as an action. Not sure if this is a feature that has geen requested or not. Hope this helps. William

Yes, I found the Enumeration setting after I went back in to "tweak" it. My thought, which I haven't chased down yet, is to setup an alert for when the state changes from "Established", and then set an action to that will email me, as wel as change the icon to red or blue, or a lightning bolt... That's my idea, but I'm not…

Mario, Good morning. It sounds like we are both trying the same things to get to the end result you describe. I reached the point yesterday where I realized that if I knew more about SQL Queries I could throw this together rather quickly because much like you I found that the logic is simple but the limitations of the…

Good clarification. I should have edited that as well. You're just too fast :)

Actually, IPSLA was the sole reason we started buying modules for NPM before we even had it up and running. We've had a ton of problems in the past with only manual processes we could use to monitor the MOS scores of our network. We did a demo of IPSLA and within 1-2 hours we had the PO signed, it was that impressive. I'm…

I'm glad I saw this post, as I'm starting this very process right now. So, up front thank you for doing the calculations and posting them for the rest of us to work off of. My initial thought is that there would have to be room for error in the results that we present to our companies. I understand that some environments…

You mention 10.1. I have version 6.0 for NCM, which is where I'm attempting this. I know alot of these tools are tied together, so where is the best place for me to configure these alerts to take advantage of the richest feature set and make my life easier? 

I'm not familiar with that feature. Please tell me more before I go through and recreate the wheel to get my alerting working. I'll start digging in the mean time...along with make sure I'm on the right version! Thanks!

Excellent, I look into that resource. But in the mean time, until I'm more experienced with the SQL, where do I enter my test scripts into Orion, or into SQL Manager? How do I tie them into the tools in Orion? I understand I'm running queries agains the Orion database, but where do I enter those queries? Unless the book…