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+1 for 99.999% coffee availability.
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Here's the thing: in order for this to work, applications people will need to collaborate with network people. That's almost like saying it can't be done, I know.
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That looks like a lot of memory. Is your db server hosting more than the Orion NPM database? Are they VMs? Might want to look through Resource Monitor on your SQL server to find out how much memory it's using, and adjust accordingly. (I'm always suspicious of VMs with high memory requirements.) One other trick to speed up…
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Thanks! Man, Twitter first, now Thwack? Awesome. I looked at the sizing guide earlier today. SM runs on a VM that has 8 vCPUs and 16GB of memory. Seems like a lot of system resources for a monitoring application. We're about 60 hosts and ~650 VMs, on vSphere 5.0. I'll keep working on this tomorrow. It's more than likely a…
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Nope, but good thinking! I confirmed that this setting was not a problem.
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Any idea when we'll have access to this functionality? And on a related note: will there be a plug-in for better integration between IPAM and VMware's vRA?
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I knew that having a leading underscore in my username would pay off one day.
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What is NPM showing when you try to discover the host? Does it show up as ICMP only? A good way to test connectivity between your NPM and node is to use nmap. Run a UDP portscan from your NPM host (nmap -sU <ip of windows host>) and see if the host is listening for incoming connections on 161/udp. If so, you have a problem…
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I use the customer portal to check for updates to the SW products I use, and to get the new MIB database. I'm rarely at the main site (www.solarwinds.com). And clearly I'm on Thwack most frequently. I've been using SolarWinds products for a long, long time (10 years, likely longer) but only joined Thwack last summer.
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In my experience, NPM performance issues are due to a misconfigured SQL server. It's similar to a VDI project: things work well up to a certain point, at which you hit the IOPS limit on your LUN and all of your desktops grind to a halt. NPM is the same, where an initial deployment with little to no stored data works well,…
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Some of the survey questions are worded in such a way that I can't answer them honestly. For example, I can't say that Email is both "mission critical" and "virtualized." I can only pick one or the other. The same is true for that entire section. Those two answers are not mutually exclusive. Just wanted to let you know.
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Well, I've now learned about IPs with leading zeroes being interpreted by many utilities as being in octal notation. Which explains why n.n.n.021 follows n.n.n.16; ping (and IPAM, I've learned) interprets 021 as 17. I'd still like to edit rather than delete and recreate.
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I implemented NTA many years ago at one of the federal sites where I worked. Most of the management types didn't understand why we needed to capture (or even generate) NetFlow at the edge. Then on July 7, 2009, I finally had the chance to use some of the NTA data I had been collecting: "Yes, management types. EVERYONE at…
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Hi. It's me. Again. So I've repeated step 2 (removing the subnet from IPAM and adding it) for another subnet that was showing as 100% available (even though I was able to ping individual IPs from the IPAM host's command prompt). Problem was resolved for this subnet, too. I think there's an issue when you important certain…
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So I've made progress, to the point where I'm able to scan this subnet now. But I'm not certain what the fix was. In the event another hapless individual runs into this same issue, here's what I've done: 1) My IPAM server is a VM (naturally), so I added an Ethernet adapter and put it in the same VLAN I wanted to scan. I…
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I like to add a tab to separate alerts and events out of the summary tab. less clutter that way. i also like to see the last 50 events regardless of time, not just today's events.
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Just a general observation - When looking up information for devices that are not EoL, it's a little confusing when the dates are shown as "NA." I'd think that it would be clearer if, instead of NA for non-EoL devices, the response was "Active" or "No Date Announced." Maybe I'm just being picky, though. Great tool! I wish…
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To be fair, most discussions around availability acknowledge that SLAs allow for scheduled downtime. Monthly patching is a great example. Even those VMs reboot much faster than their physical counterparts, a monthly reboot will certainly get you over that 5 minute mark. I think RichardLetts is dead-on with his comment that…
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Ershad, It may be that a device in between your Orion host and the host at 10.30.2.115 had a problem that prevented Orion from pinging the host, while the connection between your PC and 10.30.2.115 was operating normally. Did Orion detect any other devices that were down during this time?
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It's occurring to me that, while you may have valid points about the functionality and design of SolarWinds products, you ruined your chances of any meaningful dialogue by hammering out that rant. In my experience, the SolarWinds developers and product managers do a great job of incorporating feedback into future releases.…
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y u mad bro?
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I'm forever oscillating on this issue. Sometimes I am frustrated when something is hard to find on Thwack. Or when I know the subsite I want to view, but I have to click through a few pages to get there. Or when you want to find drafts of blog posts you've saved. I'm sure there are other examples. But then I think that,…
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I was thinking about this over the weekend. I was listening to a freight train blow its horn as it headed toward a mountain tunnel. Two long, one short, one long. It's a well-understand warning that a train is coming through. What if large data transfers could do the same? If applications could announce their intent to…
