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 Run a packet trace from Wireshark on your Cirrus box. If you are connecting via Telnet to send the commands to your equipment, you will be able to follow the command exchange and see the time stamps involved. I used this to find a problem with the HP 2524 switches and uploading/downloading configs as well as problems with…

 How about getting this fix over to Cirrus now? I am moving my Cirrus database from SQL2000 to SQL2005. Backed up the database and moved it over to the SQL 2005 box. Can't use the Database manager to access the new database (the SQL account I am using has full rights to its own database, nothing else). Seems that with this…

This does look like what I would like to see. Since it can be done with Cacti, I would like the product that I just paid thousands of dollars to be able to do that as well.

I'm an HP Procurve shop for many years. Still waiting for the Solarwinds team to fully support these units (I think it has been 2 or 3 years). Most devices work pretty well, but there are major issues with the HP Procurve 2524 and Cirrus configuration manager. It is a shame that it happens like this. Cisco is the network…

I've started using a scripting language called TCL to access routers and switches to get information for reports. TCL has an addon/plugin called EXPECT. You can use TCL to telnet into the router and then issue commands using Expect. Based on the output returned, you can filter the results to show exactly where you are…

The configuration compare is not using very complex algorithms yet. You can download a text file comparison tool from winmerge.sourceforge.net. This tool does something similar. It compares text files side by side and highlights the lines that are different. I agree that it would be very helpful to have a little more…

Here is the code. '-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ' SOLAR WINDS REPORTING TOOL Dave Anderson 07-20-2006 '-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ' This tool opens the…

Not sure that I really follow you on your question. I monitor many remote sites out of a centralized Data Center. We generally have a T1 circuit or better to the remote sites. I do however connect into one of my sites via a VPN tunnel. I use Orion to poll devices on the other end and have metrics as to how often the VPN…

Had problems during many upgrades of Cirrus and Orion when they were on the same box (3.x Cirrus and 7x & 8x Orion). DLL's were not being shared properly and being updated/overwritten and causing general unhappiness. Moved them both to their own virtual machines and now updates and patches work very well. Also found there…

FYI: If you are using the send script commands, these are synchronous. They will only run in sequense on after another.

 Well it seems that there is a place to add a custom filter to exclude lines such as the date/time. (Finally found it in another thread). See the screen shots for the details:

Yes. I have setup access into one of my switches. (It suprises me that they wouldn't develope their product without testing their product on say 10 different vendors equipment.)