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Tim - I appreciate what you are saying about adding complexity. However, let me tell you why Policy Manager doesn't fit the bill for me right now. I'll freely admit that I may be missing something here but policy manager only allows me to verify that the configuration contains certain configuration lines. I don't have the…

Would this happen to include access to custom properties? I've found that a custom property defined in NPM as an integer (numeric data) is copied to the NCM database as text. I'd like to be able to run mathmatic calculations against a custom property so the fact that it comes across as text doesn't allow for that. In my…

We have a new application/system vendor delivering a new solution for our company. Their solution is based on DB2, which you do currently support, but they also utilize Mongo DB. We'd like to have insight to both of these.

Thank you for this article. It has been helpful as I delved into the world of config change templates. I did, however, run into what I consider to be a fairly annoying gotcha yesterday while working on a template. It appears that custom properties are all converted to nvarchar (i.e. text) when they are copied from the NPM…

I hadn't realized that I could turn off the line numbers. That's handy. However, my biggest issue, even with the line numbers turned off, is that I'd like to be able to select, copy, and paste from that config detail window into a text document and right now I get extra CRLF's. I do this regularly as I'm building scripts…

Jiri – Yes, that thread does appear to address the functionality I’m looking for. Is there a hope that requirement #115222 will be included in a future release of NCM? Thanks. Ben

Yes, please add support for ISC DHCP fail-over. We just evaluated IPAM for a second time and this appears to be the deal-breaker this time.

So is that a feature request item that I can vote up? Ben

Yes. However, based on your link to the other article/issue I was wondering if these two items were really duplicates. Ben

Thanks! I've tried out this trigger option, specifically executing commands on a node other than the one being monitored, and it works. Very cool.

In the current version of NPM/NCM (12.3/7.8), when using the "Execute An NCM Action" alert trigger action, I see an option that says: "Enter the IP address of the NCM node where the NCM action will execute." Is this new and does it actually allow you to specify the IP address against which the "Execute Config Script"…

Jiri - Thanks for that follow-up note. We've lived in the TFTP world so long I failed to consider going to the more secure SCP transfer for those configs. I'll look into that. Ben

Michael - Not a script really. If you look at the device template you'll see the following line: <Command Name="DownloadConfigIndirect" Value="write net ${StorageAddress}:/${StorageFilename}"/> When I set the connection profile "Transfer Config Using" value to TFTP it ends up logging into the ASA via ssh and executing a…

We reconfigured to simple mode yesterday and managed to not fill up our logs drive overnight, for the first time in several days. We're probably fine with simple recovery mode long term so this may be our solution. Best of luck.

Oops, my bad. I accidentally copied and pasted the same output file. Below is the actual content on NCM 7.6. TEST FILE CONTENT WHEN EXECUTED ON NCM 7.6 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Adding several lines just to test script execution line 0 line 1 line 2 line 3 line 3.1 line 3.2…

I realize that it is an older post and we've marched forward to NCM 7.8 now but I still can't find mention of a delay/wait command that works within a config change template in any of the admin guides. Was it really added and just not documented? If so, what is the command syntax? Thanks. Ben

I think I found another one. I have had/have an NCM script that creates a file on flash in our Cisco routers. The script used to work just fine. Post-upgrade the generated file contains blank lines (CRLF). Boring detail to follow: ORIGINAL SCRIPT ------------------------------------ CLI { tclsh puts [open…

I have been having the same issue. As others have mentioned I just applied HF1 and things have improved dramatically. If my nightly backup job completed, which it rarely did, it took 1 day 14 hours. With the patch applied I just ran the job and it completed in 40 minutes. Nice!

If you'd like to review and vote for the following idea, which I believe addresses your concern, hopefully we'll get this feature in NCM soon: http://thwack.solarwinds.com/ideas/1182 Thanks. Ben

Noobes & Michael - Not sure if you've already gotten this issue resolved but we had a similar concern with config backups on our ASA 5520, plus an additional issue. First, the bigger annoyance to me to was that a "show running-config" on an ASA is, or at least was, paginated so copies of my downloaded config would contain…

ttl - We had a similar concern with config backups on our ASA 5520, plus an additional issue. First, the bigger annoyance to me to was that a "show running-config" on an ASA is, or at least was, paginated so copies of my downloaded config would contain a blank line ever 20-25 lines because that's were a --- more --- would…

We use NPM/NCM quite a bit and are doing some interesting stuff, we think, to do "master template" comparison across router configs at all of our retail sites. We use NCM config change templates exclusively for consistent updates to configurations. Happy to discuss if you would like.

I want to agree with Thoar500 as well. We performed a process very near what he describes. We have 1500+ devices that we would do an weekly baseline report on and then baseline the entire network. That way we had an easy way to see if there were unauthorized config or config that was not cleaned up after a troubleshooting…

That is really something that you need to get from Cisco's website. Ben

YES!!!! We've been fighting what sounds like the same issue. Every few days our log disk fills up and the whole environment blows up. Do you have an active ticket open with Solarwinds regarding this issue. I'd be happy to piggy-back on that ticket to try to increase visibility.

We have three different models of Dell PowerConnect switches in our network and I ended up with modified device templates for each of them. What model of switch are you working with?