bkattan

I've tried Cisco's NBAR in the past in an attempt to throttle torrent traffic which was consuming too much of our Internet bandwidth. I found that NBAR was not efficient at it as it was not identifying torrent flows accurately. So the question here is that if it could not identify for policing, how accurate will the…

Funny thing is we only have around 20 or 25 custom pollers! Sent from my iPhone

I will also work on replacing all drives with 15K RPM ones. I believe that will spawn a DB migration discussion when the time comes :-)

Thanks savell, and you are right about netlogix's question. I was just focusing on the RAID type. We have actually installed 2 new drives, and created a second RAID 1 array, which will be dedicated for transaction logs.

Thanks netlogix. I found the culprit tables to be the custompoller statistics tables. Which drives me to think, do they have their own retention settings maybe? what could be causing them to grow so much? This is just the Netperfmon table showing 97.7 GB

Turns out our admin implemented RAID10, but reported 0+1...

I confirmed today with our administrator that our RAID configuration is 1+0

Thank you Deltona. Now i see why you jumped at our RAID setup! I will check this out tomorrow with our server admin.

Thank you Andy! I have reviewed some old e-mails, and you are right, support did recommend RAID 1+0...i will sit with our administrator to see why he implemented 0+1. I stand corrected.

Thank you Matt. And thanks to solarwinds for the continuous prompt and effective support.

Very good point mavturner. I do need the stats for compliance actually, but do not access them regularly. So how do you advise I proceed with data warehousing? Should i set the retention setting back to default and have some automated process regularly move the data to some other database? If so what is the method you…

Thanks Deltona, Can you help me understand your comment on RAID ? RAID 0+1 is the one recommended by support.

The case got closed by support!

Thank you for your reply savell. Our DB server has 4 10K RPM drives in a RAID0+1. Our database size is around 270 GB. The following is our server details: Main Orion Server Details Orion Module NameOrion CoreVersion2011.2.2Service PackNoneNodes currently monitored2681Total nodes in licenseunlimitedVolumes currently…

Hello Jiri, Yes it is. Can it be done? Thanks, Bassem

Thank you Jiri. We are using 7.0.2. I will follow with support on this. Thanks, Bassem

Hello, Have you given languardian a go? After a long battle with torrents, Languardian from netfort was the only solution that had a report showing the torrent transactions. So i could see who downloaded or uploaded what, and use that information as evidence. We are getting those violations as well, and all we have to do…

Hello Dave, Did you find out what the issue was? I have the exact same problem and the interesting part is the IP address reported! cExtSnmpTargetAuthInetAddr = 49.48.46.5​5 <-- Same subnet cExtSnmpTargetAuthInetType = 1 authAddr = 10.72.74.9 <-- not NPM IP snmpTrapOID = SNMPv2-MIB​:authentic​ationFailu​re sysUpTime =…

In Cisco devices, you can embed the IP address in the syslog message text. Not sure about other device types though. Also an idea is to use the syslog viewer to modify the message by adding the source IP. (assuming you can use some kind of a variable for the source IP)

Now we have to configure a new custom poller with the CPU utilization OID.....shouldn't have to do this when we have NPM! Would the development team please look into this? Thanks, BK

I ran the NCM configuration wizard, and now i can click ok, but the progress remains downloading forever. I checked using wireshark, and no transfer was being done. The transfer is still working via the console.

Hi, We have turned on page compression for some big tables in out NetPerfMon database after having to deal with 0bytes free disk space on the DB server. I tend to agree with the statement that with compression on, stress could be moved from disk to CPU, so if your CPU can decompress fast enough, you might not only save on…