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Orion will look at the System Uptime of the device, which can be found in the SYSTEM-MIB. There is no way to adjust this. If you are receiving alerts, just disable that particular alert in Orion. If you want to disable the event from showing up in the web console, I'm not sure that there's a real good way to do this.

quote:Originally posted by ckore They should really re-write the polling engine to always poll the upstream device first if alert suppression is enabled. Actually, they are re-writing the polling and alerting engine. They have said many times in this forum that they are releasing a new version of the alerting engine prior…

To be honest with you, it's not really the support times that get to me. My only criticism with the support is that they don't seem to take advantage of your ticketing system. I often find that I am repeating the same information over and over again, as well as sending in the output from the new diagnostics tool over and…

Have you tried using the IETab extension for Firefox?

Are you running a different account besides the admin account? If so, you might want to check that your account is set up to use 'View by Device Type' in its settings.

If I were you, I'd look into using iperf to generate traffic (dast.nlanr.net/.../). It's much more reliable and provides real test measurements. WAN killer is good for quick and simple traffic generation, but as you said, it's not so great at huge traffic volumes.

After much playing around, I figured out how to resolve this. Rather than call '@CustomerPorts' in the string definition for 'PortDefA', I began to call '@CustomerPorts.InterfaceName'. I also realized that I don't even need the 'foreach' loop, since I am configuring only a single interface on each device.

I use Cirrus to back up my iptables config. I configured a username for Cirrus on my Linux firewall, configured a command alias for iptables so I get more info (iptables -L -n --line), and created a custom Device Type which has my command in it (iptlist). Recently, I've modified my command alias to include ip6tables, so my…

I'll answer my own post here in case someone else needs the solution: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/sqlserverfaq/2010/09/03/how-to-identify-compressed-tables-before-restoringmigrating-database-to-any-edition-other-than-enterprise-edition-of-sql-server-2008/…

To change the job name, you can go into the "C:\Program Files\Solarwinds\Configuration Management\Jobs" directory and look for the job that you want changed. Just open the appropriate file and modify the name within there. I think you also have to rename it in the Scheduled Tasks directory. I think you can copy jobs from…

I do see that in the database, the InterfaceIndex is showing up properly. However, when I open up the System Manager, the Interface Index field says '0'.

Hello, I had the same thing happen to me and I downloaded the latest Hotfix from the customer portal and now everything shows up. Not sure if it will help you, but it did me.

A really awesome feature to include in these updates would be the Report Writer Time/Date Exclusions. It's a real pain in the a** to have to keep re-applying these customizations with each upgrade.

One thing that would be really great, in the future after custom MIB support is added :), is for Orion to not only grab the IPs of interfaces, but also the MAC addresses connected to each Ethernet port. The Map Maker could then be used to automatically create a network map based upon the gathered MAC and IP topology. It…

I would recommend MS SQL Server, not SQL Express. You will run into space issues in a couple of months, if not before that. Keeping historical data for 2 years will use up a lot of space, assuming you mean all historical data such as alerts, traps, and syslogs.

Yes, the problem with your query is that while the IP addresses themselves are integers, the MS SQL database does not understand the format of the IP address. It sees the IPs as just an alphanumeric string, not 4 octets of integers. The best way to do your query is to add a custom property as NG states above.

* See this post - * The ability to customize the page in whatever format you want, rather than just one, two, or three columns. Being able to create a row that spans two or more columns would be pretty rad.

Could you not just use: System_Name LIKE 'R%' evt

Advanced alerts can only be configured to trigger based upon values in the nodes, interfaces, pollers, and virtual machines tables. I'm pretty sure that you cannot configure the advanced alert to trigger based upon the status of another alert, either basic or advanced. I would just configure one advanced alert and forget…

Do you have the Netflow module installed and do you have Netflow running on your routers? If no to either of those, then you really can't. SNMP IF-MIB polling does not provide this type of information.

quote:Originally posted by Don Yonce Since there are some lines that always change on every download (ntp, wlcpp, etc), the compare after download always thinks the config was changed. The list of RegEx expressions to ignore needs to be fully functional first. You might want to take a look at what Rancid uses for its…

Ugh. I was afraid of that. Thanks.

I found this: https://thwack.solarwinds.com/message/225594#225594 Is this really the case? Node properties are not available as macros/variables from within a Group alert? 

quote:Originally posted by mgibson I would like to create an Alert when a device stops responding to SNMP. I do not see this as a choice when creating an Alert. I can however create a view in SYS Mgr with this field? Can anyone help me to determine how to create this alert? I believe you need to select the Status of the…

About 180 devices with a few thousand interfaces. The problem resolved itself when I upgraded to 7.3 earlier this week. Now MapMaker is super fast.

What type of circuits are these? Is the problem that the circuit is too highly utilized and it starts dropping packets? If so, I would create an alert to let you know when a circuit has reached something like 75% utilization. If not, and you are dropping large packets even during times of low utilization, you have another…

Personally, I always use PNG, because it handles fonts much better without making them look fuzzy.

This doesn't really require a regex. LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN should actually be entered in the "Message Type Pattern" field, and you can put *changed state to down* in the Syslog Message Pattern.

The MIBs don't need to be imported to add them into Orion. You can add each individual OID separately with the Custom MIB Poller. You will want to do one of three things if you'd like to know what to poll: 1. Read through the MIB file to see what OID you'd like to poll. The AVTECH devices have different types of sensors…

After testing V8 for a few weeks, I could never get the Custom Polling to work at all. Until it's definite that the issues I was experiencing have been resolved, I won't be upgrading. In addition, the version I was using did not fix another very useful feature, alert macros. I would wait until 8.1 before upgrading. It…