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This has been a problem for many years with all Solarwinds products. Unfortunately, SW says that they cannot reproduce the problem. :-( So, in short, yes - there are definitely copy & paste issues with NCM, Orion, and the Toolset. Are you using RDP to access NCM? My current theory is that the interaction of SW software and…

After you do the 'sh run', does anything happen? Are you disconnected from the PIX or can you run other commands? It might be prudent to install Ethereal or Wireshark to see what's happening 'under the hood' when you run your command. Also, does the Cirrus server sit on the same subnet as the boxes that *do* work? I know…

Hi, I read through the documentation and found that their formula example is incorrect. The example shows the formula as 6000*2/60*2. The 60*2 should actually be 60*5, using the numbers they state in the example (6000 interfaces, being polled every 5 minutes). Is there anyone from SolarWinds here who can correct this on…

We utilize Orion extensively with both Cisco and Juniper. The basic datapoints for most Juniper equipment is there, right out of the gate. For example, interface stats, hardware health, CPU, etc. We've been using Orion for more than a decade and I haven't found too much that it can't do without a bit of customization, such…

My Syslog Service will not start. Support has been working on this problem for the past two and a half weeks. If you do not have a very good, valid reason to upgrade, STAY at V7. Especially since the support right now at Solarwinds is not the most stellar, as others have noted in previous posts. They are working on their…

I have some pollers that we use to grab general stats from our SOLIDServer virtual appliances. Are you still looking for these? I poll for: bind_authans bind_dropped bind_nonauthans bind_nxdomain bind_nxrrset bind_recurserej bind_recursion bind_referral bind_requestv4 bind_requestv6 bind_srvfail bind_success bind_tcp EDIT:…

I just figured this out and now my issue is resolved. It was so easy and right in front of my eyes. The account that's being used for running the scheduled task also needs to have the IE setting changed on it. I had to log onto the server as the user, then update IE's "Integrated Windows Authentication" setting and logged…

Hi NG, At the risk of sounding snarky, I was the one who posted that post! My IE problems are solved, and I use FFX on the server itself now. The real problem is that the Report Scheduler isn't running any of the scheduled tasks. Actually, the tasks *are* running, but the error I posted above is what is being reported in…

Okay, I've uninstalled IE7 and I'm back on IE6. The problem is still happening.

Sorry to respond to such an old thread, but I would like to voice my concern about getting Orion and Cirrus IPv6 capable. There is a mandate that by mid-2008, U.S. government agencies are to have their backbones fully IPv6 capable. As a service provider, we are joining in the push to generate IPv6 interest, so we need our…

Does this node have a lot of interfaces?

As of now, without some complicated SQL/alerting hackery, you're stuck with building two alerts per spoke. One alert is for the router that provides access to the site and the second alert is for the switches. You should configure the router alert to go off all the time, but configure the switch alert with a suppression…

I'm sorry to say that I have yet to get Custom MIB Polling to work reliably. I was able to get it to function for a day, but something mysterious happened and I'm no longer able to use it. The custom pollers are no longer available on the Orion NPM site, no matter how many times I uninstall the application, re-run through…

I experienced a similar issue when trying to sort by InterfaceIndex using various resources. Maybe yours is the same. I found that the following entry in the 'PropertyValue' column of the ResourceProperties table in the database was causing my issue: Interfaces.InterfaceIndex:Interface Index,Interfaces.Status…

It's a kludge, but you could always set up an alert that pings the server that Orion is installed on and set the alert to send an email if the server is responding. Obviously, you'll want to configure some time/data restrictions, such as only being enabled during a one-minute or five-minute time window on a daily basis.…

Thanks a lot - I guess I should use the online help docs instead of the local ones. -eric

Did it without any problems. Guess I'll have to keep an eye on it after an upgrade to make sure it doesn't get reset.

The Alert view shows all active alerts. If you configured the alert "Alert me when a node goes down", it will show up on this view. NPM thresholds are completely independent of alerts.

Thanks for the great tip! You should also be able to substitute the name of your preferred terminal application if you're not using KDE. 

So I found something else out and I'd like Solarwinds staff to confirm. Do both the parent and child have to exist on the same poller? I have two pollers and my hardware node is assigned to one and the virtual server is assigned to another. When I moved the virtual server to the same poller as the hardware node, it seems…

I am experiencing this same problem with Win2K Server and 7.4. This started happening only after an upgrade to 7.2 and beyond. Please let me know if you get a decent answer to this. This issue is more than a little annoying.

quote:Originally posted by Network_Guru I'm hoping there's some way to install 7.7 without the Syslog integration. Yes, the 7.7 install will allow you to not install the Syslog Service when running through the Configuration Wizard.

I hate doing this, but...bump? I'm looking for a possible answer from SW about the latency discrepancy on the network level between Orion and the CLI.

Looking at the raw chart data, it looks like the poller is running every 5 minutes, but only storing the data every 10 minutes.

Mass edit will fix this if you want to continue using the person's name. However, it still requires updating. My suggestion would be to create a wiki or if you have an intranet, create an area with links to various "role" accounts (Tech Level 1 = John Doe, Manager = Jane Doe, etc.). Each role page contains the information…

Maybe I'm under-thinking this, but what we do is simply have an alert for when a devices becomes "unknown". The "unknown" status does not seem to trigger under any other circumstance, at least from the perspective of what we alert on.

What is the actual uptime of the device? I've seen problems where Orion will issue warnings when the device uptime reaches > 2 years. I've only seen this on Cisco devices so far, but that's not to say it doesn't happen with other devices.

Just monitor for the status of SNMP being up or down, not for a particular OID. Set this monitor to be a bit more aggressive in its timing parameters and set it as the dependency.

Is your database on the same server as Orion? One thing which may not be obvious is that the backup job runs on the SQL server and the file is saved on that server, not on the Orion server.

In the config compare emails, I think it would be helpful to have the diffs show up with plus and minus a few lines, a bit more like RANCiD: diff -U4 -r1.38 node.foo.com @@ -204,11 +204,10 @@ t1-0/1/0:3 { description customer-a; - disable; + enable; unit 0 { family inet { address 192.168.130.1/30; } Having the diffs show…