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Hi Neil, For item #1: When you create the UnDP for each oid, there's an option to keep historical data for the poller. If you choose no, you'll always see the latest result. I think the best way to show individual items like a serial number or model number is to add the Universal Device Poller Status resource to your node…

Congo, I can't vouch for NPM database performance, but we currently use several FusionIO ioDrives throughout our infrastructure and we have seen dramatic improvements anywhere we deploy them. We haven't yet deployed them on any of our SQL boxes, but we will be soon. If you can handle the price, I would recommend the…

I can't speak to item #1, but for #2 one fix might be to black hole traffic to the restricted prefixes using a null route on the Solarwinds server itself. That's more of an OS level work around though.

I find that I rarely visit solarwinds.com anymore, except to visit the customer portal for product updates. Thwack is my go to site, and I often visit daily to see what's happening out there, see if I can help with any forum questions, or to research an issue.

OTV provides layer 2 extension, so I'm not sure that Solarwinds would know or care which site it was running in or how it came to be there. In my experience with OTV, your bigger problems are around traffic flow in and out of the OTV domain. In fact, we were unable to solve this issue to a level that made it attractive to…

The very least you have to do is add a line to your snmpd.conf to include a community string: rocommunity mystring You can limit it to a specific box, by adding an IP at the end: rocommunity mystring 10.1.1.1 You can change the location and contact by adding these items: syslocation 123 Fake St. Hometown, USA syscontact…

Another item to check would be if the IP you're using to manage the router is the same as the source interface from which the router sends the syslogs. I've had issues with this in the past. For example, if you're using the loopback address to manage the device, ensure that the syslogs are sourced from the same loopback…

Hi Chris, 1. I do a periodic review of firewall configs and rules, typically every 6 months. I use NCM to compare changes between dates and to have an easy to use interface. 2. n/a 3. It probably takes me half a day to review our firewall configs and ACL's. I'm a small shop with 6 firewalls, so I don't have a ton of review…

I'm currently going through this same thing right now. I think the solution is to choose all of the IP's that you don't want to "know the switch as" and set those to be ignored in the discovery results page. For example, on my network my default gateway is discovered twice, because it is the active HSRP device, and has…

Never used it... removed it from all my menu bars.

PavelSrot -- Yes, changing that line in the file seemed to fix the export to PDF in Chrome. Will this be added as a permanent fix in future releases?

Hi Zak, One thing you can do is to have your router send an SNMP trap whenever an HSRP event occurs. You can then configure an advanced alert in NPM to send you an email (or perform some other action) when it receives this trap. I currently use this method to be alerted to OSPF events, such as changes in OSPF neighbor…

1. OSPF and BGP 2. Neighbor state, prefixes received (for BGP) 3. Table 4. Neighbor state changes, prefix count change (raw count, delta, or % change) 5. Cisco I currently use EEM and UDP's for this, but I run problems with EEM on some devices so my monitoring is incomplete.

I like the look of the new graphs, but the usability needs a bit of work. I like to copy and paste CPU usage graphs into emails for developers, and with the new style graph you don't have the option to right-click and 'copy'. Unless I'm missing something, of course. I'd like to see them add an export to clipboard or…

I'll second that... I'm curious

I haven't observed this particular issue with the N5K, but I ran into a bug where the physical address of the interfaces were changing every time SNMP polls occurred. Cisco verified it as a bug in NX-OS, and as of 5.2(1)N1(4) it has not been resolved. I have 5.1(3)N1(1) on most of N5K's, and I haven't seen any issues with…

Hi Michal, I'm not a BIND expert so I can't comment on each feature, but I know that we disable recursion, and we don't define any views or ACL's. We're using BIND 9.3.4 and almost everything is left at default settings. --Brandon

 By chance, did you add the ability to include graphs in reports?

Anybody?

I think I figured it out. I believe APM is sending the parameter as well, but the script was not allowed to execute. Once i fixed the permissions for the command inside the script it started working.

Just an update -- The old SysObjectID was 1.3.6.1.4.1.3375.2.1.3.4.43. The new SysObjectID is 1.3.6.1.4.1.8072.3.2.10 which matches my other Linux boxes.

Have you looked through the Content exchange for any reports that might be available? I have a report that has exactly what you're looking for and I'm pretty sure I found it in the Content Exchange originally. If you can't find it, let me know and I'll upload what I use. It looks like this:

What type of device is it? Also, don't forget to look through Content Exchange for UnDPs for Cisco hardware items -- there are lots of pollers in there already. You might find there's one that works for you.

Have you tried adding a node view limitation based on a node group or common node name element? Edit your view, and at the bottom of the page click on 'Edit' under the View limitation section. It should give you plenty of ways to specify exactly which nodes will use your new view. Hope that helps!

I've never had a compelling reason to monitor them either. It might just be that they are discovered as part of the normal volume discovery, similar to how Windows machines have 20+ Miniport adapter interfaces for PPTP, RAS, etc.

Hi John, Are you able to SSH to the Riverbed using Putty or some other SSH client? Just curious if it's on the NCM side or the something with the Riverhead itself. If you can't SSH to it outside of NCM, double check that your management ACL (if enabled) is not blocking access.

I've always monitored my servers through the actual interface rather than through iLO. Honestly, I never knew you could see OS resources by polling iLO, but one thing that immediately comes to mind is what happens if the server actually loses it's network connection without taking the interface down (such as a vlan…

 Hey there. YOu need to create a custom view -- it's a somewhat cumbersome process though . This is how I do it -- if someone has better instructions, please fill us in! 1 .First, you need to go to Admin > Manage Views. 2. Create a new view with a relevant name, make the type of view 'Summary' and hit 'Submit'. 3. Once…

I've haven't had latency regularly above 300ms, but I monitor from NY to Hong Kong with normal latency around 225ms. So far I haven't had any problems on the NPM side, other than long discovery times.

Yes, I can think of a couple of methods off the top of my head to accomplish this (there may be more) -- * Use the 'Views by device type' feature, to specify the view to a group of devices with the same device type as detected by NPM. * Create a custom view, and use a view limitation to limit that view to a single node of…