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I haven't attempted to use the Topology functionality recently so I can't really say, I know that in previous versions I have had problems with it. While I admittedly haven't looked; I am curious if SolarWinds has up-to-date documentation on how the Topology stuff actually works with some possible troubleshooting tips?

You can monitor the individual hosts using SNMP and the VMWare API. In addition to that you will want to configure Orion to poll your vCenter server where it will get Datacenter level data as well as giving you the option to poll the hosts through the vCenter server versus polling them directly. In the Admin section of the…

There isn't a good way to do have the tools provide root cause analysis because that isn't what the tools are really designed to do. I have worked with a lot of monitoring systems and none of them do root cause analysis, that is work that needs to be done by people. People make the best correlation engines assuming they…

Somebody.... anybody...?

Hrm, just thought of another good one too... A few months back I just happened to be watching LEM, I guess because I am weird that way and I saw a ton of failed logins for one of our engineers Active Directory user accounts. It was clear that it was some sort of service account that started failing due to him changing his…

I just found that my fellow admin's system was broadcasting NetBios traffic like crazy... to the tune of 1200 events per minute. It turns out the cause was multiple things not the least of which all the network discovery functions were turned on. He is the only one running Windows 8 on this desktop so this may be a Win8…

You definitely don't want to use the Syslog functionality included in NPM for this as it's only designed for alerting purposes, not long term retention. I wouldn't classify it as a log management system at all. Depending on your specific requirements (different companies have interpreted PCI more strictly than others) you…

What is the exact name or "title" of the element on your Home Page that is showing stuff as Down?

Bump Really need some direction on this one, thanks!

Yeah, Orion needs to do what other NMS systems do here; read the IP Address table via SNMP and assign the appropriate IP addresses to each interface to which they belong. I have made other posts about this because it's VERY IMPORTANT to us. Frankly I was shocked that it doesn't do this since every other NMS I have worked…

I guess it's back to the ole' drawing board on this one. It really is a shame that SolarWinds abandoned Alert Central as I was really hoping that was going to be my solution and in testing it was looking very promising.

Well, I never got to the point of testing the Moogsoft solution because the cost was a show stopper. It's an incredibly expensive solution, it would have ended up costing significantly more than the monitoring solution which seems a bit backwards if you ask me.

Hello, recently some executives are asking me for certain RFP the ability to set different thresholds for the Packet Loss Percent for certain nodes, it would be possible to add node properties in hand to define something that is outside the global settings? Greats Yes, this is possible. There is a post located HERE that…

Well, I have a bit of experience with this and I will attempt to summarize it... We have a fairly large network with a lot of syslogs and we send a good deal of these into Orion. * Large quantities of syslogs coming into Orion don't seem to cause a huge performance hit except for database I/O. * Poorly structured syslog…

I am pretty sure this is a bug. I opened a support ticket for a very similar problem and after weeks of waiting I was told it was a bug. I am also pretty sure I have seen others reporting similar report grouping problems where it looks fine in the editor but then is wrong in the web display.

We are just added all of our CentOS boxes to Orion 9.5 and everything went mostly well. I say mostly because we found we had to update to the newest version of net-snmp for thigns to work properly. When you add the devices have you tried using the "validate" button to see if your SNMP comes back OK?

This isn't currently possible. Firstly, SNMP traps are not stateful so it would change the status of the node when the trap came through but what would ever change it back when there is nothing to re-arm? I like the idea but haven't spent enough time thinking about it to figure out the re-arm piece yet. As far as changing…

We also came to SolarWinds from an OpenSource solution. While I think OpenSource projects are great, you certainly get something extra for the money that you pay for commercial products, especially with SolarWinds. I don't want to go into a bunch of technical details on why Orion is such a great product so I will keep my…

I confirmed with SolarWinds support that this is possible though does require manual modification of a .INI file pointing it to the appropriate LEM appliance.

hkor Your post heading indicates that you are having a lot of problems with the Orion software but after reading your post, most of your frustrations seem to center around the graphs, is this correct? Are there other problems that you are also experiencing that you have not mentioned? I would also be curious to know which…

Somebody... anybody?

If you have confirmed that all of the details in your component are accurate then the next thing to look at is how far back it's looking in the event log, I normally set this to at least 1.5 polling cycles and I typically use a 5 minute polling cycle. Also, if you haven't already make sure the Custom Log to Monitor is type…

There is a Technical Reference specifically for advanced alerts that may be helpful to you... http://www.solarwinds.com/support/Orion/docs/UnderstandingOrionAdvancedAlerts.pdf

I am guessing these options are no longer available in device manager as they have been moved to the WebUI, thought this is just a guess. As I understand it, the direction for Orion is to be web based so that they don't have to support both a console and web based line of code.

Ok, now I get to sound like an idiot: What exactly is the Fast Polling Interval referring to?

The use case for this is as follows... I often have folks (both internal and customers) call me and ask me if something happened on some system at some specified time in the past. What I end up doing is digging through all of the different data in Orion for that time to see if anything odd jumps out at me. This feature…

Wouldn't it be possible to create a view that had what you wanted and then make a link to that view on your bar? You could do a summary node view of some sort or even a special console like map of the VMWare stuff?

The thresholds you are refering to are the ones that change the color of the interface to yellow and red at the specified levels, these thresholds are only for visual effects. For threshold alerting you have the ability to configure Orion in such a way that it will notify you of 50% utilization on some systems but not…

Have you tried working with SolarWinds Support to get the problems resolved on the new version and see if you can get the data you need there? In my experience they should be able to solve any issues you are having and all of the information that was available in the older versions is still available in the newer versions,…

It used to be that you needed different installs for different license levels. SolarWinds recently changed it so now there is only one install that supports any license level, the license level is now supported through the license key that you apply to the installation.