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Yes, you should be able to go to any volume and see the historical usage. Go to the Nodes page and scroll down until you see the volumes, click on that and you can then see the utilization graphs. From there you can click on the Export button for more options. If you want to see future trends you can input a custom time…

Yes, I believe you would need to make 100 different reports. I agree that it needs a dynamic front end where you can define a dynamic field that maps to a variable so you can fill it in and run reports against it.

I am curious if the recommended settings in the Polling Engine Tuning tool take the functions that APM is performing into consideration? If not, what is the recommended method to factor this in when tuning the polling engines that are also running APM? Anybody else out there running a lot of APM stuff that may have some…

I worry that we are a target of just about everything. I feel that many people at our company as well as many of our customers feel that the legacy model of a firewall and end-point AV is enough for security. I not only worry that we are a target but often worry that we are also a victim and just don't know about it. A few…

I don't think that I wouldn't trust such a technology, I would just want to test it and see it proven before I would be willing to put it into a production environment. I think the possibilities for something like this are really exciting and I look forward to seeing how it ends up working out. I see a lot of good…

In APM there is a download speed test, that might be what you are looking for.

I guess I would be interested in better understanding why APM thinks your components are down when they are not? How often are you polling the status of these applications? If you are not polling very frequently then they may remain in a down state despite them being up because it hasn't polled them yet. Also, have you…

If you have Microsoft Visio you can point it at a database and it will pretty much map it for you. To do this with Visio you will need to setup a data source. A better tool may be the SQL Server Management Studio which will map your database as well. Either way make sure you use a Read Only account so you don't hose up…

There are a few things to take into consideration when you determine how long it should take for an alert to be generated. First is your polling interval and second is how often is the alerting engine checking for the alert trigger conditions. If you have a 5 minute polling interval and and your alert is only checking…

Orion is not licensed based on number of users so you can have as many users as you want accessing the system via the web console.

I am in the midst of testing and what I have learned so far is as follows... * The Windows Application log is default as per 5.7RC3 * Microsoft Failover Cluster events are in the System log, not the Application log * LEM does capture the events... at least some of them; however, it seems like a lot of the details from the…

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If you have just added an additional poller to your Orion infrastructure you can move systems to different pollers using the Monitor Polling Engines tool under Advanced Features on your original and primary NPM system. Once in that application there is an option on the bar at the top called Poller Load Balancing. Hope this…

You don't want to use the suppression tab as it likely won't do what you expect. If anything in the database matches the criteria in the suppression tab then the alert wont' fire; it's treated as a completely separate query from the alert trigger query. To accomplish what you are tying to do you need to have it all as part…

We are in a similar situation to Chris. We have several Custom Pollers and the number is expect to grow. Better tools to manage these such as the the grouping and assignment by group/template would be very helpful.

You should be able to accomplish this by avoiding the front end login part by using Automatic Login, details on how to configure this are located HERE in the NPM Admin guide. Just setup a user account with dashboards that include the charts that you want and use the Automatic Login for that account. Hope this helps!

This is done through the appliance console. You need to open a direct console on the system (in vCenter if on VMWare), hit enter to go into the Advanced Configuration, type "appliance" and then type "netconfig" to re-enter your network settings. While at any of these prompts you can always type "help" to get a list of the…

Thanks kellytice​! We are looking at integrating this with our portal. Is there a way to pass a variable or somehow modify the java script on the fly to have it bring up a different landing page on demand versus changing the default?

The variable to use in the email would be ${VolumePercentUsed}. When you are in the Message tab of the alert action to send an email there is an “Insert Variable” button at the bottom that you can use to find all of the different variables you may want to include in the alert. Hope this helps!

You might also consider reading my posted located HERE (2nd post from the top) regarding configuring Syslog Alerts.

This isn't configured in the Advanced Alert Manager. This is a different system that handles this. Use the console tool called Syslog Viewer, once in there you should see a small yellow triangle icon on the bar at the top, click on that and you should be presented with an interface to configure Syslog Alerts. Hope this…

I struggle with pretty much the same thing with my NOC Techs. In a different post I made a suggestion to esseitially have a consolidated "Alarm" view that could have information from any of the other sections of Orion (Syslog, Traps, Thresholds, etc). You can see that suggestion on the thread noted below...

This is a really great question and I love seeing this type of thinking here in the forums. In my experience having worked at a managed services provider now for over 10 years is that for a service to be "available" it needs to be available for the users to interact with and it must be responsive enough for a good user…

Each syslog that Orion receives should be tested against each rule in your list unless you have the Stop Processing in the action tab. Having the Stop Processing will stop the syslog message from being tested against further rules in the list. This is why it can be important to have your rules in a specific order. Do you…

Could somebody who really knows NCM please point me in the right direction here?

Any thoughts on this?

I don't think this is currently possible though I have seen threads on it before. You should go check out the Feature Request forum and see if it has already been logged as a feature request, if so sign your name on the thread and if not add it as a feature request.

As long as you have a file level backup and a full backup of your database I believe you should be good as most of your data and important bits are stored in the database. To recover you would just need to uninstall Orion completely, reinstall the old version and connect it to the restored database. The only thing you…

While I realize this isn't a SAM component, I did setup a Universal Device Poller (UnDP) for this a while back and you can find it in the Content Exchange HERE.

Installing the Agent is only the first step. After that you need to go into the LEM interface, go to Manage Nodes and setup tools to look at the specific logs that you are interested in. Once you have chosen the tools that you want make sure to start them. Please keep in mind that LEM was originally designed with a…