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I really would like some help on this one. I continue to tinker with this but am unable to find a way to look at an entire enterprise tree of traps and just filter out specific ones.

Both SAM will monitor Hyper-V as of the newest version v5.2.0. You can also use SAM & NPM to monitor SAN's, though the level of detailed data will depend on the specific devices you are working with and may require you do use some Universal Device Pollers in NPM to get all of the data you want. When you say you want to…

Somebody... anybody?

I agree, this would be nice. I thought I saw somewhere that SolarWinds was working on this one, then again I might be imagining things due to sleep deprivation. 

This should be possible. You keep the current email alert as you have it. Add the 2nd email alert that goes to the manager/CEO; on that alert go into the Alert Escalation tab and check the first box "Do not execute this Action if the Alert has been Acknowledged" and also check the third box "Delay the execution of this…

Chris We run a NOC here as well so I totally understand this request. The problem is that most people will likely have a different idea of what a NOC view should contain depending on things such as what the NOC is responsible for, what types of displays are present in the NOC (we have had different types over the years)…

You can use the Trigger Condition time delay in conjunction with the alert checking frequency to basically control how many checks in a row it has to meet the trigger conditions to be true. Of course when you do this you also need to take your polling frequency into consideration to make sure the alert isn't checking the…

Denny This is an awesome clarification and I want to be the first to say how much I appreciate this change in approach with your licensing, it makes things much easier to both understand and manage. I would like to suggest you make sure your billing departments know about this because I am coming up for license renewal and…

Orion's Syslog capabilities are not designed for log retention. It's there so you can send the logs to Orion for alerting capabilities only. If you need a true Syslog system for log retention I would agree with mgibson that you should look at Kiwi. If you are interested in even more robust log management capabilities you…

If I remember correctly account limitations based on groups don't currently work properly.

It's both compatible and recommended.

In the Advanced Alert manager you can go to the alert that is used to notify you when the application goes down and add a Trigger Rearm action to let you know that it's working again. Hope this helps!

Could you please be a bit more specific on what it is you are trying to do here, I am not sure I understand?

I have gone ahead and created a Feature Request for better integration HERE.

Really would like to get some insight on this to know if we will be able to count on using maps going forward or not, thanks!

In our NOC we have 60 inch displays as well 4 of which are dedicated to Orion views. We have one that focuses on alerts, one that is our Cloud Dashboard view, one that is an application summary and the last one is a map of our colocation facility that monitors temperature of each cabinet. The general idea is we use the…

Go into Advanced Alert Manager and create a new Interface alert. Then set a simple condition where Interface Caption contains Uplink. I think that will get you what you are looking for. Hope this helps! P.S. You can always take a look at the database to find out where different values are stored which really helps when…

We use ESXi as our hypervisor which makes patching incredibly easy so this hasn't really been a problem for us. Our decision to go with VMWare was a strategic business decision which didn't take hypervisor patching into consideration, it was moslty based on feature set and vendor support.

I have had trouble before when running the demo appliance where it thinks the license is already expires so it won't let me add nodes. I had to contact support to resole if I recall correctly; this was a while back. If you go to the CLI menu console on the appliance under the appliance menu you can actually check the raw…

Well, if you plan to use Orion I would strongly recommend that you become familiar and comfortable with the Advanced Alert system as it's pretty much the focus as far as alerts are concerned and where you can really leverage the power of the system. I realize that it can be confusing but it's worth your time to learn. I…

Not sure on how to accomplish this via the method you are attempting but thought I would suggest an alternate option... Have you considered using a map for this? A map doesn't necessarily need to be a map as we classically think about it, it could just be some logical organization of all of your virtual systems on one…

This would be a custom poller that you will need to setup with the UnDP (Universal Device Poller) to poll the Serial number off these devices. The OID I use for this is as follows but may be different depending on the IOS version... 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.92.1.1.1.2.1 Once you have the data being collected all you need to do is…

I am curious, is there some reason why you don't want to just create the alert actions directly for the SNMP Traps versus forwarding them as Syslogs to another system?

Alert actions for SNMP Traps in NPM are setup in the SNMP Trap Viewer. Open the Trap Viewer on the console and click on the yellow triangle icon at the top that looks like a hazard sign. Hope this helps!

Try the Advanced Syslog Count resource and see if that is what you are looking for.

Yes, there is a way but it's a bit clunky... Get a list of the devices/IP's you want the connection info for. Add them to a discovery and run a discovery against them. When finished just import one of the devices, doesn't matter which one. By doing this it will update the database with new connection info. I have been told…

IS there any way of obtaining automatically Reports with the graphs of traffic in interfaces with the Report writer? As others have already pointed out, this can't be done with Report Writer. However, if you know what specific interfaces you are interested in, you can create a dashboard/view that contains graphs for the…

I think there is a way to set bind specific things to a NIC but it also depends on the OS. As far as Orion NPM is concerned, it will only see one IP on a system; that being the IP you used to discover the node. It will see the additional NIC's but only at layer 2. If you don't care about getting data on those additional…

Well, there is a bit of hope. SolarWinds got us a development patch yesterday and the very early preliminary results look good. According to our support engineer our diagnostic files indicated an issue related to wrong handling of some different behaviors of the WinSock API under Windows 2008. I will keep you all posted!

A few more items I thought I would bring up as we go through this problem... 1) Would AntiVirus software on the polling engine and/or the database contribute to or cause this problem? 2) Which method of SQL DB redundancy would be best for Orion DB? We are currently using log shipping but are not sure if that is the best in…