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I pulled that out of "Last 25 events" in my NTA web interface dashboard, I normally never need to actually go and look at the log files on disk. Not sure where that would be stored. Also I'm running the latest GA builds on NPM and NTA so you may have a different version.

Are you sure about this? I know NTA does automatic database maintenance of expired endpoints and database shrinking, see below: 2/17/2011 1:30 AM NetFlow Database Maintenance : Deleted 471 expired endpoints in 0.16 seconds. 2/10/2011 1:31 AMScheduled shrink performed. DB size before shrink 4885.4375MB, DB size after shrink…

Another competitive point I should add: WhatsUp Gold does NOT do any database maintenance for you, you're expected to be your own DBA, leading to all sorts of problems. I love that Orion automatically shrinks it's database and removes expired items. I doubt that feature gets much attention normally, but kudos are in order.

I agree, more features in Orion are great. But more products for Solarwinds, not so great. It seems to be the Ryanair approach to NPM: if you want a pillow, that's $5. It may give more pick-and-choose to lower budget users, but it also seems to make it less attractive because of the increasing complexity of understanding…

Gotcha. I still think my other suggestions are good though, it'd be alot easier than writing SQL by hand.

Nevermind Stephan, I got it working without having to change any COM ports. It works great with a gen1 5-port USBAnywhere, a Huawei E161, and NotePager, you just need the most recent Windows 2003 drivers from the USBAnywhere website.

I can't argue with that. I confess to only having significant experience with What'sUp Gold prior to Orion so I can't speak to other competitive models, only what I see from my desk. WUG could do most of what NPM+APM would do since it spoke WMI without having to pay extra, but it basically has no built-in alerts or…

Please add my name as well. This is a significant and irritating issue for us, I would love to see this resolved. Thanks.

Stephan, I've got a Huawei E161 with a SIM on a USBAnywhere connected to my Orion VM. I'm having trouble getting that to work. Can you elaborate on why the com port number needs to be changed in Windows System Settings? I see COM3 is a "Modem" showing the Huawei stick itself, COM4 is an "Application interface" to it, and…

Sadly, my only current solution is to shut down the Orion server at the same time I take the datacenter down. It's really an oversight that I have to take monitoring down during the time when it would be most helpful. What if something else goes down during maintenance that I need to know about?

I have indeed Brandon. Haven't found one. I will share if I end up having to create one.

I was afraid you were going to say that. I'm having to beg upper management to even get a node count upgrade approved in these times. I would love to see the virtualization manager product combine with NPM's built-in capability.

Thank you. There is certainly some shared concern there. Personally, I hope SolarWinds will stop acquiring other companies for a while and focus on integrating IP and feature sets. I'd rather pay a little more for NPM than pay for the same feature 5 different times and have to run a bunch of extra services or VMs. It's…

Very cool stuff! I just wrote my first report this way, will definitely fill the gap while waiting on feature requests.

Yes. In my case, I created a daily scheduled report against a custom SQL query. Here: SELECT FullName, VolumePercentUsed, VolumeSpaceAvailable, VolumeSize FROM Volumes WHERE ( ((NullIf(VolumeSize,-2)-NullIf(VolumeSpaceUsed,-2)) < 1073741824) AND ((NullIf(VolumeSize,-2)-NullIf(VolumeSpaceUsed,-2)) > 0) AND…

Bump! Still needed!