chris.lapoint

FYI, to others watching this thread, I've responed to Stolze via email and dev has gotten him the beta to verify this works with his devices. If you're interested in testing out the beta build, please shoot me an email.

Can you give me your support ticket # for this issue? I'd like to see where this is at in development. Good news about the future. We are planning on building in an automatic synch job in Cirrus that will pull/merge Orion node data on a scheduled basis in the next major release (2H08). Hopefully, this will eliminate the…

I'm an existing users of both Solarwinds NPM and Kiwi CatTools and Kiwi Syslog. Will we see future releases of NPM include the functionality of Kiwi Syslog and will the Orion Network Config Manager also change to include functionality of CatTools? You should expect us to leverage the products' respective strengths to drive…

Did you try setting to SSH? If that didn't work, please post session trace and we'll diagnose together further.

There are no plans to include it at this point, but this is an interesting question. A couple follow-up questions for you: 1) How would you use CatTools differently than you would your existing NCCM solution at your company? I.E. Why CatTools? 2) If #1 isn't an option, have you considered buying CatTools and using it just…

This isn't currently possible in 5.0. If you want to chime in on this feature request, please see this post: 

Absolutely. Go to Schedule > Create New Job > Config Change Report. Under Notification tab, you can check the option to email you the results. HTH, 

That configuration is definitely possible. When you download NCM, you'll notice there are actually 2 packages: 1. NCM server executable - this installs the NCM server + the windows client application and can be installed on a completely separate machine from your main Orion NPM server. 2. NCM integration module - this…

Did you create the folder "Core_Switches"? Does CatTools service account have the permissions to write to that folder?

Fauzan, I've check with Matt in development and was given the following guidance: Reports will only show in 5 minutes in a 1 hour time selection. Any larger than that (e.g. 3 hours in Time Selection) and it woud show 4 hours broken into 15 minutes. ipMonitor automatically rolls stats into higher time periods to save the…

Hi Michael, Our goal is to have the v9.0 CTP out to those customers selected for the first build within the next 2-3 weeks. There will also be another beta build in late April, which will go out to a broader distribution of customers. Thanks, Chris LaPoint Sr. Product Manager SolarWinds

Turning on node monitoring should achieve the same affect. You can turn off node monitoring afterwards if you are concerned with ongoing system impact.

When you "baseline your network" from within NCM, you are simply setting a particular configuration for each device as the baseline. It doesn't affect your Config-Archive folder since those configs have already been archived by default to the file system.

Yes, that's feasible. You'll definitely want to watch the storage/performance aspects of this change, but you can always revert back if necessary. Before you make the change, I'd recommend setting Top Talker Optimization to capture only the top 95% of traffic. This will dramatically reduce your data storage requirements.…

When you say "set to both the database and also the .txt files" are you wanting Kiwi Syslog server to be able to read historical log files from both locations? If so, this is not possible. However, it's worth noting that Kiwi Log Viewer would give you the ability to see historical log file data on the Kiwi Syslog Server…

Right, today you'll need to edit the resource and disable line numbers. Then copy and paste should give you only the config as expected.

This not possible today, but this is certainly on our roadmap. The issue with passing along credentials from MS AD to the device is that NCM never stores the Windows password (in memory or in the database) - it is strictly pass through authentication to Windows.

What this does is tell net-snmp to proxy all requests for the 1.3.6.1.4.1.28867 OID to localhost:1088. Snmpwalk testing from the Orion server succeeds just fine and we get back the correct text data from the application. However, when creating a customer poller, Orion has tagged all our Ubuntu servers as "net-snmp" devices…

Yes, you'll need to upgrade to 5.1

Good news! This is possible in NPM 9.1. In the NPM website, go to Admin and edit the account you'd like to remove the module link for. Scroll down and expand the section titled "<account name>'s Network Configuration Manager Settings". Set the default view to "none". The NCM link should disappear for that user. HTH

You got it ;-) Please note, there may be some delay in upgrading your customer portal (which is why we haven't posted to announcements yet), but it should be complete by tomorrow AM.

 Currently, macros are not supported in the subject field, but this is something we'll consider for a subsequent release. For internal folks, this being tracked as #2983

I don't know of any existing templates for the Arisa and Harris Constellation radios. However, if these devices provide a CLI and store text-based configs, it is highly likely that we can support them with minimal effort. If you can post the exact series of commands that must be entered (from SSH or Telnet) to login to…

That's correct. There's not currently a way to save action templates, but we'll definitely consider enhancement request.

This is an excellent feature request and I'll let Brandon comment on this more as PM for Orion NPM. However, I wanted to point out that with Kiwi Syslog, you can actually spoof the Syslog UDP packets and effectively use it as a transparent proxy. In this way, there will be no change in source IP when the message is…

This is covered in the help file included with the Kiwi Syslog Server (see "Configuring Syslog enabled devices").

Usernames and Passwords can certainly be encrypted (File > Settings > Security), but there isn't any built-in mechanism to encrypt the configs today. Here's an MSDN on Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) on SQL Server 2008: msdn.microsoft.com/.../cc278098.aspx

NCM uses the standard HOST-RESOURCES-MIB to gather the installed software information. If the Unix machine supports this MIB, then it should work. If it doesn't, you would have to install the free Net-SNMP agent on that machine to enable this support.

aLTeReGo, first of all, thanks for spending the time to write all this feedback up in such a well thought out and detailed post! This is great information to have from a long time user of APM (and old AM module). Your contributions really helped shape the direction of the product thus far, so we're hoping you think of it…

Would it be important for your use-case to include username/password in the login template or is connection method all that's required?