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So maybe I missed something in this thread, but I see the same issue originally posted at the top of this thread, even though I'm running NPM 10.0 SP1. I need to be able to modify the alert which generates the event in order to filter the speed change messages (and ideally the ports as well). We just upgraded from SL500 to…

I wouldn't worry about that step (I almost didn't include it). Simply put, *scheduling* a Windows Task for an impromptu unmanaging is crazy (sorry to be blunt, but I don't think we're on the same page). The setup/config for that is far worse than the events we'll get from remanaging and unmanaging via the web interface.…

At the time of this post, I was hopeful and under the impression that SAM supported making native RESTful API calls. In practice, though, it doesn't. In our internal field engineering lab, we were able to configure some polling for cluster capacity, etc using a combination of PowerShell and Ruby. The API endpoints are…

Ray, Yeah, the assumption in SW/Orion is that if an interface is administratively shut, it was intentional and therefore not to be alerted upon (as you can see in my screenshot, I've shutdown 263 interfaces for security/efficiency purposes). That said, in Orion Alert Manager, there is an alert for when someone shuts down…

Weird. I had tried none, at least on the first criteria you gave, before I replied, and it wasn't working. Of course it is now :x. That said, only the values of "ACTIVE" alerts are being properly returned. The rest show decimal values under 100. Does this query only work on active alerts? Thanks, Jon.

netnet007, Might be the same issue as Michael Melton mentioned. Can you post the interface configurations of both the 56Kbps and the 1Gbps interfaces? 'Could be a matter of under-set interfaces (56Kbps --> 256Kbps; and 100Mbps --> 1Gbps). Chris Gurley, MCSE, CCNA, MBA bcTechNet | Awesomeness lives here... VMan 4.2.1, Orion…

Dustin, Perhaps it's a new feature with 10.2.2 (see the second-to-bottom row in the image below)... See the next post (dpatzold1979). Looks like 10.2.2 might be your answer. ~Chris

This might not be the most welcomed response, but I think you have a case for SW Support. I've looked in the settings like you have and don't see anywhere to tell it to not use the credentials when logged in with the same username. Obviously, the workaround is to change the username of "Admin" on either VMan or NPM, but…

 We also use SharePoint 2007 and ipMonitor 9 and would like to integrate the two. To answer an earlier question, yes, we would want to present the monitor statuses anonymously so that any of our domain users can check the status of our application environment (we are an ASP). Any chance this could happen? It would a huge…

For now, this is the solution (it works in NPM 10.0 SP1 as well; that's what I'm using): In addition to the download, take a look at the comments at the bottom. One user, matthewbsimon, provided some code for allowing filtering based on unpluggable interfaces. I've made that change and it seems to do the job nicely. I…

@ET: Disregard my query about the filters. New question(s): Any thoughts about why I'm not seeing any traffic generated when I "Rediscover", "Poll Now", or test the SNMP strings ("Edit Node" > "Test")? It doesn't even seem to try... Yet when I click "List Resources", it returns that the node is down, unreachable, or the…

Forgot to ask: can you suggest a filter to use in Wireshark to grab the data you want? Yesterday some of my servers began to stop responding to SNMP polls, so I'm about to load up Wireshark on one or more. In fact, one of them is the Orion NPM server itself, which is where I intend to do the capture. Since it does a ton of…

I'm running 5.0.1.10000. I see two hotfixes available, but neither seem to address this. Let me know if I should apply them anyways. Thank you, Chris

Gotcha. Yeah, I'd say you're doing the right thing with the table editing. Being that they are custom, it shouldn't interfere with Orion updates. Seems like an easy feature request () for the PM/team to implement. Thanks, Chris

Agreed, Mike. Unmanaging a node/interface implies that we are about to impact its service. Thus it is planned downtime. Dependencies are apparently only designed to address unplanned downtime, but in my opinion/use/experience (and apparently yours as well), it should equally apply to planned downtime. NPM already makes it…

The crazy thing about this huge omission in NPM is that ipMonitor, the supposedly entry-level monitoring product, has great charts and scheduled & ad-hoc reports. In fact, I am currently finishing my migration from ipMonitor 10 to NPM 10, but think I may have to keep ipMonitor around just to maintain the reporting--that's…

This SW KB article seems to infer one ICMP packet of up to 1KB size per poll. It also shows the bandwidth used by other polling elements... As I understand it, each poll is one packet. SolarWinds Knowledge Base :: How much bandwidth does SolarWinds require for monitoring? --Chris

Craig, I'm curious about your repeated push for physical servers in the deployment. Can you identify what limitation of modern hypervisors precludes the use of a virtual machine for even hefty services like SQL or NoSQL in the above deployment? Granted, we don't know Chandran's environment, so we can't speak to the socket,…

Yeah, my mind blended steps 1 and 2. Thanks for the clarification. To provide SQL redundancy in complement to FOE then, you'd want to employ something like an AlwaysOn Availability Group or traditional MSCS cluster.

Thanks, Phil. I think that about wraps up this thread. I'll aim to engage with the pre-sales team next week once I return from a trip. ~Chris

Hey Colby, I appreciate the inquiry. Part of it may be paranoia or our IT cultural rigidity, but we have a bad impression of and experience with just about all of the Java family of components on systems. Java has tended to be riddled with vulnerabilities for which we then have to push updates. Then when we do, the…

Nah, I see what you're saying. I rely on VMan more for performance than for alerting, so I hadn't paid attention to the rebooting alert. Looking back at my alert history, I see that it hasn't caught most of our reboots either. It seems to see some VM reboots, but nowhere near all of them, especially during a large set of…

For doing one-off (unscheduled/nonrecurring) unmanaging of devices? That seems like a lot of work & more penalizing than re/un, since I'd have to RDP to my Orion NPM server, open the utility, create a new task, add the item, set the duration, save the task to Windows Task Scheduler, open Windows Task Scheduler, and then…

Hey Joe, Which F5 Big-IP product/model do you have? We have LTM 1500s, and based on what I'm seeing in the bipnotifications folder, those only apply to the GTM models (or larger chassis systems with more integrated health components). --Chris

We installed SP1 (10.1.2) without any issues. Our AD groups with access still work (just tested again to make sure before posting). One of the groups is Domain Admins, so that obviously has the Orion server access y'all mentioned, but the other is a set of non-priv users with no access to the Orion server. All (still) work…

Hey Ray, What version of NPM are you using? I'm running 10.2.2 and my groups can have interfaces. When I create a group and am on the "Add & Remove Orion Objects" step/page, the "Show only:" drop down list has "Interfaces". When I select this, I see all of my interfaces from which I can check the boxes next to individual…

I'm afraid that neither of those criteria strings worked for the "VM disk near full" alert. The first changed the values to "n/a", while the second left them as "%" (no numbers). Let me know if there's a string that will reveal that info in the "VM disk near full" alert or within the guest details. Thanks.

Hi Sheto, As Malik suggested in his first reply, your best next step is to upgrade to version 10.2 (soon to be 10.3). I realize this may be an issue due to lapsed maintenance or something else, but there really have been a lot of improvements and bug fixes since 9.5.1. In my case, the Information Service v1 also had many…

lchance, Just a heads up, I'll be offline tomorrow through Sunday, so I may not reply after this til next week. I've played with reports just now and might not have the right config to reproduce your issue, if indeed I'd see the same thing with >50 datastores. Here's what I did... * Reporting > Data Export * Item Type >…

Will do!