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Sounds like an ad for NPM 12 and Netpath!! ;-)

I'd love to be all in on modern dashboards, but while I love their look, a lot of things that seem to persist leave me baffled as to why they're still this way a couple years out now? I made a copy of this dashboard actually, wanting to customize it and make it a better display to put up on the wall in our NOC. Mostly…

Wow, didn't think I saw any Pokemon players myself yet, although I've heard they've been in the park near my house and the church, but maybe this discussion has changed my perspective. I work in an office saturated area that has a nice area to walk. Today I was seeing tons of folks walking and holding their phones up, not…

There used to be a thing in your profile that said "Member since", pretty sure mine was in 2003. I don't see it there anymore though. Happy B-day, and curses to you for making me feel even older!! :-) 

Side note: I did notice that in the "Message Center" that it doesn't log which server served up the request. ie: I see that "cnorborg" logged in from a specific IP, but I don't know what server they connected to. Would be nice to know if it was our primary or secondary HA poller, or if it was our web server (AWS). That…

Would be nice to have examples of what your referring to?

Mañana? :smileywink:

* How do you feel about CLI as a network configuration tool, would you like to live with it forever? That depends on what CLI I guess. The Cisco CLI I'm quite comfortable with and I think its simplicity and intuitiveness are a big part of how its lasted for so long. Other CLI's vary in their usefulness to me. ScreenOS I…

I was just about to complain about them locking early, guess I'm not the only one!

Well, if you're looking for a CLI that is readable, avoid Fortinet!! I've tried liking the platform, but there is just too many reasons against it. The CLI is laughable, the web-based interface, while not bad, doesn't nearly cover anything, which leads you back to the laughable CLI, and probably the one worst thing in my…

Took me a minute to figure out what your saying. Your looking to increase the number of devices that Network Sonar is simultaneously working on at given time manually? It actually does do multiple things at once, quite a bit actually. It will initially do ICMP pings and SNMP queries of >all< the IP addresses in a given…

I'm more of a Bill the Cat "ACK" kind of person, but Dilbert will do!

So, I'm curious how this works... We're doing an evaluation on IPAM right now, and I assumed in order to start getting notified of conflicts we'd have to have routers configured so Orion could get ARP and MAC tables. However, just with DHCP servers configured and nothing else, no SNMP communities, its found one IP address…

Very cool, using some of the stuff I would have. I do get a kick out of your comment where you say "Its not that we don't trust you...", followed up by the reasons that they don't trust you!! :-) Don't get me wrong, I'm all for it - makes perfect sense to me. Given the task of moderating a forum like this that spammers…

So, a couple questions about the Aruba support. We're currently monitoring our controllers via SNMP, when I go into "Edit Node" there is no option to change from monitoring via SNMP. The "Orchestrators: API" is greyed out. Will I have to delete my current setup and add a new node as this instead of SNMP? Or am I missing…

I'm seeing it both on Arista and Cisco Nexus. I don't think I've figured out quite how to see what the ranges are on the Arista although its easy to see on the Cisco's.

And, if we reply and ask where the points are, our content will be moderated as promised here (Wait...how come I'm not being moderated anymore?) and sent to /dev/null!! :-D Thanks to mrs.alterego‌!!

Definitely! Have to know what the overall picture is in addition to the server-specific picture is. All part of the big-picture!!

So, I answered monday's question, could have sworn it said correctly at the time, but I came back today to answer the rest of the weeks questions and saw it was marked "incorrect" now? Pretty sure I got it right? wabbott​?

You can rework things to give you some approximation. Something like this? <strong><span class="s5">SELECT</span><span class="s0"> </span><span class="s11">Nodes</span><span class="s10">.</span><span class="s11">Uri</span><span class="s10">,</span><span class="s0"> </span><span class="s11">Nodes</span><span…

Ugh, hate these scripts. Have you thought about using NCM Compliance rules with config blocks instead?

I thought SAM did this? I don't have it anymore, anyone know?

Try and simplify your query, use the built in joins if you can, maybe simplify your regular expression where you do the comparison? Having lots of wildcards slows down matching somewhat. Maybe doing the date comparison before the wildcard match might speed things up too? That way if the time constraint fails, it stops…

Standard polling interval is 9 minutes I think? You can modify that if you need to. Personally I'd want to be informed if CRC's were far less than 10000 in an hour. I'd probably go as low as 50 or 100, but adjust to your preference...

CRC's are a specific type of error, at least on routers themselves errors are more generic. Guessing SW mimics that logic. So, all CRC's are errors, but not all errors are CRC's.

I've seen some AP's where you can add them using SNMP separately rather than just using the WLC info. They'd also have to support CDP or LLDP probably? Wait, they probably do for PoE info. Maybe there is an advanced configuration option to allow this? Upgrading my server right now so I can't check... Feature request maybe?

So, are the packets producing errors via syslog? Or are you just seeing an error counter increase somewhere? Or are you just wanting to detect them somehow? If a syslog message is being produced, or an SNMP trap, it should be pretty simple to create and alert when the syslog or trap is generated. If an error counter, there…

Is the threshold percentage for all interfaces the same? If so, go adjust the "NPM Settings" thresholds in settings. You will find the "Interface Percent Utilization" where you can set "Critical" and "Warning" levels. I'd set the warning level to the desired setting, then set up alerts to trigger when this warning level is…

Of course >every< UX session does have a disclaimer that nothing that you see is guaranteed to be in future releases! Although I seriously doubt they'd waste their time doing UX testing on stuff they didn't intend to release at some point...

What devices? All L2 and L3 devices. L2 devices need to be monitored for MAC addresses on switch ports, it gets the MAC/IP address from the ARP tables on L3 devices. On L2 devices (switches) only monitor end-user switchports, not uplinks. Might need more pollers and to adjust retention intervals, but it probably can. I…