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Well, I should have checked first. I was going to change one of my devices to say it uses telnet when I noticed that telnet is not an option anymore for me at least. Probably because our servers are in FIPS mode that prevents the other protocols. But, this info should be in the NCM.NodeProperties table. If it says…

Are you upgrading the SQL server too? If so, I'd upgrade SQL and get the database copied over. Are you upgrading the application at the same time? If so make sure you can do a simple upgrade of the app from the old database app version to the new. You might need to do incremental upgrades to avoid issues. The app you'd…

Can you provide an example maybe? And you're using the "Custom SWQL" in classic dashboards? Or are you doing modern dashboards?

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Ok, I think you're getting a bit distracted from your goal. Your goal was "Currently, whenever an alert is triggered for DOM TX/RX errors, we receive an email with only the port number (for example: Ethernet 3/1). However, I would like the respective interface description to also be displayed in the alert email for better…

Can you post a text version of the query? Can't cut and paste an image into my tools…

So, was trying to figure it out by doing some fancy work with CharIndex and Substring, but then I found this "Action" in SWQL query manager that might be more useful to you. In the "Cirrus.ConfigArchive" table (Cirrus is the original name for NCM), there is an Action you can Invoke and give it the nodeID of a node, and it…

Hopefully they've improved it recently. And by that I mean not in terms of how it works, but how it recovers from issues. I did some pretty good testing on 9500 stackwise setups a couple years ago, and decided not to use them. Not because of how they worked. They did just fine in operations and it was quite neat to work…

Hmm… Most of those alerts I've seen were fairly ugly in terms of information. ie: you don't just get "Ethernet 3/1", you get "Ethernet 3/1 Lane X Transceiver …", or for other brands of hardware it might be "DOM RX Power Sensor for Ethernet14", so no real consistency. Plus I've also noticed that it will tend to alert on…

Hmm… I'm not running EIGRP, but if you go to a node running EIGRP and go to the "Network Tab", there should be a "Routing Neighbors" resource that gives you the neighbor, protocol, status and other stuff. Make sure under "List Resources" you have the "Routing table" stuff at the top selected, as well as the "Topology"…

I think I ran in to it quite a while ago, I think it was a permissions issue on retrieving the info from the active directory DC?

That are using telnet connections for NCM to connect to them? Or are you just looking for devices that might have telnet enabled on them? If the latter, what kind of devices?

That all depends on the equipment used in the Microwave link and what information it offers up via SNMP or maybe API. I don't think its available, but lets say the transmitter was a card in a Cisco router, you would probably have the information easily available via normal polling. But, lets say the transmitter equipment…

Awesome! I think we both learned a bit on this one…

Yea, you might want to go look up how a stateful firewall handles UDP traffic since it is by design a stateless protocol. The firewalls create temporary pseudo-states, as I mentioned before, to allow the return traffic for a period of time. But, they do NOT track an actual state like they would with a TCP connection. And…

Let us know your results! Note, that since this results field just sprouted up not too long ago, I'm thinking there is a chance in the next SDK that they might try and make this easier. Or, you could always point out to support how difficult it is to relate this and see if they give us a nice NodeID or something to make…

Here is a question, why not add the custom property to the Group itself? Seems a bit easier? In the "Add Custom Property" in the left hand column just choose to add it to group instead of node.

Yea, the only way I've figured out how to do it is copy the dashboard for each group and create their own copy baking in their own limitations into the SWQL. Kind of a pain, but…

Well, first, it doesn't require CDP/LLDP turned on in your devices, although that is the easiest way to get it in the topology database. It can also gather data from the ARP tables and CAM tables. Having the interfaces that connect to other devices monitored does make a difference. Make sure you have the topology L2 and L3…

This question brought up a lot more questions for me. I currently have 6 devices unmanaged, which all show up in my query, but only 2 show up using your query. I think it has to do with your base table, the one that isn't joined, is an Alert table. I think the other nodes that are unmanaged in mine never generated an…

Well, remember that UDP is a connectionless protocol. So, when SNMP sends a query out to a box, there is no two-way connections made, so no real stateful connection. Most stateful firewalls will do pseudo-statefull thing where they allow return traffic on the same UDP port as outbound traffic. However, you are much safer…

It should be doing this out of the box actually, at least for Cisco and Arista I believe, probably others. One of the problems I ran into working with these values is that the light level values are associated with the node, and not a specific Interface. So, if the node was up and the interface was enabled, it wants to…

I believe you can already, its just not that easy to find or interpret. Although it might be easier to develop a SWQL query and use that, in an Alert definition you can alert on a "Hardware Sensor (Node)" (as well as other Hardware Sensor types) and choose what fields you want and such from there. It's the first dropdown…

Hmm… That is rather confusing. The only way I can think of doing it is to use the EntityURI in the ScheduleEntityAssignments and delete everything up to and including the "=" which will leave you with the NodeID. You can probably do this easier by doing a string comparison and looking for something like '%=12345" where…

Rerun discovery on all servers periodically and maybe filter via SWQL to find new drives? Either that or just import anything new. I'm pretty sure you can set up volumes to be ignored if there are some you don't want automatically added. Or, if NCM is gathering inventory on the devices, you could probably run a report to…

Yea, I think its documented somewhere that account limitations don't apply to Modern dashboards. I thought they had added it in 2024.4, but instead it was something called Global Filters. https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/orionplatform/content/core-fusion-edit-filter.htm Doesn't work like I would want…

Orion.ScheduleTaskDefinition under the column "Reason"

One of my first steps is to always try it using SNMP v2c with a simple community. If that doesn't work, SNMPv3 won't work either. If that works, then try it using a >very< simple auth/priv passwords, just characters and not too long. If that works, you have a problem with your password of some sort…

Try playing with the SSH server and/or client algorithms. Something like this: ip ssh server algorithm mac hmac-sha2-256-etm@openssh .com hmac-sha2-512-etm@openssh .com hmac-sha1 hmac-sha2-256 hmac-sha2-512 ip ssh client algorithm mac hmac-sha1 hmac-sha2-256 hmac-sha2-512 hmac-sha2-256-etm@openssh .com…

Try changing the port to 587? That's pretty common. The default for MailBee with SSL is 465… You could try some of the other ones too besides MailBee.