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  •  All good ways if they aren't going to add it as a feature... I'd vote for having it added as a feature though!!
  • Was just playing around a bit on my dev server and knew I could do something quicker as a query in the Database Manager and happened to noticed that the "Nodes" table is now gone? It seems to be replaced by a NodesOLD (which doesn't appear to be updating) and a NodesData table, which at a quick glance looks pretty much the…
  • Something like this? SELECT MAX(DayDiff(DownloadTime, GETUTCDATE())) AS DaysSince, NCA.NodeProperties.Nodes.Caption FROM NCM.ConfigArchive NCA GROUP BY NodeID, NCA.NodeProperties.Nodes.Caption HAVING (MAX(DayDiff(DownloadTime, GETUTCDATE())) > 90) ORDER BY DaysSince DESC, NCA.NodeProperties.Nodes.Caption Just add it to a…
  • It can. If I remember right it tracks quite a few things, although I didn't find the things it tracked all that useful! Its been awhile though. My advice would be to get a demo of NCM and have it inventory a few things to see if it does what you want. That way you can see if it fits for your environment.
  • Can you be more specific? If you're looking for a report that does them all individually, not sure quite how to do that. However, if you're looking for cumulative changes from one date to another, check out the "Configs" tab on the node details. There are several options for config changes, once of which you can basically…
  •  Hmm... The "Dataformat=csv" and "Dataformat=xml" are really nice. It would be great if there was a header put on each report that was "Export to CSV" and "Export to XML"...
  • Never had a problem with it not mapping out blades on my 6500's. The one thing I can think of is that you aren't specifying the VLAN that you want to map out. If your other ports are on VLAN1 or trunking (ie: including VLAN 1) and you simply map it out using the community string (let say its "public"), all you get is VLAN…
  • Remember that traps (UDP/162) are different than polling (UDP/161). If you want to set up the EMC to be polled by SW, you will need to let it poll via UDP port 161. That is unless you change the UDP port in the Polling Method section. I wouldn't recommend changing the SNMP polling to UDP/162 because it might get confused…
  • You need to give more details? What kind of equipment? Can you ping the equipment from the Orion server? Can you ping the Orion server from the equipment? How is your SNMP set up on the device? Any access-lists? Any NAT going on inbetween the Orion server and these devices, if so, what type of NAT? What version of SNMP?…
  • quote:Originally posted by Network_Guru What features/improvements would you like to see added to the Solarwinds Toolsets? Ok, I know that I'm constantly putting in SNMP communities in an out of various applications depending on what I'm looking for. I'd like the ability to "group" SNMP communities and a unified way to…
  • To find out, or adjust, how long traps will be held in the database, you need to go to your "Settings" then to the "Thresholds and Polling" and "Polling Settings". In there you will find "Trap Messages Retention" which is in days. That being said, retaining them for too long will definitely slow things down a bit for you,…
  • You can if you want, there may be some duplication of polling by the two NMS's. I used to use Cisco Prime, but most of the functionality I ran into that was duplicated in the environments I was running was done better in SW. Especially configuration management.
  • 1.3.6.1.4.1.30065.1.3011.7050.1958.48 - Arista DCS-7050TX-48-F 1.3.6.1.4.1.30065.1.3011.7050.3741.2.72.2512 - Arista DCS-7050SX2-72Q-R 1.3.6.1.4.1.30065.1.3011.7280.3101.2878.36 - Arista DCS-7280QR-C36-F 1.3.6.1.4.1.30065.1.3011.7020.1964.48 - Arista DCS-7020TR-48-R 1.3.6.1.4.1.30065.1.3011.7280.3714.72 - Arista…
  • Bit of an odd one here. When I put this one in via Add Nodes, I get "Test Failed" which I don't think I've ever gotten before with a valid SNMP community, this happens with two different boxes too. However, if I go into SNMPWalk, it brings it up ok. This is for a WOWZA server. We used this to configure them. It came up ok…
  •  Well, our domain name for network devices is ".network.us.bosch.com". A switch sysname name might be something like this "ch1sw-101a-1-abs5l6-3". So, in the node trees and elsewhere it displays as "ch1sw-1-101a-1-abd5l6-3.network.us.bosch.com", and quite often on the longer names I find it word-wrapping and such. Since…
  • Most circuits are full-duplex, ie: they can both transmit and receive at the same time. For example, a T1 which is approximately 1.5Mbps is actually 3Mbps total bandwidth. The same with Ethernet type interfaces, so the total bandwidth on a 1Gbps ethernet interface would be 2Gbps. Go back to the T1, or 1.5Mbps full-duplex.…
  • SSH can used cached credentials, where it will not prompt you for username/password during the login process. I don't believe I've ever seen NCM use that, but I wasn't really looking for it either. How do you have your credentials set in "Edit Node"? I find if you can use "SSH2" for "Execute Scripts Using", "Request…
  • You need to use the "_IconFor" method I think. In this case I think you want to do this: select distinct NodeID, Caption AS NodeName, StatusLED AS [_IconFor_NodeName], Criticality... Although you might need to put "Caption" instead of "NodeName", but I think this is right... Here is another article that explains it a…
  • My guess is your getting broadcast storms. Not sure how to check for them on 3com switches, I'd recommend pulling out a sniffer like ethereal and try to get more details. I assume your keeping track of the bandwidth being utilized on your T1 also? Its very easy to overload one, esp. if its connected to the Internet. You…
  • Hopefully all the enable passwords are the same? wluther​ definitely had the basic premise correct. You'd probably be best off creating the 16 profiles in "NCM Settings" and "Connection Profiles", more if you have multiple enable passwords unfortunately. Then change all the nodes to "Auto Assign" as far as what credentials…
  • Instead of ${CR} maybe try a "y" (for yes). Note that it's best to do a "y" after a "wr" also, in case it prompts you to overwrite a config from a different IOS version. If that doesn't work, try it with a dummy command like "dir" after it. Still longing for the good old days where NCM didn't collapse multiple returns in…
  • Try checking out my post here, might give you the results you want... Search Job Output You need to have not cleared "completed" or "failed" jobs in the "Transfer Status" screen for this to work!!
  • 1) Speed is the key, but assuming none is lost in having these new hovers over the old, I do think they look better and are more useful. 2) More information on the hover means a less likely chance I'll need to go to the node. However, if its quicker to go to the node than use the hover, that would be bad... 3) I think…
  • So, back to the original problem. Why did this lock up my inbox? I guess you'd consider it a bug report at this point then! Very odd behavior!! Note the red-band error message on one screen capture. It would come back every time I refreshed and went away fairly quickly, almost too quickly to read! But the striped loading…
  • It's stored in the database. The definition of the poller is stored in the "CustomPollers" table, there should be 1 row for each custom poller definition. Taking the CustomPollerID from this table, you can then pull up all the nodes its been assigned to in the "CustomPollerAssignment" table, there will be 1 row for each…
  • Ok, have done a bunch of troubleshooting and it seems to be specific to this job, which seems rather simple to me. It's the first time I've really used the compliance on config blocks, at least the way it was intended!! :-), and I think it might be related to that. I can execute other jobs just fine. When doing this job…
  • NTA has no such intelligence built into it. It reports the Netflow traffic that it sees on a per-device basis. So, if 3 different Netflow sources (ie: switches or routers) each see the same traffic traversing them, they will all report it. That's just it doing its job. The intelligence should come from whoever is…
  • The compliance manager would probably be the easiest way to do that, have you looked at it yet? You can create a report that looks for "transport input ssh" on the VTY's and for the ACS config you use for ACS.
  • Just an FYI - you might want to pose this as a new question rather than replying to a 7 year old question that already has an answer marked as "Correct". Otherwise, not only might it get ignored, but people with the correct answer can't get Thwack points!! That being said, this works for me. Are you sure you have the…
  • For all nodes or just one? Would be easy if you wanted it for all nodes. Just find where they stow the up.gif/down.gif and "reverse" their naming. If just for one or a few nodes, maybe more details might help us out in figuring it out...