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 I was about to do it a couple months ago, but when it got down to the nitty gritty as to how to do it, it wasn't quite as easy as I thought. After inquiring further to the techs, they told me the main piece that benefits alot from 64bit is the Enterprise SQL Server, not the polling/website engines and that it probably…

I usually have something like this: copy tftp://1.2.3.4/mybanner.txt run running-config wr mem y dir This was adjusted I think around NCM7.4 when they stopped accepting extra newlines in compliance remediation scripts, which is where I generally use this. I check to see if my standard banner exists, and if not, TFTP in the…

So, this sounds like two different problems that are related a bit. Real-Time Config Alerts I believe are only sent when a change has been made to the configuration that is downloaded. Guessing all of this part is working from your description. However, if its getting stuck in "Downloading..." or "Waiting...", it looks as…

Hmm... I would try changing your script to something like this: copy scp:\\server\config startup startup-config reload The problem I think is, when you issue the "copy" command even though you specify the destination filename, its going to prompt you to confirm this filename, ie: Destination filename [startup-config]? You…

Depends on what info you Network Team is looking for. I'll give some general guidelines though. NPM: With NPM you can monitor basic traffic patterns, the # of bytes transferred and such. One BIG thing to remember is that there are Layer-2 and Layer-3 components to a VLAN. Usually you want to monitor the Layer-3 components,…

Ok, guessing you need a bit more guidance as your not even trying to say what method your attempting to use. If you want to do it via NCM because you have a ton of them, use a "Config Change Template". I believe the one I used was a shared config change template from Thwack called "Cisco IOS upgrade for NCM Template via…

Not quite sure what you're asking... One way to speed things up is to use FTP vs TFTP.

Actually, you probably could do this in a number of different ways, but it wouldn't be easy, it would involve a bit of effort. The problem is that the trap manager has a few options to it, and none of those are to send an alert, so you can't use the alert timers and such out-of-the-box to do what you want. And there is no…

Hmm... Thinking that one would be a bit tricky, not sure how to go about it. Wouldn't be surprised if there was a nifty trick to do it easily though!

We had the same problem for a long, long time. Turned out the solution was really quite simple. I had been logging into the console via RDP and set the resolution to full color, full resolution. The problem was the machine itself, ie: its hardware console, was set to a very low resolution. Getting into the machine via ILO…

You probably want to look into RTCD, or Real-Time Change Detection. Unless you configure it, NCM isn't really "monitoring" for changes, if you have a job scheduled it will catch changes when the job runs. However, if you want to do it real time, you need to configure this...…

Not really understanding your pain points, but I think its a lack of detail. Most organizations I would think would use TACACS or radius for credentials and have a static profile set up for either all devices, or groups of devices, within Radius. As mesverrum​ pointed out, you should be able to use "auto-detect" when…

Just thinking out of the box here a bit, there may be a different way to accomplish this, but my first thought was maybe serve up the different business partners each through an "Additional Web Server" (AWS) of their own? That would allow you to make the graphic different on each one. I believe the graphic is local to the…

Well, I should preface this with the fact that Fortinet's are evil! So that's probably a major reason why its not connecting. But, that being said... Just configuring SNMP on a Fortinet isn't all you need to do to get SNMP working. You need to make sure that on the interface you want to connect to using SNMP, you have to…

Thanks to rschroeder​ for giving you an ISE config! At my previous job, we ended up going with a product from TACACS.net, it was a bit of a struggle at first esp. due to not being able to fully authenticate to wireless controllers. This wasn't really their fault, but something different in how Cisco did things. But the…

That rule would check to see if you have this configured on your DMVPN tunnels. If it's violated, that means its not. If you run the remediation script on those interfaces it should put the configuration in them, or you can do it manually. he compliance rule just checks to make sure your interface is configured for it.…

Correct, and how it may or may not differ depends on your environment. If you have WAN interfaces on your DMVPN router that reflect the actual state of the link, such as a T1 or T3, when the T1 is down the associated DMVPN tunnels would be down. However, if the majority of your network is like mine, where we have our…

Yes, as I stated I am monitoring EIGRP, but it doesn't quite give me what I want. This method where it brings the tunnel interface down when NHRP doesn't establish, is not only much easier, but gives me better results for my dashboards and such.

And to make it easy on everyone who wants to use it, here is a NCM Compliance rule that will help you remediate those nodes that don't have this on your DMVPN tunnel interfaces... Our DMVPN tunnels are all either Tunnel11 or Tunnel21, which is why the "Config Block Start" regular expression is how it is, adjust to your own…

What kind of logfiles are you talking about? I'd be interested in "syslog" oriented discussions, but not windows event logs and such. Guessing since its the SAM team its the latter?

I see there is an open feature request on this for all those who want to vote on it! https://thwack.solarwinds.com/ideas/3314

My first question would be, did Orion figure out what kind of equipment it was beyond an AP? Get the vendor and model right? If not, you might want to report the new device to Solarwinds on this thread: Tell Us Your Unknown Devices v2.0 What brand/model is it? If Cisco, in "Edit Node", there is a drop down to choose which…

You could do a 'Custom Query' type of resource and set it up the way you want. Very customizable. Click on the "Customize Page" link in the upper right-hand corner of the page you want to put this resource on. Click on the green "+" symbol in the column you want this to be in, and put in a "Custom Query" resource. Using…

Just 11.5, or 11.5.2? 11.5.2 fixed quite a few alerting issues. There is a Hotfix4 for 11.5.2 also that fixes some alerting issues... I'd recommend upgrading to them if you haven't already...

I think I had something similar and it ended up being NetPath, which I believe you can have devices in it that are not managed in the traditional sense by Solarwinds. In this case I was checking the Netpath to the device that was getting poked by my dev server. Can't remember exactly where I found it, but thought if I…

If you edit your group, and click on "Advanced" it will give you more options, one of which is "Status rollup mode". You probably have it set to "Show worst status" while you want it set to "Mixed status shows warning". This article explains more: Status Rollup Mode in the Orion Platform

Below what you show here there should be a checkbox that says "Run script on each config block in violation". Do you have that checked? Sample below...

Actually, they really are both pretty similar in many ways, as long as your talking basic SQL. However, the big differences are such that if you do a simple conversion from SQL to SWQL, it will be somewhat lacking in performance, in a big part because of what I believe is called Navigation Properties. Where in SQL you…

Yes, go to the "Config Summary" page, in the "Search NCM" box type in the IP address your looking for. Hit "Search"...

I don't believe it to be possible to decrypt the password stored in the Solarwinds database. However, there are a couple other approaches you could take. #1) If you have the devices SNMP RW community, get out your Solarwinds Engineers toolkit and using the "Config Viewer" you can change the password, or if its unencrypted…