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My serial number custom poller does not store the serial number in a custom property. The fact of the matter is I don't know which table it's in and I have not had a reason to care. For a custom poller assigned to a node, you can report on it: you can alert on it: and you can show it in web pages: ...all of this without a…

in Need help with SQL / custom poller data Comment by d09h February 2012

I believe jrouviere is correct. From what I have seen and read, I have no reason to believe you can limit who sees the banner message from Hubble.

in Node Details Takes 15-20 Seconds To Load Comment by d09h June 2019

Deletion of hyperlinks shouldn't be a problem. (Unless map functionality has changed a lot since I last used it.) No reason you couldn't make a copy of your map to test.

in Is it possible to let a user see a map but make it so they can't click on the nodes within the map? Comment by d09h August 2016

SQL query: SELECT Nodes.Team AS Team, Nodes.NodeID AS NetObjectID, Nodes.Caption AS Name, Nodes.LastSystemUpTimePollUtc AS LastSystemUpTime FROM Nodes WHERE ((DATEDIFF(mi, Nodes.LastSystemUpTimePollUtc, getutcdate()) > 15) AND (Nodes.Status = '1')) ORDER BY 1 ASC

in What are your MUST-HAVES on your NPM Summary page? Comment by d09h August 2015

What he said.

in Is there a way to troubleshoot why the the "test" button fails when adding a new node using via SNMP Comment by d09h July 2015

Don't ever moonlight during your 24/7 hospital job with a 24/7 network operations center job. Man, that was a grueling year.

in new features vs. old problems Comment by d09h March 2017

My response was a hyperlink to your answer. I wasn't restating your question.

in Does anyone have a report in NPM or anywhere that shows the date last used of ports on a switch? Comment by d09h March 2017

Hmmm...it's been a while since I've used it (probably 7 years by now). I don't recall ever doing changes like that in bulk when I used it. Perhaps post your issue here: Engineer's Toolset I have foggy memories of using functionality within SecureCRT for bulk changes way back before I had ever used NCM. Some cool…

in Banner word "Username" preventing NCM connecting to devices Comment by d09h October 2016

Do you have Cisco devices that support RMON? https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/network-management/remote-monitoring-rmon/13488-alarm-event.html?referring_site=RE&pos=2&page=https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/network-management/remote-monitoring-rmon/17428-18.html

in Reporting on interface utilization for a duration Comment by d09h November 2017

You can modify BGP alert for use with EIGRP: Routing Neighbor Down alert does not trigger for EIGRP - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support When you list resources on the router, are you given the option to monitor EIGRP? If so, ensure that you select it. (I don't have a way to test...hence my question.)

in Router/Switch considerations Comment by d09h October 2016

I agree it can be done. In the way mentioned, it seems to require NCM (users probably don't put servers in NCM though, if they bought it for configuration management functionality and not to help detect broken SNMP connectivity, or for that matter if they didn't buy licenses with this use case in mind). But a user who only…

in What are the things that Solarwinds cannot do? Comment by d09h October 2016

Cisco's passive interface feature may be useful to avoid routing issues if you were to go with this approach.

in Pre provisioning large amount of nodes into Solarwinds NPM & NCM Comment by d09h August 2012

I was looking for the company line on effect of large numbers of groups. Haven't yet found any hard limits, but this speaks to the issue a little (last comment in the post, from a SolarWinds employee for what it's worth): Max number of groups in NPM, Additionally: Building dependencies/groups in Orion NPM and suffering…

in NPM - Group Questions Comment by d09h December 2016

https://support.solarwinds.com/Success_Center/Network_Performance_Monitor_(NPM)/Run_the_database_maintenance_manuallyRun the database maintenance manually Overview Database maintenance performs a series of data summarization that helps you optimize the size of your Orion database. Data summarization consists of gathering…

in Solarwinds is dead slow Comment by d09h June 2017

You can monitor syslog and/ or traps, but if firewall changes need to be made for that, then it's not too much of a stretch to ask for SNMP access from your poller. If you must get by on syslogs and traps, NPM can still be useful. You can still use the information for alerts/ reports/ views.

in Monitoring devices behind a firewall. Comment by d09h November 2016

You can unmanage nodes you have added to keep them from being polled. If an ignore list has been used in a discovery, the items in it will not be added as nodes to Orion. You can't manage or unmanage what you haven't added. If you would like polling to occur and you need availability data for a period of time, you can mute…

in How to add nodes to the ignore list Comment by d09h June 2019

If you are OK with sending service account credentials with the web request (and you may not be), there is this option: https://support.solarwinds.com/Success_Center/Network_Performance_Monitor_(NPM)/Passing_login_information_using_URL_parameters

in DirectLink NOC View Comment by d09h June 2018

I can see this solution being SQL-centric...which might be out of the comfort zone and require lots of DBA assistance. Alternatively, the way I presented. Or mix and match a little. Before group functionality existed, I used to have a few gnarly SQL queries/ reports that used joins and were outside of my comfort zone,…

in Link node variables to auto populate other fields Comment by d09h March 2017

Sounds like a job for Google cache search. I have the same obstacles, and frequently Google cache comes through.

in How do you use Solarwinds products to alert you when Bluetooth devices are compromised? Comment by d09h September 2017

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/powershell/run-windows-powershell-steps-in-sql-server-agent?view=sql-server-2017 With PowerShell you can print a statement and get user response: TechNet Collect a Yes or No Response from User using PowerShell; Fully evaluate response then do steps like in the first link.

in On Demand Report on using certain key words Comment by d09h July 2019

You could create a feature request for new functionality you desire. https://support.solarwinds.com/SuccessCenter/s/article/Submit-a-feature-request

in On Demand Report on using certain key words Comment by d09h July 2019

A little bit. There's a learning curve, but I'm working on it. In a perfect world the simplicity of the old Report Writer would be presented the same way in the web interface (without Report Writer crashes).

in What aspect of Orion/NPM do you find most annoying? Comment by d09h September 2014

shaun_9999 wrote: -.- sometimes I hate myself. If you didn't, Silky Johnson probably would.

in Red had services Comment by d09h July 2017

TrapVarBinds Table is creating havoc once again http://knowledgebase.solarwinds.com/kb/questions/3681/I+am+seeing+a+warning+about+the+size+of+my+Syslog+table SolarWinds Knowledge Base :: SQL is reporting that my Orion NPM database is currently out of space. How can I clear up s… Go to your traps section of your Orion…

in Where can I trim my NPM database to get back some space? Comment by d09h January 2015

If you could share some details on the MIB, better support could be provided. You still wouldn't import it, but you could get guidance on how to monitor whatever you're trying to monitor.

in *** URGENT*** How to import MIB? Comment by d09h June 2016

Have you had any real world experiences recently where you used each module (or most of them) in identifying and resolving an issue?

in Giving a presentation on Orion, need advice Comment by d09h January 2017

No problem Bill. I think I was guilty of creating reports for everything for a while. And then copying them over to three more systems. And then configuring each web interface to show the report. And then making changes in each of them as the use case was clarified. At some point I came to appreciate doing it all from the…

in Unmanaged on view Comment by d09h May 2015

Looks like you may be able to do something similar to what you're describing in NPM 10.3 beta: http://thwack.solarwinds.com/thread/48231 <quote>...your UnDP alerts based on tables can now contain an identification of which row of the table experienced the alert violation condition...</quote>

in Advanced alert on comparing two undp Comment by d09h May 2012

Keep in mind that groups can be nested and can have dynamic membership (for example, by custom property).

in Creating a view for specific nodes Comment by d09h September 2016

For further reading on group rollup status and how it can help you here, see page 87: https://www.solarwinds.com/-/media/solarwinds/swdcv2/licensed-products/network-performance-monitor/resources/product-guides/npm_administrator_guide.ashx?la=en

in Trigger condition - complex conditions missing "OR" logic operator Comment by d09h December 2017

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