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For situations such as the one you described, I found myself adding timestamps in charts to help identify stale data. In some cases is was my first/ best clue, since a Node Details page will look innocuous without clues like that.

You might want to post this in NCM forum. https://thwack.solarwinds.com/community/network-management_tht/orion-network-configuration-manager

RDP to your server and launch Alert Manager --> Active Alerts. Sort them as you see fit (by clicking top of any column). Look for the questionable alerts.

When I've run into this, doing an SNMPwalk and then polling the desired MIBs seen there was useful. Vendor documentation to determine MIBs to be polled is another option. Does an SNMP walk work?

You could configure the router to send traps when interfaces (or better yet tunnels) went down. Might help to validate what's happening from an SNMP perspective. You could even alert off the trap if you didn't trust the polled data. Similarly, you could get syslogs configured such that you would know if an interface…

With vendor documentation or perhaps with an SNMPwalk, you could follow up on chad.every​'s suggestion (polling involved OID). Just need to find the relevant OID. If your search 'active standby switchover SNMP' along with the name of the platform, are you finding any matches via search engines? Which model are you asking…

Customize your alert based on node/ interface/ volume properties. https://support.solarwinds.com/Success_Center/Network_Performance_Monitor_(NPM)/Adding_alert_specific_variables_into_email_generated_by_an_alert It's generally easier to manipulate custom properties than to go back and touch numerous alerts. Custom…

Can you change the graph to show only the 9:45 - 10 timeframe?

For troubleshooting purposes, see if you can trap on some temperature MIBs and some power supply MIBs. Compare these values with the bizarre output you are getting via hardware sensor resource.

​ Were these visible in SNMPwalk? 1.3.6.1.2.1.1.1 sysdescr 1.3.6.1.2.1.1.2 sysobjectid 1.3.6.1.2.1.1.3 sysuptime

Make sure you are able to reach these OIDs when running SNMPWALK: 1.3.6.1.2.1.1.1 sysdescr 1.3.6.1.2.1.1.2 sysobjectid 1.3.6.1.2.1.1.3 sysuptime https://support.solarwinds.com/Success_Center/Network_Performance_Monitor_(NPM)/troubleshoot_SNMP_Node_-_SNMP_Test_Failed

Do you envision this being on Node Details (single node) pages or Summary (multiple nodes) pages? You may want to create a group for the related UDPs to make your query easier. Or you can filter for the OID digits in common and just make a poller status report. Links below are a few options: How to Set Up Multi-Column…

If you SNMPwalk the involved MIBs from your poller, do the statistics match NPM or ASDM?

Windows Scheduled Task Monitor Windows Scheduled Task Monitor Returned Status Codes Using SolarWinds SAM module, you can get visibility into these: (0x41300) The task is ready to run at its next scheduled time. (0x41301) The task is currently running. (0x41302) The task will not run at the scheduled times because it has…

We do something similar to this: http://thwack.solarwinds.com/message/171283#171283

Depending on how you intend to use these properties, you could consider using the same logic that you want to create in a batch file for the creation of a group in SolarWinds. You may want to experiment a little bit with creation of groups based on dynamic queries.…

Have you set up any dependencies? http://www.solarwinds.com/documentation/en/flarehelp/sam/content/core-automatic-dependencies-sw1154.htm​ Define and use dependencies in Orion NPM - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support

Have you seen this? https://support.solarwinds.com/Success_Center/Network_Performance_Monitor_(NPM)/Unable_to_retrieve_URL_using_Excel_type Check your bindings and SSL certificate.

I have seen some solutions that involve custom SNMP polling the ciscoRttMonObjects MIB. Others that involve EEM (Embedded Event Manager). Are you currently polling the ciscoRttMonObjects MIB? routing - Is there an SNMP MIB for Cisco Track Objects - Network Engineering Stack Exchange

Are you aware of the Network Sonar Discovery option? And the ignore list? SolarWinds NPM Online Help

If you don't want to take an outage to run the config wizard, here's another approach. ***Note that manually editing your database is something SolarWinds support will advise against.*** You can find any account in the database (your own, for example) in the table named Accounts, make the table writeable (Enable Table…

I believe this is the functionality you are looking for, or at least the closest existing functionality to what you are requesting: https://support.solarwinds.com/Success_Center/Network_Performance_Monitor_(NPM)/NPM_Administrator_Guide/120_Thresholds/040_Baselines_and_baseline_calculations

Tried Hubble? https://support.solarwinds.com/Success_Center/Network_Performance_Monitor_(NPM)/Knowledgebase_Articles/Turn_on_and_use_Hubble

Are the switches Cisco? You can be notified when configs change with NPM. NCM not required. Cisco IOS SNMP Traps Supported and How to Configure Them - Cisco cisco-config-man-mib snmp-server enable traps Command Use the snmp-server enable traps global configuration command to enable the router to send SNMP traps. Use the no…

You can present the links in menu bars: https://support.solarwinds.com/Success_Center/Network_Performance_Monitor_(NPM)/Create_a_custom_menu_bar_to_show_a_specific_URL or in a resource on a page: https://support.solarwinds.com/Success_Center/Network_Performance_Monitor_(NPM)/Create_custom_HTML_resource_view For each…

Navigate to a Node Details page. Make note of what is in the URL. The part at the end after N: is the node ID. If your alert is for a node status, this should work. Should look like: https://<FQDN>/Orion/NetPerfMon/NodeDetails.aspx?NetObject=N:${NodeID}

The times I've seen SYSTEM as a user in my audit logs were when I made changes in my database rather than changes via the web. I bet anything not done via web interface would lack a way to identify the user and would show SYSTEM as the user.

https://support.solarwinds.com/Success_Center/Network_Performance_Monitor_(NPM)/Use_Custom_properties_when_sending_email_alerts

cwbojarski , any success with traps as shown above or with SNMPwalk?

I would set up traps as described in the vendor documentation. You can SNMPwalk to see if the cellular radio metrics appear. Make note of their OIDs for custom MIB polling if you find them.