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With SecureCRT emulator, can do something like this: https://www.vandyke.com/support/tips/chatsendcom.html

With SolarWinds NCM module 'execute script' functionality, you could modify network devices to allow polling. https://support.solarwinds.com/Success_Center/Network_Configuration_Manager_(NCM)/Executing_scripts_on_multiple_NCM_nodes With Engineer's Toolset you could upload the relevant config to these devices as well via…

Check the Nodes table of the database. Also, not sure if this still works, but if you edit a node and then view the HTML, credentials are in plain text in the source code (DOH!).

Check out p. 328-341: www.solarwinds.com/documentation/Orion/docs/OrionNPMAdministratorGuide.pdf​ p. 336 has section 'CREATE LIMITATIONS BASED ON CUSTOM PROPERTIES'. After your AD groups are created, you will want to leverage custom properties to shape what users see or are prevented from seeing.

From your Domain Controller in Active Directory? example: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc794823(v=ws.10).aspx

You could run a discovery or several discoveries. Use selected SNMP credentials. No need to import anything--just look for cases where you have ICMP-only connectivity or where you have no visibility into volumes and interfaces.

When I've had issues with page limitations and resource limitations producing an error when combined, I've rewritten my resource as a SWQL query. I never ultimately determined the cause of the issue, but proceeded with SWQL workaround. (DIdn't invest time in identifying due to dozens of other higher priorities and the…

Have you already tried this? https://support.solarwinds.com/Success_Center/Network_Performance_Monitor_(NPM)/All_Nodes_-_Tree Clicking Edit allows you to edit the All Nodes - Tree Resource Title and group displayed nodes into three levels, using any of the following node properties: Note: Any custom properties defined for…

Does an SNMPwalk work? https://support.solarwinds.com/Success_Center/Network_Performance_Monitor_(NPM)/SolarWinds_SNMP_Walk_A_new_tool_for_collecting_SNMP_MIB_walks

I believe this is what you need: https://support.solarwinds.com/Success_Center/Network_Performance_Monitor_(NPM)/Report_Scheduler_reports_from_an_HTTPS-based_Orion_Web_Console

&&PRINTABLE=TRUE appended to the URL and then printing from the browser could be a quick and dirty workaround. NPM 12.2 Release Notes - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support Export to PDF featureThe Export to PDF button is no longer available. SolarWinds recommends that you use the Save as PDF functionality built…

I used to at a previous job. Believe this was the MIB: Cisco SNMP Object Navigator

I would recommend these steps: https://support.solarwinds.com/Success_Center/Orion_Platform/Knowledgebase_Articles/Orion_Web_Console_response_is_slow If applicable: https://support.solarwinds.com/Success_Center/Network_Performance_Monitor_(NPM)/Knowledgebase_Articles/Turn_on_and_use_Hubble

Did you assign the transform? Universal Device Poller - Select Nodes to Transform

You might find some that interest you here https://thwack.solarwinds.com/community/labs_tht/alert-lab​ If you want to add any downtime information to your alerts, you can do so: Display accurate downtime information in Alert Reset Actions - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support

Your decision to create multiple alerts covering different periods or to use the Unmanage Utility should be based on whether you can live without availability stats. While unmanaged, you won't know if nodes are up or down. You won't be able to come in and see what went down last night (at least from the perspective of…

http://www.solarwinds.com/documentation/en/flarehelp/npm/content/core-setting-network-performance-monitor-thresholds-sw671.htm > Administer > Manage the Orion Web Console > Thresholds > Set SolarWinds NPM thresholds * Thresholds* Set Orion general thresholds * Customize thresholds for single objects * General threshold…

Could you redo your trigger? all conditions true * less than 20% * greater than 10% http://www.solarwinds.com/documentation/en/flarehelp/ncm/content/core-evaluating-multiple-condition-blocks-sw977.htm

Do you have IPSLA jobs set up in Cisco router configs? Do you have VNQM SolarWinds module? If so, this can be done. VoIP Monitoring and QoS Tools | SolarWinds​ Also, if you have IPSLA jobs configured in Cisco routers, you could configure a trap or syslog destination (your SolarWinds IP). This might be more useful to you if…

What kind of devices are in the network? Can they be configured to send traps?

Alternative way to approach this issue--configure devices to send SNMP trap on routing events: Cisco EEM: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/eem/command/eem-cr-book/eem-cr-e2.html Juniper:…

https://support.solarwinds.com/Success_Center/Orion_Platform/Orion_Documentation/Orion_Platform_Administrator_Guide/Create_alerts_to_monitor_your_environment/Define_the_conditions_that_must_exist_to_trigger_an_alert… Choose how long the condition must exist before an alert is triggered. This prevents receiving alerts when…

If your alert condition referenced a group you created, it would be easy to validate group members. Sticking a custom property in the mix (which itself could be the condition for group membership) essentially gives you what you are asking. In some cases, that is worth the effort. Sometimes I monitor my laptop and break…

Is there a known issue where certain interface custom properties are visible to Alert Manager and others are not? Despite updating the schema, my two most recent custom properties are not visible to the Alert Suppression tab of the Alert Manager. NPM version 10.2.2.

Do you already have a node custom property handling this? If not, start by creating one,for example CriticalServer and set it to yes/ true where applicable. Your alerts can make this a condition-- if CriticalServer=True and CPU Usage > 90%

Truncate Traps and TrapVarbinds. - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support

If you don't want to poll the OID, have the F5 send a trap and/or a syslog message. Knowing how to custom poll an OID comes in quite handy, so if you ever decide to come back to this you will be able to take your monitoring to another level.

Add a resource to your node details web page and use ssh://{IP_Address} for ssh and use https://{IP_Address} for https.

Hmmm... This would be a start: Check for presence of at symbol (@). Check for a period. Obviously doesn't ensure the @ is before the period. But this might get the most invalid email address formats. Suppose you could cheat and have two properties (who, wherever and reference the properties who@wherever). Verify that…

Is it a Cisco router? Can you configure an IPSLA job between this and a Cisco router that is not remote to you? Then you can trap or syslog that IPSLA job to SolarWinds. If you ever purchased VNQM, you could SNMP-monitor that IPSLA job.