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I would use SWQL/SQL query with status icon. Perhaps a custom property rather than a group. Someone else using status icons: https://thwack.solarwinds.com/thread/94422_

Which vendor/ model? Do you have a list of the MIBs (from vendor documentation or MIBwalk)? There is native support for F5 BIG-IP load balancers: Network Insight for F5 BIG-IP load balancers - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support Set up Network Insight for F5 BIG-IP load balancers - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help…

Export UnDP pollers When I last did this, it went as described in the link.

Did you mean 'OR' where you used 'AND' the last nine times? Also: Think this would help? Try querying on ${InterfaceName} http://www.solarwinds.com/documentation/en/flarehelp/npm/content/npm-interface-properties-sw490.htm Seems this is the 'User friendly name'. If not, ${InterfaceAlias} 'Alias or description of interface…

I've run into situations where I needed to know if IE trusted a site I was on but couldn't scroll around (due to group policy restriction) in the Internet Explorer Trusted Sites. Or I had to support people who needed a site to be trusted, had no power to set that themselves, and had to ensure the site really was trusted.…

I have an HTTPS monitor checking a URL for presence of text. Actually three monitors for three different words. The three monitors comprise one SAM application. You could do something similar. There is a 'fail if found' option that might be useful for 'yellow-alarm'. And possibly other values you would care about. Your…

This may not scale for you, but you could validate the polled information with any traps that you can get sent. Could show you which polling to believe.

Are you polling this MIB already (custom MIB polling)? CISCO-POWER-ETHERNET-EXT-MIB If nothing in that MIB reports the total power across all ports, perhaps a poller transform would be helpful (or SQL query to achieve the same result). This list looks promising:…

In case what you propose is not possible, here's a workaround. Have alert send a web page. Web page is a report that shows whichever alerts you desire. Or multiple reports. Could even be Node Details page of offending node, if I'm not mistaken. If advanced alerts had option to set custom property I can see that being…

Email infrastructure (or security appliance) eating the attachments?

Did you assign the UDP for the particular OID in question? If so, you could add the appropriate widget to the page you have (perhaps Multiple Object Chart, Multiple Universal Device Pollers Chart)

Since you mentioned do this manually, have you thought about creating a node custom property (or several) to be manually populated?

Even if you don't procure a suitable console cable for these efforts, you may wish you had if another issue with that type of switch arises. SNMP queries wouldn't have to be the only visibility into your issue. If you knew the pinout, you could probably even modify a console cable you have lying around. Your next issue…

Packet capture from poller. SPAN management interface of switch and capture that too. Review each capture for poll from SolarWinds and response from switch.

Run a discovery and import one node. I seem to recall that's all that was required when I successfully got topology resources populated. I actually did not use ConnectNow until yesterday, but it seems like the information ConnectNow shows is the same information I made visible in topology resources (node details and…

Any reason you are not using SHA1 authentication?

Turns out leaving off the closing i-frame tag in my HTML was the reason. Now if someone could find a native way to display a web report via web interface. Sound silly? Try it. Seriously, if there is a way it escapes me. And the support engineer working my case so far.

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If you can identify a relevant MIB via vendor documentation or SNMPwalk, it would be a good start. Does the device have syslog and/ or SNMP functionality?

If discovering by hostname does not work, and you determine that resolution will eventually work (just not right now), a host file on your NPM server can fill the gap for you. I've had to do this with hundreds of nodes for extenuating circumstances. Definitely remember to remove the host file duct tape after it has served…

Can you do your discovery as a list of DNS names rather than a list of IP addresses? Does your exported list have that information?

Maybe some value in creating a dynamically defined group where membership criteria is: interface status=admin down

If you SNMPwalk the Palo Alto from the SolarWinds box, do you see the IP addresses you hope NPM will see?

ed_gpc, have you tried this with the web custom property editor? It's what I've been doing. I don't see any reason that wouldn't work for you. I just sanity checked with my web custom property editor. You can copy/paste as many cells as you want. Perhaps developers could add a helpful link on the page one sees when editing…

You can natively see 'Last Boot' without UDPs (check out a Node Details page) in a format mm/dd/yyyy 12:01 PM (so no seconds). If you still want to do a UDP and transform, just dividing seconds by 86400 will give you days to some number of decimal places. Do you actually need minutes and seconds vs seeing (for example)…

I have exactly the same problem.

https://support.solarwinds.com/Success_Center/Network_Performance_Monitor_(NPM)/Export_Import_custom_property_values @m-milligan gave a simple way too. Try the spreadsheet approach as well and you may find benefit in both approaches depending on the situation.

If you SNMPwalk that MIB, does the SD-WAN appliance respond?

Which Cisco devices aren't supporting SSH?

I believe this will work for interfaces...not aware of any reason it won't: https://support.solarwinds.com/Success_Center/Network_Performance_Monitor_(NPM)/Alert_Group_member_status_is_down_on_specific_group This would involve creation of a group per port channel. How many port channels do you have?