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I think some manual editing is unavoidable. When you have identified the unimportant interfaces, set them for one of these modes: Maintenance mode To temporarily stop collecting data or triggering alerts for interfaces, put the interface or the parent node into a maintenance mode. Go to Manage Nodes, and navigate to the…
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Is there a reset condition that needs to have its wording changed? Perhaps it's actually the alert clearing/ returning to normal, but text in the email may not make that abundantly clear. Not that I've ever done that to myself...I eventually started including 'return to normal' in the wording of my reset emails to clarify.…
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dennis.shiburi@alteram.co.za, you have a decision to make regarding the devices you monitor via ICMP. 1) use SNMP/ WMI monitoring instead so that OS and vendor and other things can be learned or 2) use ICMP and live with not knowing through monitoring anything other than whether something is responding to pings (that…
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Sounds like a logic bomb, intentional or otherwise. I know in some parts of Orion (NCM I believe), I saw similar behavior and at times used service accounts to create alerts and NCM jobs as a workaround. Looks like a known issue with a known fix: Alert not working after alert owner account is disabled - SolarWinds…
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Do you syslog or SNMP trap that information to SolarWinds? If you SNMPwalk the device in question, is the desired information visible in the output?
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Custom properties make your life easier. As I mentioned, they can be the basis for membership in a group. Aside from that, you will likely want to limit by or sort by the custom properties you decide to create. Ever done any programming? Think of it like hard-coding something (ugghhh!) vs. using a variable. More extensible…
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I inherited many maps, but our environment has so many devices being added or removed...it became unsustainable and pointless. We have a custom property that is kind of like a region. And all of our devices are named with a region as the first part of the name. I show 'All Nodes' type of resources grouped by region and…
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You can use SAM module to poll an OID. And then set the high/ warning/ low status to leverage color icons. I have done exactly that to show red LED next to high environmental temperatures that I had been UDP polling. Just set up a SAM component monitor to query same OID. My use case was people not noticing the high…
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I like this way...put your related pollers in a group. If they already are keep reading anyway because this link shows how to leverage the grouping. I used to fight this as a SQL problem until I started using this approach: How to Set Up Multi-Column Table With Custom Device Poller https://thwack.solarwinds.com/thread/43608
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Download an evaluation copy of something and I bet you will hear from someone. Again and again.
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Assign views by device type
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This can be done as a report (from ReportWriter) for events in the event log if you see these events in the event log (do you?). I do something similar to catch hardware that stops responding ('data collection terminated' in the event log).
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How big is your TrapVarbinds table?
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Does this work for you? (Note step 7...you want the 'mixed' option I believe...between best case and worst case) https://support.solarwinds.com/Success_Center/Network_Performance_Monitor_(NPM)/Update_the_node_group_status_to_show_down_when_one_of_the_child_interfaces_goes_down Update the node group status to show "down"…
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Here's an example (answering your first and third questions): https://support.solarwinds.com/Success_Center/Network_Performance_Monitor_(NPM)/Volume_alert_setup Delete a row from the database using Database Manager Overview This illustrates how to delete a row from a table in the Orion database by leveraging Database…
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Contrary to popular belief, he is a real person. I have met him on a previous contract. We 'worked' together briefly. He once ran a marathon because it was on his way. Mosquitoes refuse to bite him purely out of respect. He is not a script/ bot/ program as best I can tell. Although I did not administer the Turing test.
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How agents work Above link is relevant to Windows devices. Any chance your 'IP based Automation devices' are?
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Your group(s) can be populated dynamically as seen here (this is step 6 from my first post). It's someone else's screenshot--not applicable to you yet, so give a dynamic query object name of your choosing. Select the appropriate option under the Orion Object drop-down item. Enter the free text you are matching on.: Create…
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Just added approx. 500 to NPM about a month ago doing the following: added each IP address as a loopback address on a layer 3 switch. SolarWinds was able to ping the devices. Added a host file with the IPs and hostnames on SolarWinds server. Created a discovery and added the devices successfully (since IPs were pingable by…
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Here's an example that someone has done via Groups and making Node Details display group membership. Details in URL I provided earlier. In this example, the group name was 'Active Directory'. You could benefit in alerting/ summary views and probably other ways by leveraging any groups you create. Do you care whether you…
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Unless I'm missing something, you might need to handle via groups. And then modify Node Details resource to show group information (see Determine Group Membership From Node Page ). Check out groups populated by dynamic query: Edit group properties or change the group members check out step 6 (the second part) specifically:…
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https://support.solarwinds.com/Success_Center/Network_Performance_Monitor_(NPM)/Unmanage_Nodes_in_bulk
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Looks like we're going to handle this by another team entering credentials of whatever account is best. They will do it under my CAC-authenticated session in my presence. I guess that's just how it has to be given least privilege and separation of duties.
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Although the question was specifically about how SolarWinds can be used, one can blacklist bluetooth modules, disable and stop service, and remove the service. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/392001/how-do-i-secure-linux-systems-against-the-blueborne-remote-attack Was looking for best practices, but only found the…
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I once collaborated with a brilliant UNIX admin who presented results of a shell script via private MIBs. http://www.net-snmp.org/wiki/index.php/Writing_your_own_MIBs In essence, I would poll the private OID, which would cause his script to run, and the return was along the lines of * OK * investigate * down Separate…
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If you still want to use groups, you can populate them dynamically via custom properties (see comment from jspeer ). With groups, you can represent numerous nodes as up or down, based on defining your group best case/ mixed/ worst case. If you don't desire that functionality, you may find you don't need groups. Are nodes…
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Do you have 800 accounts (an account per customer)? How do they authenticate?
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Any issues with primary poller's connectivity to the database? How big are Traps table and TrapVarbinds table? Truncate Traps and TrapVarbinds - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support
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You could build alert suppression logic in the 80% alert so that the alert was suppressed if greater than or equal to 90%.
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If you set them to be external there won't be any polling (therefor no green/ red/ yellow status icons). You can always change that back when you need to.
