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  • For information on using custom properties with alerts, refer to https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/Success_Center/orionplatform/Content/Core-Use-a-Custom-Property-in-Alerts-sw1100.htm
    in Targeting interfaces and alerting on the interface Comment by d09h June 2019
  • The behavior you are describing is normal for the 'rollup' status of groups. Using a custom property on relevant interfaces and making that a part of your logic would be beneficial. Note that the custom property could include circuit identifiers or other useful information--the kind of information that your ticket could…
    in Targeting interfaces and alerting on the interface Comment by d09h June 2019
  • Have you tried the DirectLink account with a limitation? https://support.solarwinds.com/Success_Center/Network_Configuration_Manager_(NCM)/NCM_Documentation/NCM_Administrator_Guide/180_Configure_automatic_login/030_Using_the_DirectLink_account
    in Limiting User to a single view ID / URL Comment by d09h July 2018
  • Have you tried a filter: Use node filters - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support​ In the above documentation, there is an example of filtering by custom property (City being the example property).
    in Custom Views Comment by d09h February 2017
  • (edit-- this is no longer a syslog solution, and requires a per-node custom property of type True/False or Yes/No...in the case of the below, that custom property is named PortSecurityApplied) As a temporary workaround, I have a report shown on a web page that I email in response to an alert on my Universal Device Poller.…
    in Supress Alerts for Multiple Syslog Messages Comment by d09h December 2011
  • I'm fighting this as well. I get syslog messages approximately every two minutes hitting NPM syslog. This for one switch with one port security violation. I've also polled cpsIfPortSecurityStatus (OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.315.1.2.1.1.2). I have not gotten per-instance (per port security violation) alerting working here. I do…
    in Supress Alerts for Multiple Syslog Messages Comment by d09h November 2011
  • You could configure one or more servers to send traps on CPU utilization to help validate processor utilization.
    in CPU ALERTS FINE TUNING Comment by d09h June 2017
  • Is your alert based on node status?
    in How to get icons in a custom query? Comment by d09h June 2015
  • http://www.solarwinds.com/topics/storage-capacity-planning Warning: $eparately licen$ed module
    in Alerting on unusual volume growth Comment by d09h May 2017
  • https://support.solarwinds.com/@api/deki/files/34902/NPM_Installation_Guide.pdf p. 20 indicates 'The Orion server and the SolarWinds Orion database must use separate servers.' Check out the guides here https://support.solarwinds.com/Success_Center/Network_Performance_Monitor_(NPM)/NPM_Documentation, especially the 'Getting…
    in Starting with NPM Need Help with Setup Comment by d09h July 2017
  • Does SNMP work on all of them? Can you list resources on all of them? If SNMP connectivity was not successful, you may have only had ICMP discovery of the 'unknown' switches.
    in Discovered as different hardware despite being identical Comment by d09h August 2016
  • If you also save your configs to your server filesystem, you can get Windows to search the relevant folders as well. This should catch configs that are older than your database retention setting, since this is a search of the filesystem and not of the database.
    in Is there a quick way to find a specific IP address in thousands of SolarWinds saved configuration files? Comment by d09h September 2015
  • Set up a discovery against the 300 servers. Whem importing results, only select the C drive. Reference: http://www.solarwinds.com/documentation/en/flarehelp/npm/content/npm-orion-network-sonar-results-wizard-sw66.htm .
    in Enabling a common resource(C: Drive) for monitoring for many nodes Comment by d09h April 2017
  • Are you aware of the 'execute script' option? Just throw in a few lines: conf t, ip route ... This is the 'intended' way to do this via NCM. It's the reason the 'execute script' resource exists.
    in NCM - configuration changes are not saved Comment by d09h August 2014
  • For nodes in each group, have you set an email address as described here? https://support.solarwinds.com/Success_Center/Network_Performance_Monitor_(NPM)/Use_Custom_properties_when_sending_email_alerts
    in Nested alerts. Can it be created? Comment by d09h October 2017
  • Do you have QoS configured on one or more interfaces of the node? If so, does the QoS policy show drops? Also, you can validate the presence of errors independent of SolarWinds using SNMPwalk: High number of reported discards, errors and interface statistics on monitored devices - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help…
    in Clarification on Node errors Comment by d09h June 2017
  • I've done as bobmarley described in the past. I had two installs that were almost identical...each running NPM and SAM (and quite a few other modules). Using the SAM template was helpful for each to monitor the other. You didn't mention, so I will ask...do you have SAM module? Just the one SolarWinds installation?
    in How to Monitor the Monitor Comment by d09h March 2017
  • Whatever you determine are non-essential interfaces could be added to discovery ignore lists. In the future, when you are adding nodes, you will be able to prevent addition of certain types of interfaces.
    in Used too many licenses when adding nodes Comment by d09h July 2017
  • Don't monitor any of these interfaces: loopback/ null/ VoIP. You might also choose to monitor only uplink ports on switches. Not sure how many you have and how many your license supports. But if you monitor no other ports, monitor uplinks. If you monitor a device behind a switch port, you might decide not to monitor the…
    in Used too many licenses when adding nodes Comment by d09h July 2017
  • Obviously the &dataformat=xls or &dataformat=csv could indicate a different format, although it should be one your browser is configured to work with (IE will inherit somewhat, others may need explicit configuration per format). And this export functionality is not necessarily just useful for SolarWinds.
    in Reports in CSV format? Comment by d09h January 2017
  • It seems like you could just poll both values and do a transform. Then just alert on the transform. I handled a similar use case like this. I polled total swap space and I polled swap space available...and then subtracted the second from the first with a transform, alerting when the transform was over 100 MB. Mechanically…
    in Advanced alert on comparing two undp Comment by d09h April 2012
  • Perhaps set interfaces to 'unpluggable'? Unpluggable Port Mode
    in Hide Blinking Red Node Down Icon Comment by d09h August 2016
  • dgsmith80 for your question in Slack channel, try this SWQL in an alert.
    in NPM Alert based on percentage of group members status? Comment by d09h June 2019
  • I think I know a way that won't scale well. Any chance you are concerned with a very small number of nodes?
    in NPM Alert based on percentage of group members status? Comment by d09h March 2017
  • Do they show up when the device is SNMPwalked?
    in Need assistance to add the below tunnels for monitoring. Comment by d09h June 2016
  • Have you been doing something similar to step 8 below? https://support.solarwinds.com/Success_Center/Network_Performance_Monitor_(NPM)/Volume_alert_setup_ Volume alert setupOverview This article provides steps on how to create a Volume alert. Environment NPM 11.5.0 and later Steps * Login to your Web Console with full…
    in How to create a notification email re: Volume Monitoring Comment by d09h February 2018
  • Use Server and Application Monitor module. Specifically the component monitor 'SSL Certificate Expiration Date monitor': http://www.solarwinds.com/topics/ssl-certificate-monitor http://www.solarwinds.com/documentation/en/flarehelp/sam/content/sam-ssl-certificate-expiration-date-monitor-sw3311.htm Also, AppInsight for IIS:…
    in How can we monitor SSL Certs in an AWS Classic Load Balancer? Comment by d09h August 2017
  • Server and Application Monitor module can be used for this. Do you have this module licensed? Process monitor Create monitors for processes, services, and performance counters - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support
    in Network Device Process Monitoring Comment by d09h October 2017
  • You can block as shown in the link I gave and also as ekis​ has shown. If things ever get undone in one place, the other should still prevent. Might not hurt to pick it off in a network firewall too.
    in NPM Server doing PTR lookups Comment by d09h July 2017
  • Thought I had read about this somewhere before. Disabling NetBIOS over TCP/IP may help: https://support.solarwinds.com/Success_Center/Network_Performance_Monitor_(NPM)/Turn_off_WINS_Netbios_resolution https://thwack.solarwinds.com/message/167178#167178
    in NPM Server doing PTR lookups Comment by d09h July 2017
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