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Unless you have some really odd-ball configurations, you should be fine. Its pretty rare (since the 10.x release) that problems happen. Just make sure to follow the guide. I also make sure I do the DB Maintenance before I backup the database, and dont seem to remember having any issues.

Are you sure of the template being used? There is a couple of different templates depending on if you use IOS, CatOS or a hybrid.

You might want to go ahead and open a case with Support. What version of NCM/NPM are you running? With the recent integration changes to NCM, I get a import page just for NCM when I try to import nodes.

Yes and no - Yes, its possible. When you add the node, ONLY select the interface you want to watch - do not check the CPU/Memory options. You might also need to remove the related blocks on the node details pages.

I have tried to use the Orion integration portion to manage these policies, but I get a download failure. Since we can download these manually, how do we add them to Orion? I have looked at the admin guide, and dont see any info on manually importing policies.

I use ^:Written in mine, and it appears to be working.

Please add me to the list as needing/wanting this feature as well. while we are at it, how about some decent FORMATTING options? (Bold, italic, TABS, etc..)

good question. I have had mixed results with NCM running on a ESX host.. currently, we are setup with the minimum system requirements (1x CPU @ 2.9ghz, 2gig ram). The server has SAN drives, so space is not a problem. Normally, this app runs fine on a VM - but Im having some sort of issue with NCM currently in that after…

I also went through some of this pain. We had our NPM/NCM/SAM servers in our production cluster environment, and the SQL database was a separate (virtual) server. we had some minor speed issues - mainly related to the virtual sql server, but in the end, we pulled the Orion environment out when the SAN crashed, and we had…

For the next version, please add content about the menu options. not all of them are obvious - i.e. - Status & Links - what exactly is "Navigate" for?

/agree. No RC notes?

As a former CatTools user gone NCM, the only REAL feature I gained was the web interface. I will agree with Donald and KittCarson - many things need to be overhauled. one of my biggest issues with the tool is the so slow (go make the coffee while we wait) responsiveness of the server in general - the backend (talking to…

I am also very interested in the responses. we still require some of our guys to carry a physical Pager - we are hoping OnPage will let us get rid of it, but I am not sure how this will work yet.

Did you get a solution here? I have a similar need - we dont have any special/custom fields, but with Config Manager, since its already doing inventory on these devices, shouldnt there be a field we can use to get Vlan settings? I know for Cisco switches, its either a "access" port, or "trunk" port, so I'd think we would…

ok, this post was from 2011. Has this been addressed? I have a need to give my staff rights to be able to update custom properties, test snmp/wmi, etc, but i do NOT want them to have full admin rights, OR be able to ADD/DELETE nodes. What is the solution here?

Thats pretty cool. I might be interested to see how you did that.

There is a UDP on the Content Exchange for a Cisco device that can display things like the # of active connections. Im sure it wouldnt be difficulet to pull stats with a UDP/SNMP. For Cisco, I would start around 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.392 (ciscoRemoteAccessMonitorMIB) Actually - it looks like what your after can be found at…

ok, i forgot to re-run the config wizard on the NCM server after upgrading the primary NPM server.. DOH.

its working for us - my RegEx Pattern is simply ^! Last (and nothing else). maybe delete it and re-add it?

You should open a ticket with support. Sounds like it did not register itself properly.

We have really large files as well. We have the syslog push to a SQL server, and then wrote a custom html/asp page for searching. Proabaly not what you wanted, but its quick, easy and cheap - *IF* you already own SQL. Splunk is pretty cool, but thier prices ran us off as well.

I just downloaded and fired up the product. The first I see is that there is a bit more info, and more consistancy from Switchinspector than in SPM (9.3.0.103). For instance, I ran them side by side, on the same switch using the same router. picked a random interface and compared the results. SPM told me speed, name, and…

Yes, Im getting the same thing.

Can you share your trigger?

I am just starting to look into this as well. For me, I did the following (and I just started, so Im sure Ill be tweaking this.) 1. Created a new Policy Rule to check for REGEX expressions for "aaa authentication dot1x" and "dot1x system-auth-control" (again, just to start the ball rolling) 2. Created a policy for the rule…

Where are you trying to do the search? The default search option you can add to a page only allows for IP or hostname. However, if you go to Settings -> Manage Nodes, I see that I can sort by pretty much any property (default or custom) including Machine type.

So, short of adding IP's to my cluster members, there is no other option? (aside from CLI, which I also perfer.)

I am pretty positive you can add devices by a snmp scan, thats a pretty common thing, but automatically adding them when devices are added to the wire? that would be a neat trick.

I was able to do this by creating a second email trigger at the specified time. (ie, email the boss after 45 mintues which = 3 pages in our environment). I think the 2nd email trigger is now inline with the first, repeating every 15 minutes until resolved or acknowledged.

a bit late on the reply, but since this hasnt been answered yet, I am guessing you still need help with this? Lets talk about the Layer3 side first - There are a few forum threads and a couple of how-to's on configuring netflow on Cisco gear for Orion, but in brief - I use something like this: main config: ip flow-export…