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I'd like to vote for Motorola as well. The Cisco stuff I have in our office spaces works great, but the Motorola stuff I have in our warehouses not so much... Dwyane

All, I'm curious, do we have any SolarWinds Orion "noobies" that have installed NPM 11.5 and SAM 6.2 together from scratch in a brand new environment, for the very first time?? Are we seeing upgrade issues, or product issues? Dwyane

"What if" you created something like this instead? https://thwack.solarwinds.com/docs/DOC-188709#comment-237802 D

Since we are talking ideas and concepts (more of a perfect world thing), I think technology is here that can do this today. Problem is, it's in pieces and isn't build specifically for QoS. Piece #1: In-line "device" (appliance, router, or switch), watching the traffic real-time...this is a MUST. Cisco has the new AVC…

I'm sure by now you've realized this information is not available via SNMP, it is only available via the Meraki API and dashboard. If you have SAM, you can use the Meraki API to pull that data. Meraki is adding functionality, but it will take time after the addition for Solarwinds to develop that functionality into the…

If you are asking if you can poll the N7K and have NPM display the VDCs as modules/components of the N7K, the answer is no (at least not to my knowledge). However, you can treat each VDC as an individual switch and monitor them independently. D

Hi, Stephen... Could this be a scheduled report that is being distributed via e-mail? Outside of alerts, scheduled reports are the only other thing I can think of that might be doing this. D

Are you getting any events in NTA to suggest data is getting there, but is not processed for some reason?

All, Maybe the kind folks watching this post can help me on a related issue: Web-reporting in 10.6 - Unexpected Website Error Thoughts and ideas? D

svindler, We can't, SW staff have to add the MIBs for the Cisco 1801 (783) and Cisco 892 (858) routers to the MIB database. D

Are you looking to enable/disable ports due to port-security violations? If this is port-security related, look at adding this to your switch configs: errdisable recovery cause psecure-violation This will automatically reset the port once the err-disable "cause" is resolved. The default is 300 sec, but that can be adjusted…

You should be able to go to Settings / All Settings / Manage Views and customize the view (Node Details). On the Disk IO tab, there is a checkbox for "Show this tab" with 2 options: Always and Based on following condition; choose "Based on following condition". As long as all the resources on that page have no data to…

jordandalley, Orion doesn't really monitor STP yet, however, someone using the same hardware found a way to do it back in 2011. Check this out: HP Procurve Spanning-Tree Template.ncm-template-r7AYM D

Existing feature = no. Practical workaround = "practical" is a subjective term. As you mentioned, there are ways to accomplish this and it appears your read those pasts. If you don't consider those as "practical," then no, there aren't any of those either. D

boballen​, Your in good hands investigating the NPM side, but have you reviewed the Checkpoint resources at these times? Several components of Orion use a 4 hour "discovery" process. This process would explain the time internal and the behavior you are seeing. If that discovery process is consuming all the resources (or…

+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1 The IPAM module is an overlay to an existing network, I agree with Chris, why do we need to break a working, solid production environment just to make a management tool happy? Based on several postings, a lot of IPAM customers aren't comfortable with IPAM actually managing the DNS/DHCP environments…

justin.powers, As you've seen, there is a ton to choose from. I, and I believe most, have gotten a little creative with the new tabs and we've started putting resources on the various tabs. All the resources bring important info to the display, but I believe your point is all about reducing the clutter; that's where the…

I can't say with certainty that this is true, but I suspect VNQM 4.5 requires the latest Orion Core, and that in turn would require you to upgrade everything else. D

The only way I know to accomplish this is with the SAM WMI monitor, you'll have to build it custom. NPM doesn't have this capability. D

Like ByronA, I'm interested to know how your results compare to those of Orion. I agree with the concept that the 95th percentile doesn't appear to be working accurately in some cases; but as you stated above, its all about the data. Additionally, since I'm not a SQL DBA, would it be possible for you to build this in…

Hi, Tainã Rodrigues, 1. A word of caution, 2960s do not have a lot of resources for extra features, I've actually crashed a 2960 by having too many IP SLA policies (5) on it or pointed at it. 2. You need to ensure the 2960 has IOS 12.2(4)SE or above running. 3. I'm not a fan of letting VNQM configure IPSLA on my switches,…

Brandon, If you are considering adding linked NAT, may I also ask for linked PAT? I do a alot of Port Address Translation to minimize my external IP usage. Thanks. Dwyane

All, I've read many of the latest Ambassador postings about SDN, NSX, and automating the world. Do I think it's coming? Do any of us really have a choice? In another posting I made a comment about the 1990s .Com bust, how soon we forget the trouble that mess caused as the Big IT companies tried to market their services and…

After contacting support, this was the issue/fix: * There's missing file " SolarWinds.Orion.DeviceContext.Strings.dll" on the Inetpub folders * Have the services stopped and copied the files that are missing from the installation path to Inetpub * Have the services restarted and test the node.

All, Just adding to this, I also have a ticket opened with support. * List Resources just hangs, even the last cached list doesn't display * I also noted that I was unable to add widgets/resources to views anymore * I ran Configuration Wizard which corrected the issue (yesterday) * The issue has returned today and doesn't…

Probably the easiest way is by using the "Top XX Interfaces by Percent Utilization" resource.. this resource is on the default Top 10 view already. I suspect you are looking to create a custom Top 10 view of your own anyhow, since you mentioned added CPU and memory later. Might be easier to simply copy that view and modify…

Hi, coxj3​, What you are referencing in ITIL terms is a CMDB (Configuration Management DB). Please have a look at IT Help Desk Solutions | SolarWinds You'll need to create some custom fields for some of your information, but you will likely find most of what you are looking for built in. D

I've had this happen a few times now, and the only way to stop it is to hack the DB. I wish the report "Disable" could also be used as a "kill switch." At least it would provide a more graceful method to stopping the process. D

Geo John, Have you reviewed this document? http://www.solarwinds.com/documentation/profiler/docs/SMISProvider.pdf It explains how to obtain the various SMI-S Providers for you storage devices. D

WAAHOO! Congrads rschroeder​! I'm still struggling with the concept that 4 people have more points than aLTeReGo​.