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  • jhynds​, "focused on performance and scale enhancements to Kiwi Syslog" -- OOooo! That sounds great. I am all for performance and scale enhancements. Anything I'd like to see? Well, yes... there are. Now I know Solarwinds has other logging programs (probably more than I can recall, LOL). So, how to keep Kiwi distinct from…
    in What We're Working On for Kiwi Syslog - Updated Jan 10th 2020 Comment by ebradford October 2019
  • I see the title of this thread was changed to, "What Are We Working on for Kiwi Syslog - Updated Oct 3rd 2019" But I don't see any updates to this thread since 2018. jhynds​, could you please post the update you referred to as updated October 3, 2019? I'm sure that I and many other Kiwi Syslog users would be interested and…
    in What We're Working On for Kiwi Syslog - Updated Jan 10th 2020 Comment by ebradford October 2019
  • Great idea. I'm going to see if I can e-mail the tracert results as part of the alert. This would be very useful when monitoring links to remote offices.
    in AANT - Automated Advanced Network Troubleshooting Comment by ebradford June 2009
  • randolphjosh​ You are so welcome. I posted it so hopefully it would help others. I am glad to hear it was helpful to you. orionfan Likewise, thanks for letting me know that it worked for you. I appreciate the feedback. This makes posting these items worth it. Kind Regards, Eric
    in SQL: Connection Profile per Node Report Comment by ebradford October 2019
  • CPerry, If your database is on a separate SQL server, then this should not be a problem. As far as I understand it, Orion needs to be able to access the SQL server in order to create an alert. If the Orion server NIC goes down, it won't be able to contact the SQL server and therefore won't be able to create an alert.…
    in Preventing Alerts when Orion Server NIC down Comment by ebradford January 2010
  • Just a follow-up. The issue has been resolved for a good while now... I was waiting to see if the problem would come back. The issue has some support as a DNS issue, as our third and fourth DNS servers went down that day (among some other systems). However, our primary and secondary DNS servers were still working; our…
    in Not getting other domain info in Netflow Comment by ebradford April 2009
  • There are several ways to do this. One way is to enter a word into the interface description (on the device) which will identify the interface as being an important link, such as, "ImpLink". Then include FullName contains ImpLink as one of your Trigger conditions, as so: You can also use the interface name and select all…
    in Advance Alerts - Interface Down Comment by ebradford May 2010
  • Michael, I feel it is in rather poor taste that you selected you own post as the verified answer and marked it as such. You should not be the judge of the verified answer, the poster of the question should be the one who verifies that you have answered his questions. In fact, the answer you marked as verified even states…
    in Netflow & Sniffing Comment by ebradford April 2009
  • atags, It seems that an idea you have about netflow needs a little clarification. Netflow is not a technology that captures packets and looks at them. It is a Cisco propreitary technology where a router or multi-level switch (MLS) reports statistics on routed traffic. It won't report statistics on unrouted traffic (such…
    in Netflow & Sniffing Comment by ebradford April 2009
  • jeilers You have a good question. But before I dive into the question, could you tell me a bit more about the second pic in your post? I am unfamiliar with Latest Baseline Statistics applet. Is that a native Orion applet? Did you write it yourself? I'd just like to understand the method of acquiring that data, and what the…
    in Transmit and Receive Utilization Dynamic Thresholds Minimum and Maximum? Comment by ebradford August 2018
  • We are also experiencing the same issue with our Juniper Firewalls. The firewalls are on the network. I am pinging the in-network interface. Also, our firewalls have a virtual fw that can float between the two hardware firewalls -- the virtual fw also has the problem with false alerts. I came across this post while…
    in Down alert received whilst it can still be ping Comment by ebradford April 2009
  • I have been read this thread, and done other searches, and haven't found this answer yet. Perhaps the key words of upgrade, move, NPM and 12.2 are so often being used for upgrading a server, that it obscures results of moving to a new server. We have Orion 12.1 running on WinSrv2008R2sp1, with SQL on same server. the…
    in NPM 12.2 Upgrade Experience Feedback? Comment by ebradford March 2018
  • Hi Ian, I can think of 2 ways to do this. Neither seem ideal, but maybe these ideas will spark something for you. 1. Instead of having Solarwinds send the e-mail, pass the variables you need to an external program, then the external program can do the per-variable addressing. 2. Create a different alert, nearly the same,…
    in send an alert email to a group based on a node variable Comment by ebradford February 2018
  • John, I'm not sure I fully understand the situation. Have you sometimes gotten the same alert to trigger and actions perform correctly and other times not? Or is one alert never triggering correctly? You are using basic or advanced alerts? Just a thought. In the Node tree, what is the polling interval under Interface…
    in Simple Alert Needs - Help! Comment by ebradford May 2010
  • I'm no PowerShell expert -- however, it seems like Powershell may be able to automate what you need. PowerShell should be able to login; issue a show version command, or other commands; grab the out put; parse the information; and insert it into the database. Shouldn't it? Anyway, that's what I would look into if I had a…
    in We have many devices that need monitored, but SNMP is not an available options. Those nodes have been created as ICMP, so Solarwinds doesn't know the vendor is Cisco. Without the vendor field, many of alerts, team page, and custom Reports aren't sh Comment by ebradford February 2018
  • I'm replying to my own post because I don't like seeing zero (0) replies. Perhaps someone has some input on the question?
    in NTA: What is this cruel trick CBQoS reports play? Comment by ebradford January 2020
  • Hi bourlis​. We upgraded to 12.5 RC2. The upgrade ran fairly smoothly so far as Solarwinds' install went. There were some environmental issues here which delayed the install. One of which was difficulty installing the latest version of.Net on two of our servers. I recommend that you make certain all your polling engines…
    in Recent Solarwinds Updates Comment by ebradford June 2019
  • I was able to make the report you want easily in Report Writer. The field you are looking for is Machine Type. I copied the Report writer code and passed it in a web based Report using a Custom Table. I pressed Preview Results, and saw the correct info. So, feel free to copy this for your report. SELECT TOP 10…
    in Report - Trying to find the Cisco Model Number Comment by ebradford February 2018
  • Hi Michelle, The first thing to do is the click the test button on the Custom MIB screen. Assuming you've already done that and I've found it helpful to compare values obtained through test with acutal known values (or values that can be queried using other methods). If your Cisco device has redundant fans, and you *know*…
    in What OID to use? Comment by ebradford April 2009
  • Just re-add the node, use the same IP, but new SNMP community name. It will add the node in place of the current one.
    in How to properly rediscover a node (SNMP update) Comment by ebradford May 2010
  • As it turns out, the server it did install just fine on had .Net 3.5 installed on it as well as .Net 4.6. Where as, the one the install failed did not. Compare the one below (successful) or the pic above (failed). So, I installed .Net 3.5 on the server, and then the Engineers Toolset install worked just fine. I guess maybe…
    in Engineers Toolset for Desktop Need to Install .Net 4.0 Error on Windows 2016 Comment by ebradford March 2019
  • Here are the links to the three parts: Part 1: Importing Data From Cisco https://thwack.solarwinds.com/message/423162#423162 Part 2: Importing Data From Orion https://thwack.solarwinds.com/message/423163#423163 Part 3: Combining Data, Reports, Updating Custom Properties https://thwack.solarwinds.com/message/423164#423164
    in Reconciling Cisco SmartNet Report and Orion Serial Numbers, Part 3 Comment by ebradford July 2019
  • We all have customers who come to us asking, why am I getting these alerts? I often want to retort, "because there is something wrong with your device." But most likely the customer is actually saying, "I get these alerts for devices which I don't care about. Can you make them stop?" So, you ask them to forward the e-mail…
    in Some Useful Event Log Searches Comment by ebradford June 2018
  • Those are my Event Log Search tools I made. I hope they serve you well if you need to search Event Log. Cheers! Eric
    in Some Useful Event Log Searches Comment by ebradford June 2018
  • This SQL query is similar to the previous one in many respects. It first searches for Events by date range, then searches those events for IP address, Caption or NodeID, then searches those results for the message type and/or Message Text, or if the event was acknowledged. DECLARE @DTBegin DATETIME = '06/02/2018 20:00' --…
    in Some Useful Event Log Searches Comment by ebradford June 2018
  • This one is flexible, and takes a little explaining. First here's the code: ------------------------------------------------------ Find messages in Event Log based upon Hostname-- and portion of message text.DECLARE @DT DATETIME = DATEADD(day,-3,GETDATE())SELECT * FROM ( SELECT * FROM ( SELECT [e].[EventID] ,…
    in Some Useful Event Log Searches Comment by ebradford June 2018
  • This one will tell you the count of all events per day, every day of the specified month. Change the @month string to change which month you want to count. ------------------------------------------------------------- Count of Events in Event Log-- See a count of events per day for a specific monthDECLARE @Month varchar =…
    in Some Useful Event Log Searches Comment by ebradford June 2018
  • Hi Rick. Thank you for so many of your previous posts, you have been a help to me in the past. I have been using SNMP v3 for many years. It seems that whenever I change jobs, one of my tasks is to educate the staff on SNMPv3 and deploy it in the environment. I have done this several times. I have a new job as of January,…
    in Why am I unable to delete an SNMPv3 credential from NPM 12.2 HF3? Comment by ebradford March 2018
  • Last year, I posted some SQL codes for alerting on Syslog messages, and including the actual syslog message in the alert e-mail. This is the code I used, in case it is of any use to you: ${SQL: SELECT Top 1 Message FROM Syslog WHERE (PATINDEX ('%service recommended%',Message) > 0) AND NodeID=${Nodeid}} I like jrouviere​'s…
    in Syslogs in NPM 12.5 Comment by ebradford October 2019
  • Bump. Looking for advice on this topic.
    in Can Orion primary engine work on 2 IP addresses? Comment by ebradford June 2018
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