ecklerwr1 · Sr. Network / Systems Architect · ✭✭✭✭✭

I'm with Jfrazier​ and others... I can't figure it out. It sounds like people have tried the juniper and the procurve and both of those were wrong. Did anyone try A or B?

I'll probably never totally get over the concern about having little control over what's running where in the cloud.

We could never have our security logs stored in public cloud I don't think. With new RMF (Risk Management Framework) we are now going to be required to store unedited "raw" logs for even longer now... usually 5 years or more now.

It's so amazing cool when it's all up and running! Cisco has a lot of requirements for it.

Traffic information in NetPath/SD-WAN VPNs in NetPath/SD-WAN contoller/edge maps/Visual NSX maps. Having NSX displayed would be really neat! Bill

Thanks!

Don't worry it's not like that if you've already made the switch. It's the initial switch that people have a hard time with... I get it. It's a big change at first.

4sure @"jeff.stewart" !

Funny you say that @"petergwilson" . Our upper management wasn't really excited about ProxMox either for same reason but we still stood up some pretty large clusters... although we also have some Nutanix too anyhow. It's really the same hypervisor mostly underneath built on open source code but ProxMox has better…

I can't stand Nutanix... ProxMox much much better Peter.

you're the man Bob you always make interesting stuff!

I've been around a while... most technology companies are changing to subscription models. I will say the drastic increase in price is a little rough but I am enjoying modules I never had before now. Has it really doubled my monitoring success... probably not. So everyone has to take this and decide what you're going to…

You can also use SolarPutty or MobaXTerm using similar method. Cool post though.

New features!

I actually cheat Bob and also use a product called LanSweeper that does this... you can right click on a host and say wake on lan. It also matches switches up in a way to users and computers that I'd say is even a little easier to use than Universal Device Tracker but I love my Observability on Prem now that I've upgraded!

Well this is being added to the Orion foundation now so workarounds shouldn't need to be as necessary any longer.

I wonder if there's some security device in between somewhere shutting the session down? Ask me how I know this... ZScaler o.O!

Hopefully the team is working on better import/export I'm sure you did the survey.

Just added a feature request: Observability monitor Nvidia GPU utilization in linux or windows servers through the Orion agent as a part of node details vital stats

I wish there was an easier way to do this as well because I have a LOT of linux hosts with agents on them! I'd really like to be able deploy the agent with ansible during PXE boot process when a new machine or VM is built with RedHat 8 or 9. I'd like the same things monitored on every host without having to manually list…

I just did this and upgraded my even older Orion to Observability 2024.4.1 using the offline installer... worked like a charm after adding my new license. One thing we've found if some things don't look right it may take two reboots after all is upgraded to settle in good. Bill

I'm being asked about this now too. Can Observability monitor Nvidia GPUs in servers whether in the cloud or on prem? I started looking at the API: https://github.com/NVIDIA/go-nvml and am glad you listed https://docs.nvidia.com/deploy/nvidia-smi/index.html tool as well. It seems with all the AI going on now that we'd have…

We do like the Modern Dashboards!

I have a modern dashboard on a 77 inch screen in my room where everyone can see it. The way I imported dashboards before moving to Observability was to use the powershell script. Not super easy for many users. Looking forward to the new features! I took the survey too. Bill

Thanks Jenne!

I'd really like to see more of this... we're utilizing more and more of ansible and one area I've been investigating is keeping Orion agents for linux configured and installed the way I want on RedHat. When we PXE boot a new RH host I want the agent installed and configured the way I want using ansible as part of the build…

FWIW: The Cisco OID for frame size on an interface is typically "1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.14" which corresponds to the "ifMTU" object within the IF-MIB (Interface MIB) standard, allowing you to retrieve the maximum transmission unit (MTU) size of a network interface, essentially representing the maximum frame size it can handle.…

This is coming up: thwack.solarwinds.com/.../rock-with-us-at-the-2025-solarwinds-world-tour-in-houston-tx

And I was holding off on 2025.1 and sticking with 2024.4.1 because it should have best bug fixes. I'm going to be upgrading an Orion instance directly to Observability (On Prem Edition) this week!

+1 on custom properties. It's one of the best ways to control Orion. I like Bob's powershell too though!