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

Hello Al- In modern switched LAN's when you plug your pc into a regular switch port you will only see your conversations to / from your pc and broadcast traffic (to everyone). Do you know what kind of switches are being used for your LAN there. If they are cisco the best thing to do is find a place to plug the wireshark…

I got rid of my 2960's and have many 3850's but the real magic seems to come with 9300's. We've swapped all our IDF closet switches for 9300 stacks now. I'm working on another smaller air gapped network and my goal is to go all 9000's now. I also had FoE for years and it was total waste of money. I suppose I'll follow this…

thanks superfly99 and fatset5 I really appreciate all info that helps me decide what to do. I'm looking forward to maybe a 11.6 or something later but right now 11.5 it too much risk for me and 11.01 sounds like I can run almost the newest versions of all of my modules except for the very last SAM one which is fine for me.…

Sure from the web viewer your home view click the Customize Page icon in upper right corner area... here you can see your resources and the columns they are in... click the plus sign in the column where you want to add it and select the Top 10 Interfaces by Percent Utilization resouce and it will add it to that column. You…

Maybe we can get michalB to comment on this... he seems to be one of experts on Network Atlas???

I always put this resource (Polling Engine Status) on my homepage. It works very well to at a glance to see if the poller is healthy.

Glad to hear you got it all sorted out witip. Sounds like you did everything correctly.

tdanner's method makes the most sense and is exactly what we do. Now that NPM is AD aware using AD groups to control who has what access to Orion and to what seems to me the only way to go.

This is a great example. I'm still kinda new to this... wondering where in SQL it counts times over the five minute period? Or is this implied due to polling period? Regards, B.

I don't think you want to change the account the service runs under... I think what Casey was saying to check is: Goto the location of the psexec.exe and verify that system has right to read & execute it. Also check the event logs when you try and have the Alerting engine run the action... not sure but it might give you a…

Bulk list in discovery will discover by ICMP if it can't do snmp this way: Bulk list works in a way hostnames are resolved into IP list and IP list is then used as set of IP ranges in discovery configuration. So, hostnames are gone. When discovery does not discover hostname (i.e. ICMP node) the result of discovery is just…

Higher period of time from NPM to the devices or interface it is pinging. High response time can be due to all kinds of things... routing changes... topology changes... distance... hops the packet takes between... any link along the path could slow down pings time to return.

UR right benbree it's a little confusing sometimes with so many places where events reside.

Thanks AE... when I first saw them I thought one of my admins that adds/removes nodes added them... So I immediately started looking for any nodes with the properties filled in. When I didn't find any I was like wth who did this???... then search audit and found SYSTEM did it. It all makes sense now.

I've also read that this breaks the installer from running correctly and also that it will reset after patches or updates??? I had hoped this was fixed but this link make me think not. Re: HTTP vs HTTPS frustration

Sounds like maybe you busted them on the saving only changed configs?

Make sure the database recovery mode is configured as simple... See this post:

Did you check the permissions on the actual SolarWinds.CloudMonitoring.Strings.dll file?

I think I can say for most it's a best practice to monitor devices from a loopback interface that's always up and doesn't change.

For windows to send event logs to syslog you can use this free util from Purdue: http://code.google.com/p/eventlog-to-syslog/ It supports vista, windows 7, and server 2008 and can be compiled for 32 or 64 bit environs you can also use SolarWinds log forwarder which they have improved in the latest version. For cisco…

I just love Corgi... they're such great dogs!

That was my point! Patching to .NET 4.6.1 breaks NPM! I just asked because a bunch of people have been recently burned by this.

I know this is an older thread but thanks @Karlo.ZatyIny for some insight into the worker threads and identifying what they are!

Also here's some GP info: QoS Group Policy Settings and Registry Entries The following Group Policy settings and registry entries are associated with QoS. Each registry setting has a corresponding Group Policy setting. The registry settings appear at four locations in the registry; most of the settings are repeated in…

This doesn't need to be done via the application. Since NPM in on windows server there's a couple step involved depending on what kind of QOS you want to use. Here's a good article on how to enable and use it... probably easier than me trying to explain it :} technet.microsoft.com/.../2007.02.cableguy.aspx

Yes just add a filter to the report in report writer something like this:

One good thing about the newer version of Net-SNMP: As of Net-SNMP 5.4, the Net-SNMP agent is able to load the Windows SNMP service extension DLLs by using the Net-SNMP winExtDLL extension

Temp files are temp files.... For me Solarwinds creates a directory C:\WINDOWS\Temp\SolarWinds and in there sometimes creates temp files in a NetworkAtlas or JobEngine folder.... deleting files from temp especially if they still aren't locked or recent shouldn't cause any problems at all. What report's seemed to disapear?…

You said it Toilet :} I still haven't dove off the 9.5.1 boards yet. :}

We haven't fully integrated yet but my comment about showing the data correctly refers to the research that was done showing how NPM wasn't showing CPU correctly versus vman and vcops... This was proven and is not in the process of being fixed. I believe it may have been byron that was instrumental in pointing this out as…