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

You can create a report in reportwriter and use it in your view... Also someone did a custom SQL report that does some cool stuff with diskspace... It gets the Disk size, disk amount remaining and divide it by the average usage over the number of time units to give amount of time remaining left with the available…

From what I know this error usually means the Alerting engine is having problem connecting to the SQL Server. Since they are both on the same machine it may be a problem with SQL server not responding to the transaction from alerting engine quickly enough. You might want to open a ticket on this one as there could be…

For command line on windows I use putty (it also has small nice gui)... it's free and it works with every type of ssh configuration under the sun including with using keypairs and also allow passing Xwindows thru ssh: Download PuTTY - a free SSH and telnet client for Windows putty is the quick and dirty ssh client for…

Here are a couple great video resources from SolarWinds: SolarWinds Lab Archive Success Center - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support

I think to monitor Websphere MQ with snmp you need an agent that's not built into WebSphere HQ... this is what IBM says about it: www-01.ibm.com/.../docview.wss I'd say this line sums it up out of the box: MQ does not provide native support for SNMP Also this is enlightening... substitute NPM for Netview below: "A number…

It depends... do you want to see the alert time in the timezone of the solarwinds server or the local time zone. Most people want to see it in their own time zones time.

If you are swapping in a new hardware/interfaces, you will need to add the new interface for monitoring using Web Manage Nodes. Since it has a different hardware address, I belive Orion NPM will view it as a completely new and will ignore it until it is added for monitoring. From what I understand the default discovery…

Has anyone gotten clustered NetApp auditing working on LEM?

You'd really think this would be in growing demand because I'm 100% sure Cisco is selling this to all their customers...

Did anyone ever figure this out?

Depends what kind of NIC'S/drivers you have. I have a situation like that but monitor both through a virtual adapter called: BASP Virtual Adapter - instead of each individual interface. As far a SW's way to group them... I don't think there's an easy way... if someone has a great solution to this I too would love to hear…

I think what you are really looking for is part of version 10 coming up to be able to access Trap variable pairs with a ${variablename} format like we can in many other areas already: * Syslog and Traps – * Ability to reference Trap variable binding names and value pairs as variables in alert messages (e.g. ${vbName1},…

This sounds like a good one for tdanner​!

Andy- I especially like the section you included on the Data Types and the issue that can occur with couter rollover. Also the additions to snmp operations post SNMPv1 like getbulk, inform, v2trap and report and 64 bit counters. Good times... good times.

I think it's all or nothing. NTA is just trying to resolve the names it doesn't know. At least after NetBIOS name resolution was added they later added a feature to turn it off.

Wow I just found this and need to run these on my main Orion instance... Sometimes it seems like the website isn't always as responsive as it should be. I've been considering adding an additional webserver but I realize it won't help much if it's the SQL or some issue with the VM's everything are running on. The new NTA…

I thought you said it was SCOM server doing the polling causing the failures polling from 1.57? He's getting snmpv2 auth failure messages at NPM from all of his devices but string is correct on devices and NPM is working polling devices so it pointed to something else polling all the devices with wrong comm string and each…

As a last resort to track down the problem: Wireshark Try installing Wireshark on the server that is spitting out the SNMP authentication failure traps and configure the filter to show only UDP port 161. The output will show which IP address is sending the SNMP request to that server with the incorrect community string.…

Has your community string changed anywhere... are u sure??? That's what I get when the comm string is wrong trying to poll a device.

Seems to me some of this may be adapting to a new support model... I have noticed a lot of staff lately that are all over the place and that in and of itself isn't a problem. From my experience SW has been pretty responsive to things like this so hopefully everything gets better. I know sometimes growing fast can be a…

I couldn't resist... Generally speaking where there's a will there's a way... and if not that's what feature requests are for.

Its in the customer portal... I've also added a good one to content exchange here that is free, constantly updated and will let you forward to two syslog servers... Eventlog to Syslog v4.1Release 4.1Last revised January 20, 2010 This program is written in C and provides a method of sending Windows Eventlog events to a…

Larry- I just checked mine NPM10RC3 NTA3.6 and I'm not getting that extra folder created. From your description is sounds like every new report you save would create a directory with the report name and those two .jpg's in it. I have no idea why but it doesn't sound "normal." On my box the header.jpg and spacer.jpg file…

I just discovered on the list when trying to access Active Directory 2008 R2 Services and Counters29 It takes me to a page that says: Unauthorized Access to this place or content is restricted. If you think this is a mistake, please contact your administrator or the person who directed you here. What's the deal with this???

We recently went with NPM, NTA and SAM SLX at multiple sites and are in process of defining SLA/OLA's... having a list of what can actually be monitored and what the default thresholds are would make it easier going through the process we're in right now... I'm piecing some of it together into a word doc so I have…

I created a summary view similar to what you are talking about. I added: Column 1 Event Summary 7 day Active Alerts Network Wide Utilization Last Month Network Wide Utilization This Month Column 2 Advanced Syslog Summary Polling Engine Status Total Interfaces by Type Total Nodes by OS Total Nodes by Type Top 10 Max and…

I can't imagine living without SAM.

You can see more about the SAM solution here: Server & Application Monitor - What we're working on beyond SAM 6.2 * Optional Agent for Linux Applications and Servers* Allows for polling host and applications behind firewall NAT or proxies * Polling node and applications across multiple discrete networks that have…

You can monitor up/down status with icmp through a NAT but that's about it and maintaining it is a nightmare. Also the worst thing is snmp will NOT work through NAT! snmp uses IP's that are part of the OID's. Unless you have some magic snmp proxy (it's been tried before but never really worked) Having so much information…