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

I have decided not to monitor either but there was a time when due to interfaces changing etc. the one interface you would always be able to reach on a device would be the loopback since it doesn't change and can be a subnet selected just for management.

It's been working ok for me so far: some tips can be found: basically: The steps I did before upgrade were as follows: truncated events, traps, and syslog then compacted the database backed up the web configuration backed up OrionNetPerfMon and the upgrade went smooth for me.

I like to have the CNAME reverse lookup in DNS so it's automatically picked up by Orion. Like aLTeReGo says renaming the node caption would also work. Another thing I like to do is actually name devices with a naming standard that makes it easier to automatically select nodes for groups. It's nice to have your groups…

Do you see any interface under NTA Netflow Sources on that node that you can click on and get information? Usually when it says never something may be not configured correctly on the device for netflow or a firewall or something is blocking netflow on port 2055 from reaching NPM/NTA.

This may or may not help as I've been trying to improve in this area. Have you looked at http://www.solarwinds.com/support/Orion/docs/UnderstandingOrionAdvancedAlerts.pdf from page 11 on has helped me quite a bit.

1) That's pretty much our job right? And why we get paid I'd think. 2)Piles of papers, notebooks, printouts with highlighter and scribbles on them... little hand drawn pictures... some times the whiteboards around the office too especially when more than one of us are trying to figure something out. Honestly the Remedy…

With my NirCmd in the content exchange you can even have the remote machine speak things from an alert action. examples run from remote machine: speak text ~$clipboard$ you can set the machines volume level remotely nircmd.exe setsysvolume 65535 you can open windows dialog boxes on the machine do file operations start or…

Next it's 300k Paul!

I have this problem as well...everytime I remove one little thing from the visio I use a background image and save the same way as a .gif or .jpg and reload as background image in Atlas... all my overlaid LEDs and circuits lines are offset from the background image by some distance. I then have to select all and move…

That info will help... also did you just patch .NET 4.6.1 SP1? Orion Website issues after dotnet patching could be related maybe...

I made a visio stencil with all the new SW Product icons: New SolarWinds Product Logo Visio Stencils I love visio!

I think this is what ur looking for in version 10: * Syslog and Traps – * Ability to reference Trap variable binding names and value pairs as variables in alert messages (e.g. ${vbName1}, ${vbData1}) * Ability to configure Trap alerts based on pattern matching on Trap Details * Ability to reference Orion node variables in…

You could create an alert report in report writer and filter on vendor cisco then add the report to your homepage.

Also a LOT has changed for the better since 10.6.1 in more ways than one.

My workaround to this has been to print to pdf with the pdf995 printer driver and then send the page to people... not the best but it works for now... but it's a manual process.

Which SNNPv3 agent did you use? If you found some gotcha's other's should be aware of... go 4 it :}

Is that inside the regular old SNMPv2-MIB::sysDescr.0 = .1.3.6.1.2.1.1.1.0 ??? By default on Fedora something like: snmpwalk -v2c -c public localhost system SNMPv2-MIB::sysDescr.0 = STRING: Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.32-122.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Mar 9 23:54:34 EST 2011 x86_64 SNMPv2-MIB::sysObjectID.0 = OID:…

There are so many variables involved when doing this. Are they all running the exact same version of NPM? Do they all have the exact same layout and custom properties? When you have different database schema in different databases I don't care who you are... even for the best DBA's out there this is not a trivial…

You sure can as long as your NPM can resolve the names through DNS. You can test by either trying to add the nodes by name or by going to the command line from your NPM machine and trying to ping by name to make sure DNS is working from your NPM. You could have a problem with reverse DNS lookups if you added the nodes by…

I'd verify that you don't have a GPO that's resetting the permissions wrong... I also run everything on VM's and have seen this but it doesn't seem to affect me. I may check myself and see if I have the same problem. I could always use better performance in the web interface.

On what OS W2k3? And these are in c:\windows ? I checked and I don't have any of these... what kind of names do the temp files have?

These are current product Cisco 1400's... My guess is you are right and the main SolarWinds mib file might not have these in there yet. Have you tried downloading the latest updated MIB from the customer portal, installing it and checking again? If that doesn't work then you need to post this under the tell us your unknown…

Still can't get the service to run under fully patched up windows 2012 R2 server VM. I even watched the service try to start with sysinternals process monitor and I can't understand why it just gives up at one point... all of a sudden there are a bunch of out of bounds errors then it hits wer.exe We all know what that…

We still cannot get the kiwi syslog service to run under windows 2012R2. The windows EMET will NOT allow the service to start. We have had a case open for while now and sent the debug output to the support team under case 999667. We require this to work to satisfy multiple STIG requirements and this is causing the multiple…

I really like the idea of having it work with Infoblox appliances. We have a lot of InfoBlox appliances now and it would be great to have them supported by IPAM. It would also be nice to be integrated more into Orion. Also in the first example for the Get first available IP from subnet I think there's a typo: string…

What kind of device is this? Usually for me with Cisco devices I always have snmp, icmp, and netflow data reported through a loopback address on the device. Is there really more than one agent in the device? If not then there's no reason to need to have more than one instance of the device I don't believe because you…

was the alternative to wordpad just typing in the message box?

We do run both and VMan goes much further into not only the data you see but what you can control using the tool directly in your environment! Byron is correct though we want NPM to show the data correctly as it's the main original place people are going to look at first.

Here's a good place to search for specific vendor MIB's or when you are trying to find a specific OID for creating a custom poller: www.oidview.com/.../detail.html

Have you seen this UnDP with a good explaination on how to use it: It's called Cisco 6500 Fabric Utliziation: These UnDPs poll values from the Cisco-CAT6K-CROSSBAR-MIB. They will return inbound and outbound percent utilization for the switch fabric.