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You should never monitor a WAN or LAN interface IP. Why?

a more comprehensive upgrade to the Custom MIB Poller, which is our top priority after 8.5 ships. Can you give us any hint when that might be (8.5)? Any broad timeframe? 

I asked a SQL guru to write a code which will check the status of few custom pollers and change custom properties accodingly. He should get to work in next couple of days and I will report the results here. The problem was this: Using universal device poller I'm monitoring DVB-T transmitter output power expressed in…

our map load times didn't change Exactly what I was hoping NOT to read. Which version of Orion are you running?

How many objects are you polling with the custom poller? One of the custom pollers polls about 80 devices. The other one - about 30. They both poll about two or three times a DAY, as I write this...

What kind od devices are those? We're monitoring many sub-interfaces on Ciscos and Linux routers (using NetSNMP).

Thank you very much!

C'mon guys, this is sort of an emergency. Pretty please, with sugar on top, share a thought.

Apparently, they haven't. The MapMaker from the 8.1 demo is exactly the same as it was in 7.8. This is really a silly issue which cripples the otherwise good MapMaker. Say I have made 100+ maps of various network segments. I'd like to compile one huge map of the entire network and show it off to my superiors. Not possible.…

The system is Bit Defender Frams running on a PC.

there are features about which one wonders why they haven't been there from version 1.0. emailing alert acknowledgement is certainly one of them.

+1 Map performance is criminal. It makes the whole system much less useable. Map load times are reason enough to downgrade to 9.1.x

Are the system clocks on all sw servers in sync?

What about uknown state of the interface? It's realy annoying not to see THAT on network links.quote:Originally posted by Grabowski They can't! As far as I know, they can only go red if the node or interface they represent is down. Lars Grabowski Global Infrastructure Chr. Hansen A/S Currently using: Cirrus Version 2.1…

quote:We have had many issues with the polling engine and the database. One of them was very similar with our DB maintenance running all night (12 hours), and during this time losing essentially all data polled. We were able to get it down to .5-1 hours, and we lose minimal data. I would appreciate it very much if you tell…

quote:I can recommend by experience to use the Microsoft SQL-Enterprise Manager to have the maintenance done and not only Solarwinds own solution. Is it faster this way? Nightly maintenance takes too much time on our test-setup. WAY too much time. I can't really understand why, since both CPU and memory usage are no where…

How far along the maintenance task is? I solved this by asking an SQL guy to add few lines of code into the script. That code simply added a line of some text in some text file. By monitoring the size of the file I was able to track the progress. Not very elegant, but it provided the peace of mind I needed when maintenance…

What does perfmon say about disk queues on your db server? It revealed to me that on my db server the hard disk simply wasn't fast enough. The hd was the bottleneck, and I had no idea before I run perfmon.

But, isn't that great? You post a question, and after few days of introspective trance - you come up with the answer yourself! Hey, even Socrates could get envyous...

So, Solarwinds, will you fix this?

quote:Originally posted by Network_Guru Have you tried the "paste special" option as per this post? www4.solarwinds.net/.../topic.asp Yes, but that's not what I'm looking for. I need pasted OBJECTS, not bitmaps.

I can copy/paste text (right-click, context menu...). But objects or links - no. I need to make a huge map of the entire network and I find this "feature" really frustrating. Instead of just copying/pasting elements from many small maps which are already there onto a bigger one - I need to do everything from scratch.…

The workaround for this "problem" is actually very simple. Just suppress the alert for #2 if #1 has a warning (rather than down) status. The alert for #2 should be triggered if #2 is in down state and #1 is up (not warning). But anyway, It would still be realy nice to be able to manually arrange the polling sequence.

Step 5? Just create one icon and solarwinds will do the rest.quote:Originally posted by Grabowski Filipv, I know what you mean, but what I was trying to find a way to make simpler was how to create the four custom icons (one for Unknown, Up, Down and Warning each) without having to create them all one by one... Lars…

>...any ideas as to make the icons refelct node/interface/volume status? 1. Copy your icon from the drawing program 2. Paste special... onto the map. Must enter a name. 3. Once pasted, right-click on it, Object properties 4. Choose network object 5. Choose object style. I find "Yield signs" to be very useful.

You can import graphics using Paste special from ANY drawing program, not just Visio. I simply copy-paste graphics designed in Xara or Photoshop and it works flawlessly.

bump 3. I installed additional polling server. Response time, packet loss, traffic... infact everything that is not polled through the UnDP is ok. But the UnDP values are not polled - I get "No data" on my Node Detail pages. Why? Is this a "some port somwhere not opened" issue, or perhaps I need to do something for UNDP on…

Anyone? :-\

Does this lack of answers mean that no one knows, or is it a silent RTFM message? :-)

Can't you just add www.google.com as an ICMP monitored node?