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Would love to participate but DoD won't let me go to the quiz web site URL.

Good to know about server 2012 before we start migrating to it. As a DoD NPM user we are now prohibited from using SNMPv1 or SNMPv2 for polling systems. Since Windows does not support SNMPv3 the only choice is WMI. Any way we can request additional WMI polling capabilities within NPM? 

Since we can no longer use SNMP we get no interface statistics when polling servers using WMI. That is the first most obvious stat missing. I do like the increased volume utilization and queuing stats provided by WMI.

I am also getting the ASN.1 Decoding Error. The only solution provided is to use SNMPv1. We are prohibited from using SNMPv1 or SNMPv2 and must use SNMPv3. Isn't there some other way to get this to work properly?

6 months later and we are still hamstrung by the ActiveX security risk.

mezdem thanks this is what I was looking for. My down times were displaying wrong due to comparing LastSystemUpTimePollUtc, which is UTC time, and GETDATE(), which is local system time. I changed GETDATE() to GETUTCDATE() and my report looks great.

Thanks d09h. This got me again also.

As a DoD admin SNMPv2 is now prohibited from being used. We are being forced to use WMI to poll all our Windows servers. Interface statistics are available via WMI directly. Why can't NPM pull interface statistics using WMI? Any hope for the capability to be added in the future?

mezdem, I was seeing the exact same thing as you are. I had forgotten that following an update, I just updated to 10.4 last week, I need to run the Advanced alert manager as admin the 1st time.