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You don't need Orion to setup remote reboots. Check out the link below. Psexec is used to remotely log into a windows machine and psshutdown can be used to setup for reboots on the remote machines. YOu can write a batch file that will run the psexec login to a remote machine from a workstation you are at then run the…

I would try running the configuration wizard again... Other things to consider, Is the SQL server on a different node as Orion? If so, make sure that there are no firewalls preventing Orion from connecting to the sql server. I believe it's port 1433 for SQL server.

I'm also running Orion 7.2.2 and I have 2 polling engines and I've noticed that on two occassions that one of the polling engines froze up completely and I had no stats for the devices (servers, routers and switches)polled by that polling engine. The only way to correct it was by restarting the polling engine. I've talked…

Here you go. www2.solarwinds.net/.../topic.asp

You should download the Orion account manager from the "unsupported" section of the solarwinds customer area on the solarwinds website. After downloading and installing the account manager you will be able to change the password.

www.solarwinds.net/.../Tutorials.htm There's a video on how to backup and restore databases

What I've noticed with monitoring NT server as opposed to 2000/2k3 is that after you update the SNMP service properties to allow SNMP packets from your Orion server, you have to restart the SNMP service on the NT server before adding the server into the Orion databse or else Orion will spit out the "servername does not…

Your best bet may be to goto the Customer login area of the Solarwinds website (www.solarwinds.net/login.htm) click on the "unsupported" link and then download the Account manager and then install it. Once the account manager is installed on your Orion server you can launch it and see all your Orion accounts and their…

You can use the Orion database manager to perform a database backup on the current server, copy the backup file to the new SQL server you're going to use and then run a restore from the Orion database manager. After the restore you just run the configuration wizard to point Orion to the new SQL server. It's pretty…

Was the SQL server database also on the node that crashed? If so, do you have a recent backup of the database? All the inventory/configs/views/user accounts for Orion are stored in the SQL server database. If you can salvage the database, you're in good shape. If you can restore the database, you just have to run the Orion…

Are the interface names the same on the old router and the new ones? If so, all you have to do is rediscover the device since it has the same IP and the old data will not be deleted.

yeah, there is a bug with SNMP incorrectly reoprting the amount of memory a server running Win 2000 SP3. Below is the link on Microsoft's website. The fix is to upgrade to SP4. support.microsoft.com/.../811436

GOto the solarwinds website, logon to the customer logon area. Click on "additional components" >"additional components for orion" and you will see a link to download the report scheduler.

you could create a custom property for Site and then assign the devices to the appropriate site and then use the site category to filter for those devices in report writer.

I get the same issue. I have solarwinds set up on a win 2k3 server, an additional polling engine installed on another win 2k3 server and SQL server installed on a separate server. This issue where the polling engine freezes happens intermittantly, I'd say about once every 4-5 weeks. Restarting the polling engine does…

I second that notion. it would be great if there was an e-mail list detailing what the new release offers in terms of bug fixes or new functionality... I find more information on that at the Orion forum than I do on Solarwinds's website. I believe that would save support a bunch of calls on the same issues too.

we have 2 polling engines the polls/sec for status is 78 and stats is set to 65. We do 5 minute stat collections but we do get some missed polls. If we bring up 5 minute interval graphs, we'll see some gaps but 10 minute interval graphs show up fine. Solarwinds support has never had a real answer to the issue of missed…

We currently have 8000+ elements being monitored in our environment. We have 2 polling engines running on 3.2 GHZ servers with 4 GB of memory on each server. We don't have any performance issues with Orion. It's hard to gauge how many elements each polling engine can handle because another factor to consider is how often…

Joef is right about an interface being set to 10Mbps when it is down at the time of discovery. What I've done is manually redicover the interface when it gets brought up and the port speed gets corrected.

To use the date/time exclusions, it's pretty misleading, you DON'T goto the "time frame" tab, you have to do it from the "Filter results" tab in the report designer. Create a new "elementary condition and you'll have an option for date/Time filtering. To get stats for between 9 AM and 5 PM you would need two date/time…

Solarwinds has a pretty good writeup of how to set up alerts in the user's guide. www.solarwinds.net/.../Alerts.htm