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I have been running Orion on one of our SQL clusters for since V7.x days. If you are using a SQL Cluster the standard is pretty much that you are using a SAN. I am running SQL 2005 Enterprise 64-bit for the SQL backend for Orion. It is running on a 300GB/10K RPM disks, RAID-5 Storage Group on a 2GBs/FC loop. Looking back…

Change ${Status} to ${OperStatus} Thanks. I have tested this and it seems to work. I am not sure why ${Status} doesn't work. The documentation for Orion seems to indicate that ${Status} will show current status of the interface. Status Current status of the interface (up, down, shutdown, etc.)

Orion Application Monitoring will monitor individual .exe's. So you could see if IIS service went down. However probably for individual indepth monitoring of individual pages your best bet is to use a Microsoft MOM server. GB

 After the marathon that an 8.5 upgrade was, it appears that viewing the configs from cirrus does not work anymore, as described here: I had this same issue when I upgraded to V8.5 of Orion. They are aware of the issue and are working on a fix. 

Thanks for the input. That is what I thought. We are looking for a way to add some other departments equipment to the monitored equipment by Orion. However we would like to push the day to day administrative functions of managing there equipment in the Orion Database to these departments. However we want to be able to…

Thanks for the feedback NG. I have changed my database settings so I keep detailed statistics for 45 days. GB

I would read the EULA carefully for GoogleEarth. As far as I can tell if you are using it in a business environment you have to pay for it. It is only free for residential our non-commercial use. GB

I got Cirrus to work fine on a 4500 Catalyst running IOS. I hope that the next release fixes the issue with a 6500. Why is Cirrus requiring a logon to retrieve a config? The Network Engineering Tools can retrieve a config fine only using a read-write SNMP string. However whenever I tried to leave out a logon and only use a…

I agree with NG the Orion box should be kept pristine as possible. Have your tried reinstalling NPM? I would just try a reinstall directly over it and see if this fixes the issue. GB

With a IOS switch you can use the Engineers Tools to see the time when the port last did see data across the port. 

I have the SQL portion of Orion running on a SQL 2005-64-bit cluster fine. The key is installing SQL 2005 tools on the Orion box. GB

do you have the memory on your SQL server set to Dynamic our static? I have our SQL for NPM set to 1GB of RAM at a fixed size. We are monitoring about 5,000 elements and it seems to manage the load nicely. GB

Are you looking at monitoring each Guest VM?

We see the same thing on the public interface of our VPN Concentrator 3000 series. We just ignore it as normal behavior. I am not sure there is any way to tune it out. GB

Go to the admin Menu and the Account List. Select the account that you want to view the Application details. Then go down to the Application Details View area and it probably says none. Select Application Details in the drop down menu. This should allow you to see details now. GB

 The only gap that I can see is the ability to use one check box to disable all the alarms when you are doing maintenance. 

I take it by the lack of response from SolarWinds that Orion NPM is not able to pull any reports about the applications that it monitors using the Application Monitoring Package. GB

You need to purchase SQL Server then for database you are just limited by the size of your HD. The version that comes with Orion is the desktop version that is limited to 2GB. It really doesn't matter which version of Orion you purchase. It just matters what version of SQL server you use. GB

I am using SWTelnet9 and I can pull CATos configs fine from 6500 and 4000 series. GB

I had this issue with partical backup of config's for CatOS. However once I D/L the latest version and I also received a new swtelnet9.dll file from SW I was able to get complete configs. GB

 Well I believe that I have found the PS section of the MIB database - 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.117.1.1 However anything I try to add seems to give me non-sense values that don't match up with the values that I see on the switch. Anybody have any luck pulling accurate Cisco PS information ? 

I have had the same issue with there tech support. Several of e-mails I have sent in for a open issue just seem to disappear into a blackhole of e-mails never to be seen again with no response. GB

I started seeing the same thing this weekend. We use APM to monitor if WebSense is working (Internet Filtering). We basically have a HTTP monitor try and go to a website that we know is blocked. If it gets the specific text that is on the block page it will be in up status. However this weekend we received a alarm that…

Our weekend computer staff frequently re-boot servers, which sends Email and phone call alerts to the On-call person. How can I suppress these type of alerts with the New alert engine? You could either request that the weekend computer staff manually disable the alerts in Orion when they reboot the computers. Our you could…

We bought SolarWinds with the expectation that V8 would be out with custom MIB support by 4Q05. It is now 1Q06 and still no official answer from SolarWinds as to the expected release date of V8 with custom MIB support. It would be nice to get some type of official answer as to the estimated release date of this product. GB

Thanks this worked. The device is from Comtrol Corporation and is called a rocketPort Serial Hub. I work for a cable coming and so I am not sure what this device does but it has something to do with Digital TV. The device wouldn't respond if there was any data in the packet. Greg

Being able to use the web interface to add our remove Nodes etc. would be very nice. GB

I am trying to monitor the CX3. It looks like the MIB's are not loaded on Orion. I found the documenation where to enable SNMP on the CX3 series. 

We have both our Orion and Cirrus DB on the Same SQL Cluster 2.8Ghz Dual Core, 8GB Ram 64-bit SQL. The application parts are on a separate dedicated box. This cluster serves several other databases besides Orion and never gets above 30% CPU utilization. We have about 5,0000 elements in Orion. About 60 nodes in Cirrus. GB

Very cool uptime edition also. It works great. Thanks-GB