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Thanks Chris. I understand, and let me be the first to say that the Solarwinds products we stick to are very helpful to operations and management; they do their job well. You and your teams are doing a GREAT job. I am sure this issue will get resolved. The team opened a case a few days ago, but we've been observing…

 Thanks so much for posting this. Our Cirrus 4.0 installation (Win2003server) is behaving the exact same way when using Telnet to devices. We are a Cisco shop and this happens to random devices on every execution. We noticed the problem when we set up a report to let us know which devices did NOT have the "Login OK" on the…

Thanks Brandon, problem is that the whole report is riddled with different HTML codes (not just the one you mentioned) and since the link goes to Management-types we can't ask them to clean it up. I can tell you with 100% certainty that this HTML code issue was not present in 9.1.1. Appreciate the help if you can find a…

Hello. I am reading this thread with interest as one of the most critical parts of the product, AAA (authentication, authorization, and accounting) is being treated as a "side show", almost an after-thought. From this thread I see that it is having difficulty even being prioritized. In our organization we employ AD…

Thanks mcbridea. Opening the files in Report Writer failed each time, no matter what I did. So I ended up cutting and pasting just the SQL part of each of the files, eliminating the HTML-looking code from the beginning and end, and that seemed to execute, with the exception of one of the files that used the "gt;" and "lt;"…

With some help from James in support we were able to finally remove all traces of Netflow. Here's the steps we took: 1) Repaired the Orion installation from Control Pannel > Add/Remove Programs, chose the "Change" option and "Repair" in the winndow that popped up. This takes a few minutes 2) Re-apply the service packs.…

Thanks. Maybe I'm overlooking something, but I've searched up and down as to where on Node Details to add that (customize page, Admin tab, etc.) but I do not see where to add that, I dont see it as an option at any of the usual places. Anyone know where/how we add the custom poller data to the web output? Thanks. 

1) Because the issue is random and unrepeatable, is it possible that other Network Admins just dont notice it, overlook it, or are completely clueless? Do you really think they ALL know what they're doing? You have to really know how to look for the failure among the many many successful connects, it is not easy to see the…

There's an related issue on 9.5 that wasn't there on 9.1: when using "&dataformat=excel" on the URL to export the data to Excel, the EXCEL output includes HTML ampersand codes, so for example, instead of------> AT&T we get------> AT&T and instead of------> Serial 1/0 · Circuit Description we get------> Serial 1/0 · Circuit…

Thanks mcbridea. Because Solarwinds already provides a canned 95% Percentile report in Report Writer I dont see how this qualifies as "custom SQL". All other reports provide the ability to limit the time frame and specific hours for which the report should run, why can't this report have the same options? We need to run…

Hi all. I was curious if this is on the roadmap for the next NCM release? There shouldbe a button on the NCM pages that says "Download Config as Text File". The problem with the workaround is that those configs don't get backed up somewhere, and are not accessible from the NCM website (so you can have a central…

Thanks Mark. You were correct, but it wasn't working for me until I ran the repair for Orion for some reason. With some help from James in support we were able to finally remove all traces of Netflow. Here's the steps we took: 1) Repaired the Orion installation from Control Pannel > Add/Remove Programs, chose the "Change"…

I am one of those engineers who has been asked to provide reports showing Last 7 Days and Last 30 Days graphs for 50+ sites on the same report. I have to deal with those tedious custom HTML reports and can tell you it is a pain to do, you have to keep track of the interface ID and change the link manually on each graph. My…

 Hi trm33, I am trying to remove Netflow to fix my Orion website, and the link offered does not work, neither does looking for "topic ID 2996". Can you please post the correct link for that solution you're quoting on this thread? Thanks!

 I have a similar question. I have two pairs of servers, an SQL box and an Orion box, at two separate sites (A and B). I'd like to setup the servers on site B for Disaster Recovery purposes, and also to use the site B boxes to test patches and upgrades BEFORE introducing those on the production boxes at site A. So how do I…

After fully re-installing Cirrus 3 times with support, after losing my configs at least once, after going through all the standard level-1 support you have to go through, I finally got escalated to someone in support that understood what I was talking about, and agreed it was Cirrus causing the issue and not me. I worked…

The answer provided is only half the answer. It helps in applying the poller to the device, ok, but does not tell us WHERE on the web page we can find the actual result, nor how to use it on reports and such. I followed these steps to apply a custom poller to a group of devices. Still I cannot see the output from this poll…

 Hey THANKS CHRIS!! That worked on all Riverbed Steelheads. Team effort, I LOVE IT. THANKS!!! Technical discussion: I compared your config with the one I made, and I can see the changes you made, but based on the Cirrus documentation can't understand why yours works and mine doesn't. In fact, I thoroughly read the Admin…

I dont know what you guys are smoking, but when a common task like renaming a device goes from 2 clicks 2 seconds on the phat-GUI/console to now require 5 clicks and minutes (and mintues) of waiting on the Web interface, there is ZERO COMPARISON. It doesnt matter what the IIS or AntiVirus or XYZ settings are. As soon as 2…

Thanks mcbridea, but the 95% Percentile report is custom SQL and does not have that tab available. I am really having a hard time with this, so are MANY OTHERS on Thwack, based on searches I've done about this problem. Why isnt anyone from Solarwinds answering them, or me on this thread. Surely there are lots of us who…

Im running NPM 9.5 SP5. When I run the "Monito Polling Engines" application I get the same behaviour: says it's Running in green color, then goes to yellow (stopping), then red (stopped), then green again. On and on. I was informed by support that this application is not a reliable measure of the polling engine status,…

With support's help, they first tried a registry key (path I missed), but that didnt work. As Derek and Chris pointed out, the Repair seems to have solved the problem. They were correct in that I upgraded NCM from 5.0 to 5.5.1, tested NCM and it worked, logged in, backed up, whole 9. Then I upgraded NPM on the same server…

No, I dont believe there is a way to use custom properties on reports. It would seem possible based on SQL, after all the custom properties reside in the database, right? However, the developers have not created an interface to link the two things together _that I know of_ anyway. :(

 Add my vote to this request. Get increased calls of slow network and abuse, sometimes caused by users and sometimes by sysadmin misconfig, either way showing this on network maps would be nice.

Very nice post, jkeberle, only issue is that this does not seem to include interfaces that are not being monitored by Solarwinds. Every switch is monitored by Solarwinds, but not every switch port, so I wonder how we can get just the elementary total number of switch port interfaces in the environment. This would seem like…

Aynov's answer worked for me on 9.5 SP5. After a couple you get the hang of it and you can do a bunch in not too much time. I started cutting at the section beginning with <div style="width: 600px that contained the "img src", copied it till </div> and it would show on the page! Also no reports mailed out, sweet…

Just want to add that I could NOT open 95th_Percentile_Report_-_Last_Month.OrionReport on Report Writer. Also, when I srtipped out the beginning and ending metadata looking part on monthbegin.OrionReport, and executed that using Report Writer custom SQL, it gave back an error saying that that object already exists in the…

Hi and thanks so much for sharing this with the community. I am running Orion v10 SP1, trying to follow the directions. I wonder if there has been a change in the Report Writer that is affecting the functions because when I try to open them using Report Writer to execute them, the Report Writer application tells me that it…

Hey Andy: that was a super cool, easy to read, and at times even lighthearted and humorous document about IP-SLA. Well done, and thank you very much!!!!!

I have not had a good time of it. I am upgrading from 9.5.1 to 10sp1, and it is taking HOURS so far. Running Windows2003SP1 on an Intel Xeon 3.4Ghz with 4GB of RAM, a powerbox by any standard. First problem encountered was that the upgrade must install something on drive C: despite the fact I specifically want Orion on…