iunderwo

I'm having the same problem, and this is not a SolarWinds problem. In my example, I've got an alert that I want to use generically, so I created a property called Alert_Flags so I could turn custom fields on and off. --[ Initial Queries ]-- I did roughly the same sort of thing a not contains "something" in a CP field, but…

The chart is largely what I need ... save the issue with the gap. I don't think that it's unreasonable that a 5-minute poll be every five minutes, on the interval. At least any interval observations I did in my college labs would have been marked as incorrect had I followed an additive interval. I don't think it's…

The gaps in the graph are tiresome to explain to management. :) 

I'll admit I read the architecture document and am now a little disappointed. I'm working with a couple people in my group to do a pretty significant reinstall of our SW installation, and in our findings, NCM can be a beast when it comes to system utilization. The separate system at least allowed us to keep any of our NCM…

You can set the time of day and the day which you want the alert to be active during. So if you have nightly maintainence between 1 and 2 am, you should be able to set the window accordingly. It would be nice if this were a litte more flexible, so you could define times NOT to alert during. If you're doing maint. you can…

There is no trap reception in Orion yet. The Kiwi SysLog Daemon is pretty good with this sort of thing, but there's no web interface that I could find for it. http://www.kiwisyslog.com // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications

Better check on your devices, especially if SNMP access is restricted or controlled. Make sure your community is also correct. // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications

Just wanted to inject a quick note on this thread. When running w/ a remote web engine, the OrionReportWriter.schema needs to be copied from the main engine to remote web enginer whenever the schema is updated. Perhaps the schema can be put into yet another table in the database so that the copy step can be eliminated. //…

Are you running reports on the main engine or a remote web engine? // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications

Video switching aside, you should probably look into defining a customized view specifically for the displays, and have a display host refresh the view periodically. That said, plasma is generally a bad idea for this kind of application. Plasma has a pretty major burn-in problem with static images, and you might end up…

That's going to largely require some funky account limitations, offhand. If you felt inclined, you could probably modify the resources to keep the ISDN stuff hidden away except for your username...or a handful of them. Not quite sure how that would be coded offhand, though. // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3…

And yet another thought... Allow specification of a background color which also asks for the size of the map. This is quite useful with background textures, and would be particularly useful with a blank specified color. // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications

Another idea I had would be for accounts with limitations and maps. Currently, it's setup so a user can view all nodes on the map, or have those nodes removed from the map. I'd like to see a third option to not show status. For example, I have a map which shows the layout of my NPM network. The good nodes are green and the…

Have you checked to be sure SNMP is enabled on all the Win2k clients? Nothing for nothing, but it sounds like a little bit of overkill to watch all the clients...might be better to watch the upstream switch port instead...especially if you start doing any of the network availability stuff. // Ian Underwood - Service…

There do seem to be a couple of issues w/ SQL 2005 that I noticed on my dev system, particularly with the service startup. It sounds like there's an issue somewhere in your trigger. Do you log the alert to the NetPerfMon log as well, or do you just do emails? // Ian Underwood - Network Engineering // Boston Stock Exchange

You can kinda do this now with alert supression, but it's a horridly manual process that can grow beyond manageability if your network is of any respectable size. // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications

Orion requires IIS as part of its prerequisites, which XP doesn't come with. The requirements are on the main site, and it requires Win2k or Win2k3, both of which come with IIS. XP != Win2k3 // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications

I'll throw my answers into the fray too: 1.) It's largely intuitive and easy to use and configure. The graphing engine is the best one I've seen used. 2a.) Pros: It's a limited NMS and what it does, it does extremely well. Web login gives myself and colleagues access to stats and figures of things we need to know that…

This is a toolset question...but I'll answer it here. The toolset isn't really meant for a full-time gig. It is not possible to run it as a service because it's configured to work all-in-one. You should be able to minimize the tool to get it out of the way, but you cannot close it completely. Specific errors, such as CRCs,…

You have to select the property to be visible. You can add them manually, but they won't show up unless you select the checkbox in the resource. // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications

Thinking about this some more, it would probably be nicer to be able to define an alert timeout on all alertable items which do not have a reset condition. e.g. A last-boot alert could stay up for a time I define (like an hour or so) and then be removed from the list automatically. // Ian Underwood - Service Management //…

Does it actually cause the miss, or is that what SW observes? Interesting, I'll admit. // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications

That's an issue best addressed w/ Cisco. However, you might want to baseline what SW is observing. Some buffer misses aren't too bad in and of themselves, but a sudden jump in misses could be the result of a software bug or memory leak, which may warrant some attention. 27,000 buffer misses isn't necessarily a lot to be…

Is it a particularly long report to run? The web application has a maximum execution time of 120 seconds, which cannot be modified...and this will cause problems if your query is particularly intense. I've had to more finely-tune queries in order to get them to run in the limited space. // Ian Underwood - Service…

I've had no problems with the web login on the report writer...but as part of the SLX installation I run here, I use localhost to send out the scheduled reports. Everyone else just runs off an additional web engine so there are no conflicts. // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications

quote:Originally posted by dsullinger Anyway to setup this script to search for specific interface speeds? I would like to see all interface circuits that are 56 Kbps, or all 1.544 Mbps. One of the problems with speed search, is that speeds are largely subjective. For instance, I've seen T1s set for both 1536000 (correct)…

When does it say the "last run" was when the jobs seem to be failing? // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications

I'd remove line 1, and see what happens. I'm running 7.2.44, on my web engine, and 7.2.65 on my main poller and both work fine. You did exclude the //start and //end statements in my post, right? // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications

Okay crew, here is the latest and greatest code! Summary of changes and stuff: The full-wildcard search facility that was requested has been added. Note, that this is selectable and is checked by default (you can change this if you want by modifying the form). This function removes all asterisks from the search field and…

Here are the things I've got in the newest script: * Selectable search criteria (Name / Description / Custom Properties) * Variety of selectable sort orders (Parent Node ID / All Searchables) * Selectable informational fields: Interface Icon Interface Speed Interface Utilization % Bug fixes: * Duplicate display of…