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NodeID is the main way Orion access its nodes, which doesn't leave any easy way to view the node. To do what you need to do would require Orion to have the search function. It's got very little to do with IE actually...just how it fills in the URL it actually sends out. // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3…

Custom MIB support has been an often-requested feature from the Orion package. Orion generally monitors standard MIBs for systems, interfaces, and volumes...with a couple of Cisco extensions included for good measure. MIBs cannot be changed, simply due to the table structure in the database. The tables are generated around…

Once the database starts to near 2gb, SW will raise a critical alert to let you know it's getting full. After the limit is reached, no new data will actually get inserted, resulting in a timespan of lost data until some room is recovered. Exporting data itself isn't too difficult, but putting it all togethere into…

AFAIK, there isn't a way to do this, and each device needs an IP of its own...unless the main cluster member can account for all interfaces of its members, which I would guess is unlikely. If you have a large number of switches, a management VLAN and separate subnet would be the best way to go with this. // Ian Underwood -…

What speeds to MRTG/SW think the interface is running at? Also, are you looking at % utilization or speed. "sky high" is qualitative, and not really useful in helping you out. // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications

If you have the SLX license, you can purchase an additional web engine install for $500. It works quite well, though reports and custom table file need to be synchronized with the main poller. // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications

Nope, not yet, and not yet. // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications

The best you can do is relate a node's color to its status...and that's providing you have an icon that changes colors. There are no definable thresholds for the map viewer at this time, though it would be extremely useful...especially on WAN links. // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications

Agreed. That would be extremely useful to have. Add a few other routing protocols, and it could potentially be a handly add-on pack. // Ian Underwood - Network Engineering // Boston Stock Exchange

It depends on what you've got your stats collection set to. If you're running the default collection of 9 minutes, you are not likely going to see anything major unless it goes on for an entire polling interval. If you are hoping to catch spikes and the like, then you need to increase your polling interval to gather more…

NG pretty much covered it, but the few things that SW does, it does extremely well. If you're looking for a do-it-all platform, this is probably not what you're looking for. // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications

I'd say it's best to wait for the new boxes to arrive. Since the database on the Eval is a SQL as well, it should be no problem to bring over. There are instructions in the admin manual. I'd wait on virtue of 7.2 coming out very shortly. // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications

I haven't looked at the advanced node details, but if you're using a telnet:// URL, then it should automatically redirect to SecureCRT if everything is configured correctly. // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications

Maybee SW can find a few extra minutes to upgrade to a newer Snitz Forum so that code snippets can appear correctly. // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications

John, It -is- possible to do this, but you'll need to customize a resource that would be used exclusively for telnet/web access to the devices. What I've done, is added a resource to my node devices to telnet over, if the node is being SNMP managed (which means I own it):…

There is a an account manager tool which can be downloaded and run locally. You can download it from the unsupported section. You might have some luck with that. // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications

A 2950 is a layer 2 device. In almost every case, the VLAN should always register as up. What is this "public@50" of which you speak? There are no useful statistics from them since no actual traffic traverses them. It doesn't take an aggregate snapshot of traffic across all VLAN interfaces. // Ian Underwood - Network…

More info is needed: * Are you running Win2k or Win2k3? * Are Terminal Services configured for administration only or users? * Is the error occurring as soon as you start MapMaker or when you perform a certain action? // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications

I started my SW deployment w/ 7.0 but here's something you might want to try. * Run install per upgrade requirements. * Remove C:\Inetpub\SolarWinds * Reinstall DLLHost can act really strangely from time to time. // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications

If you use the report scheduler, you should be able to include additional web pages in the report. That page just needs to be a URL you point to. That's really the best workaround for the time being...though it has been a requested feature. // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications

I suspect that the original intent was just to port-forward a range of ports to devices that need monitoring. For example, 10 devices behind a single NAT gateway, and sending one port to a different internal host. Currently, this is not possible and as properly suspected, a VPN tunnel is required. // Ian Underwood -…

quote:Originally posted by Network_Guru Type of Event: "Application Stopped" & "Application Restart" as well as the newly discovered: "UnManage Node" & "Manage Node " It's definitely not a matter of if, but a matter of when. I don't think it's uncommon for a framework to be built around future planned features, especially…

To be clear...periodic is the occassional dialup to a site...nailed-up is the constant connection to a site. If you're looking at a nailed-up type of scenario, then any of the SW products should be fine, especially since they're geared towards this kind of connectivity. If you're going to use a periodic dial, this could be…

Are the connections going to be periodic, or nailed up? // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications

If you can, monitor with either via the loopback or Ethernet interface, such that you don't lose monitoring when a link failure happens. // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications

Are you looking to implement separate databases at each location, or one central master DB? // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications

The only way you can do this is to have a custom page with certain reports/network elements you want to view...and use the report schedule to send those out. Unfortunately, there's no easy way to group up reports very easily. // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications

One thing I did which worked out very well, was to create two alerts for backup-only routers, either of which would trip if the data rate exceeded 10kbps, and reset at less than 7.5kbps. // Ian Underwood - Service Management Specialist // Level 3 Communications

Almost sounds like a method of key validation...which is fair enough considering how rampant software piracy is. Is your system isolated from the public Internet? // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications

Look at setting up the DirectLink account. It's on p.224 of the Orion manual. It'll then allow you to link directly to the page without having to log in. // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications