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This is why I'm grateful for SQL Admins who can deal with those details for me. Opterons are pretty sweet...I can't wait until there's more 64-bit native support for them! // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications

Node status is based on ICMP polling. The system manager allows you to customize the ICMP packet payload, so if you had a specific, granular rule which matched based on that payload, it won't go through. // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications

It sounds like using another custom property might be what you need to do, for the location. It's not necessarily as convenient as setting the string, but it will work with all devices once the parameter is set. // Ian Underwood - Network Engineering // Boston Stock Exchange

One thing that's more important than the node count is the total element count. 6,000 nodes is one thing, but the sheer number of elements will bring a server to its knees. Rediscovery for interfaces needs to be done from the interface itself, not from the nodes. That's how I've gotten it to work. The occassional restart…

The delay is based on the rediscovery interval. Interface speeds and descriptions are only read on a periodic basis, and not with every polling cycle...mostly due to efficiency, and most of that stuff doesn't change much. // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications

What directory should that page be put in? // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications

For the graph, you could just make a copy of the resource and edit it so that it's not customizable. Granted, this will work until you run across a user who is smart enough to manipulate the URL directly. Your mileage will vary on access points. At best, you'll get an Ethernet and Wireless interface...at worst, you'll only…

The Network Manager application talks to the poller for all its statistics / status / changes / adds / deletes. So, you can't run the manager without running the poller to go with it. // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications

A 1-minute load is only good if you're polling the server every minute or so. If you polled every 5 minutes on a 1-minute load, it would be very likely to miss a potential CPU-impacting event during the other four minutes not measured by the poll. // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications

Assuming the server is reporting the interfaces correctly, you should be able to get traffic and error stats from both by adding the interfaces into the monitor. It's a matter of adding them into SW. Setting up SUN-SNMP/NET-SNMP is best left to the documentation that came with those packages. // Ian Underwood - Service…

I think it depends mostly on what you want to do with the programs. If you're looking to ping monitor, then SW may be a little bit overkill. However, if you're looking to get detailed charts and graphs for statistics all in on box, then SW is the best out-of-the-box solution I've seen yet. There is the Denika plug-in for…

You're going to need to a lot of funky NAT stuff to get that to work. Overlapping space is the least fun to deal with. // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications

I couldn't tell you for sure, but I'd say that there's got to be something big brewing since the incremental releases have been mostly addressing bug fixes. When it's out, I'm sure we'll all rather have a V8. <duck and cover> // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications

You can either upgrade to the enterprise edition, trim down your polling/stats intervals, or keep stats for a short period of time before crunching them down into hourly/daily status. // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications

With a migration to new hardware, you should be able to reinstall to a new database. Assuming you're using the same SQL server, instead of using NetPerfMon, you could use NPM for instance. // Ian Underwood - Network Engineering // Boston Stock Exchange

This question belongs in the toolset forum. // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications

No. There is no custom MIB support in Orion just yet. // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications

All custom SQL queries need to be constructed in the report writer as an Advanced SQL. Speaking of the report writer, it would be nice if there were a place to specify a string if the query returned nothing, instead of a blank space. // Ian Underwood - Network Engineering // Boston Stock Exchange

quote:Originally posted by Malvado All of our user segments are remote and are behind routers / firewalls, as a result none of the firewalls allow icmp, The SNMP gets that we do are from a network that is behind a DMZ that is only accessable from certain networks. We do not allow wide spread ICMP accross the country or…

ICMP really shouldn't be blocked in its entirety...this totally breaks things like MTU discovery, which can cause lots of stuff not to work if fragmentation is needed anywhere along a network path. Another consequence of disabling ICMP is that it becomes very difficult to assess the health of the network from any point in…

I've got the same issue, but with response time recording. CPU on the poller dips a little once response times stop. Naturally, a restart fixes it up, but it's hard to tell what causes it to begin with. It can take any number of days to occurr, so running a mega debug file is a significant inconvenience. // Ian Underwood -…

Pass them on the command line: NetPerfMon/Resources/SearchNodes.Action.asp?Field=Caption&SearchStr=NodeName&AccountID=USER&Password=PWD // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications

This got me curious, so you can do it this way: solarwinds/.../SearchNodes.Action.asp Just plug in the node name you want. If there are multiple matches, then you'll get a screen allowing you to choose. Just make sure all your node names are unique, and you'll be all set. // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3…

There's a reason it's called "Beta". This is one of those reasons ... not to mention the other data macros that aren't even included. I feel your pain though ... the beta engine as released is over a year old at this point. v8 has been hyped up a lot at this point, and is really trying the patience of a lot of people in…

All of the map groupings are manual. So, you have to have a map called "switches", and another called "PCs", or whatnot, and group them in that manner. If you add a switch or other network element, you'll have to update the map for the new item. Fortunately, if you delete an object, it's removed from anything that was…

Check the server you're trying to poll, and ensure SNMP isn't being blocked. Doesn't sound like an Orion problem. // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications

The account you're doing the installation on has full administrator rights, correct? // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications

It's probably a bug in Net-SNMP. Win2k used to have the same problem: www2.solarwinds.net/.../topic.asp // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications

I never had any problems with my upgrade to 7.1, though I did not upgrade and change machines at the same time. Since the license carries over, maybe it would have been best to reinstall to the new box with the restored database, then process the upgrade...especially with the changes that 7.1 made to the database. It's an…

This one's got my vote! // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications