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Those are two of the most-frequently requested features...not sure if they'll have them in before v8.0, though since support for those may require some underlying architecture changes. // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications

The MIB Browser doesn't store information in a fixed table. Orion doesn't support additional MIB objects since there's no structure to store them and print them on the web engine. // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications

On this topic, I think it would be great if there were some API that could be released for additional packs. The application and wireless packs show that it can be done. However, I think more rapid development could be attained if some other programmers could hop in and contribute plugins to the product. If there were an…

I haven't tried the new alerting engine yet, because I running the latest on an old development box. (New HW is on the way for out SW upgrade, though.) The feature request was directed to the old alerting engine. There are a couple of other conditions too which don't have resets in their alerts either, but there needs to…

I'm generally pleased with SQL 2005, but all the DBAs where I work are more familiar with Oracle and Postgres, though I tend to prefer MySQL myself. However, having said that, I know how much of a monumental task such a change would be, especially since the SQL syntax varies between DBs. Database independence would be very…

One other thing to consider is that the tools are largely interactive, and that doesn't really fit well on the web, without some kind of funky java front/back end. FWIW, Orion isn't really that interactive. It just does a mighty fine job of displaying information. // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3…

The engineer's toolset isn't exactly web-enabled, though. // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications

Your switch actually counts as 25 elements...one device, 24 interfaces. An element is any separate, monitorable entity. Devices are elements, as are interfaces and volumes. The licensing scheme seems to limit your maximum number of elements to the highest element type. For example, if you could monitor 250 single devices…

It would be particularly nice to unmanage a node from the web interface, instead of on the poller...and I've been looking at how this can be done, but there is no way that I can see to get the poller to read the status if it's set from the web engine. Perhaps there needs to be a new table which the poller reads from time…

Now that it appears we can turn off management of devices for a certain time frame, it would be particularly nice to be able to unmanage interfaces as well. Particularly useful when a site is going to shut down for planned work over the weekend. Edit: I'm looking at how this information can be usable in the web engine. //…

quote:Originally posted by iunderwo Has the Cisco Catalyst port-description thing been fixed yet? This isn't very useful: Port 3/8 · long haul fiber gigabit ethernet I know it's been asked on here before. Looks like the catalyst I'm having trouble with isn't registering any if Alias values...which would definitely explain…

Mick, Looking at the database tables, it looks like that provision is in place on the storage end...but we'll when that makes it into the UI. It would be a definitely useful feature. // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications

Has the Cisco Catalyst port-description thing been fixed yet? This isn't very useful: Port 3/8 · long haul fiber gigabit ethernet I know it's been asked on here before. // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications

Actually, you can launch the toolset applications from within the system manager. However, that's not going to happen from the web page as there aren't any standard URLs to make those kinds of calls to applications. This could theoretically be done with ASP, but then you essentially lock the application into Internet…

Paul, Netflow would definitely be helpful. It seems as if a lot of the features we're asking for would work wonders as separate applications...you know, like other tabs next to Network Performance Monitor, with some kinds of links between the three applications. (Netflow, SysLog/Trap, etc.) The reason I suggest this is…

NG, Switch descriptions would definitely be useful...I'd hate to see the full whiteboard of requested features. But like any small company, this kind of stuff takes time. // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications

Just a comment in here on the anti-IIS comment... The problem isn't with IIS per-se. The problem lies with the default security model being very lax, and with admins who don't keep up with server patch levels. To dismiss the program on the grounds that it runs on a Microsoft platform is faulty logic, because any platform…

Have you configured Net-SNMP appropriately? SW supports the standard MIBs. If the devices aren't showing up, there's a config problem on the NetSNMP side. It seems like it's been a tough nut to crack for some: There are other topics on this: www2.solarwinds.net/.../topic.asp www2.solarwinds.net/.../topic.asp…

I don't believe you people missed sysloging! It would a heck of a lot nicer to keep a syslog capture in via Orion for each device. Don't get me wrong, the Kiwi SysLog daemon is the bomb, but I can't imagine this would be too hard to implement. Just accept syslogs from IPs which devices are registered under in SW, and…

The problem with the nightly maintenance is that it is processor intensive...enough that a moderately loaded system's polling falls behind. I have asked if it were possible to move maintenance to another machine, like on the DB server or another external host. That would be best since the summarization does require a fair…

The minimum polling time I've ever had any success with is 3 minutes. The resolution is better than 5, but not so much so that it will clobber the bejesus out of the device you're polling. NGs spot on the polling tuner is also right on...that can make quite a difference. // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3…

The problem is that the default route I use goes out a numbered interface, thus using that egress IP address. What I'm trying to do would be done via cisco speak like this: ip npm source-interface loopback0 Though the solution I'm looking towards now is adding a redundant-capable adapater and an HSRP group. // Ian…

I know I can poll on loopback addresses...but I were to actually loopback the polling server, can I use that IP address? // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications

quote:Originally posted by ERB great, thanks! i think i was looking in the wrong spot on this one (misc instead of node details). now, it lets me pick my custom properties but where can i edit these custom properties? it'd be nice if i could do it through the web GUI so the different engineers can add notes instead of me…

That's it? That's hardly worth a bump to a full minor release. There's gotta be something brewing for v8.0... // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications

quote:Originally posted by josh@solarwinds.net There is a Beta Release of the Orion NPM SLX Version 7.3 at: ftp.solarwinds.net/.../SolarWinds-NetPerfMon-V7-SLX.exe Version 7.3 includes changes that should minimize the false positives that you are seeing. Please send any feedback on this beta release to…

Considering that some of my nodes have over 500 customer ports on them, and that some customers are connected to numerous nodes, makes a node limitation pretty difficult to work with. However, it would be nice if a limitation could be created to list nodes that ONLY have interfaces that match the limitation. Maybe in v8.0?…

I've compared the work I did on my deployment to the tutorial, and the end results appear to be the same. The interface limitation does indeed limit what the user can see for interfaces and traffic. However, it does not extend limitions to nodes where the customer ID exists in the interfaces field. They may not be able to…

How is the report you're working on now set up?? // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications

And if you run the application monitor, you can see how much CPU/RAM the processes eat up. // Ian Underwood - Network Engineering // Boston Stock Exchange