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Can the Kiwi syslogger also write the write node name/interface information into the events table? If not, could it be scripted to do so? // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications

Trap/Syslog reception isn't supported, but frequently requested. // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications

I don't know what your polling interval is, but 100 polls per second for that number of elements sounds way too high. I wouldn't poll anything at a rate faster than 2 or 3 minutes. Download the PPS tuner from the website and follow its recommendation. The box will choke if it gets overloaded, which will require a shutdown…

It's a web application, so you're limited to what you can do on the interface. On that note, though, you may be able to use the shell:// URL to call up a specific program if you have them all installed in the exact same location. Granted, this capability is considered a potential security risk, and is likely disabled in…

Maybe this could be encoded in a URL of some kind now that the program has dynamic capabilities by name. Something like snmp://192.168.3.3:163. // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications

The big side-effect to unselecting the devices is that you lose all of the historical statistical information, unless of course that was the goal all along. // Ian Underwood - Network Engineering // Boston Stock Exchange

Polling every 10 seconds is going to clobber that machine if you load it up fully. Consider the Orion docs specify a 3GHz server for under 10k elements, with a remote SQL database and a polling/stats interval of 9 minutes. Your current license will only allow a maximum of 300 elements, so this isn't too bad right now. Add…

Are you looking to group the items like the item grouping function, but with extra information? + Level1 +-- Level2 +-- Node - CPU - Memory Something like that? // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications

quote:Originally posted by jonchill I've setup a report that I would like to show all the discards over a period time. Fields I have selected are Node name IP address Interface Name Recieve Discards - Sum Transmit Discards - Sum I have filtered the results based on Date is greater than Receive discards greater than 0…

It was easier since I didn't need to reboot after running the setup. But I think the config wizard should perhaps be tweaked to import previous settings within upgrade installations, without having to go through all the hooplah. Did anyone else notice that the actual reporting revision is 7.2.x for all components?…

Nope. I was hoping someone from SW would post a link to the tentative release notes so I have an idea what I'm getting into. Fortunately, I've had lots of luck with incremental releases so far. // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications

That kind of reporting is best done with RMON or NetFlow, neither of which are supported in Orion. // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications

I was thinking that a Rule Builder application might be the most efficient way for the poller to work on the alerts. While it's not a really big deal for the web engine to consult the database every time a search or report is needed, the frequency which the poller would need to consult the database would end up being a…

So, I started thinking of a way that this could be done...and here's what I thought of. How about SW build an application called "Alert Builder". This app would be similar in form to the report writer, but it would generate the alert conditions that the polling engine could use. To do what the bulder would complete would…

I'm with you 100% on this! The alert engine is really pretty far behind considering the leaps and bounds taken by other components of Orion. Sorting alerts would be very useful, as would a report-writer style of interface to select what to alert on and more importantly, who to send the reports to. Granted, this would…

This needs to be asked in the toolset forum. However, if you have any critical errors, you can call SolarWinds support directly. They're going to be a much faster turnaround than these forums are. // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications

The SysUpTime counter is a 32-bit counter, so it will register a reboot every time that counter rolls over...and that's not too far over a year AFAIK. // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications

I think the problem with the extra space is due to the way IIS handles the input. You need to run a trim on the field to remove any extra spaces. Something like trim(variable) in the code. // Ian Underwood - Network Engineering // Boston Stock Exchange

That's probably done by design, since most people use maps to illustrate WAN link status between nodes. Maps also only reveal status, which probably won't help too much with volumes, since they're not largely prone to failures which a visual layout will help you with. // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3…

The grouping doesn't necessarily add a lot more overhead to the page, per se. However, since it does provide the whole list every time, it does get to be rather intense. I gave up on that approach for the main page and largely rely on search functions and a list of down nodes. // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level…

Unless someone writes a program to automate it, the answer is no. In my experience, the only useful maps are the hand-drawn ones anyways. // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications

If the users access Orion primarily from the website, does each one really need a CAL? I'm looking at SQL 2005 Workgroup with 5 Device CALs for the relatively small network I run Orion on today. $739 vs. $3899 is a pretty significant price jump. I've got about 150 nodes, and 800 interfaces total. I figure NPM will eat up…

Assuming you're working on a VoIP network, SW isn't going to give you any reasonable data since jitter needs to be measured in realtime. The ping RTT is generally used to gauge responsiveness and availability of a given node. // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications

Still, the original question begs to be answered...is there a way to import a node list? It looks like the Network Discovery module can load in a Sonar list, but it'd be nice to load up a CSV file or something. It'll beat the pants off of entering about 2100 nodes by hand. // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3…

I'm running Orion on a Win2k3 server without any incident. Seems to work like a charm. // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications

You can import your custom properties via a CSV document...but that's about it. Nodelists either need to be entered manually, or if you have some time, a network sonar file (from the toolkits) is your only real option. // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications

How are you executing NPP to send out your SMS? // Ian Underwood - Network Engineering // Boston Stock Exchange

It's just a matter of planning, really. You know how the PHBs can be. Thanks for the input! // Ian Underwood - Service Management Specialist // Level 3 Communications

Actually, having the installer be cognizant of an already-installed system would be a big plus period. Especially since redoing the report-writer schema and deleting the default reports is cumbersome. Fortunately, upgrades don't happen all too often. // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications

You should be able to set an arbitrary speed on each interface in the System Manager. You can modify the transmit and receive speeds independently if need be. // Ian Underwood - Network Engineering // Boston Stock Exchange