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Orion isn't a control package...it only relies on what it can read. That said, it can monitor anything that has a working SNMP stack. Granted, you won't have access to any of the custom MIBs, but you'll have a basic look at the device. // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications
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You can backup your database with the Database Manager and save the data for later. The Database Migration Tool is only available to customers who have bought the software. It's in the unsupported tools section. // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications
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Since the application is beta, I expect this would get fixed before the release. Given that it's August 2006, the Beta engine is just over a year old. Despite the shortcomings of the application, it's already replaced almost every legacy alert on my old system. v8 should be a tremendous release. // Ian Underwood - Network…
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I think what he means is that in addition to monitoring the cluster, you also need to monitor each member of the cluster. // Ian Underwood - Network Engineering // Boston Stock Exchange
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Active alerts only stay active when the alert condition is present. After it resets, it disappears. I don't even consider warning conditions to be a valid trigger or reset for that matter since they seem to be transient. It may be a prelude to an event, but not alert-worthy. I still see tranient warnings from time to time,…
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Don, Any chance we can get hyperlinks to these tools off the admin page (including the one which changes the max response time in the gauges)? // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications
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This is going to sound like an awefully dumb question, but is the bandwidth as reported by SNMP correct? If not, you may need to modify the bandwidth statements on your interfaces accordingly. SW should then catch the new bandwidth during interface rediscovery. // Ian Underwood - Network Engineering // Boston Stock Exchange
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This is a toolset question. Please post it in the toolset forums. // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications
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You must have gotten a poor rep w/ Cisco. Discards are reported via SNMP on the interface...has nothing to do w/ Orion. What kind of traffic levels are you pushing on the interfaces? // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications
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If you want to monitor a bunch of remotes for customer sites, your best bet is to establish a VPN between each customer site and your main operations center. You can do a lot of fancy things with a good NAT router. For example, you can run NAT on the VPN router at the site, and route a small block of IPs unique to your…
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You should direct this question to the toolset forum. // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications
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I may be possible to monitor these things, provided you are running the latest service pack (6a), and you have the SNMP service enabled and configured properly. However, since it is NT, there may be some issues with the SNMP stack as there were with Win2k. Those issues were resolved with Service Pack 3 for Win2k. // Ian…
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The chart info isn't controlled in any of the style sheets...as they're all statically generated images. Though, it would be useful to be able to define their parameters and such. Plasma displays aren't really recommended for any kind of static image...they're even worse than old projection televisions. Even if you manage…
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It is possible with SNMP, if you're polling a Cisco NetFlow MIB. NBAR or RMON would probably also do the job well too. So, it's possible w/ SNMP, but you'd need a traffic analysis package of sorts. In this case, a NetFlow export would probably be your best bet since it provides a lot more granularity for the amount of…
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You'll have to email support to get a quote. I use a remote web engine on my installation, and it was a little extra. It's especially valuable since the location of my poller requires very strict firewalling. I have an SLX installation, so I'm not sure if those addons are available for smaller licenses. // Ian Underwood -…
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The polls themselves are pretty simple and straightforward, and will definitely take up less space over the WAN. With a poller across the WAN, it needs to talk to the database for several items, and not just to dump polling data. The poller also needs to refresh its device list from somewhere, though I'm not sure what the…
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IIRC, the pollers primarily interact with the SQL database. The way the events and such are laid out, there should be a relatively constant amount of data flow from the poller. That said, depending on your stats, you're looking at an average utilization over a period of time. Based on your description of the WAN link and…
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Can you be more specific, i.e. ports and protocols? // Ian Underwood - Network Engineering // Boston Stock Exchange
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That depends on how you have the VPN tunnels set up. If you're using a set of crypto-maps only and not actual interfaces (i.e. Tunnel0-x with keepalives), then I would have to guess no. SolarWinds is a fairly basic NMS, but what it handles it does extremely well. // Ian Underwood - Service Management Specialist // Level 3…
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I had to turn off baselining...mostly because it took a lot longer than letting a regular polling interval go on. Still, it takes about 8 minutes to load in the node list and start working. Now, on the question mark thing, I noticed similar behavior on my installation after restarting. It usually clears up after I issue a…
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Interesting behavior. About the only other thing I can suggest is to get the polls-per-second tuner and make sure it's optimally set for the size of your network. // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications
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Node details is what SW saw when the box was last rediscovered. The question marks mean that the interface or drive is unknown...essentially that your SNMP polls are failing. What happens when you try to list resources? // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications
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All the basic stats are recorded in bytes, yes. You'll need to bump this into the byte range. So 1,000,000,000 bytes if you want to use the marketing byte value (10^9), or 1,073,741,824 (2^30) if you want a binary gigabyte. // Ian Underwood - Service Management // Level 3 Communications
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At least I got in on the last Vista beta ... Outside of the enormous CPU hogging, I was reasonably pleased. I do have very high hopes for v8. I was hoping it would be out already so I wouldn't have to do an extensive QA test, but I'll deal. // Ian Underwood - Network Engineering // Boston Stock Exchange
