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Actually node status via snmp for those devices configured for SNMP probably works the best. One of the issue's we have is polling devices on the other side of a firewalls. Firewall admins like to block icmp because DNoS attacks. Of couse you still have to deal with ICMP for devices that are just polled with ICMP. Truth is…

Ok. I finally figured it out the SQl is below: SELECT StartTime.EventTime, Nodes.Caption, StartTime.Message, StartTime.EventType, StartTime.NetObjectType, DATEDIFF(Mi, StartTime.EventTime, (SELECT TOP (1) EventTime FROM Events AS Endtime WHERE (EventTime > StartTime.EventTime) AND (EventType = 11) AND (NetObjectType = 'I')…

If you think about it, it is not necessary to re-store configs that have not changed. So NCM has a function in the jobs that let you set to store only configs that changed. That lowers you job load and time. It also saves space in your database

I'm going to dive in on this thread. We've evaling this product for about 15 days now and we are also very dissapointed. I've had a running problem ticket into the sales team and sales engineers and so far no resolution. The product is not showing router/switch uplinks (connections to and from a router to router). The only…

Just a reminder on that, there are Windows version restrictions, for example Windows Server 2012 Foundation and Workgroup will only 32g regardless of how much are in the slots. Jumping to Windows Server 2012 Essentials (2008, 2010 Enterprise) jumps up to 64 g but there is fairly large price jump. It get’s even trickier on…

I upgraded and found that out too. I'd say there is not going back with out dumping your existing data because it moved every thing into a single database with NPM as well as changed a few table names. The only way I can think of a roll back would be to use a backup copy of you SQL databases from before the upgrade and…

All the preferred method of monitoring for Cisco and Juniper per their managment best practices is to assign a loopback address that is not one of the physical addresses. If you manage by one of the addresses on a physical interface and that interface goes down, all the other interfaces could be up an working just fine and…

NCM doesn’t poll but once a day or on demand if you have realtime config detection set up. Check you jobs to see if any are still running or are never completeing. However, having said that what is your monitoring center loosing with that mib blocked. A normal SNMP poll from almost all systems today doesn’t use that mib…

There is a big time DANGER using discovery. The discovery that Orion uses, captures the first IP address that responds via a poll query. It the address you originally discovered it by is down the next time discovery runs, Orion will add the device (with the same DNS name) via the new IP address, there by creating a…

Even when I download them from there I still get sales calls. The Sales team is the worst

I agree with Mike on placing the demos in the customer portal, but beyond that, how hard is to provide your sales people with a database of existing customers. Beyond that your sales people step all over each other. I get cold calls from sales people that know I'm an existing customer and probably have an assigned sales…

I have pollers running on 64 bit servers with 64g of memory. While the poller may only use 8g of memory it won't crash if there is more. Also even though SQL standard edition will only use 64g, the OS will use more than 64g if it is needed. We installed the original database server with OS standard which only accesses 32g…

Did that and it broke even worse. I now have over 250 devices that are showing Overall Hardware Status Unknown

One thing to consider on outage reports like this, is that this records only when the entire node goes down. Of more interest to most execs are WAN outages. Since many nodes actually have multiple paths, simply looking at the node outage won't be accurate. In this instance it takes looking at a specific interface outage.…

Just wanted to comment on the Thwack web site. In my opinion it’s gotten much worse instead of better. I don’t understand all the game stuff that’s taking up most of the home page. You guys don’t sell games, you sell business software. And I’m willing to bet the vast majority of your customers don’t come to the site to…

Basically if I have a DNS name of xxxxxx.turner.com, I just want to display xxxxxxx

A little difficult to do since the combination of issues that caused my inquiry no longer exist on any of the devices in my network

Navigate to D:\Program Files (x86)\SolarWinds\Orion and located the file SWTrapService.exe.config Locate <add key="UseCollectorEndpoint" value="True"/> Change "True" to "False" Save the file. It is basically a bug in the Solarwinds trap service. The above change will fix it

Wouldn't this only work if the router in the HSRP group only had one path to it? HSRP only works if the adjacent router in the HSRP group doesn't see the other one. You can have a path go down and the two routers still see each other and HSRP never get's invoked. Right?

Thanks. I just remembered that and have just this minute changed the job setting. I also realized when I did that, that since NCM is now distributed across all the pollers that the storage directories have to be the same. That is kind odd in that in other places on NCM, the program let’s you configure a per server storage…

Actually I'm not suggesting one or the other but rather both products or even better the functionality of Hotstandby within FOE so that those of us that just have NPM are not saddled with the expensive one of one solution

Thanks. Since this is mainly a rare event need, just accessing the table and printing as is will do for my needs

Ok so I’ll admit to being ignorant about MS SQL clustering. How does clustering work when you have one database? I know about fail over clustering but what you’re talking about appears to be spreading the database instance over multiple servers

Thanks

I'm using version 9.5.1 and this started happening with versionb 9.5 and each of it's hot fixes and version upgrade

No. I wound up changing the setting on the RTN to download the entire config instead of just the pieces of the config that changed. That way I still manage to get the line that also says who did it. Basically I'm filtering all lines that begin with ^!. I did let someone in Solarwinds management that I was EXTREMELY unhappy…

I finally gave up. Support kept asking me to send them entire copies of the config. I basically said you have got to be kidding. From a security standpoint what customer in their right mind is going to send a full router config to anyone outside of their company. I told them the already had copies of the relevant lines in…

Thank you very much. I just had to figure where to put it. After a bit of trial and error I got it

That doesn’t work either

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