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So that helped a great deal. However, now I'm trying to find a listing of all the Event fields like $EventInfo, just so I know what's possible. I've looked all through the LEM manual and appendices and can't find a listing

Ok The only thing I see missing from this is the node name on the interface charts. It's helpful to know the node the interface is on Jeff N

Trying to figure out how and where this item is used. It sort of looks like it's added to the Web site directory but I can't figure out how to make it show up

THe only problem I see with this report is that it focused only on a node being down and does not address interfaces on that node that are down

Ok so here is how Orion works, the Band-Aid solution and what I have been told is being worked on. Orion uses two mibs to do it's polling, an old Cisco Entity MIB and a newer Cisco Envronmental MIB. Orion polls for responses to any thing in the newer environmental mib and if it gets a response it uses only that. If it…

Actually 95th Percentile is an average with the top 5% and bottom 5% thrown out. It gives you a more precise reading than just pure average. Now to your question, what I've asked for is the ability to set time zones and then do what you ask based on those times relative to the time zone the device resides. I've gotten no…

I have one that works all though only from the F5 command line as well as an execute script in the Configuration Manager tool on the NCM sever. It is as follows * tmsh save /sys ucs config.ucs * scp /var/local/ucs/config.ucs scpsvrloginname@scpsvrIP:${NodeCaption}-${Date}-${Time}.ucs * ${Delay:2} * scpsvrpassword *…

I got it working. After I wrote the above, I got to thinking about permission differences between LINUX and Windows. The SCP -p option and the LINUX end is feature to make the transfer keep the path and LINUX permissions intact at the receiving end. Since the receiving end is a Windows server, that doesn't translate. As…

Anyone, Anyone? Bueler...........Bueler? How about a comment from Solarwinds on this? This basically indicates the Hardware collection is not working

SO if you upgraded to NCM 7.3, the only option now is run NCM distributed across all pollers. The jobs set up now has a validate function to insure that all job results destinations land in a working directory. The only hitch here is that the landing spot requires that the main poller and all additional pollers have a…

I'd like to see a time zone setting for each node or some thing to that effect. We would like to be able to run reports based on the business hours of the time zone the node is located in. The same goes for alarms. We'd like to squelch emailing of some alarms based on business hours for a time zone.

I'm not talking about the F5 app monitoring that I know is in NPM, I'm talking about the Linux side of the F5 hardware

I'm using the EOL of function and am glad it's here. However, there are several glaring deficiencies. 1- If I manually assign a date to the EOL and EOS fields, that information does not appear in the list of Suggested Dates such that I can use it again for other Machine types, there by forcing me to enter the same…

I know this is an old post but I thought I would add my 2 cents and see if anyone has an answer. Cisco Load Balancers do have sftp installed and, in fact, use of sftp is the only way to back up all the context and certificates. Basically the command sequence is as follows: * Login. Typically the login goes right to enable…

I really like the silences I get from Solarwinds on this one, NOT. All one has to do is type in topology on the Thwack search box and reams of discussions show up. As of this morning we have turned off topology for the product and flushed all the database tables. In addition to the discussion above, most of the layer 3…

Ok after a lot of research and a back forth with Solarwinds support, the Nexus devices store the serial number in a different place in the mib than other Cisco devices. Solarwinds has not cracked the code yet, but I have. Here goes. The data is stored in MIB is 1.3.6.1.2.1.47.1.1.1.1.11 which is entPhysicalSerialNum.…

Ok I've got an interesting problem with this. I'm running NPM on a windows 2008 R2 server and I'm running an additional web server that runs on windows 2003 R2 server. I've copied the Inetpub files to both servers as specified and I've unblocked each file. I then created a sumamry view called Interface_Node Down Time. Then…

All you really need to do is get your firewall team to assign a fixed NAT address for your Orion server that will do the polling for devices on the internet side of the firewall. Then they need to open snmp, icmp, as well as telnet and ssh if you are using NCM. Once that's done you need to get the data team to configure…

We've had multiple Solarwinds products for over 5 years now and the vast majority of the support cases have been handled quickly and professionally. We've opened up several hundred support request that range from self inflicted problems to actual bug problems and all have been handled well. Now I'm not sure about the…

This has been going on for quite some time. The problem is mainly with Cisco devices and revolves around the fact that two different mibs are used depending on the hardware vintage. Orion checks for both of these. However, what it really boils down to is there are a host of sub criteria in these mibs that Orion is alarming…

One think you to consider. NCM does not poll at the same rate as NPM. In particular NCM is only pulling data when either a job kicks off to pull configs or if you have real time config change notification turned on then it pulls a config right after the trap. So from a processor load there is very little continuing effect…

Did you check to see if you only download changed configs?

You need to look up the mib for the alarm you want and then create a custom poller

I don't see a SP5 for Orion NPM 9.5, only SP4. Is this a hint

Still need some help!!. Any one out there

So far I have found that none of the suggested dates for Cisco 37xx actually matches any thing we have. I think the primary reason for this is that Cisco has about 50 different versions of this line of switches. I had to manually go into NCM and pull a report that list the part number and then sort that by part #, then…

If I were to guess I'd say it hangs because you have a very large network. This particular report appears to be averaging the 95th percentile of every interface on every device

I need to make an important comment on this. While I applaud Solarwinds for adding this functionality, it simply is not useable except in very rudimentary fashion. I'll provides some examples. Let's take the Cisco 37xx devices as a start. NCM lumps all of them into a single Machine type of 37xx. In fact Cisco sells about…

Netflow only works on a routed interface (layer 3)

Actually this is a great feature. How it basically works is that any interface marked as unpluggable will collect information when it is up and not when it's down. More importantly when it's down it won't trigger an interface down alert. So for instance you wanted to monitor every interface on a router in a data center,…