jeffnorton

Cisco has had a bug in some versions of IOS code that cause the CPU on the router if the iproute table is walked. You can simulate this yourself if you have the NCM module. To test this you go the NCM settings/Node Inventory and then place a check beside ip route table. Then pull up some kind of router cpu monitor graphing…

Buy another polling server. You won't be able to reduce the load on the existing server enough by removing interfaces. Also with over 8000 devices on single server you're taxing the physical interface with the output stream. 

Here's a suggestion. If you have load balancers you can set up a virtual IP arrangement where multiple real ORION web servers sit behind the Load Balancer and all http requests are responded to by the Load Balancer. In fact the Load Balancers can be set up to act as round robin or act as pure fail over. 

Let me add another example. Cisco routers have a state called errdisabled. When an interface is in this condition, it's exceeded a threshold and technical is not down and not admin down. It's actually advertised in the Cisco interface MIB as errdisabled. We need to know about this state so we can determine what error…

I'm circling back again on this because the sales staff is degenerating into the same old familiar patterns that stated this thread. I hesitate to download anything from the Solarwinds web site for fear of getting bombarded by sales calls. Let me add to this the second part of my pet peeve. Solarwinds changes sales reps…

So I'm curious what it's going to take to get Solarwinds' attention. Right now I'm scouring the internet for email or snail mail addresses for the Executives of Solarwinds. I'm pissed

Ok this keeps happening. I just got an unsoliced email from someone identifying themselves as the Regional Director of Sales for the Midwest and Southeast. Here is part of the content. I am the regional sales manager of the Southeast/Midwest region and I know that you are working closely with one of my reps to get…

There is a bug in earlier version of Cisco operating system code that causes intermittent no responses via SNMP. It also causes intermittent CPU spike when downloading configs via SNMP. Upgrade to some of the later OS versions and it will be fixed

Just a comment here, HP Openview, CA Sectrum, and the IBM product are not really performance monitors but rather network monitors. By that I mean they don't really collect the came kind of performance stats that Orion does. They can, with a whole lot of modification, but they don't come out of the box with that capability.…

All, Solarwinds support issued a two DLL replacements for the NTA Flow server that fixes the issue. The issue is the Solarwinds NTA flow server service on the server was hanging at the 2.5 hour mark (may be different depending on the amount of flows you collect). I've had the patch since Tuesday and no more process hangs

I'm afraid Solarwinds badly misjudged the user population on this one. As of yesterday afternoon I have parked the web license I had installed for Toolset web integrated with Orion and uninstalled the product. As others have said paying for a full license per user to get web access to only 5 tools is a non-starter and even…

Just a comment, stay away from virtual servers. It's not really the number of nodes you monitor that is important, it's the number of interfaces. Orion counts every monitored node and every monitored interface as a resource. So in my companies case, we have 2000 nodes, BUT we have over 150,000 interfaces. So what happens…