jkrenzien

Well back in 2009 I was in the Marine Corps and deployed to Iraq. I was mostly in charge of the base's network, but also anything else that broken or other people could fix. We had been have power issues with our generators so our UPS trailer and rack UPS were all low on battery. One night the generators die again, by this…

That is close to what I want, but it wasn't specific nodes not alerting, but an entire alert that wasn't functioning. It was caught after manual review of the devices during other maintenance tasks. 

Alright, so lets break this down to its pieces. Please correct me if I am wrong. You want to make sure that configs are saved after edits. You want this to be done automatically. You don't want to just push the script to all switches only the ones required. My first thought is to leverage the Real Time Config Change…

Honestly I have taken my availability reporting off of SolarWinds and use Power BI (it is a free tool) to do it. I am still using the SolarWinds data, but the display and filtering options far exceed that of any SolarWinds report. Let me know if you need any a assistance using SolarWinds data in Power BI. Below is a sample…

Identifying the interfaces that need to be remediated if fairly simple if you use Config Blocks and regex. I would likely set it up like the following As for the remediation, that gets a little more tricky. If you need to make sure that a specific helper address is there and you can apply that with a different policy, then…

Neatness in coding matters as much as neatness with cables and yours was a far neater solution than mine.

Only way to do that is to specify it in a custom property. The string manipulation should do the trick. Just change the following line to whichever option will fit what you need. @ContextNode.CustProperty1 (replace CustProperty1 with the name of the property to defined. OLD string @SOURCE NEW string @SOURCE =…

edited: Chris T has a much better reply than mine was. This was not the script you are looking for.

Did you try to re-download the configs after making the change and did you verify it was enabled? I have noticed that NCM doesn't like to recompute some of that information outside of a config download job. You could also try a variation of the above regex as seen below. It is a bit more relaxed. ^\d+\s?\:\s?

Glad to help, especially since it gave me the idea of how I can finally fix my alert muting for power outages.

Sorry for the delay, but I have a Config Change Template that should meet most of your requirements and shows how you can expand upon it at the same time. It passes validation and should work, but I am unable to fully test it in my environment. The section where I define @Name is not needed and I included it to show how…

This was on the Orion DB

I would strongly suggest breaking it down, one application one group. This makes it harder to get a good view of the information, but when i tried to add all 900+ IPs and subnets the IP group never worked.

In that case I would use a script based on PowerShell script to modify a NODE Custom Property via Rest API/JSON if 10.7 supports it, otherwise a a script will make the sql queries for you based on the inputs. I am not very good at scripting yet so the best I could help with there is just some Google-Fu. The sql queiry…

Another resource that might help is Home · solarwinds/OrionSDK Wiki · GitHub

No resolution but I have submitted a feature request since I believe this ability will make Config Change Templates a much more attractive option for complex tasks.

That would match the number, space, colon, space. I was just concerned that you may have some config text (excluding the starting portion that might possibly match that regex). I don't think it will, but I would rather be safe than sorry. Matches: 1 : configtexthere 2 : configtexthere ... 999 : configtexthere ... 999999 :…

Sorry for the delayed response. It really shouldn't take much to add the unique key to each device. You likely already have it in an excel file, then al you have to do is make sure that solarwinds can match the names/IPs up and import. But if you don't already have it in excel/csv I could see the difficultly.

As far as I have found there is the the wiki below and understanding how SQL works since is SQL with some added features Home · solarwinds/OrionSDK Wiki · GitHub

I have implement this and it does work. Depending on the number of alerts you have created already it can be a little painful, but not as painful as not having the ability to mute alerts and still monitor.

This isn't a solution, but it may save you pain if you look into scripting the dependancy and group creation processes. I am not talking SQL, VB, powershell or anything fancy like that. I just use a Pulover's Macro Creator (basically a front end for AutoHotKey). Took what would have been literally a 40+ hours of tedious…

There will be. You cannot uninstall and then reinstall a demo on the same machine.

amarnath_r - Sorry I have been out of touch. can you give me an example of what is expected, when the alert should trigger, and when it should recover. Also roughly how many routes do the devices you want to alert on have? I believe I read that npm doesn't pool the full routing table, but that first X amount of lines (1000…

That is why we are all here!

In this case I would use custom properties. Create a property (v_alertlevel) and allow it to be null, warning, or critical. In my examples below I do not have this, so I used my v_mute property as a placeholder. change your trigger times so the critical will go off first and the warning is after it (I would use a full…

This is one way you could setup the alert trigger. The routing neighbor IP is a hub IP. I separate my hubs into different alerts so I can easily identify in the emails which connection type failed (MPLS/ISP). This would also only apply to my branch office.

I have had a similar issue recently. For me it turned out that the daily maintenance wasn't enough and I had to have our DBA rebuild the index (based on support's recommendation). It has been performing better since then and the indexes aren't out of control yet. I currently planning on doing that 1-2 times a year.

I will try to find time to work up a good starting point for you. I should have it within the next 24 hours or so.

if you create a config change template (not just a simple script or remediation CLI) it should display a page that has a preview of the commands to be ran. The second option is enabling NCM's Change approval system (under NCM settings) You get 3 options for the Approval mode when you run the setup wizard for it. One-level,…

Glad its working for you!