jneiberger

So Orion makes no provision for NOC environments that might want this up on the screen all the time? We're weeks away from purchasing Orion and I can already hear my NOC users complaining about this.

You currently can't do that with Orion but perhaps they will be adding Netflow support in the future. For now, you can do what you want right now from the command line on the router. Turn on either IP accounting or Netflow switching and you'll be able to see who's talking to who.

We're in the same boat. My company has already approved the purchase of Orion, but I have to wait a couple more weeks. In the meantime, I'm still looking at other solutions because they have some features that Orion doesn't have yet. We'll probably ultimately end up with Orion because it is a really good product, but seems…

That's really what I was asking: is it possible to manage certain interfaces but not others. It seemed like everyone was saying that you either monitored a device or you didn't. It didn't sound like I had to ability to monitor only certain interfaces on a device while ignoring others. I must have been asking the wrong…

So, let's say I'm monitoring a bunch of switches. From NPM's perspective, a switch will only show a solid green status icon if every port is up. As soon as someone turns off a PC and the interface goes down, the icon will acquire a flashing red dot, right? That means that every switch in my network would have look to my…

I hate to reply to my own topic, but I have to ask...does no one know whether it's possible to unmanage interfaces? Thanks! John