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Strongly agreed -- Statistics collection only without status monitoring would really be very helpful, to prevent pollution of my network maps and alerts.

I cannot seem to reproduce this. Is there something in common with your Cisco devices? Anything in the solarwinds.net event log? 

You could install OpenSSH on your solarwinds appliance, and use -D SOCKS4 proxies. Then you would configure your putty/securecrt client to use the locally-running socks4 proxy on your workstation. I've been looking for a third-party tool to enable some kind of ssh/telnet client on the management server itself but haven't…

bighard, this is probably associated with the telnet prompt detection timeout. NCM waits for a newline 'prompt' once it inputs a command. You can alter this behavior - Change the option Network\Telnet/SSH Settings, Telnet/SSH Timeout to 10 seconds. Your scripts will still take a long time to run, but they won't time out…

No, there are no tables that audit administrator actions in Orion, Ron.

rchaill, by default, NCM will do an ICMP poll of every device listed in NCM. I find this very inefficient out of the box. You can either completely disable ICMP polling [This will also disable regular SNMP Discovery], or tune the ICMP polling time and increase it. File, Options, Node Monitoring Either turn on or off the…

Riyaz, I use a report for this. I uploaded two resources for you: A universal device poller found at And a SQL report found at A CRC report was created for you at You will get a report that looks like: Duplex-related alerts are found: And CRC alerts:

Thanks, search feature! Adding &outputformat=excel to the end of my query url worked great; http://SOMEHOST/NetPerfMon/Report.asp?Report=7%5Fday%5FCritical%5FAvailability&dataformat=excel Now maybe I can get .xls docs emailed weekly =)

Surprised to see that database integration between NPM and NCM isn't on the roadmap. I've got custom properties and IPs and SNMP normalization issues everywhere. :(

I thought I could use something like this as well.. This could probably be extended with a little SQL to process all interface IDs on a node (Add some SQL to the javascript statement for the element_push crap). This custom HTML (Create a custom view, add a Misc object called User defined HTML, go to preview, then edit…

Try just ${Status} instead of ${CustomPollerStatus} - it may be redundant.

Since you have mentioned this, I am freshly enthused =) Perhaps something simple, like an 'active alerts' and syslog page available to https sessions online. All of the web resources are detachable - you could create your own 'view' with some simple ASP or html. Authentication will be taken care of normally. My Orion…

Neil, can you paste the configuration of your cisco router providing the netflow export? Does the flow show up in show ip route-cache flow | i <ip> ?

I suppose you already asked this in another thread, but a custom sql report that you wrote w/ the MAX included will do this for you SELECT max(Events.EventTime) AS Event_Time, Nodes.Caption AS NodeName FROM Nodes INNER JOIN (Events INNER JOIN EventTypes Events_EventTypes ON (Events.EventType = Events_EventTypes.EventType))…

I really hate to bump a topic, but I'm wondering if anyone is able to share experience with this feature. I was looking forward to using it to support configuration archives of devices like catalsyt 1900s with enterprise images.