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Okay - that works! Again, many thanks! Jim

Thanks to both for your quick replies. Due to internal security requirements, we have to use https: instead of http:. When I tried the second solution, the string was not pulling the IP Address - instead the link just showed https://$(IP_Address)/ I am testing this out on 8.5b3 SL100 at this time. I have not tried it on my…

Add me as well - we would be interested in monitoring the Cisco IP SLA's for our web-based conferencing applications as well as VoIP Jim

I have a test station running 8.5Beta3 SL100 on VMWare ( it was running 8.1 SL100 production) and I don't see any issues so far. I am planning to move our production environment 8.5 SLX web server and all functions except polling to VMWare, but keep the polling stations (3 x SLX) on hardware servers. Part of the issue is…

Five months later, and an upgrade to 8.1 and no "get table" for the Custom MIB Poller. I have several devices and applications that I cannot pull complete information from including my APC Environmental Monitors, or looking at Cisco IP SLA values for jitter and RTT on multiple streams. It is becoming a political issue in…

JDS, I have the same issue with my MS SQL support team. However, we have a process where I contact them to enable SA privileges when I need to upgrade or install new software. Once that is done, the SA privileges are removed. Perhaps they can meet you halfway with that. Otherwise, tell your manager (and theirs) that you…

Well, as fate would have it, as soon as I posted these comments the EOC page was full of goodies. The one thing I did do prior to posting was to start the SolarWinds Job Scheduler but that did not seem to have an immediate effect.

All of jds' items are definitely on my list. Another one I wanted to add was to have the new custom MIB poller use the polling engine's time to generate a time stamp, and not depend on the database to assign a timestamp when it gets written. Here's my problem: Network Device, Poller, Orion Web Server - all on UTC Database…

I even opened a ticket and was told that 1) this was a bug in the current version and 2) when I was notified that it was fixed, the fix they linked me to was for Cirrus and not for Orion. I would also like to see the output from the Custom MIB poller be used for reports as there are a number of items I can use that form.

Thanks - I am heading in that direction (using an external reporting tool against NetPerfMon) I just haven't had the time to devote to executing the reports I want to generate. James Shepherd Network Service Project Manager - IT Swiss Reinsurance Company 55 East 52nd Street New York, NY 10055 phone - direct +1 212 317 5385…

We have two pollers (one just polls, the other is also the web server) feeding a separate SQL Server device. Performance is very, very good and I would definitely recommend this setup for larger (10,000+) nodes. However, since our SQL Server also supports other applications we have to change the initial SQL account from SA…

When I had asked a similar question a couple of years ago (v7) since I wanted to put a poller in an office 30 miles from our main office, I was told that there would be issues with the database maintaining sync with both the poller and the web server. Still, I would be interested in this type of layout as we have a similar…

Same issue - except that all that starts on reboot are the NPM and the App Monitor. No Alerts, NetFlow, Syslog or Trap. Tried the "proxycfg -u" command as well as rebooting. Nada! I still get Error 1053. James Shepherd Network Service Project Manager - IT Swiss Reinsurance Company 55 East 52nd Street New York, NY 10055…

Sorry all! The server was installed on a network that was not allowed to pass or receive SNMP queries by our network device ACL's. So, once we moved the server to the correct authorized subnet, the devices began to respond to the SNMP queries. Something we assumed was correct wasn't, so we'll have to make sure we check…

Ricky, We have the NPM management server running on a VM with no issue. The pollers are hardware based, and the database sits on our corporate SQL Server SAN. This seems to be a very solid configuration. I have to echo the post stating that SQL Server does not play well on a VM due to I/O issues. I would also say the same…

I have to agree with this. We are 100% SSH in our network, and even something that would allow us to select the SSH params up front (since we use a standard term tool and SSH config globally) would be good.

Also, both Orion installs are v9 with the latest SP - Jim

Here's one that is probably a design issue more than a feature issue: Have a version that allows for a distributed architecture - perhaps an "SLX-Plus". My issue right now is that I am using Orion to monitor my Americas' sites from that area's main hub. However, I would have to set up a separate Orion instance (database,…

It took us about an hour to upgrade our SLX installation - the SLX server and three pollers - with a remote MSSQL 2005 Enterprise Edition database. The only issue was a mixup with SolarWinds about having our licenses available.

Sometimes you can do a sh env all: 3560#sh env all FAN is OK TEMPERATURE is OK Temperature Value: 46 Degree Celsius Temperature State: GREEN Yellow Threshold : 56 Degree Celsius Red Threshold : 66 Degree Celsius POWER is OK RPS is NOT PRESENT Jim Shepherd Network Services Project Manager - IT Swiss Reinsurance Company

I have a similar issue in that the default NetFlow page does not show up with the most recent data. The Orion pollers and web server are set to UTC as well as the monitored devices. The backend SQL Server is apparently set for local time (EST), since the difference in timing between the last Netflow data point and the…