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I see that now, and you usually beat me to these things... (this one by a year or more) Both techniques will work, the main difference I see is that when a new release of Orion comes out yours will have to be re-hacked, where as mine "should" flow right in. Don't get me wrong, I like yours, but I am to leary and lazy for…

I warming up to the Content Sharing Zone, still a little cumbersome :)

When I've seen these messages before, the cause has usually been running the SolarWinds Alerting Engine service on more than one box. One instance of that service is sufficient to process all of the alerts, so you can make the messages go away if you just stop and disable all but one copy of that service. So if I turn off…

Glad to help. Well if I remember correctly, way back in the pre-Orion days of NPM, working on a similar issue when that payload value was set to Zero by default to keep the administrative load at a minimal and that didn't "fly" with any firewalls and it also it looked like a DOS attack on IPS/IDS units(yikes!!!) Just be…

 There are three ways to do what you are asking, and the are all covered in the Admin Guide. You can also use the search function in the forum: http://thwack.com/search/SearchResults.aspx?q=Windows+Pass-Through+Security&o=Relevance http://thwack.com/search/SearchResults.aspx?q=DirectLink&o=Relevance…

Okay, the * is what is causing it to go berzerker... Start by viewing the active syslog messages and find one that you want a email for, then define a rule specifically for it. Here is an example of one that shows duplicate IP addresses. The IP address in a GLBP message received on the interface is the same as the IP…

Yes use the database backup function in Orion to save the DB to another drive (and then back that up) IMO: This works better than the SQL maint process for DB backups for Orion. Polling intervals for statistics collection: Nodes = 10 minutes Interfaces = 5 minutes Volumes = 15 minutes Just remeber that on charts and…

In Report Scheduler... are you using an Orion account that has Toolset Integration enabled? If so can you build a local account on the Orion server just for use in the Report scheduler, or a dummy Orion account with no options like Toolset Integration, Allow Event Clearing, Allow View Customization, and no Admin Rights.

Default install path: C:\Program Files (x86)\SolarWinds\Orion\UDT\UDTCompatibilityChecker.exe ​Here is a troublesome Nexus 6k

My QA Orion v8.0.2 enviroment is entirly on VM, including the SQL DB, it runs fine. But it only has One Orion server and one DB : Network Elements1400 ElementsNodes62 NodesInterfaces1333 InterfacesVolumes5 Volumes Retain Detail Stats1 DaysRetain Hourly Stats7 DaysRetain Daily Stats60 DaysRetain Events5 Days

 I haven't seen this condition since going directly to 9.0 SP2 from 8.1... My current TrapVarBinds table is only 4Mbytes, and doesn't change in size. Count query I used before 9.0 SP2: SELECT COUNT(*) FROM TrapVarBinds WHERE NOT EXISTS (SELECT TrapID FROM Traps WHERE TrapVarBinds.TrapID=Traps.TrapID) Orphan TrapVarBinds…

what version of Orion are you running? Have you checked the Orion services and or the maintenance log at C:\Program Files\SolarWinds\Orion\swdebugMaintenance.log

What I mean in question 2 is I have serveral interfaces on a router. not all of them are in use. I want to be able to select to monitor all of the interfaces but not have the ones that aren't being used show up on my Orion NPM website Administratively shutdown ALL un-used interfaces. un-used/open interfaces only leads to…

Are you using Tri-color Icons for your map objects? Open you top level map in Map Maker, right click on an open area and check the map properties. The top slider bar has to be all the way over to the right at 100%.

Here is a post that just might have your answer:

Here is the link to the report I was referring to above. Please ensure you are retaining Events in Orion for at least 30 days. Please feel free to modify this report to meet your organizations reporting needs. Hope this helps... 

Can you elaborate? I'm not sure what you're looking for. The Active Alert (aka All Tiggered Alerts) section on the Summary view is a "locked" resource (it does not have an edit button.) I would like the ability to edit it on the Summary view

Can you post a screen shot of the Windows Task Manager Performance Tab? Thats a bit of overkill, there are limitations such as disk speed (IO), hardware buffers in NICs, and the fact that Orion can not use multiple CPUs. Seems like your trying to pull a flatbed trailer with a Porsche.

Are NodeType: 1 and NodeType: 0 custom properties that you already have defined? If so then on line 17 eventtime between dateadd(month, -1, getdate()) and getdate()AND Nodes.XXXXXXX = '1' Replace the XXXXXXX with the field name of the custom property and the '1' with the value of the field '0' "Save as" that report with a…

Determine the URL for the report that the client is requesting and then place this on the end of the URL: &dataformat=XLS A pop-up dialog box will be presented, click Open or Save and choose a location. Hope that is what you are looking for.

okay, I don't have an answer for what you are seeing, only a few more suggestions to check. Have you checked the Network Tab on the NPM to see if your "over stuffing" the ping packets. Do a tracert, are the ping taking the "expected" path, check the path that Orion is taking to ping those 300ms devices, check…

The db connection timeout is set to 20 seconds. I can't remember exactly where to change that right now, but think its in the NetPerfmon.cfg file in the Orion install directory. Check the DB server for other processes "busing" it up, like Mcaffee.

okay, read this thread:

Man that sounds like justification enough for you to get your own dedicated Orion SQL server for your current production Orion implementation. Burning a polling engine in your current Orion won't solve this; you are looking at deploying a seperate Orion SLX with it's own DB (kind of costly...) I could be "offbase" but;…

Edit the Nodes with Problems view and add this filter: UnManaged<>1

I haven't seen this before with V9.0 I would open a support ticket...

This would be SUPER COOL...

Eric, Orion pings the IP address of the element you have in Orion. Lets say its a L2 switch and you have VLAN1's IP in there 10.10.10.1. Orion will ping 10.10.10.1, but what you won't see is the L1 and or L2 connectivity because port 1/1 does not have an IP (1/1 is physically connected to the upstream router) The same is…

no, and you can set the report to run thru Report Schedular on the first of every month and send you the report...

I think thats the Out Of The Box alerts. Just check all your active alerts and see if any of them are watching Interface utilization and what the Alert value is set to. I say check them all because I have flubbed a couple Alerts before...