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Thought this would have been simple, but the Interface Details from Type of View drop down only allows one interface... I have figured another way to do this... First open several windows with the exact interface charts you want. Get the chart variables sorted out (Last 24 Hours / sample size Every Hour etc...) Select…

There are several ways to do this, just not with a mouse over pop up (yet)... Check these out: ?PageIndex=1 <---this one has the best info in it <---My controbution...

Yes. Search the Admin Guide for DirectLink Account (p279 Administrator’s Guide for Orion Series Network Performance Monitor, Version 7 November 16, 2005.) After you create the DirectLink account, create a custom menu bar that only has Maps and Logout, set account's home view to a specific map and menu bar to the custom…

mine does not allow it??? When a user with non-admin rights hits that URL they get the following: Orion Website Error An error has occurred with the Orion website. Additional Information You must be an Admin to access this page.

I knew I wasn't crazy, thanks Chris... Last week I opened a support ticket: 2149 on this. John J. Times

You wouldn't happen to have McAfee enabled, if so check the VirusScan console Log for something like this: Blocked by port blocking rule C:\Program Files\Solarwinds\Orion\OrionAlertEngine.exe User-defined Rules:Prevent mass mailing worms from sending mail - Outbound 25

Sounds like your nightly db maintenance. Check the maintenance schedule. You might want to do that on a weekly basis, depending on you particular SQL implementation (MSDE or full blown SQL). Search the Forum for maintenance or database for addition tips. Here is a good thread around what you described:…

that was easy... this will give you last month SELECT StartTime.EventTime, Nodes.Caption, Nodes.Location, StartTime.Message, DATEDIFF(Mi, StartTime.EventTime, (SELECT TOP 1 EventTime FROM Events AS Endtime WHERE EndTime.EventTime > StartTime.EventTime AND EndTime.EventType = 5 AND EndTime.NetObjectType = 'N' AND…

it sure is the last 30 days. I never checked that because I have it in Report Scheduler to run at midnight every 30 days... I'll see if I can get the "last month" figured out and re-post it. John J. Times

thats the SQL commands from the additional reports that Vic was talking about John J. Times

In Report Writter: File> New Report > Advanced SQL General Tab: Report Group: Events Report Title: Outage Duration Paste this into the SQL Tab: SELECT StartTime.EventTime, Nodes.Caption, Nodes.Location, StartTime.Message, DATEDIFF(Mi, StartTime.EventTime, (SELECT TOP 1 EventTime FROM Events AS Endtime WHERE…

I have a large Orion deployment: Orion Server, HSB engine, 9 Polling Engines, and a monster DB server all are on blade servers. Been running there for the last three years. No issues All are HP Blade Servers - E5450 (2HTx3.00 GHz) with 16 GB RAM; same hardware for the DB, but 32 GB RAM The NICs are teamed and set to…

On the SQL server open the SQL Server Books Online and search for "Collation Options for International Support"; once you get the DB speaking the same language as the devices, then you should get rid of the locking issue and errors reported by the MainTaskDataReader. (hopefully)

why are you porting this again? or was this a "old forum" re-import? From the looks of this new screen shot, forgive me if I don't get the language set correctly, but it looks like the DB is set to use English, and the devices are named using an international or Chinese character set. This would explain the ????'s because…

Malvado, Are the interfaces you are seeing these discards on connected to other switches, routers, servers, and or Firewalls? Transmit Discards - indicate that packets were not transmitted because of network congestion. It's not the switch, it's the receiving station that can't keep up. We usually see this condition on…

Well while you wait for an exact answer to your question... Did you check the Network Tab under Settings and put some text in there so Orion is not just sending a 2k empty ICMP packet? Here is a shot of mine and it seems to work for me, but i'm not going thru Checkpoints :(

Re-run the config wizard, then if still having error(s) open a support ticket. Its the standard answer unfortunately.

You can create a view called Unmanaged Devices. Just take an existing view and copy it, then change the view name to Unmanaged Devices Under the Add Resources to select Node Lists then Node List - Custom Grouping and Filtering or Down Nodes Either one will work, just if you want them Grouped by Custom property select the…

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assuming that this is a Cisco device... what is the IOS this router is running?

2.) Orion on one server, SQL on another MONSTER server with DB stored on local drive

My work around for the visible Edit Resource Icon: Backup the existing image first: C:\Inetpub\SolarWinds\NetPerfMon\images\SmallButton.Edit.gif Then replace it with a tiny 5x5 pixel transparent image. 5x5 is pretty hard to hit, but its still there for the Admin

Using the Custom Property editor I have added a "notes" field for Nodes and Interfaces, and added them to the respective views. The purpose of this is to allow my NOC clients to add information pertaining to status. I have also set up Advanced Alerts to trigger off of keywords in "notes"; such as the word "removed." When a…

Not so much in Report Writer, but you could use Report Scheduler... Just grab all the URLs and create a new scheduled job. Its pretty straight forward, now you will still have to cut-n-paste the charts into Word, but they will be emailed to you saving you from having to bring them up individually... Hope that helped 

By default the sort order has everything to do with how and where the fields are chosen. e.g. if you select Interface name> accenting Interface Bytes Transferred > accenting the report will be sorted by Interface name completely, then within that sort by the bytes transferred. As for your second question, and to change the…

I'd like to see a search feature on the top right of Orion site no matter what page I'm on. That way I don't have to go to my 'Home' page to search for nodes or anything else. You can add the Search For Nodes or Interfaces resource as a Custom Menu Item and add it to your menu bar

You could filter them out, but that will lead to bigger problems for you... as in missed outages... The best advice I can provide on this subject is to administratively shutdown unused interfaces here is an example filter, but you will need to use interface variables like OperStatus=1

Did you update the Report Schemas?... Tricky little bugger gets me every time... Bring up the Custom Property editor on the Orion server Right click on the grey area just right of the Help question mark on the top tool bar Select Customize, then the Commands Tab Scroll down to Update Report Schemas and drag it up next to…

With this in mind: NVD - XML Vulnerability Feed Retirement I'm certain SolarWinds is working on the transition to JSON feeds, although I haven't personally confirmed it

I think the only way to make it smaller is to actually shorten the number of days that syslog messages are retained. I had the same issue with syslog eating up space until I cut the number of days... Secondly I made a concerted effort within my organization for the Operations staff to actually take action on syslog…