jtimes

Is there any way to create a custom advanced alert, that knows when a server happens to go down due to a manual shutdown rather than just becomming unreachable? Probably not because this alert would still have to rely on unsuccessful ICMP replies; which won't say anything but timeout. what you could do, with a little…

What IP address do you use to manage the routers? Since your loopback ip is a non-routable address; have you tried entering the following configuration statement: logging source-interface Vlan1

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Like Network _Guru said "XP is a desktop OS, Orion is a SERVER application"; ALL Orion documentation clearly state "Operating System Windows 2000 Server or Windows 2003 Server" in the requirements section. www.solarwinds.net/.../sysreq.aspx John J. Times

I would open a ticket with Support on this, looks like your DB somewhat "hosed-up"...

Remote console into your Orion server and right click on the My Computer icon and select Manage then expand the Event Viewer select the SolarWinds.net section. Right click on it and select Clear all events... At this point you can either write them off to an archive file (for historic reference) or just select no... 

make sure there isn't a hosts file on you Orion server(s)

\Program Files\SolarWinds\Orion\RunOrionJob.Log Good runs look like this: (job numbers correlate with report scheduler view) 8/17/2008 11:30:00 PM Started Job-24083.OrionJob 8/17/2008 11:45:00 PM Started Job-296190.OrionJob 8/18/2008 5:00:00 AM Started Job-202495.OrionJob 8/18/2008 7:00:00 AM Started Job-252104.OrionJob…

Check the server(s) to ensure that SNMP is allowed to accept packets from either Any Host or specific hosts. To check the server RDP / console into the server with administrative rights, go to Services, then SNMP Service, Right click on the service name then go to Properties. Click on the Security Tab. Depending on your…

I just did this same action on four of my eight polling engine servers and my Orion server this week. 1. Make sure you have the install files (and service packs) for the version you are currently running I recommend not going to the next version during your hardware upgrade, you should already know how your current version…

Those errors are comming from the polling engines trying to update records in the database that are currently in a rocord lock state, you wouldn't happen to have nodes on multiple polling engines would you? The "ID #" int the message is the node or interface ID in the table. I've seen this one time when the DB is running…

On the device level map do you have the interface objects added to the map?

I have found less issues with the graphics if I save them as a .gif (stick to the default format) directly from Visio John J. Times

The CURRENT VALUE field is pretty much useless in the Active Alerts view, but it always has been in Advanced Alerts :( Can we get the Active Alerts view as a resource that can be modify, like to add sort and or filter abilities?

I have always had that issue (with all previous versions of Orion), and always thought it was because we don't run DNS for network devices... Yes my local hosts file is VERY LARGE (546kb)

There are many way to approach this; depending on your network connectivity at the 300 locations it might require some additional work on your part by defining a custom property or two. Here is a sample report I have used for sometime now: Open Report Writer and select New Report, choose Advanced SQL. Remove my comments…

How do I go about monitoring the current connections on an ASA? Withe the "billy bad-a**" Universal Device Poller! It's sweet. Your Orion has to have SNMP access to the ASA.

We send the canned basic Node Down SNMP Traps to Netcool, it opens, fills, and assigns the HP-SC ticket to the predetermined group. Orion waits two cycles (about 8 minutes) then Netcool waits another 5 minutes, just in case its a reboot/reload, when Netcool sees an immediate Node Up message it won't open a ticket. Then the…

You can click on the Insert Variable button, its pretty intuitive. Here an email that I get for when a node gets removed from the network. "Notes" is a Custom Property; when my NOC puts the word remove or removed in that field it triggers the alert that fires off the email below: Device ${NodeName} [ ${Node.IP_Address} ]…

michael - 26,000+ on two polling engines! I have a semi large SLX Orion deployment: (19116 Elements) six servers’ total - 1 Orion server, 3 Polling Engines, 1 HSB Server, 2 clustered SQL servers. My servers are monsters (Dual 3.20 Intel Xeon, with 8GB mem and 4 fiber channeled gig interfaces) Total number of elements…

Try this: Nodes.Status=1

Do you by chance have McAfee on that server? If so check the Virus Scan Console>View Log and see if it is blocking SMTP port 25 traffic.

What version of Orion are you on? If it's below 8.1, then you might want to use the Database Manager and manually compact/re-index your DB tables.

run this: "C:\Program Files\SolarWinds\Orion\SolarwindsDiagnostics.exe" It's pretty self explanatory

Jackie, Your post presents several questions, but I will attempt to answer you main question with this post (read the entire thread) Then search the forum for these key words: database, truncate, maintenance. there are several other very useful post that pertain to getting and keeping your DB under control. If all else…

Cool report NG! Put it in the Content Sharing Zone :) Cisco's take on understanding Buffer Misses and Failures: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/modules/ps2643/products_tech_note09186a0080093fc5.shtml#topic1 Cisco's Buffer tuning doc:…

Are you opening a command prompt on the Polling Engine that the node is monitored by, or from your desktop?

Unfortunately not, we have been wanting that for a while, but have gotten used to it.

Have you checked the servers event viewer for application, Security, SolarWinds.net, or system events? Virus scann apps possibly crashing the services? Or the ever so popular .NET Runtime Optimization Service v2.0.50727_X86 fully installed (with the dotnetfx.exe applied?) John J. Times

If those three routers have a common name like labrouter1, 2, 3 this should be rather simple: Add a condition group and change it Trigger alert when none of the following apply, then add a Simple condition that says Nodename contains labrouter. If the names are not similar just add three simple conditions that have the…