jwhitten

I agree. Atlas is clumsy to use but useful. I would much prefer to use Visio somehow directly since I use it for everything else everywhere else. It would be nice if you could just add some custom properties to an object in Visio and have Orion pick it up and use it. There are a number of good open source Visio parsers…

Thwack is a useful spot to come and get / share info about various Solarwind products. Whatever my question, I can usually find an answer pretty quickly here, or at least a new direction to pursue. And for the moments I'm really stuck, there's usually somebody willing to help out for the asking. It's a nice place.

I like the idea of being able to manage all the alerting in one place. It's a royal PITA as it is now. I really wish the syslog and traps aspects weren't so poorly implemented. They are really difficult to use. Particularly setting up alerts for them.

Heh, that's fine too >

Hmm-- I posted some scripts-- hope it didn't foobar those! :-)

Well, what I am aiming for-- what I'd like, is a report showing the last time the node was successfully contacted. It could either be an absolute date/time (time stamp), or else a relative time (i.e. from "now", meaning when the report was generated). The goal being to have an understanding for how long a system has been…

Yes, I would agree with that statement. My suspicion is that the event verbiage is contained in the web code (ASP / C# or whatever it is). I went rooting around in there one afternoon but did not find it either. But I didn't go through every possible file, just sorta spot-checked stuff that looked interesting. So it could…

So, I guess my next question should be, is there any field that does indicate the last successful communication with the node?

Thank you, appreciate your time! John

Ah, yes. You also have to go in and manually set the subscribed speed in the link attributes. Go to the page associated with the interface port you're interested in and click on "Edit Interface". Then on the edit page, enter in the subscribed bandwidth in the "Transmit Bandwidth" and/or "Receive Bandwidth" boxes and accept…

It looks like Thwack is Thwacked! :-)

As near as I can tell, you cannot edit the *event* verbiage, only the *alert* verbiage via the advanced alert editor.

I hope so, it's the admin account!

No it doesn't-- but thanks for the attempt :-) "Last Sync" could mean one of two things, (A) An attempt to contact a system-- a node-- irrespective of the outcome or (B) Actually talking to the node, an affirmative outcome. So in the case of (A) it means "the last time I tried" and in the case of (B) the last time I…

Michael, I replied to your email. Thanks

How do I do that?

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. I've only just now seen your question-- In the Network Atlas program, look for the section where you can add a background image. In that same section, you can also select a background color. Note that if you select a dark color (such as black) you will also have to go in and edit…

>> I like the line utilization on the map. Will you share with us how you did this? I would like to do something similar. Sure I will ! Sorry for the delay, I haven't logged-on in a bit. Here's how you do it. Go into Network Atlas (obviously) and select a connection line. Then give it a caption something like this (note…

Hmm-- it looks like sometimes the report does not get saved or else generate properly, and results in a situation like the original post. I'm not sure what causes it, but it's happened again. I added some additional fields to the report, and while the ones that it had previously "sorted out" were still fine, some of the…

Thanks for the response regarding doing this in SQL. That is exactly what I was expecting / hoping for. I do not have many pages (this time) to do so I don't mind updating the instances by hand-- but it would definitely be a pain to have to sit and point-n-click my way through it all :-) Thanks, I'll give this a whirl and…

Flyspeed rocks. I use it all the time. The custom properties used to be a lot easier to manage until they took the good tools away and forced everybody to use the crappy web iface. (IMO, of course). I'm not in love with it.

Any chance of getting this fixed soon?? I'd really like to upload my HOW-TO...

I really like your "End-to-End" view. That is extremely nice! John

Hi. yes. That is one of the first things I thought of, however, it only permits me to schedule a report for a maximum of one time per day. I need to do it every 30 minutes-- however, you've just given me an idea-- perhaps I could just set up multiple reports. That'd be a pain, but if it would work, it would solve my…

Well, partly I'm asking for general information, but also because I would like to change this one specifically: SOMESWITCH-GigabitEthernet0/48 - Gi0/48 User defined Receive Bandwidth changed from 10000000 to 1000000000 bps It's obnoxious, I would prefer it just say switched to GB or something.

Currently using Firefox 7.0.1, but I was using 6.whatever at the time.

I added the NodeID as a field and that shut up the warning message.... so I reckon, other than why it happened in the first place, this is no longer an issue :-) (I'll file it under "WorksForMe" :-) John

I probably should have said but it didn't occur to me (sorry), that the way I set this up was to go to the Router Interface page I was interested in, set up that page the way I wanted (just for reference) and then created a BRAND NEW page in the Home/Summary sub-views area, with CUSTOM OBJECT RESOURCE widgets. I then set…

Thank you very much! (What's the use of complaining if you can't have some fun, right? :-) John

Thanks! :-)