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you are right. its under admin - web console settings.. i forgot that was there..thanks..

i know i could have done that but i was wondering if it was a "supported device".. darn IBM storage devices!!

Thanks Mark that is an AWESOME LINK!! it explains so much!!

 v9.0??? HOLY COW!! i just am getting used to 8.5.1 sp3!!! hahaha

 When i go to my File -> Database Maintenance i get a pop to start like the screen shot below. Am i doing something wrong??

Mark, I dont see those defaults. Is there a way of getting them back?

wouldnt it be just easier to delete that table instead of truncating it? Does the db need this table?

I agree.. we dont use the orion server for its syslog functionality.. i dropped the retention period to a day and was hoping to see that table size SHRINK, but it still seems to be growing.. i might have to re-index and shrink that table to see the actual results. I dont see any data from 2days ago but the table size hasnt…

i create an interface custom property and associate it with the interfaces you are worried about. Then write an alert if interfaces in that custom property group goes down, you get an alert.

 I get those too. I get an alert for a CISCO core switch going down but when i run the uptime command, it shows that it never went down. Weird. Goes down and comes back up in the same minute. 2minute polling intervals.

Thanks guys!! this really fixed everything!! Where would i be without fellow helpful "solarwinders"

When you say "it sets off alarm", what do you mean? an email goes out? If you dont want to monitor then, you can remove then when you do a "list resources"

yeah.. i would create a report in report writer and then in the report writer, you can export that to various formats..

what happens when you do a rediscover now??

seems like others are having the same issue - http://communities.vmware.com/message/1719310I did notice that in APM4.2 there are several VM stats that you can poll.. I picked up the system.uptime.latestIt gave me a weird statistical value.. anyone ever tried this? what happens when a vmware host reboots? does that host…

IBM 6800 - text file provided by our Mainframe dudes..

* Default Interface Poll Inteval (I think this is only used to poll SNMP up/down status of an interface) - correct.. * Is it only used for up/down interface status? - correct * Anyway to turn it off? Out of 14k interfaces, I can't think of a whole lot of them that I need notified on. Maybe I'm crazy yes.. you only get…

i am going to assume your Call Manager is on a Windows box.. to display multiple CPU usage on my windows devices i setup a UDP with this OID - 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.3.3.1.2

eerr if you have a node, its already pinging it..

 How do you add the search for syslog tab? i got everything else to work...

i have the same issue. It errors in IE7 but not in Firefox. Weird.. i opened a ticket with support..