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One other thing to keep in mind when trying to monitor layer 2 interfaces for NetFlow on 6500s. In order to get both routed and bridged traffic from Netflow, you'll need either a PFC3B or PFC3BXL running IOS 12.2(18) SXE or later. If you have a PFC3A or you're running IOS code earlier than 12.2(18)SXE, you'll only get…
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You should be able to use an advanced alert to have an event logged to the event log. I believe there is a default advanced alert called "High Packet Loss Monitoring." It isn't enabled by default but that's the advanced alert you'll need to tweak to get events in the event log. Here's the description of the alert: "Percent…
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One other option would be to become a Solarwinds reseller, sell each company their own Orion installation, install the EOC at your company, create site to site VPN tunnels between your site and your customers' sites and monitor all of the sites via the EOC. Ideally, you would charge each customer a monthly monitoring fee…
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I just started seeing the same message after installing the Engineer's Toolset on my laptop. I think it has something to do with the SolarWinds Toolset Integration app. I only see the waiting for localhost message when the integration app is not running. When it is not running, I experience the same timeout when trying to…
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Primom, Overall, our upgrade to NPM v9.1 went very smoothly. We have two pollers and an additional web server. I stopped all services on both polling servers, upgraded our primary Orion server first, then upgraded our additional polling engine. Finallly I upgraded our additional web server. I've seen some user posts on…
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Yeah, that's what I figured it meant. However, the way it was worded in the release notes didn't make that very clear (at least not to me.) The release notes state that "Orion NTA should be installed and fully upgraded to this version on any and all Additional Polling Engines and Additional Web Servers you are currently…
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Me three.
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Support told me this afternoon that this software bug will be fixed in SP3, tentatively due out at the end of next week. They have a pre-release version that you can get from support if you can't wait for the final release.
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I see the same thing in our implementation. I think its the lesser of two evils. When we first implemented the NTA module, once you configured Netflow on your device, you had to go into the Orion admin site and actively select the interfaces on the nodes you had configured for Netflow. It does that automagically for you…
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Stacy, Just a quick comment on how long it takes the NetPerfMon process to stop when you're doing an upgrade. Save yourself the time by doing the following: Bring up the services MMC on yoru Orion server and set the SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor to a start up type of disabled. Open Task Manager. Open the Orion…
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viol8tor Unfortunately for me, I had already tried copying the schema file over to the additional web server. The .cfg file already exsisted, but I tried copying it over anyway. I'm still in the same boat. My original ticket for this issue got closed somehow. I opened another one 2/23 and support downloaded my diagnostic…
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One thing to keep in mind when writing reports based on your Events is to check your Events Retention time. I can't remember what the default value is, but if you're looking for a certain amount of history, just make sure you're retention time is long enough to give you the data you're looking for.
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David, Thanks for the follow up. Customer Service did get the NetFlow module for Additional Web Server added to our account and I installed the module successfully on our additional web server last night. Thanks again, Kevin
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ttl, I'm not aware of a document that lists out the interface types with the corresponding number. However, one quick way to get that info is to modify one of the out of the box Interface status reports in Report Writer. If you look at the Current Traffic - All Interfaces report and add the Interface Type, Interface Type…
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Brandon, I know this is more of a feature request, but would it be possible to change the Custom Properties fields in the Edit Properties section to drop down lists that would be populated with the current custom properties in the database? Currently, if someone happens to fat finger a custom property by misspelling it or…
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Ciag, If you use Firefox, check out this thread: . It's a free solution and it seems to work pretty well.
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This worked fine for me. However, if you cut and paste Joe's MenuOption line, you'll need to add the leading bracket "<" before pasting it into the file.
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Nandish, I think what mivy00 is referring to is when building a dynamic query for a group, "Group" isn't included in the list of Orion Objects.
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Hey Marie, I think what hjarriell wants is a note somewhere in the Reports section that lets users know that in order to download the report to Excel, they need to append &DataFormat=Excel to the end of the report's URL. However, what would be even easier would be to have the Raw Data button available for Reports like it…
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Cool, I learned something new today...I guess I can go home now! I've never really used basic alerts, as I've always had a requirement to put a delay in the triggering of the alert action. Thanks for the info!
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lchance, I have a couple of basic alerts configured for a few "oddball" devices that gives up/down status that run just fine along with all of our advanced alerts. Hope this helps!
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You could also just do a live demo using SolarWind's Demo site: oriondemo.solarwinds.com/.../SummaryView.aspx
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I haven't run into that problem in 9.1, but I have seen it for menu items I created. By default, it looks like the path points to the server name. If you log in as admin and go to the Customize Menu Bars, you can edit the menu bar that is giving you the error. After we set up a record for Orion in DNS, I had to go into…
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I can't remember the exact reason, but something Microsoft did keeps System Manager from connecting to a remote server. The only way to run System Manager is to log into the server and run it locally.
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That did it. I've had to do that in the past for Report Writer, but wasn't aware of that option in the Custom Propery editor. Thanks Tim!
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Mark, Even when using the Orion Service Manager to stop the services, my Network Perfomance Monitor service has always taken a very long time to stop. I just upgraded Sunday from v9.1 to v9.1 SP2 and I stopped all the services before applying the service pack. The Network Performance Monitor services eventually stopped on…
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Unfortunately, this colo space is new and doesn't have any ESX servers in place to host a VM nor is there any available budget to add an ESX server anytime soon. So, our options are to either leave the additional web server on it's current VM in the datacenter and see if we experience a performance hit after moving the…
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maizerage I don't believe this will change the grouping within the node list in MapMaker. If that's not correct, let us know how you apply the grouping to MapMaker.
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According to the thread qle linked to, SolarWinds has no plans to add that feature unless they see enough customer interested to justify working on it. I agree with the posts in that thread, with large monitors becoming more and more affordable, more columns would be a welcomed feature for the web console. I've had Orion…
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I'd like to know the answer too. I'm deleting expired flow data once a day as well using the default 1000 as the number of expired IPs to remove at a time. I currently have 5,905,348 expired IPs. Thanks!
