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We have been starting to see small enterprises either implementing or including OpenFiler as an review option to base virtualisation storage on, as the entry point for SAN hardware makes this cost prohibitive for smaller companies. While this is our visibility as a SolarWinds partner with our customer base, how many…

Thanks Tim, I have already had the 'you need to get up to date' conversation and the customer is also telling them they want them to keep the integration up to date. We have some leverage now as we need to exchange Routing data, so v3 here we come.

Hi Sorry for not replying to previous post. The Neverfail for SQL solution performs file level synchronisation and therefore does not utilise the Transaction log. Other block level mirroring methods can also be used, but all of these I would suggest are not as good using full SQL replication techniques; Always on,…

Hi, Here is the original link and a response from a SW Product Manager with his thoughts - The next release of Orion doesn't allow this, but you may well find the new menu system gives a more flexible solution anyway. Mark Roberts Prosperon - UK SolarWinds Partners Installation | Consultancy | Training | Licenses

As a work around for the packet loss/latency lists, add a filter to this resource to not show the unmanaged devices. Click Edit (assuming you have customise view permissions) on the Top XX resources where unmanaged node data is showing. Create a filter to exclude the unmanaged devices. I am not in front of an installation…

The WPM module for Orion is not designed for many of your features you outline. It is there to perform macro recording user experience interactions with web pages to confirm they are working, delivering the right content and in a timely manner. With the addition of Pingdom integration, the ability to run the recordings…

Thanks very much for sharing this. An option if the ability to do so in the API isnt available in time. If a customer is in a position to need to automate the creation of nodes within Orion, it is highly likely that they will have custom pollers that would need assigning at the time of node creation. Thanks again

To answer your question - No Orion NTA cannot be configured to forward Netflow packets to another receiver. The correct configuration is that proposed using a dedicated Netflow forwarder/replicator solution. We have deployed this for customers where devices only supported single export destinations, where multiple were…

OK, so I understand what you are trying to achieve. No, there is no native support for you to capture login data from Cisco ISE, only Windows AD is supported. I have had a look and there are no API verbs that you can leverage to perform this function via the Orion API either I am afraid. Time for you to create a feature…

Am not in front of Orion to check this, but 2 observations: 1. What Object are you defining under the Trigger Condition tab? this can play havoc with custom queries as the variable structure can be completely different dependant on object types 2. Following on from my first point, you can see in Rene's response, his…

It does not matter how the data is collected (WMI, Agent or SNMP), as once the data gets to Orion, the database structure will normalise the data to allow the Alerting engine to work off of this. There are a number of default hardware based alerts, which I suggest you review to determine how they should be updated to work…

That to me shows that the device is not being polled currently and the last time the DB was updated was a few days ago. You can tell this easily by looking at the historic charts ensuring you look at the ICMP and SNMP based data charts, as we often see one (usually ICMP) is working and SNMP is not. You should also check…

If your wanting to include a variable within certain areas, such as Tags to create links to external applications I do not believe this is currently possible.

You are trying to move to a new server and have completed the following steps: * You have backed up (created netperfmon.bak file) the database * Installed SQL Express on new server * Created a new database and restored the file from step 1. If the name and DB locations are different, you will have to force an overwrite *…

Sorry for the delay in replying. If you can provide more information on the requirements and metrics you have, I and the Thwack community can maybe help with some guidance. If this is something that is for the benefit for all, SolarWinds are likely to add and extend the functionality in to the Orion NPM application.

Sorry, are you saying it is not possible to limit this resource based on Node level filters, only application?

While you are right in that you cannot do a test in the MIB browse area, you can readily test the OID against a device, other than using the Engineers Toolset ofcourse, by using the Assign section of the wizard. This you can select a device or a number of them to perform a test to confirm you get expected values back

Yes, this can be done, but this would be a query going across two databases (NPM and NCM). For example if I wanted a report showing the quantity of backups per device or a Last Config Change Report as single entity I would need to reference the NCM database. This may have issuees in terms of authentication (without…

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Sorry, I should have been clearer, by convert I meant recreate within the Web based engine. There is no conversion tool (at least yet)

hi Be aware of the following KBs Cisco Wireless Lan Controller/WLC device template - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support Unable to download configs from Cisco WLC devices with WLC template and device using TFTP to transfer - SolarWinds World… I would suggest you enable session tracing (Settings > NCM Settings >…

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This is the release link for SCOM 2012 - http://downloads.solarwinds.com/solarwinds/Release/Components/SolarWinds-Orion-ManagementPack-v2.0.0.zip

Hi Krishna As TDanner has indicated, you create a POST connection to that URI and you send in your POST BODY the query, where the format needs to be correct: { "query": "SELECT Status, IP, MachineType, PercentLoss, CPULoad, MemoryUsed FROM Orion.Nodes WHERE Caption=@name", "parameters": { "name": "krishna123" } } You do…

If you are changing the local account password on your devices, then the following is your procedure: * Create the appropriate script within NCM Configuration Management area (save the script in the script library)* This script will be written exactly as you would if you were using putty to connect to the terminal of the…

As orioncrack has pointed out, the use of the dependency feature in Orion provides this capability. It is a very simple concept 1 parent object and 1 child object. When the child object is down, the status of the parent object is checked and if that is also down, the child object is placed into a status of 'Unreachable',…

Yes, that is the beauty of NCM, in that the Execute Script function in the alert is simply a box you can type out the appropriate command syntax for the device you are applying the change to. Therefore, when you are creating your alert, you may have an alert definition for devices that support Cisco IOS commands within the…

I am not sure if the latest firmware (v4) has changed anything in the MIB structure, but the compiled MIB's within Orion lists everything you can retrieve from the Fortigates. NCM also has full support to download the configs, with a template already supplied

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