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Did you ever get this sorted? SW - is this something that can be done in the way described by thefish?

Things to bear in mind: * Maximum run time of the discovery task is 10 hours * The responsiveness of your network and parts of it are specific to you * On average a class C discovery scan which is 50% populated will take around 10-15 minutes to complete * Often when presented with this setup by customers i.e. several Class…

If there are a lot of nodes to display on the map the Autoarrange options can have limited success in spreading out the nodes and labels to be readable. I would recommend going for a tiered map structure, which tends to be far more efficient when reading a map, especially for the top level/s.

No - You will need to gather some data from the nodes/interfaces to enable any kind of alert to be triggered. ------------------------------------------------------------ Prosperon Networks - Authorised UK SolarWinds Resellers http://www.prosperon.co.uk

Hi You can download the following report/s and adjust the filter to suit your needs pretty simply: Node Downtime Reports Note: This is a Report Writer report, so you may wish to convert to the new web based report version. Mark

Overall the administration capabilities for the user accounts needs to have more granularity. The ability to delegate specific admin capabilities such as node management tied to the account limitation builder type filters is very much wished for

Rather than going down this route, simply use the Widget that will provide the search function and listing for you; Custom Query. You will need to update the query to utilise SWQL (sorry I do not have access to an installation to recode), but should be straightforward from memory on the SWQL entity names. Here is a blog…

Hi You are not explicit on the data you wish to see, but if it is purely the connection profile that is assigned to each device, there is a default report available. Navigate to Reports > (Drop down select report Category) > NCM Node Details and you will see a report called Connection Profiles. I would suggest you add…

I would do one or both of the following for a client of mine: 1. Create a specific Summary dashboard page and add to menu. On this page structure it so you see the primary links, secondary and any other appropriate service functions, with the appropriate resources. This is likely to include a couple of line charts, tabular…

As a SolarWinds partner we have several customers who use SolarWinds Orion as an MSP solution. As long as you have routing and ICMP/SNMP access to the devices at your client sites, you can easily monitor them. It is also very straightforward to provide your customers access to specific information for their devices, so…

In the System Manager go to File > Custom MIB Pollers. In the window that opens up you can add your custom MIB as you need to. You do not say what firewall it is your needing to monitor, but if you click on New then go to the Private > Enterprises section (simply enter 1.3.6.1.4.1 as the OID, which is the starting point)…

I mixture of Node and Group entities

This is one of those areas that it is all relative. If you have IIS servers that provide an important service to your users/business, then 30 licenses is a very small amount compared to the level of monitoring provided. As mesverrum above indicates, if you do not need the extra monitoring capability AppInsight for ISS…

NCM is vendor agnostic as the approach is to replicate everything you can achieve if you were to use Putty to make an SSH/Telnet connection to the device. Therefore if your devices allow such a connection and commands that support that function, then NCM supports those devices. The application uses template definitions to…

Hi Couple of pointers: 1. Could you install an Additional Web Server (small license cost) in a DMZ to allow you to direct external links to this safer destination? 2. The use of the RESTFUL API could be leveraged, where you create some sort of proxy system method of firing an API call from a platform to which you can…

This is relatively straightforward to achieve and has been discussed many times in the forum. It is a case of getting the URL to the graph image/s you want and putting them into a Custom HTML resource. The use of the Custom HTML resource/s allows you to pull different graphs and charts from all over Orion (or indeed any…

You will want to perform a number of methods to monitor such service: 1. VNQM - Configure IP SLA operations (VoIP UDP Jitter) for site to site communication paths that will be taken for the voice and video comms 2. Netpath may also be useful. Target the service provider end address (signalling destination etc.) 3. SAM -…

Has there been any progress on closing up issues with account limitations? As indicated there are issues with SWIS queries via the API as described above, where direct queries to tables such as Cirrus.x fail to have limitations applied. While we can get over this by making a link to a core table such as Orion.NPM, this…

I am not 100% sure what you need to achieve, but 2 things spring to mind: * In Network Atlas, add the resource (Node, Interface or whatever) to the map and set the size of the icon to 1 x 1. This will make it invisible on the map display, but still cause it to be included in the list. * Outside of the inbuilt map hierachy,…

Hi Jon This is to do with IIS and .Net web apps. When you first hit a .net webpage (.aspx) IIS needs to compile that application into an application pool. So it is this initial compile of the application that is adding the extra time. Note: After 2 hours of the application being inactive, i.e. none of the web pages being…

In this situation if the data stored within the MIB table is transient and does not fit in with the polling cycles within Orion, you need to look at the real-time monitoring protocols such as Syslog or SNMP Traps. This way when the device identifies a certain condition or event has taken place it will generate an event…

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 It looks like you have too much information being sent via syslog by your devices. I would suggest you tune the Severity levels for the syslog output on your devices to Warning or above. If you have a definite need for level 5 (notice) or above, you will have to look at the data retention settings in the Syslog…

This output is included in the MasterPage.master file on line 161, which can be found in Inetpub\SolarWinds\Orion Remember you are changing the code albeit only that for web display, so make a backup and ensure when you apply any updates and re-run the website aspect in the configuration wizard it will get defaulted. I…

Hi Is there any update on the status of the SCOM 2012 compatibility yet? I have a couple of customers very keen on getting this as a supported platform. thanks Mark

Yes, ALWAYS add your Orion server to monitor itself. As Kennethcox suggested, if you have SAM apply the Orion monitoring template. If you have multiple polling engines, cross monitor by assigning the orion server to another polling engine. As for your issue, you do not mention if you are monitoring Orion on the localhost…

You are going to need to upgrade to v10.1 of Orion NPM to be able to perform such an Alert, without resorting to manually editing the SQL database, which is not advised. The latest release allows you to use custom SQL, The Advanced Alerts does have the "Do not trigger this action until it exists for more than x ", which…

We looked into this further, as the only option was for us to create a custom page with custom code. However, this did not get built due to the security implications of ensuring access control was strictly enforced, so in our circumstance the customer was not prepared for the level of development this would have required.

Sorry I should have been clearer and thank you for your answer, however.. The Custom Property structure is already in place, the account limitation is used for customer account logins. This is specifically to allow the service provider operational and NOC staff to view filtered pages for these customers. Groups are OK, but…

Hi Robert, There is an additional APM element that can be installed on the Additional Polling Engines. This is another license, but is pretty inexpensive (sorry not got price list in front of me at the moment). Then within the Web interface under the APM settings you have the choice to poll from the primary Orion or from…