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Depends on the brand of server and the HBA. In some cases you could monitor it via SNMP with a UNDP, in other cases you might have to create a SAM script monitor. Mostly just depends on what programmatic options exist for pulling the status of the card from that server.

I know @"saw10" and @"sum_giais" have both implemented infoblox DNS updates from past threads, they might have some insight to share.

I'm not sure I understand the question or problem you are trying to describe. You have a new view, is it a summary view or a group details view or something else? You are trying to display some map you have seen elsewhere in the UI, but its not a named widget so you don't know what to add?

You can review the release notes here https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/ntm/content/release_notes/ntm_2-3_release_notes.htm Doesn't look like there was anything about encryption algos but maybe i missed it.

Pretty certain that the oid you are looking for does not do what you think it does. That table looks like it provides a list of every possible alarm that device could trigger via an SNMP trap. Walking against the oid and seeing the output you saw doesnt mean the device is currently on battery…

You are correct, automatic addition of objects has always been and continues to be a bit wonky in Orion. With that said I know lots of people who put in the time and got it dialed in for their environments over the years, it just took some experimentation because almost nobody agrees on exactly how they want their imports…

You might have better luck going to legacy version of the manage nodes view and deleting it from there. I've also seen cases where especially an additional web server will have a hard time with deleting things so it can sometimes help to make sure you are making that kind of change from the web console of the primary app…

Are you referring to network atlas maps? If so there is not really anything i've seen and since they ended development on atlas a while back I wouldnt expect that to change.

I'll also throw it in there that most the PowerBI teams I have seen just ingest csv versions of reports form Orion instead of hitting the DB directly, its a bit more manageable because you just send them exactly the data they need and nothing else, and insulates your prod system from them trying to run a heavy report that…

SAM is extremely chatty in the DB, so default retention periods are shorter for it, 90 days is the OOTB max for daily component stats. Adjust data retention settings in SAM (solarwinds.com) I wouldn't recommend someone just bump it up to 365 without considering that it can make SAM pages take a LOT longer to load if you…

As a general pattern if you want to know what variables will be available you need to find the actual SQL (not SWQL) table that holds those entities and usually any column in that table will be available as a ${variable} inside your custom query widgets. IIRC there are some modules where this isnt the case, but most of the…

This is a good example of how we can get twisted up by letting the users tell us what they want us to build for them, rather than knowing the problem they want to solve. Looks like someone had some old school unix admin style hack where they dumped data to a flat text file and were expecting you to parse and present that…

Pretty sure they only do the calculation once a week and rely on having a week of historical data in the system, so my first guess would be that those volumes were added to orion too recently

I have been down this road before with other SAM templates and IIRC there is an enabled column in the table where the over rides live. So if you over ride a template it creates the relevant settings, but you always have the option to flip back to using the template which disabled the setting but it still exists in the DB.…

that unit is measuring in seconds, so yeah going from 2 to 4 sounds believable. Depending on your hardware i've seen some old cisco gear that needs to be as high as 15 seconds to have this UI work, so it depends on how old/cheap the gear you are displaying is.

Any chance you are connecting to the website via an additional web server? Sometimes I find those guys can be cranky and thats best addressed via a support case.

I'd still circle back to the earlier comment about adjusting the advanced setting to get a slightly slower polling speed. The limiting factor there is the hardware you are polling but Orion contains the levers to let you work around whatever your gear can actually support. Real time is best for eyes on glass scenarios if…

There is no GUI method to get to the advanced settings, its an "if you know, you know" kind of hidden menu. If you try to copy his link you might be getting jammed up on the fact that he used http instead of https. I usually log into my platform and delete everything after my servername from the url bar and just paste in…

go into manage groups, tick the box on the parent and go to edit, from there on the screen where it asks you to pick child objects make sure the drop down is not on nodes, move it to groups, and then just pick all the ones that you want to nest inside it. You cannot use dynamic rules with group definitions because it would…

In the real time polling you can run into quirks of polling cycles and the refresh rate of the counters themselves. In ye olden days lots of lower end Cisco gear wouldnt even update the SNMP counters more than every 15 seconds or so, so if you hammer it every 1 second you would get exactly the same byte sent count 14x and…

Ran into this for the first time last week as well, i just used my Orion service account in the moment, which is an admin on all my servers, but as best I could tell it would just be any account with permissions to write to the directory in question. Seems like that whole flow only really makes sense if you were writing to…

Right, there is nothing special about how Orion specifically does routing. It just lives in Windows on top of the native TCP IP stack the same as any other Windows server. If you can't route from Orion to a give destination then you just need to figure out why any generic server wouldn't route that path. If you are doing…

In the CW logs they usually post exactly the SQL they are trying to run at each step, so if I run into something weird like that I usually just dig into the SQL and reverse engineer the change that it's attempting to make and see what hoops I need to clear to make it happen. In the past I've had to do various fixes for…

This article does a decent job talking about one approach: Multiple-Column Indexes and Hashing: The Ultimate Guide to Boosting Database Performance | by LordNeic | Medium

Sounds like you think im talking about a UNDP, im not. If you follow that link it is the place you go to change the memory calculation used on specific nodes and this does replace the native model and will control the status as it is displayed in maps and just about anywhere else in the platform. You can manipulate this,…

re-reading your original post it feels like maybe you are trying to say that you think the actual data collection for the ISE is incorrect? The ISE is reporting 26% via maybe its internal CLI or some other way? In Orion are you seeing the violation in relation to the RAM metric or is it inheriting a bad status from a…

Orion maps almost always display based on the individual entity thresholds, so that link i sent should be the best solution for what you are asking. If something is red and you disagree then just tweak the thresholds until it is not longer violating. Regarding the large retailer situation, I have been consulting in the…

you that seems excessive, are you doing any kind of sampling or maybe sending flow from virtual sub interfaces in addition to the actual physical ports?

The trouble here is that given a particular inefficient table design there isn't a lot you can do via your query to make it more efficient. Is there currently an index on all the relevant tables for the keys and where conditions you need to be able to use? Without indexes in the right places query performance is pretty…

The netflow UI has a lot of assumptions built in to try and save people from themselves, but if you don't know then you don't know. For one thing, displaying all traffic for a given netflow node is usually risky for the reason you mentioned, any traffic that comes in an interface is usually going out another interfaces so…