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There is a built in function for taking backups like that, Configure Real-time Configuration Change Detection Based on Syslog Messages - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Suppor… And yes to all of your other questions.

As you said yourself, the layer 2 is not given for the junipers because they don't report some of the info that Solarwinds uses for the topo mapping on the same OID Solarwinds is expecting to find it on. The list they look at is documented here Topology related OIDs polled by the Orion Platform - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC.…

The out of the box resources are almost all just stored as aspx files in inetpub if your web server. I've known people to crack them open and create new resources, but if you run the config wizard it removes anything custom so you have to set up a work flow to import them back in any time you use the wizard.

Here is one way to do it, I would probably build it as a custom SQL report because there are a lot of little tweaks I personally would want to do but this gives you a starting point: Create a new report with a table, when it asks for the datasource select Interfaces and use the advanced selector to find the interface…

UDT doesn't have any native tie in to ISE or any other similar systems. There is a concept of a white list in the tool and you can trigger an alert to trigger when new devices are on the network. It is possible with the API to build your own automation to interface with whatever sources you want to populate the white…

Hardware health only shows up for physical servers that are running their vendor's software agent such as Dell openmanage, etc. I'd double check that software on your servers who don't report hardware health and make sure its working.

As an alternative maybe you could just set up a job to log into the f5 and have it send a sort of heartbeat trap or syslog to Orion https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K11127

It's honestly incredibly variable depending on so many things that vary from environment to environment. What are your poll intervals/retention periods? Do you have SAM monitors on it and how many components are in those? How many interfaces/volumes are on the node? Do you use UNDP? Does the device support hardware health…

do you have vman? if so its already collecting the disk capacity stats for every vm and there is an ootb alert that should cover full disks. IIRC that alert just writes to the event log and doesnt send an email so you could change that

Obviously there has to be some kind of path between your cloud and your solarwinds server if you want the to communicate. If you don't have a vpn type connection then the most common setup I've seen is to put an APE inside a DMZ zone and give it a public address. You could technically put the Solarwinds server itself in…

Th ipam.ipnode table does not directly allow updates, you have to use the verbs. I swear a post of almost exactly the same problem was made like 2 days ago. ... looks like it was the second post down from this one, same issue but just using Powershell instead. Set-SwisObject : The given key was not present in the…

Netflow is a protocol designed to be used at the routing layer, so you can tell the source IP, destination IP, port and protocol. For example, it would tell you the server they talked to and if it was on 80 or 443 or something else, and how much traffic they moved but not the specific web pages they loaded. Sometimes the…

I'm very reluctant to create alerts on SQL just for the sake of having more alerts and looking like we are doing something. Database performance is very fussy with lots of competing interests to balance and they are almost always is running at the limit of what the business is willing to give. You almost never walk up to a…

So like HerrDoktor​ mentioned with the config snippets, those are basically just a place to copy/paste code directly into the CLI. Similar to the way many network engineers I have known will have a notepad file of common config changes that they have had to make and just paste them into the terminal window when they need…

Only way would be to change the way you have your discovery set up, instead of doing it by the whole subnet do it by ip range and skip the IP you don't want it to hit. Very tedious, but the tool only does what you tell it to do. You could also just fix the devices themselves to either allow solarwinds to query them, or to…

Couldn't find it via a GUI report, try this as a custom swql report SELECT Caption from orion.nodes n join Orion.NodeSettings ns on ns.nodeid=n.nodeid where settingname like '%udt%' -Marc Netterfield Loop1 Systems: SolarWinds Training and Professional Services * LinkedIN: Loop1 Systems * Facebook: Loop1 Systems * Twitter:…

Can you post a screenshot of the place you are entering that filter? I don't think I recall which graph resources allow filters like that.

Essentially the point of all these indirect answers is that Orion doesn't have a direct relationship between nodes and alerts. You don't "assign" an alert to a node, you set a condition on an object and any objects that match your condition trigger the alert. Some of the conditions could be "static" things that aren't…

On the edit template screen you need to click the edit script button and then test it from there, then it will run the script and see the various outputs and it saves them. It's kind of a weird requirement but hopefully you will see what I'm trying to describe.

Given the database error it shows in the alert history I would try deleting your action and create a new one and see if that improves things, probably also a good idea to get support involved because alert actions shouldn't just be magically disappearing from your db.

In my experience this page generate a lot of red herrings and rabbit holes, but it can also sometimes highlight real problems. I basically just take it all with a grain of salt.

There was a bug in 12.5 that broke custom charts, they fixed it in the hotfix 2 that was released last week.

If you are only planning to back up configs up then cat tools may be all you need. The main features added by ncm is the integration into your other Orion products, the config compliance report tool, and the config change templates.

ive run into th issue many times since the feature came out. Typically restarting services gets it going again and i set myself a report for any servers that seem to be missing their templates

You should use the ICMP status except in cases where the node does not allow ICMP. That is it. The up/down behavior should not change, its just a matter of offering an alternative way to confirm we can reach a device since some classes of devices ignore ICMP. SNMP has more overhead and takes SIGNIFICANTLY longer to…

Unfortunately not, API/web service for DPA - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support ,but I have seen many people just take what they want out of the database (since the customers of the tool are primarily database admins anyway)

Assuming the servers are physical then it can help with ensuring they show up as being connected to the l3switches/routers you are monitoring, but these days they almost always are virtual and so they show up as connected to the vswitches and almost nobody monitors their vswitch since it can't really "fail" so you probably…

Have you installed the desktop client on your machine? This is from the NPM Admin Guide: Playing a Sound The Play a Sound action uses the SolarWinds desktop notification client to play the sound on your computer when an alert arrives. You must download and install the client on every computer that you want to play a sound…

My first thought is that the view you are using on your snmpv3 profile is probably not including the OIDs for hardware health. One simple way to check would be to set the device up to use a v2 community string and see if you are able to add the hardware health to the List Resource. If that exists in v2 and not in v3 then…

I can relate to the frustration, I can hardly think of a reason to remove the feature in that way. It's a pain to be forced to change something that was working fine, but on the plus side it's pretty easy to convert SQL to SWQL, in most cases I can convert back and forth in under 5 mins. The only places where it gets a bit…