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Any other updates from support on this question? I have not heard anything from anyone.

Did you ever find out what the bug really was?

I agree with all of you. I asked fro this back in release 7.0. A simple check box to NOT monitor up/down status would be the best. Our scenario is such that with our 700 some servers, our server switches need to be monitored for stats but not for status, as mentioned in one of the other messages for end-users. A check box…

I have the same issue for some alerts. I am at 10.1.1.SP1. 4 PE's and some are workgin fine while others not. SW helped with the install. Is there a fix to this? Some of our international clients are not very happy right now.

Thank you for the reply. This would be for NPM and its polling engine. There are really two issues here. 1. After the poller finally loads into memory, it proceeds to rediscover the entire known database. That is not needed if the database is intact. This process can take up to one hour on the start up of Netperfmon. This…

Any Thoughts?

All, How quaint of Cisco not to include that yet! I am working with our Tech Rep about thhis very issue and it is his understanding that Cisco realizes that we need that in a MIB!!!! The way we are exploring a solution is to use BGP Neighbor pairs and use the IP addresses to determine status first. After that, we are going…

Yes. And I would stand on the side of "if it is unmanaged, don't do anything to it". If I unmanage some device, Orion should NOT go out and create activity.

I would like to see a way to AUTOMATICALLY fillout a ticket in Remedy/Remedy version 7. Could you look into that?

Since the database has start and end times only for most devices, could we not just change the TIMES for the devices in question? It seems that the code is allowing for time only already. For example, if I change the time from 12:00am (the present default in the DB) to 7:30 a.m. and then change the "TO" time from 12:00am…

One note on this. When saving the file you will receive an error about not having the Interface ID as a field. Simply disregard that message and continue the save. It still works. Sorry for not including that info.

Please describe "that post" so I can reply to it. Thanks

Have you tried putting a scope on a span port to see what one of these servers is doing? Try putting Wireshark on a PC that is on a spanned port and see if Orion is sending an SNMP poll and/or the server replies. If there is a reply, what is the update time for the web page? Also, check on the polling time that Orion…

That did not work. I don't get tot he admin page. What do I do next?

Yes, it is multi-processor. Yes, we already did that as well.

Strange. My NPM show the version/Service PAck on the bottom of most pages. SolarWinds Orion Network Performance Monitor 9.5 SP4 1995-2009 All Rights Reserved

I still have not heard anything from anyone, Andy. When I tried to e-mail you a reply, the server at your end failed for several days. Could you give me some status in an e-mail, please? Thanks!

All, According to my Cisco Tech Rep, the MIbs for data stats does not exist .....yet. We are going to go down the BGP pairs road and see if we can device a set of stats that way. It will take some interpretation at the outset, for the IP addresses to be aligned to a device, but we are going to see if we can make sense of…

As I stated, the documentation is ambiguous at best as to what that really means. This is not an answer. AI read the notes. When does Orion declare a node "Down" and "Up" and what is the delay to that declaration? What does the delay include, if anything?

If I may be so bold, may I suggest a stripped down version of the NTA function be a no cost license. It would not be usable with any other software. It's only function would be to collect and send flow information. Have this collector software set up in lesser devices, such as good but old PCs or old but sufficient servers…

Do I need to upgrade NCM before I put the Integration Module in? Is there a README file that I can find that explains all of the procedures for this?

How many polling engines do you have? You might be on the wrong poller server. Also, make sure the that the DB is intact by l;oooking at the db with db manager.

One more suggestion: Make a "Goto Node: " box based on the "Search for Nodes" box already in Orion. No one likes to use the "Search for" when they already know the device name. Could we get that soon?

It would be very helpful to make multiple custom mibs showin one chart. Example: QoS groups and then the DSCP within the group and then the usage of each. A second example: being able to chart a custome mib for services on a device such as a windows server looking for service 443 or 80 or some such. If the service is not…

If I were Solarwinds, I would be suggesting that if you really have "thousands" of nodes, why not just buy a second polling engine and IP address it with the second IP address? That does two things: One, it takes the pressure off of the poor polling engine trying to assimilate all of the new deivces. Two, it makes it…

We have the same issue. However, I would like to submit that we should be able to MONITOR for a period of time. Therefore, you could re-use your code for "Unmanaged" and "Alert Suppression" to make this work for Nodes. In this fashion, one could specify a custom time where the Node would be "Unmanaged" for a custom choice…

I just tried this and if I understand your need then this should work. NO guarantees but, here goes! On the Orion server, bring up Report Writer. (Usually found in Start>All Programs>SW Orion>Report....>ReportWriter) Select New from its menu bar. When the new report comes up, enter the name for the report. (Choose one that…

I can tell you that we have found Orion to be one of the best values for the money. What impressed us the most was the fact that once Orion was set up devices put in, it behaved. It does not change settings nor does it try to "redraw" maps based on discovery. We do not enable auto-discovery. We disabled it on a well known…

Orion NPM 9.1 conversion from 8.5.1 did not go as well as I would have hoped. It did NOT give an option to use another folder/directory from the one that 8.5.1 was using. The process did take the time to tell me that it was going to install in the old directory and that if I did want to change the option to go back and…

This is a great idea. However, let's take that one step further and make Orion the product to beat! It sounds as though we are starting to talk about QoS. If the product is going to look at TOS and DSCP, go one more step and display QoS queues. Since the product already polls for SNMP values, ask the Layer 3 device what…