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I deleted a number of IPAM subnets and could use an undelete option right now. I have added too many network nodes to roll back the entire database.

The IP that you use in Orion to monitor a node does not limit the monitoring to only traffic by that IP. Once you connect to the node via SNMP with any IP on the node you will have options to monitor the individual interfaces or NICs. But you will be monitoring all traffic accross that interface or NIC.

If maintenance costs are really going up this much then I will have to rethink this product too. If I am going to be way over budget (I add 15% to existing costs for the next year) for this then I may as well bite the bullet and migrate to the product our administrators use for application monitoring. I must say I was…

I use Ixia's free QCheck app. It’s a cool little app that you install on PC's and/or servers. Once installed, you can "remote control" pings and TCP/UDP bandwidth testing so long as the appropriate ports are open. I find it a little easier than IPerf. Granted this tool is a bit limited but you will know something is wrong…

For us, the rotation thing got complicated and became a hassel when people wanted to take vacation or swap days. Now we just spam everyone with alerts. Whoever is not on-call puts their phone to phone only mode. The draw back is that this process does not play well with an escalation alert model.

Funny - I just added my Big-IP to Orion and was going to post this same question. I'll wait for Orion 9.0.

I recently co-termed several of my SW products for maintenance renewal. I must say the lady I spoke with understood exactly what I was asking for and made it happen in one phone call. Their policy is that they can co-term renewals that are close together with no problem and adjust all pricing to match then term date. If…

for rotating maps I followed advice in a previous post to use firefox with the slide show plugin. the browser refreshes and rotates tabs every 30 seconds.

Cache flow cannot be configured on a L2 port. So if your interface is configured as a switchport then its not possible.

Yes - create a map for each store and then drag each of those maps onto your regional big picture map. Any store that has node issue with its own map with turn the map icon on the regional map yellow. The rest is point an click to drill down to the store level.

Okay my issue with Network Atlas on 11.x was that some nodes were not showing the interface tab so that I could not create logical maps with proper interfaces. That issue continued on after the upgrade to 12. Re-installing Network Atlas corrected the Interfaces not showing problem however I then encountered the "Operation…

I have also seen this issue a number of times through several versions of Orion. My quick fix is to resize my maps but sometimes I have to drop it as far as 60% to get them to display again. Once I get a chance to reboot the server I can put them back to 100%. One time I had to reboot twice before the 100% scaling would…

The toolsets, Cirrus, and Lansurveyor are separate from Orion and run without it. If these tools have features that you are looking for then go for it sooner than later. Based on your version I am guessing that you do not have current maintenance for Orion so you will want to get that purchase out of the way before it gets…

ok. Thank you for all your replies. It doesnt look like there is a good way to integrate this typical network layout. But... I like the idea of creating a separate group just for my ISDN connections. When that Icon turns green then I know ISDN kicked in somewhere and I can pull up the ISDN group to check it out. I may play…

Discards could be from over utilization of a circuit or quick spurts of bursty traffic (buffers can't keep up and have to discard). Errors are usually from cableing or a bad nic.

I'm having the same issue however it started prior to my version 12 upgrade and continues after the upgrade. I created a new map and it started having the issue when trying to add Nexus nodes onto it.

The 6500 series switches can be a little tricky. You will have one or two sup cards each with a daughter msfc (for layer 3 stuff). You may have seperate IOS's on the msfc's then you have on the supervisor cards. In fact, in an older configuration you can have a set based OS on the sup and standard IOS on the msfc (hybrid…

Your server may not be responding because of some data in the ICMP packet from NPM. Something to check: In NPM, go to File, Orion Network Performance Monitor Settings, Network TAB, and then check the secion that says "Data portion of ICMP packet." If there is any data in that text box try removing it and seeing if you can…

I have the same issue and now ignore it since I know the backups are actually downloaded. I've been putting off trying to find a fix but it would be nice to get this figured out sooner then later.

David, it sounds like you want to create a map for every group of nodes that you define and then create a master map with the individual maps on it for drill down. So you if you have 5 groups of nodes then create 5 maps. Then create a master map and drag the 5 maps onto it. They will display as green (assuming all nodes…

I'd install the tool sets on the network guru's pc's. There is a function in the orion web interface that you can turn on that allows the network guys to click on a node in the web interface and then right click or click on a function icon (like to ping, trace route, telnet, etc) to that node. You turn this on under…