netmonguy

Comments

  • Thank you to everyone for looking into this. #1: I have NOT made a decision on which product to recommend for next year budget. #2: yes, doing an eval on a network management product takes some serious time. I understand that. I am only at a stage where I am just looking at the basic functions of the product. To answer…
    in Is this normal? NPM version 9.5 with SP4 Comment by netmonguy October 2009
  • I guess what I am trying to do is the follow: Let say I create ten devices call dca-fw-1, dca-fw-2, dca-linux-1, lax-vpn-1, lax-fw-a, dfw-fw-a, dfw-vpn-a, dfw-win2k3-a, df2-solaris-hr Now I want to create three groups call dca, lax and dfw. Under group dca, I want to add all devices begins with dca. Under group lax, I want…
    in Solarwinds 8.1.7 versus Freeware NMIS version 4.2.4 Comment by netmonguy April 2009
  • "You should probably get a Sales Engineer involved to take a look at the bandwidth issue. That sounds like a configuration problem." There is a Sales Engineer working on this. Will see how it goes. "The slowness seems straightforward. Even in your eval, you are monitoring a lot of interfaces. But you are running on SQL…
    in Eval NPM version 9.5 SP4 Comment by netmonguy September 2009
  • Greg, Is this a "known" issue in version 9.2? I prefer not to upgrade this since the support has run out on this applicatiions. is there a work-around for this?
    in multiple issues with Professional engineering toolset version 9.2 Comment by netmonguy April 2009
  • Hi KCWayner, Thank you for the quick reply. This is what I would like to see and since I do not have Orion NPM version 9.1 SP5, I would like to know this: - I would like to create my own group like DCA, DFW, LAX and place nodes such as firewalls, cisco switches, cisco routers, VPN concentrators, linux servers, solaris…
    in Solarwinds 8.1.7 versus Freeware NMIS version 4.2.4 Comment by netmonguy April 2009
  • "I see you are already running Orion 8.5 SLX - why the eval?" I am looking at NPM 8.5.1 from a former colleague of mine whom I used to work with and I tested this on his 8.5.1 NPM system and that's what I noticed I saw the same thing. I am not using any NPM on production other than the eval process
    in Is this normal? NPM version 9.5 with SP4 Comment by netmonguy October 2009
  • "Regarding the bandwidth issue you are seeing, what is the bandwidth statement in the router configuration for that interface?" C7140>sh int f0/1 FastEthernet0/1 is up, line protocol is up Hardware is DEC21140A, address is 0005.007b.8001 (bia 0005.007b.8001) Description: LAB interface Internet address is 192.168.15.1/24…
    in Is this normal? NPM version 9.5 with SP4 Comment by netmonguy October 2009
  • Hi Marie, Yes, they are both running on the same machine. Why is this an issue? Even with just 100 devices in the system? 
    in SQL database limit in Orion NPM Comment by netmonguy October 2009
  • Here is how you can accomplish this on the SPLAT box: A- start snmpd service on the SPLAT box "service snmpd restart" B- modify the /etc/snmp/snmpd.users.conf and add the following lines "rocommunity cciesecurity" C- restart snmpd daemon with "service snmpd restart" D- make sure you have rule on the firewall to allow snmp…
    in How to monitor Checkpoint firewall Comment by netmonguy November 2009
  • Hi Andy, The setup is a very simple one. I downloaded SolarWinds-Orion-9.5-Eval.exe and installed on the the Dell 2950-III server. No separate SQL server setup whatsoever. Just a single stand-alone install. Does that help?
    in Eval NPM version 9.5 SP4 Comment by netmonguy September 2009
Avatar