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jnielson, What you have said is correct: I thought the Additional Polling Engine would query whatever hosts I moved to it, so it would share the load with the primary NPM engine? In the event that the standard poller is up and running, an additional poller polls all the same information from monitored devices that the…

Good Morning, The report produced by the procedure in this kb article (SolarWinds Knowledge Base :: How do I generate a monthly average utilization report for all devices on my network that only shows data for peak business hours (e.g. 8:00AM to 7:00PM)) should point you in the right direction. HTH, Andrew Pacetti…

rosv2, Use the Cisco MIB Locator to find the OID you need, and then build your UnDP for the OID you find there. For more information, see "Monitoring MIBs with Universal Device Pollers" in the SolarWinds Orion NPM Administrator Guide. HTH,

Ciaran, The following KB article should provide an answer for you: Why is ConnectNow not linking all my nodes?

Here's the .pdf to which Questionario is referring you: "Port Requirements for SolarWinds Products". Specifically, for Orion NPM: Orion Network Performance Monitor The following list provides the various ports that are utilized by Orion NPM depending on which services are enabled. * Orion NPM statistics collection uses UDP…

Generally, you shouldn't encounter any difficulties if you install in the following order, for your situation: * Orion NPM * Orion NCM * Orion NTA * Orion APM * Orion IP SLA Manager Can you provide more information about the nature of your "orion server blowup". If you have not already, you may want to go ahead and submit…

roselyn, You may find the following posts helpful:

FunkBuddha, This SolarWinds Knowledge Base article should provide some insight: "Critical index fragmentation detected during database maintenance" (http://knowledgebase.solarwinds.com/kb/questions/3202/) HTH,

Seb, Have you reviewed the Hot Standby Engine-specific chapter, "Orion Hot Standby Engine" of the Orion NPM Administrator Guide? This chapter includes the following sections: * Installing a Hot Standby Engine * Configuring a Hot Standby Engine * Testing a Hot Standby Engine The Hot Standby server should meet the same…

A more explicit procedure to address your issue can be found in the following Knowledge Base article: support.solarwinds.com/.../ProblemDetail.cfm

Your DBA should be able to provide this. If you use the SA account during Orion NPM configuration, you must use the SA password your DBA provides.

The article, "How do I generate a monthly average utilization report for all devices on my network that only shows data for peak business hours (e.g. 8:00AM to 7:00PM)" in the SolarWinds Knowledge Base may also be of some assistance. HTH,

You should find everything you need using custom properties in an Historical - Interface traffic report in Orion Report Writer. For more information about Custom Properties and Orion Report Writer, see the SolarWinds Orion Network Performance Monitor Administrator Guide.

deutch6987, Your best bet here is to submit a technical support ticket that references internal knowledge base article #759, "How do I fully uninstall Orion NPM?" (http://knowledgebase.solarwinds.com/kb/questions/759/). HTH,

Michael, Are you upgrading in the following order? * NPM 9.X > 9.5 * APM 2.5 > 3.1 * NPM 9.5 > 9.5.1 You may also find this KB article on upgrading Orion NPM helpful.

While it is not a complete configuration backup for all aspects of your Orion installation, you may benefit from creating a web console configuration backup, as indicated in "Managing Orion Web Console Configurations" in the SolarWinds Orion NPM Administrator Guide. To confirm, create a database backup as indicated in…

Nick, If you do have Engineer's Toolset installed, check out the section "Adding Programs to a Toolset Integration Menu" in the Managing the Orion Web Console chapter of the Orion Network Performance Monitor Administrator Guide.

rowl65, If * you have defined the dependencies as you have described, and * B goes down after K has been added for monitoring by your SolarWinds NPM server K should show as unreachable in the setup you have described. NPM checks dependency definitions before declaring a node as down, so it should pick up that K is…

KMNRuser, Is your icon listed in either of the following locations in the SolarWinds Orion NPM Administrator Guide? * Status Indicators * Status Rollup Mode

Thank you for raising this issue. The following Knowledge Base article has been posted: http://support.solarwinds.com/kbase/ProblemDetail.cfm?ID=1240

james_griff, You may be interested in (formerly Application Performance Monitor) for this kind of monitoring. You can find more info about SAM both on solarwinds.com and on thwack. HTH,

WRT the note, the Text to Speech limitation comes from Windows. Basically, if I recall correctly, a required service is no longer provided. HTH, Andrew Pacetti SolarWinds Information Development

jkoelker, The following steps should get you what you need by creating a report and then adding it as a resource to the views wherein you want to see the node names and IP addresses. * Click Start > All Programs > SolarWinds Orion > Alerting, Reporting, and Mapping > Report Writer. * Click New, and the select Inventory. *…

rcahill, If I understand you correctly, it sounds like you need to set up some traps or syslog messaging from the objects you want to track. For more information, see the SolarWinds Orion NPM Administrator Guide, specifically: * "Monitoring Syslog Messages" * "Monitoring SNMP Traps" HTH,

Juan, The following Knowledge Base article (http://knowledgebase.solarwinds.com/kb/questions/830/) should answer your question: I am seeing the following error when I try to set the absolute time period for Orion NTA views in the Orion Web Console: Chosen time period will be adjusted according to data storage granularity…

You might find the Groups and Dependencies features helpful. For more information, see "Managing Groups and Dependencies" in the SolarWinds Orion NPM Administrator Guide. HTH

freemen, If you've purchased an Orion NPM Additional Polling Engine license, you should find a package of Additional Polling Engine installers (NPM, APM, IPAM, UDT) in your Customer Portal. * Log in to the Customer Portal with your SolarWinds Customer ID and Password. * Click License Management in the menu on the left. *…

The following from the SolarWinds Knowledge Base might be helpful. You should be able to change the type of report in step 2 of the first procedure: support.solarwinds.com/.../ProblemDetail.cfm

nbjeter, Orion 10 supports 64-bit Windows Server 2008 R2, provided IIS is operating in 32-bit mode, and SQL Server 2008, as indicated in the Orion NPM Requirements section of the SolarWinds Orion NPM Administrator Guide. Have you also seen the following documents? * Orion NPM Migration…

Dave, You may want to consider a 3rd poller (a 2nd additional polling engine) first, if downtime is a significant issue. Otherwise, follow the instructions in the SolarWinds Technical Reference "Orion NPM Migration", but keep in mind that you will have some down time during your migration. HTH, Andrew