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You will need to consult the actual MIB definition to answer these questions. The Orion Universal Device Poller configuration utility can give you whatever description was initially provided when the OID was defined. To view this OID description: * Click Start > All Programs > SolarWinds Orion > Universal Device Poller. *…

perm-fm, Have you reviewed the Upgrade Instructions in your Customer Portal? If not, download the Upgrade Instructions as follows: * Log in to your Customer Portal. * Click License Management on the left. * Click Upgrade Instructions under your Orion NPM license listing. * Extract the document set to an appropriate…

Byrona, How about, "There were so many between NPM and Core that we provided a full update to the release notes?" NPM: NPM Fixes Core: Core Fixes Thanks,

You will need a valid license to migrate/install on your new server, virtual or otherwise. For further assistance with your license and reactivating it, submit a customer service ticket. HTH,

The ignore list applies to all discoveries. You can manually edit ignored node, interface, and volume lists directly in the database, but this is not a supported use case. Note: SolarWinds recommends creating a backup of your SolarWinds database before attempting ANY database manipulation. For more information about…

wakhan, Run the extracted installer on the server you are using for your additional polling engine. When you extract the additional polling engine package, you will see a document with instructions. HTH,

rofni, I think you should be able to start here: "Configuring the snmpd.conf file (AIX)" at ibm.com.

If your error mentions the Information Service or "an incorrect address or SOAP action", you may need to reinstall the SolarWinds information Service, as shown in this Knowledge Base article.

elsaonita, If you are currently on maintenance, log in to your Customer Portal, and then click License Management on the left. Under any of your licensed Orion products you can click Upgrade Instructions to access a detailed walk-through document.

WiseAlloys, The Upgrade Instructions in your Customer Portal provide links to all required releases. You can download the Upgrade Instructions as follows: * Log in to your Customer Portal. * Click License Management on the left. * Click Upgrade Instructions under your Orion NPM license listing. * Extract the document set…

jgeorge-qwest, You should find the steps you need to create an Availability report in the "Creating Reports" chapter of the Orion NPM Administrator Guide. A number of predefined Availability reports are provided.

cgjersvik, You should be able to modify the options in the procedure in this KB article to develop the report you need.

broeben, To address your concerns: * If location A goes down entirely (main Orion server + SQL DB server), you will not be able to record anything from the Addl. Polling Engine. You will not have any data stored, but the APE will still poll and not actually be "down". * If only the main Orion server goes down, you will…

DaveAZ, According to Port Requirements for SolarWinds Products, SolarWinds listens for traps on 162 (UDP), but that doesn't exactly answer your question. If you are merely wanting to ignore this trap, you should set up a filter in the Orion Trap Viewer. For more information about using the Orion Trap Viewer in this way,…

I just want to second what Andy has suggested above. It is a bit 'convoluted', but it is the best way to ensure that essential NTA database schema updates are applied as needed.

guimanu, In your Customer Portal, you should find the latest MIB database of devices that Orion NPM 'knows'. After you log in, click Orion MIB Database in the Helpful Links section on the left. Extract the MIBs.zip file and follow the instructions in the readme. If the device you want to monitor is not curently monitored,…

What version of Orion NPM are you running?

After a quick look, the only concern I can see here, is that IPAM 1.7 is not explicitly compatible with NPM 10.2. You should be able to use the following order to get around that limitation: * Upgrade IPAM to 1.7.1 * Upgrade NPM to 10.2.1 * Upgrade NTA to 3.8 * Upgrade APM to 4.2 HTH,

patriot, I'm working on an update to the explicit procedure, but the Knowledge Base article, "How to upgrade SolarWinds Orion products" (http://knowledgebase.solarwinds.com/kb/questions/1888/), should give you a good idea of the order you need to follow. HTH,

Kirk, You might find this Microsft KB article helpful for resolving the Error 1053. You might also consider using the Orion Service Manager to restart the trap service as well.

You will probably be able to get some of what you want by monitoring each server in the cluster with both APM and NPM. Basically, you will want to do the following: * Add each server, individually, as a node in NPM. * Add the cluster IP as a node. * Add SQL Server application monitors on each cluster server. * Configure…

Questionario, You should find the information you need in the "Creating Reports" chapter of the SolarWinds Orion NPM Administrator Guide. To create a report as a .pdf, refer to the "Exporting Reports" section of that chapter, and to create a scheduled job to send the report as an email, refer to the section, "Using Report…

Ram, Have you reviewed the chapter, "Using Orion Advanced Alerts" in the SolarWinds Orion NPM Administrator Guide? In short: * Click Start > All Programs > SolarWinds Orion > Alerting, Reporting, and Mapping > Advanced Alert Manager. * Click Configure Alerts. * Click New. This will open the Edit Alert window that is fully…

mikeowen, I've marked this for PM and Development to review, and I will ask them directly. If we determine that there are no issues with SP2, I'll post here and update the guide accordingly. Thanks,

joel.regado, If you do not want to upgrade NTA and APM/SAM to versions that are compatible with NPM 10.4, you DO need to first uninstall NTA and APM to prevent issues during installation of your NPM upgrade. You will be prompted to acknowledge the version disparity, but your NPM upgrade will NOT proceed. Out of curiosity,…

kulas, Your best bet is to reference the respective Requirements sections of each product's Administrator or QuickStart Guides: * NPM Administrator Guide * SAM Administrator Guide * IP SLA Manager Administrator Guide * NCM Administrator Guide * LEM QuickStart Guide HTH, Andrew Pacetti SolarWinds Information Development

puanani, Try adding the "dwd" node exclusion as an exception condition in your alert trigger definition. Something along the lines of a condition group: Trigger Alert when none of the following apply with simple condition like: Node Name contains dwd

Joe B, Your problem sounds like the issue addressed in the SolarWinds Knowledge Base article, "SQL is reporting that my Orion NPM database is currently out of space. How can I clear up some space?" (http://knowledgebase.solarwinds.com/kb/questions/1673/). HTH,

Linc33, Try the following: * Create a new NetFlow - Endpoints report. * On the Select Fields tab, select the following fields:* NetFlow Endpoints > Transmitters > IP Address * NetFlow Endpoints > Receivers > IP Address * NetFlow Endpoints > Traffic > Bytes Transferred * On the Filter Results tab, build the following…

If you are running the latest version of NPM, you can configure your topology polling interval as follows: * Click Settings in the top right corner of your web console. * Click Polling Settings in the Settings grouping. * In the Polling Statistics Intervals section, set the Default Node Topology Poll Interval as desired. *…