patwill66

I was having a similar issue when my database had reached about 60Gb. The database would pretty much freeze up and the server would crash. The Orion jobs wouldnt run and the SQL jobs would freeze up too. The problem was with the automatic grow feature in SQL. It was trying to grow by 10% when it stared getting full. The…

Here is the SQL command I use. This divides the value in VolumeSpaceAvailable until its in GB and rounds to the tenth decimal place. ${SQL:Select round((VolumeSpaceAvailable / 1024 / 1024 / 1024),1) from Volumes WHERE VolumeID='${VolumeID}'}

Does anyone have any idea about this?

I think the ideas that navy1942 has brought up are great. I would also like to see Orion be able to pull WMI information from a Cisco Call Manager server. Being able to see current active calls or peak calls would be helpful. This type of information would also be nice to see on voice router. For example, I have a router…

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I upgraded my 50GB database and it took about 4.5 hours. The database tripled in size so my server ran out of space the first time. Luckily I took a backup of the DB right before I upgraded. I had to restore the backup, add more disk to the server and run the DB from the new disk. As far as it running, I have not been so…

I would like to see: - Port Monitoring. We currently use Nagios to monitor ports on servers and I would love to be able to get rid of it. - I would like to have the same type of control via the web as I currently do on the console. I would like to be able to add devices, change interfaces, etc... from the web instead of…

I currently have both running in my environment. Nagios is used for service monitoring pretty much. There are plug ins that will do syntehtic web transactions, which we have setup. I mention that because you said you werent sure. Orion can not do this. The administrative overhead of nagios is terrible. I would not…

The only Unknown devices I have are devices that do not support SNMP and I only ping them. Could there be a label created for these device types that said something like "SNMP Not Supported"? That way they would not show up unknown.

I think any addition for port monitoring would be benefitial. I wont be picky if we all have to wait for two different releases. Its just nice to hear that you are willing to work on these requests.

I currently use a product called Nagios that does port/service checking. We use it to monitor services on a server and it alerts if they have problems. As far as ports, we use it just like the two above threads read. On port 80, it looks for a valid web response. If it doesnt get one, it throws a flag. It is completely…

We use nagios to monitor services/processes on our servers. It also does ping checks so we will atleast get notified if something goes down. But that is all we get. Graphs have holes in them because of no data collection whenever I have to do maintenance.

Yes, this is one way to do it. Like I said, I know its possible to do in SQL manually, it would just be cool to be able to do in Orion, or have some type of automated tool that could help.

I did verify with Cisco that when NetFlow is enabled on an interface, it will show stats for the entire device and all interfaces on the device. It doesnt make much sense to me that you enable the commands on an interface level but it affects all interfaces on the system. The TAC engineer gave me this link for some…

* If you consider yourself to be network engineer (analyst, admin, consultant), why do you monitor servers in Orion today? * What other capabilities would you like to see us add around server monitoring and why? * Why would you want to monitor the performance of applications like Exchange, SQL, etc in Orion? * When and how…

I personally think its whatever your DB can handle and the kind of response time you need to have. I have polling set to every 30 seconds and data is collected every 60 seconds. This way we know almost immediately when something is not going right. We can also look back at graphs within the last 90 days and see stats down…

I started a thread about this months ago and I was told it was "in an upcoming release".

I opened a ticket on this issue and support said that this is not supported in Orion. Can anyone think of any other ways to get this down, without having to do custom graphs in Excel with raw data?

I have been having the same question now for a while and I just cant seem to find any great information online to help me decypher the traps and make any sense of them.

I didnt see anything in the release notes about a fix for the alert emails that go out with the incorrect From: address (www4.solarwinds.net/.../topic.asp. This is the only issue that is keeping me from upgrading the v8 at this time.