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And I can't disagree with that statement at all. Merely unifying the interface would be excellent, but we also need to be able to export and import alerts via something sane like CSV or XML and therefore edit them, make them programmatic and be able to manage and audit them with software. Between all the different alerting…

Just to re-iterate what I said in another thread about a self-service MIB db: Less "rah rah rah" and fluff, and more critical functionality addressed, please! I'm so sick of seeing all these cosmetic changelogs! Peter

As long as it's not mandatory for every installation, i.e.: That can be turned off, I set all my custom properties via DB insert into SL_Orion, and I actually want API functions to provision nodes without bio-automation at all. Peter

Okay, good thing this issue came up. On granular user rights, specifically, I have a few needs.. Right now, I'd like to be able to give someone a view of a node, with specific interfaces they are able to see, and all messages directly related to *THOSE* interfaces. That would mean filtering events, syslog, and traps, along…

Anyone who understands this issue, please comment heavily and pass around.

One other quick thing. Not everyone will require the entirety of options available in the end result of this feature request. It should rightly though, be modular, granular, and allow everyone to set one or many, many, many options as fit. CSV doesn't really fit that model so well, but XML and SWIS do or absolutely should…

While we're at it, we should toss in sharing of the MIB database across all product lines, that the UnDP, Orion Core and polling engine, and trap receivers all use the same copy of the (fixed once we can get it done on our side) MIB database. Lastly, I think there should be an archive on thwack of vendor MIB's. It would be…

One additional comment on the whole syslogs and traps rules thing, in general and I guess this goes for Advanced alerts as well.. I'd like to be able to truly import/export my alerts. Specifically, I'd like to create an alert, export it, make some minor changes that would be of course, database driven, and then be able to…

It was long ago suggested that SEC would be a good fit for our SNMP trap handling needs, and it has been implemented in a couple of corner cases by someone who's gone for 2 years, for a use case that will likely disappear in the next one or two. That being said, I've spent virtually no time at all with it, and don't…

Yeah, being that it's been being talked about for at least 5 years I know of, it's time to stop waiting and start looking at integrating something else, even if it has to be via perl, mysql and custom resources. Pretty frustrated though with SW Product. Peter

That's because "browser integration" is merely giving the ability for the browser to launch a specific set of tools from your computer. I fully understand, you want server-based tools like ping/traceroute to be able to verify functionality. Browser integration just runs the tools from your client machine, which doesn't fit…

Been with the product since 2007 (8.5.1) and back then support was amazing. Since going public, it's been downhill as it all got sent offshore and tier 1 doesn't escalate / there is no tier 2. If you have installation problems with the current version, you can get help, but aside from that, you're basically on your own. In…

Right now I'm doing about 200 nodes and 5500 elements if I include custom pollers on 3.3GB of RAM on both the database and the poller. Netflow cannot be turned on :(, but I'm well aware of why. The new poller and database server both have 12GB, DL360G6 for the poller, and 380G6 for the database. I spend about 40% of my…

What kinds of systems, servers - platform/OS, network devices - type/transport? I'm curious about the 10 times the systems with ten times the data and ten times less resources. I will say that I can wholeheartedly blame the performance of my installation on the database server, it's not adequate and it's replacement is…

And while I have a definite love of open source, I don't think it's the only valid tool in the toolbox, nor do I believe the world would be better if commercial software companies didn't exist. Really, going commercial vs open source is about expectation. There is a reasonable expectation that if you run open source…

Orion XXX is not superior to Cacti in Cacti's areas of core competency. If it was, nobody'd be bitching. Try out Cacti's graphing sometime. And which Orion are you talking about? NPM? APM? NCM? All 3 products have some excellent functionality and some glaring holes in functionality that have been known for years and…

Wish you guys would work on the issue of support's communication with customers. Peter

A response like that would be valid if basic core functionality wasn't ignored release after release. What I'm asking for shouldn't be viewed as feature requests, so much as making basic core functionality inline with standard offerings. You Product folks need to spend more time looking at the product objectively, and less…

Right, here's the problem with the SW product development approach. The things we're asking to get fixed mostly aren't big feature requests, but very obvious core functionality issues that anything calling itself an SNMP correlation engine should have pretty well nailed. Most of the smaller customers simply don't have any…

As the node addition load has increased for us, the amount of time we spend on it is less, for the daily humdrum. Here's a few things I do to make node addition easier.. 1) Script the basic DNS entries to automagically get populated off the provisioning scripts. 2) I have someone add a node and do the custom poller…

*drool* ;) I'm personally most concerned with features like scalable administration, (user/node/custom poller), multiple pollers on a single graph and let's not forget SNMP table correlation. From a "my time" standpoint the administration issues are foremost, but for business intelligence for both large and small customers…

Awesome. I'm dying for it. I have the new system in place, waiting for migration from our current 9.5.1 installation, and this would be awesome to be able to get in line prior to transition. Will this beta be upgradable to RC versions and the release or will it require a nuke and re-pave? Peter

Andy, We have a tact contract with Cisco and I've been in contact with them. They said the following: Man! A tact contract! ;) I want one of those! All I get is TAC support ;) Peter

Update 11/12/2008: Had a 40 minute session with SW's tech support where we ended up finding the following error: 2008-11-12 19:41:01 W3SVC80178216 127.0.0.1 GET /WindowsLogin.aspx - 8888 - 127.0.0.1…

No further news. We're scheduling yet another gotomeeting because tech support has gone off and decided to go down a long road of looking at all kinds of other things, and pretending like there's something wrong with my AD or my database must be corrupted. In short, I hate being an early adopter of the new version of SW…

It's been nearly a year, what's the current thoughts on r/w access via API? Is it slated for a particular release yet? It's getting increasingly important.. Advanced alerts would be huge right now. I'd like to be able to supply literally every aspect of the alert via API. So far, it looks a bit too hairy to handle that by…

I absolutely will. I still have not had this issue resolved, and the troubleshooting process has seemed not terribly definitive. Peter

Since 99% of my nodes are routers, an agent is worthless to me.

For arrangement, we've stuck with the pre-pend, because as much as it sucks, it sucks worse not being able to do more. Our own environment has grown about 5 times it's previous size, so this and other 'MSP' issues are getting more painful, but we've pretty much moved on. Someone in the thread mentioned something about a…

I'm working on it now, but just for custom property values, and maybe simple things like NodeCaption. Changing indexes affects a lot more than just the nodes table, at the very least, I'd test it out on a dev system. Peter