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I use the view limitations based on custom properties.. So, let's say I have a custom property for customer #, it's a 5-digit numeric string. Good times. Then, I create a user for that customer that only allows him to see stuff with that custom property equaling his customer number. So, customer # 11111 get's a view…

You're on the right track with assuming you only need a single Syslog Server for Realtime Change Detection to run. As noted in my post above, if NPM and NCM are installed the same box, you can just use NPM's Syslog Server. The Admin Guide instructions for setting up realtime change detection that reference NCM's Syslog…

On #1, drill down with tickets assigned or even just specific custom property display would be bee's knees. On #2, I have a novel idea.. rather than bother with building a sophisticated UI for creating a network map, allow people merely to import or somehow convert a visio document. Create a specific visio shapeset with…

OMG, that's at least 3 people interested in limited node management ;) Just to make it more granular, and hence more difficult to develop (kidding), I'd like to be able to have a user not be able to manage nodes they might be able to view. I'd like interface view limitations to be node implicit, so that if I give people a…

Thanks everyone for the candid feedback. For our next major release (after 5.1), one of the key drivers is to ensure we can provide more controlled scalability in RTCD. For all those experiencing (or have experienced) issues with RTCD, please post the average and peak load number of unique config changes you expect on a…

I'm having exactly the same problem as well, so I'm awaiting that RC making it into a release. Is there any expected ETA?

 Peter, I believe you have misconstrued the essence of my reply,(mostly meant to be lighthearted) yes a HW solution is not appropriate for the majority of solarwinds users. However for larger organisations that may have the capability or the unit running already for their existing webservers this is a potential solution so…

I attempt to vent and be objective at the same time, it's a strange need I realize. I agree that there are many "anti-greatness" "features" of the product. I also totally agree that the vast majority of what anyone *might* want to do with an SNMP collector / correlation engine is either missing entirely or very broken in…

So, in a report, that looks pretty nasty and unmanageable, although very granular. Things to love and things to hate about that ;) What I was really looking for is summary lines of each Alert type, sorted by distro. I'm going to play with some options and see what I can get for counts out of it, but really I'm looking to…

Markku, I apologize. I didn't realize that you were the one that reported that issue with manually set transfer settings being changed on import. We've reproduced this in QA and we're looking at whether we can fix this in 5.5.1. Chris, realizing this is a pretty recent thread, but this Node Import functionality is one I've…

Can't wait. I have little to no need to purchase the netflow module if it doesn't support Adtran. Actually, didn't know that it didn't prior to seeing this thread, so it gives me good ammo for holding off on that. Peter

I'm saying that the monitor options I have are inadequate. I'm trying to monitor the application SMTP, not POP3, and not the network port. I don't want to use the same credentials, I need to use no credentials for SMTP and specific credentials for POP3 to a completely different host. We're in agreement that this is not…

Right. My SMTP server that I want to monitor most critically is the one I use to send out Alerts from NPM as the first one. It requrires no authentication to send email from the NPM/APM box, it's on a trusted localnet as configured in sendmail. I do not run POP or IMAP on my outbound SMTP. That is more like exchange/server…

As another loyal customer of Shrubbery Networks, no wait.. I'm just a user, I don't actually pay them anything.. Rancid is still, much faster, much cleaner. Cirrus Configuration change detection, and even job notification is way to fluffy, without the necessary information presented quickly. I can't read the thing, and…

Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. I did misspeak though when I said I have 2 accounts allowed to log into the devices, I meant, 2 AD accounts added to NCM. Peter

Well, see, therein lies the problem. You want do do something I've come up against more than once and half-succeeded/half failed to accomplish. Alerting on a table in and of itself is difficult. You have to specify a row ID and do a very custom SQL statement in the alert actions. It's kludgy, and not manageable for a table…

Right, so those are fairly simple, easily understandable. Back to nodes though. Obviously there are SQL statements to add a node, I'm assuming it's somehow more than what can be encapsulated in a single set of SQL statements. I am certainly (and obviously) not the only customer that needs/wants to flow through this…

Any word on joining tables? We're actually at the point of needing to go off-board to get this solved, which is pretty lame, considering the fairly significant amount of money we spend in maintenance and initial licensing. At this point, my biggest problem is that the UnDP won't pull a full table, it will only pull 1…

I can add to the pile for this feature, I especially need to be able to total traffic through uplinks, where we run most of them in a Primary/Protect scenario and occasionally have traffic shift. I'm almost positive this is tied to multiple pollers on one graph, because that's basically what it is, these just happen to be…

Similar to interface tagging, couldn't you select Vendor != Polycom in your import? Peter

Could you assign a custom property value to the interfaces prior to importing, like "Uplink=True/False" and then specify in the import to disregard nodes where Uplink != True? That would seem the most straightforward way to go about it, but I don't use the sonar part of the product much. Peter

Custom properties for nodes are all stored in the Nodes table. Right now we have about 90, they all get written by SQL after the node has been added. Custom properties for interfaces are in the interfaces table. Both store them out past the last SW 'stock' columns if you add new ones. First, you find the column, then you…

I have had issues in the past with alert suppression, because one suppression can cause all alerts to be suppressed. I have since disabled all alert suppression, and instead use acknowledgment, allowing and suspend action if the alert is acknowledged. For the actions you're referring to, I have those in the actual alert…

Okay.. that's pretty hot. I have to play with it a little bit more so I can target different ranges and such, wrap the sql, but it works at first glance, and really nicely. If I weren't in the middle of some other fairly attention grabbing items, I'd post more. More to follow, Peter

After 6 months, that might mean something. It's been nearly two years that I've been asking for it, and in discussions about Network Management, the shortcomings of Orion are beginning to mean something. If I have to maintain another system to get the functionality I need, or multiple other systems to get the data…

How do you integrate them in Orion, or do you? Peter

How about hotfixes for the issues mentioned in: ? Or is that waiting to make it into SP3? I'm waiting for SP3 personally just to make sure everything's nice and stable before I move. I can't afford the time for workarounds, downtime, and issues. Peter

 Belay that last question. A quick search through the web-based help application pointed me to it.

Yeah, I'd be interested in testing out the bash scripts, I'm running net-snmp on some linux boxen, and there's a few things I really care about. APM, interestingly enough, isn't capable of telling me if the mail server is accepting messages for derivery.. Apparently capturing "200 OK Message accepted for delivery" is…

By the way, I have to say, the centralized user base is a great move I've been (not always so nicely) asking for, for quite a while.. My next nag is going to be centralized auth tie-ins for NPM/NCM, so I can tie things into my burgeoning LDAP environment, and ;) Peter