pseudocyber · Manager of Network Operations

While cutting out the rats nest of home-run cabling, cutting a cable that's still active ... and having no idea where it goes.

Troubleshooting method - work up the OSI model - layer 1 - check the cabling. After checking the cabling, check the cabling again. Before you're ready to escalate, ask for help, check the cabling again.

Have you thought about some kind of API to/from Microsoft Visio? I say Microsoft, because I suppose it's got a larger share of the market and most network people I know use Visio to do diagrams (I know Mac people - no need to flame me about Graffix). We could draw the diagrams in Visio, and then import them into Atlas?…

This looked like an any answer could be right - depending on our current environment ... but I guess not? It says I got it wrong.

Today's "hint" page is like 404, dudess.

Day 14 working? I put the answer in, next, nothing happens.

Congratulations isquish‌

Those damn rogue SAN engineers .... can't live with them, can't ... oh yes you can.

I would think, though, if both sides of an ECLB are NPM nodes, NetPath and NPM could work together to figure out they're multiple links. Also, about the traffic taking multiple paths - I don't see the difference in multiple paths out of the network, on "the Internet", and it knows about them and can show them - and…

Does anyone know of an eaiser way to suppress dependent node alerts - for a long chain of devices? Please read prior posts. Thanks!

Bump.

I have a new monitor, at a remote site, and it changes.

good, cheap, fast. Splunk <> fast.

x10 what rschroeder​ said! Excellent! 

Let us/me know what they say. Maybe a Cisco ticket as well? One thing I think is really annoying about Cisco 43xx routers's they give this great Management interface, so if I have them on my edge - with an outside and an inside interface, and the Management int hooked up - but no netflow. So, I have to burn an interface on…

@jeilers - That NAILED it! This is a routing protocol alert. Routing protocols maintain "neighbor relationships". The neighbor peering should be up, but may have a problem. The node with the problem is, <b>${N=SwisEntity;M=Router.Nodes.DisplayName}</b> located at ${N=SwisEntity;M=Router.Nodes.Location}. It is a…

bpaine's comment is spot on for me - getting same error, until I deleted the "alert on all" criteria, then selected the "alert on all" line, and added back my simple criteria - so it looks like this: Trigger Alert when any of the following apply Group status is equal to critical Group status is equal to warning Trigger…

Right - I see that I can suppress a dependent node individually, by suppressing if a node status is Down. However, what if the node I'm monitoring is say 10 down in a list of dependent nodes? I would have to add 10 individual suppressions for that node?!? And the one above would require 9 suppressions, and above that 8 and…

LOL rschroeder‌. So true. I'm looking at replacing a collapsed core/distribution/access 4510 with 2 cores, 2 access stacks/chassis. I've had several discussions with our vendor's sales exec and sales engineer - and we've looked at 6500's, 6800's, 45K's, 5K&2K, 7K's, 9K solutions. I decided on 3850-X's because I required: *…

cobrien​ - good one. +1 vote for this - and for show vpn-sessiondb webvpn also. pkx4asa01p/pri/act# sh vpn-sessiondb webvpn Session Type: WebVPN Username : xxxxxx Index : 1098 Public IP : 1.2.79.130 Protocol : Clientless License : AnyConnect Premium Encryption : Clientless: (1)AES256 Hashing : Clientless: (1)SHA1 Bytes Tx…

<3 Calvin and Hobbes.

branfarm​ - I had the same struggle. One thing I found helpful in the cli is to put in, "prompt hostname priority state" As soon as I log in, I know if I'm on the primary or secondary, and what state it's in - active|standby. ie.: asa01p/pri/act#

Are you saying to build a "tracked object" within alerting, or within SolarWinds? For instance, on the router, if I have a tracked object list, and it has ip sla's 1,2,3 - you're saying to build an alert with those same ip sla's 1,2,3 and if they're not all up, then trigger the alert? I sort of did this with groups. I…

Thanks - I'm not following you. I went to the trigger condition page - there's still no object tracking option.

We're still at it. Weighing Palo Alto vs. Checkpoint. I think Palo Alto is in the lead.

Hey ">njoylif, thanks for replying. I really thought you were on to something with putting a "Trigger Alert when all of the following apply" above the two "any of the followings". But it's still firing on nodes and applications which don't meet my criteria. So now, it's structured like this: Trigger Alert when ALL of the…

I'm monitoring all cisco gear and interfaces with SNMP (polling and traps) and syslog. Nothing on the gear indicates a problem. I'm going to try switching the MIB monitor per this article: Change the preferred Cisco MIB for hardware health in NPM - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support

Here's the polling interval on the switch: Here's the polling on the interface:

Thanks amstephen87 I am logging link/up down with both snmp and syslog - and am not getting any indications of a positive/positive link up/down. So, it seems that the NPM "interface downtime" is the only thing indicating it's ever down. I'm fairly sure I haven't changed the polling interval, but I'll check on it.

Hey B. No, never got an answer. You're the only one who responded to the post.