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Thanks – yes, it defaulted to 1000 which is fine but I think it's the number of routers dumping 1000 routes into the system. It's definitely a very cool feature – just too bad we couldn't use it for anything of scale… hopefully this can be addressed in upcoming releases, although quite honestly unless Solarwinds is going…

Thank you – that would be helpful as we are still working on this issue. Paul

Hi Leon - I agree totally and should have elaborated on this a bit further. Complete control over the pollers is maybe more of what I am after along with the ability to automate certain "pools" of the additional pollers.

We use authy on some stuff today - works VERY well and is widely supported. Can't beat the price neither

And don't forgot MX VC as well please!!

We really need control over this. What is important to us is probably not important to many other users for example.

Great thinking! We just went through a process of determining whether or not to dump Solarwinds ... there are lots of great competitive products out there. This was a feature that was on our list that didn't get a checkbox beside it. 

Thanks - I'm not sure if it's pulling the entire table or not but the entire system crawled for hours until we started finding ways to turn off the routing table polling. It only displays 1000 entries but again not sure if it's actually trying to store/poll the entire tables. We are still going through each router manually…

Thank you – I'm out of office now until tomorrow but happy to jump onto goto meeting

Yup - couldn't agree more. We went into panic mode and didn't look at the database (plus quite honestly we're not database people) but there should be a field that could be adjusted. ISIS would be nice - we don't use it today but it is common in SP environment contrary to what some folks think

Wonder why they removed it then - problems with their algorithm? I would really like to see it back - as our additional pollers get busier I don't want to be doing a juggling act.

We never verified if it was pulling down the entire table – we just know that our NPM came to a crawl right after the upgrade. We can confirm also that by removing the "routing" from as many of the larger nodes as possible to start with has significantly improved our performance. We have about 200 devices yet to go…

Thanks - that's quite interesting. We have had IPv6 enabled and operational on that box for quite some time actually. I do recall actually disabling it to see if it could be an issue. This problem is still occurring and we use IPv6 now for active monitoring (with latest Solarwinds release that finally included IPv6…

Thanks - yes, same guy! ;) I'm pretty sure this isn't an ARP issue - the switches would not have an ARP entry for the Solarwinds server that is at least a few layer3 hops away. Hopefully when this occurs again I can get a good capture from the MX80 directly in front of the Solarwinds server - then if I can see the ping go…

Nexicon - AFAIK the SA / MAGs do not support telnet / SSH other than through the Juniper DMI standard. Have you been able to back up these devices with NCM? If so, could you share? Thanks! Oh my apologies - I missed the part specific to SA/MAG ... yeah, we end up doing manual backups on those today which I wish we didn't…

Thank you evt.... There *was* a Juniper SRX firewall in front of the Solarwinds installation until we moved things around this morning (we were beginning to think of some kind of flow timeouts). The Solarwinds systems are now connected directly to a Juniper MX80 router. My hopes will be to run a full packet dump on the…

Ken - how big is your routing table? By polling all those OID's you are in effect downloading the entire routing table in your network no? Perhaps I need more caffeine this morning ;) Good question - yes, I have ran a couple of other open source packages against this same equipment during the same time periods and we did…

As much as I have complained a lot lately about lack of Juniper support, we have no issues with NCM and Juniper devices - we back up all our Juniper equipment daily with it. Are you having problems doing so? I do hope they ramp up Juniper support soon. 10.2 is a good step, but our Juniper SSL vpns are still out of scope…

I agree with jrmann1999, you can't fault SW for a vendor not following standards. from a business perspective, SW can't go chasing all non-standard equipment. Juniper is big, agreed. Definitely hit your Juniper rep up on this issue for sure. SW, in fact, has put effort into supporting Juniper natively even though they are…

Hi Ken... We have been through several revisions of JunOS code over the timeframe this issue has been occuring. Our "luck" with Juniper has been pretty good overall, especially on EX switches - will admit though that the 9.x code on EX switches in particular was not very impressive. Can you describe the issue and what code…

Thank you. Yes, we have opened cases on this in the past - each time we were told that Solarwinds just uses the ping utility within Windows itself. We were also unable to ping this device from the command prompt which led credibility to the responses we got. We have an open feature request to remove ping as a requirement…

Juniper could be blamed partially - however - Solarwinds should get their head out of the sand on this one too. Solarwinds thinks with their "enterprise logic" way too much and seems to forget sometimes that there are many service providers that run their package as well (we're one of them). In other words, I"m surprised…

Thanks - TM/TS series stuff - I need to start figuring out a way to monitor them (in my spare time haha)

Hmmm... that's interesting as I talked to Microsoft the other day and they told me Standard Edition was not limited by RAM - your link states otherwise so I will definately be following up. Appreciate it...

Re 5 minute "industry norm". I should have qualified that... in the service provider environments, when you are billing for bandwidth then the "typical norm" is 5 minute sampling to generate 95th percentile. There are some devices that we could definately take the polling back to 10-15 minute intervals and we are working…

Thanks again.. I"m now looking at this configuration (yes, still overkilling the RAM a bit): Dell R320, single CPU (4 cores), 32G RAM, 4X300GB RAID10 SAS 15k (application server) Dell R320, single CPU (4 cores), 32G RAM, 4X300GB RAID10 SAS 15k (polling nodes X 3) Dell R820, dual CPU (16 cores), 256GB RAM, 16X100GB SSD…

Excellent - and thank you. It's been back burner here for a long time as well but something that I need to get back on the radar. Working on Transmode DWDM stuff right now... Cheers, Paul

We replaced the NIC card last week - took three days and same issue started again. This time we used a "tried and true" Intel Pro 1000 NIC card. I am perplexed by this issue - literally running out of ideas. Solarwinds still has not brought out a feature we've asked for since purchase - being able to monitor devices…

Thanks for the responses. Ping from cmd does not work neither. We just moved this server in behind a Juniper SRX firewall (where it used to be, but we moved it out in case the SRX was causing some surprises). On the SRX I can perform a full packet capture which I'm hoping to do when it happens again. ;)

Thanks - we can do tcpdump directly on the Juniper switch (using one of them that the problem appears on). It shows the icmp request come in and the echo response go back out. I will double check the ARP condition when this occurs again. Appreciate it... Paul