pstewart726

That's a great question - we have an avid interest in finding ways to monitor our Metaswitch systems including Perimeta SBC's and other systems....

Sorry for the delay in getting back to this post... We graph all IP Transit and IP Peering connections. Our business costing model is based entirely on this data - also, we will our customers based on this information. Looking up dozens of individual graphs and doing custom timeframe consumes a LOT of time. We are also…

Thanks for the fast response. That makes sense - we do all management in-band vs using the out of band ethernet so wouldn't have seen that before. Cheers, Paul

As this has been an open request from many folks (it appears) for at least 2 years ... any idea when this will be a feature? We *really* need a way to monitor certain BGP sessions. Is there a way to do this in syslog matching that we are not aware of? We could manually build a match on the neighbor IP if we knew syslog…

Thank you for asking. We run the following today: M7i, M10 MX80, MX240, MX480, MX960 w/ RE2000's…

Thank you. After I got attention on the issue it was resolved in less than 24 hours. Now I have contacts as well who can help when things fall apart - hopefully not again though.

Overkill on the polling engines, the SQL server or the application server? When we spec'ed out our current system, Solarwinds told us we were fine for 10-12k nodes - half way there and we're maxxing out the existing system simply because we need to take interface statistics every 5 minutes (industry standard) vs Solarwinds…

Thanks for reminding me - we were going to order new NIC cards and see if that helped with this issue. This is something we haven't tried yet but will definately and report back....

Sorry - didn't answer your questions though. CPU averages 5% and memory consumption is around 3GB normally.

Thanks - I ran some DB maintenance early this morning and that seems to have helped quite a bit. Compressed the DB etc Will open ticket if this issue shows up again - appreciate the input.

Thank you! Perfect!

Thanks - no NIC teaming currently. ARP issue - interesting thought but wouldn't explain why SNMP can reach the device properly while ICMP Ping can't? ;) Cheers, Paul Two things on this. First, if you are doing active/active NIC teaming on that server try active/standby. Also what might be the problem is indeed NIC drivers…

Thank you - obviously I missed that note....appreciate it.

Thank you - we already have that capability today ... doesn't sound like delivering an actual voice message is going to be easy....

Thanks Jespir for the response I am curious though as to when you would have an EX switch configured and in production where it wouldn't have a layer3 VLAN interface of some type? We have quite a few EX switches (we are primarily all Juniper) and your post caught my attention Cheers, Paul

Thank you for the responses. We were told by our sales rep that this was specifically possible and it was a "heavy" part of our requirements when purchasing. The direct response after our sales rep checked with engineers was "this is quite possible with the report writer to generate 95th percentile reports including…

Thank you again. I was just reading and didn't realize you can do direct SQL queries right as part of the alert function - very cool. That's enough for me to work with and appreciate it.

ncbridea - interesting, no never seen those before. Will check them out more - doesn't look like there's any way though to do a realtime report? For example, I can do everything I need right now in Cacti - one click and I get a full real-time report (ok, every 5 minutes it's updated) on all our transit providers/customer…

Thanks - and to make it more interesting, those nodes in question are all being restored at the moment so my ability to re-create this may be challenging. There is definately something going on relating to dependencies in my opinion - the email alerts keep showing the same devices go from unknown to down and then back to…

Thanks Superfly99 - didn't know that option existed. That helps in one regard (avoiding duplicates) but creates a problem in another In most aspects it helps a lot - but we monitor a lot of networks of our own but also of some customers..... it's in those customer networks where that option doesn't work so well because we…

lo0 for everything - we don't use the FXP interfaces at all as completely in-band for monitoring. Thanks.

So I have to chime in on this thread as I have recently gone from pretty happy, to quite concerned, to now royally upset (I'll keep it professional but it's getting hard). I have one ticket 45+ days old where we just bought additional NPM polling engines and even Solarwinds can't make their own software function properly.…

That's very interesting - we are running on a Dell Poweredge 2950 with built in NIC cards. In our case I will double check but believe the NIC drivers and server firmware are all up to speed - will double check though. No NIC teaming or Cisco etherchannel involved in our side.

I should have added that we have engaged Microsoft and they have come up with no answers on the dropped ping. We have tested another monitoring solution (which doesn't require ping) and no issues. Also, during the time that the ping stops responding we are able to still get SNMP based data from the switches.

That's what I was thinking - weird stuff with that combo. Firefox under Mac works great. I didn't file a bug report for this - wonder if anyone has?

Thank you - is there anything else that is less length that can be used? I'm hoping for a numerical reference within the subject line if possible?

So I also rolled a ticket with Solarwinds and they confirmed that the only way to do this is via custom SQL queries. Now, I need to find what's broken with my query - hoping someone can come up with a rather simple way to pull the values for specific Customer Poller variables? Why hasn't Solarwinds built this kind of…

Many thanks - can you change it to pstewart726 by chance?

Thanks very much for the helpful response. I was just talking to someone else about their Solarwinds deployment and they told me the came thing - that CPU/memory isn't overly important. They also asked why I wouldn't be looking at a SSH solution on SQL server. We are not Windows/SQL people overall - we "dabble" in it so…

This is where Solarwinds is failing badly as a product in my opinion. If you don't come to these forums and encourage a popularity contest then you won't see support for a product. I've asked for various features over the years and the response is always been "we haven't seen a lot of requests for that feature"... heck…