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Ha. Tell your guys to call my guys. I wish they'd do that.

Hey there, I have 2000 users on a 75-site WAN but it's all on frame relay so I do the netflow from the head-end router. Since it's only one interface I'm exporting data from can I buy an NTA SL1 license for 3 or 4 bucks a year? ... Just kidding on the tiny license request of course, but surely people must understand the…

I'd also use this feature on a daily basis. The stats I'd be most interested in would be Compression/Acceleration, active connection counts, WAAS Alarms and being able to see the weird WAAS interfaces like InlinePort 1/1/lan.

 I run SQL/Windows 2008, although they're not on the same VM. I had a similar issue for a while; phantom packet loss, weird latency and the like that wouldnt' show up in my diagnostics; when I'd hassle the server admin guys we found a correlation between v-motioning and the problems. This would happen even when my Orion…

I'm getting some optimization done, hopefully it will help some. I wish I could try the server on a traditional SAN, but we've got this XIV monstrosity. It's supposedly cutting edge, but I'm not sure how a bunch of 7200 RPM 500GB SATA drives shoved into an 80TB array could possibly have good performance. Then again, I'm…

Yeah, I've had the same experience jswan has had; the normal setup is to have subinterfaces on the router and you have to do the egress commands on both subs, but NOT on the primary interface. As a side note for jswan or anyone else on this same note, what interface do you use in the ip flow-export source interface command…

I'm a HEAT admin - I've tested the ATG functionality with Orion alerts and as long as you craft the alert email correctly it works fine. Now if I could just get ATG to stop dying on me when I'm out of the office.......

yikes; given how slow the map loads I can't imagine what trying to put the Nexus units (Nexuses? Nexii?) or some other type of core on there would do to load times; plus I'd have to do object mappings every router and switch I wanted to monitor - and I'm looking at a couple hundred of them at a minimum It's a neat idea but…

Server OS Windows Server 2003 R2 64-bit SP2 Server CPU type, number and speed Intel Xeon @ 2.4Ghz - 4 cores (VMWare on an IBM BladeCenter) Server RAM 3GB Number of nodes 360 nodes Number of interfaces 12915 Total elements 13362 Other SolarWinds modules running? NTA VOIP Monitor (soon to be IPSLA) NCM SQL DB local or…

That sounds about right to me. We have 68 locations with 3 to 8 devices at each using NetFlow and each location is between 8kbps and 70kbps of combined Orion traffic (Netflow + ICMP and SNMP), for a total of about 850kbps at the head-end of the WAN - about 2% of total traffic traversing the head-end. We're currently on a…

After that, I want the ability to search for conversations between two arbitrary hosts. Next, the ability to search for conversations between arbitrary groups of hosts, definable by IP address range, list, or prefix/mask combination. Next, the ability to exclude certain traffic types from searches. I agree with these…

I got in touch with support, this is what they told me: thank you for contacting SolarWinds Support. Please do the following steps: 1. Open Orion Service Manager and stop the Job Engine, Job Scheduler and Orion Module Engine. 2. Navigate to C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application…

I had this happen to me right after upgrading as well. I poked around with it quite a bit because I don't like calling tech support (for anyone, not singling out SW) I did two things that seemed to fix it, though I'm not sure which one it was One was to re-discover all my devices (the rediscover option on the Manage My…

I see what you're talking about - I had the device in the NPM database twice under different IP addresses. removing the extra instance cleared up the problem. Thanks.

We use Cisco's WAAS; but it's a similar concept to the Riverbed product. If you're using the Steelheads inline, then you pretty much have to monitor the lan side because Riverbed translates all traffic into a single port on the WAN side, even if you use their "transparency" stuff. What I tend to do is monitor the flow…

We have Cisco MDS units This may be possible using a MiB but I haven't found the right OID yet. We want to be able to monitor not just individual port activity, but also bandwidth usage on backplanes, especially slot-to-slot. We tend to oversubscribe a little bit and it would be helpful to know when this might be causing…

You're right on it being far from perfect, but it certainly did cut the time down! I'll put this as the answer, it's better than what I was doing by a large margin. Thanks for the tip. As a suggestion to any dev that might be reading this, maybe the ideal way for NPM to handle interface listing would be to add a step that…

What he's looking for is to have the alert repeat 3 times then stop. Under the Alert Escalation tab, you see "Execute this action repeatedly while the Alert is triggered", and there's an option to set it to trigger every X minutes/hours/days, but it's infinitely repeating until either you acknowledge or resolve the issue.…

So are you having a problem with the NPM server's ram/CPU maxing out, or with the routers and switches ram/CPU maxing out? I guess a little more detail would be helpful. If it's the server, the only advice I can offer is make sure you don't have SQL database on the same machine as the NPM software. I have similar resources…

I'm also having this problem. We try to keep application files on a seperate logical drive from OS files, but I have 2,278 encrypted files @ 2MB each in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\SolarWinds\JobEngine\ThresholdStreams\AgentDispatcher and it's using up all the space on my OS partition. Anyone know…

I'd like to be able to ideally define an ip range or a subnet as a node or something similar - something I can do top XX reports on etc. My environment has around 70 sites on the WAN. We are just finishing up a conversion from an older frame system to a new MPLS network. On the frame router, each circuit had its own…

Are you running your DB on the Sun servers or on something external?

I really like Microsoft's SCOM for this (previously known as MOM); I have all the multitude of SW services monitored and I get SMS/Email whenever they go down, get slow or go unresponsive. It's not really worth the purchase price or implementation difficulty just for SW stuff but it's a nice product for a variety of…

I'm not sure if this will answer your questions, but here's some things I found helpful in trying to understand these types of things -Default time before NTA starts compressing/averaging data is 180 minutes, so if it's been more than three hours you're going to start to see peaks drop some as they're averaged. -Netflow…

I think I have a similar situation but I could see this getting really complex if the conditions get more complicated than what I have. Here's what I do: If I understand correctly, you have this situation presently: Alert 1: ANY app goes down. Action: Notify NOC team Alert 2: App A goes down. Action: Notify Team A Alert 3:…

That happens to me with IE7. My unproven observation is that it seems to be snapping to the top as each individual element on my NTA dashboard page loads up. Maybe it's the same for you and it's just loading faster in IE than firefox?