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The "database" used by Network performance monitor is an MS Access database and it can be editied and changed using Access even though the extension is not .mdb Performance monitor does not push data to the web automatically. It can write the currnet information to an XML file that you will need to parse. Or you could…

Have you tried the database recovery tools? Cheers Ric Knight

Don't log off... the Network Performance Monitor and Network Monitor apps don't run as a service so they need to be logged on... I run MS Terminal services on my server and then run the monitors in a disconnected session on the server under their own userID. Another option would be to use an application that runs programs…

I also experience the same problem every 7 to 10 days. The updates just stop. At that point I restart. Cheers Ric Knight

You would need an external process to start Performance Monitor and then another external process to stop Performance Monitor between specific times. Performance monitor itself does not have time of day polling. Cheers Ric Knight

You could do it with the Cisco Config viewer.... assuming the switch is a cisco running IOS rather than at OS... download the config change it and put it back... mind you you will need to "reload" the switch before it will take effect... Cheers Ric Knight

If you use a Terminal Services session to the server running the Solarwinds tools... you logon, run your tools, disconnect and voila it's kind of running in the background Cheers Ric Knight

You could create a custom HTML box that ran a script/program that on would select from a list maps to display. It could run in a panel on the summary page, or as a stand alone webpage. Cheers Ric Knight

Look for the "Advanced-CPU-Load.CPUDB" Usually gets stored in the MY DOCUMENTS directory of which ever user is running it. Cheers Ric Knight

Find out what the interface transmit and receive values are set to, and compare them with the actual interface. You can manually change the transmit and receive values in the interface details. Cheers Ric Knight

Monitor the Serial side. This will give you a good view of the T1 capacity. The ethernet(10MB) would only show 15% utilization if the T1 were completely used. Or better yet, monitor both... that way you can see interface errors, drops, etc... Cheers Ric Knight

You can run SNMP Real Time graphs on the router interfaces in conjunction with CPU Load and when the spike hits you will know what interface is taking the traffic... If possible you can log into the router, through on a couple og DEBUGs and watch what happens in the log during a spike. Cheers Ric Knight

Put a router on the inside of your firewall... preferably between your Network Management station and the network segment you want to map... run ping sweep of your internal addresses then fire up Switch port mapper using the switch and the internal router and voila.. ip and mac addressing in a nice spread sheet... Cheers…

Look for the SWNetPerfMon.cfg in your current solarwinds directory. This is all the Network Performance Monitor information. Copy it to the new machine. Cheers Ric Knight

I'm currently running Cirrus 3.0 and the Beta Alert Engine running on a Windows 2003 server. I have not had any issues with the two coexisting. Cheers Ric Knight

The tools measure overall bandwidth on the link... If you want to find the big users then turn on IP ACCOUNTING on the interface of the router and watch for the IP address generating the most traffic... Cheers Ric Knight

Thanks for this work around... seems to do the trick Cheers Ric Knight

Thanks Josh, looking forward to a new release. Cheers Ric Knight

The forward trap action works correctly as well... just smtp woes Cheers Ric Knight

I have a similar problem with Traps. When I define an action of send an email message in the Trap Viewer application no action is taken. There is no evidence from my smtp server logs that a connection was even attempted by the trap service. Actions to change the colour of the message and log to the Event Log on the local…

put the IP address of the mail server on your internal network. Cheers Ric Knight

If you have access to Cisco CCO website, the following link is helpful cco.cisco.com/.../technologies_tech_note09186a00800a758d.shtml Here is a summary; 1. Minimize periodic broadcast traffic (such as routing and SAP updates) by using access lists or by other means. For example, to increase the delay between SAP updates,…

quote:Originally posted by vorlockfoss Does anyone know how I can migrate to a new PC? Any help would be very much apprecated. Contact SolarWinds Customer support. They will generate you a new key that can be used in the new PC. Cheers Ric Knight

The Mac Address finder discovers MAC addresses by Pinging a Subnet and listening for ARP responses... The diference between it and Pingsweep is that you get the MAC address back... It only detects IP interfaces. Cheers Ric Knight

The database file is NetPerfMon.cfg. Typicaly in the root of the install directory. Cheers Ric Knight

the database is an MS Access DB file even though extension is .CFG. Maybe you could use some Access recovery tools to fix it... or at least recover some of the data. Cheers Ric Knight

The Switch port mapper will do this from the Engineer Edition The Mac Address Discovery tool will also do this. Cheers Ric Knight

thanks... will try to hack around with this Cheers Richard Knight

Move the various database files and INI files associated with each of the programs to the same directories on the new machine. Cheers Ric Knight

Likely the XP SP2 security settings are killing the SNMP traffic to and from the PC. Edit the settings in the control panel to allow SNMP read traffic on port 161 and trap traffic on 162. Cheers Ric Knight