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Thursday night I got a free ticket to watch SW 8, The Last Jedi. It was far above anything I could have wanted or hoped for. In fact, when finished, I felt that I'd had so much content that I would have been satisfied with only a quarter of what was given me. If you're into that series, this one easily outshines six other…

You've piqued my curiosity. What results when you use a report for 30 days, but you've only have ten days of polling?

Thanks. Please update this thread if you discover solutions, or more problems. I'm working on the same issues, and will post progress if I have some.

Excellent! Thank you, serena​!

That's a lovely end runaround--I like it and respect it. You're probably right--I bet there are people within my organization that can do what you suggested. But since this IS a Solarwinds presentation, NPM Administrators MUST have the ability to get the job done without farming it out to others. Or, at least they must in…

Darn. And I was hoping that "use synchronous loading" would load all the charts on one page (a page with many graphed interfaces) faster. Well, it's good to learn what it really is there for.

Hmph. It almost seems like a limitation with VRF's, and a tiny reason to stay away from them. I realize there are much larger reasons to go TO VRF's. VRF's ought to fully support your needs, and UDT ought to fully support VRF's. That's the way it would be in fictional "Rick-Perfect-World." ;^)

There are some guidelines for building Cisco stacks that might improve your experience:

I don't understand how to accomplish this. Would you be so kind as to describe how to pass '-Trusted"? Perhaps with screen shots?

Firing up QoE's view of the SQL server hosting the Orion database may display the problem brilliantly. If that server is not included in QoE, now's the time to add it in so Orion can show you its performance.

That's what I'm thinking, too. Of course, I have yet to open a TAC case with Cisco to ask whether there's a MIB with OID's that can monitor jitter there. That's my next step, while one of my peers works on the trap generation.

Robert, I'd love to help you out if I knew how to pull what you need out of the old SQL database. I don't, and I apologize. I recommend opening a Support Case to see if, and how, if may be accomplished. Rick

So far the closest I've come to something useful in SDK Studio is this one: SELECT NodeID, IfIndex, CacheAddressType, IpAddress, DeviceId, DevicePort FROM Orion.NodeCdpEntry It provides the IP address and Node name (DeviceID) and the CDP Neighbor port--but doesn't give the rest of the CDP neighbor info I need--such as the…

I'm running it in SDK Studio. I'm looking for something that reports CDP Neighbors for All Nodes, All Ports. The canned CDP Neighbor Report does the job, but I don't see how to get the same info using SDK Studio. Obviously needing to enter in a specific node won't work for my purpose. Any ideas?

Happiness, Daveb7114! It'd be sweet it NCM were able to automatically adjust itself and its timeouts to maximize successful backups. Maybe next year? Swift packets, Rick S.

Ugh--what an ugly and time-consuming process. Trying to decide when to upgrade is the key, I think. On the one hand you have things working acceptably and people are accustomed to seeing their resources in Solarwinds. On the other hand the product is growing, improving, adding new fixes and features and functionality with…

Life might be better (?) if everyone just went out & got the latest download of the Updater/Hotfix . . . It is for me.

Upgrades are DEFINITELY easier now. Most of the thinking is done in the background by SW, and they've done a NICE job of it with this week's release/update. I'm not sure who has access to it yet--my experience seems to have been a beta test, and serena​ supervised it with me. She indicated that this would soon be published…

Yes, I am saving the location of the xml file. Yes, the file has the same name. I agree, it should show up in the Active Tasks area. It doesn't. I'm expect it's probably a PIBKAC and that I'll figure it out eventually.

That's the beauty of: * HA solutions--they keep things up * Poking around in Thwack and NPM, seeing what others have done, and what's available * Having the time to learn these things, discover what's off line, how to better monitor them, and how to fix things so they're working better for the next day And this is a…

Perfect--thank you, Eric! (Please, use "Rick" or "Richard" if you can bring yourself to. "Ricky" was me when I was a five-year-old. Or it's the Silver Spoons actor, and I took plenty of teasing about him--I need no more of his references.)

The current version as of September 2015.

Sorry if I made it sound like 40K elements were on one poller; there are four pollers, each with "unlimited" (a.k.al SLX or 10,000-element) licenses. I find it funny they call 10,000 "unlimited", but hey--it's Marketing! However, prior to going that route, I had some slowness history at earlier versions of NPM which…

If you don't hear what you need from SW quickly enough, perhaps one of these topics might help: https://thwack.solarwinds.com/search.jspa?q=retention

Nice work, jhandberg​! Thank you for sharing this. How is this information learned by Orion? Regular polling / discovery? What's the timing for updates? I'm assuming it's the default period set for polling the nodes, but is that correct?

Ah, no wonder it fails. Thanks. Rick S

Sure, wluther‌, rub it it that we don't have UDT. Yes, exactly like that. Is there a way to do it without UDT, just through NCM or NPM?

Nope. Turns out removing the problem NetPath instances didn't fix the issues I'm seeing. But the symptoms were there . . . Now back to Support.

Thanks, Craig. I got it figured out via this thread: What method can I use to have Solarwinds NPM/NCM show me the output of "show license in-use" for only my Cisco 4510's? The solution works well!

Those sound like some good ideas. If you haven't already created them in the Ideas section, or created a Poll to have folks vote on them, you should. Use the drop down from the top right of the page: