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Amen to that--WLC syslog information is more than NPM's Syslog solution can handle, and contains far more information than a Network Analyst needs. It's as if it's permanently in debug mode.

I'm just embarking on a forklift replacement of about a hundred 2960S stacked switches with 9300's. Some of us are excited about the virtual drive space allocated in the 9000's. Others of us have seen such resources abused by malware or hackers in earlier systems, or are frustrated by the lack of funding for formal…

No one here is willing to claim NMS is important enough to require resources for HA. I have the HA license, haven't implemented it due to lack of resource allocation. Sigh . . . Just watch them try to respond in timely manner if/when our NPM and NCM is down long-term for any reason. Suddenly the users will become the…

That's an interesting idea--using Klog, @bobmarley. Yes, I do know the process for getting the MAC address per port information from single switches. And I could run that command against all switches via NCM. It's just getting that info into a place where I can search all the results for a specific set of 300 MAC addresses…

My noobishness with SQL and SWQL is revealed here. I pasted your query into the SDK SWQL tool and ran it against a MAC address from which I'd removed the decimals. SWQL is searching for a 'SELECT' command that's missing: What is the right place to use this query, if not in the SDK Studio? Or, what's the actual query I…

I think perhaps one of the root prerequisites here is to turn on NCM to do MAC Address Inventory functionality, isn't it? I've never enabled that, believing it would bog down my SW systems, but maybe it's time to try it. Any recommendations or suggestions before I do? I assume it's a matter of selecting ARP and Bridge…

Interesting! I (apparently mistakenly) understood previous versions of NCM required one to use a caret as an "ignore" command, and then must be followed by the characters that should be ignored. That previously worked; I was unaware that the caret means "begins" instead of "ignore lines for comparison if they contain the…

Never discount the value of being forced to take piano lessons in grade school. I started around age 8, and by the time I was in 9th grade (when we were first being taught to use typewriters--yes, I'm that old!) I was winning the speed/accuracy timed trials. The hand-eye-brain coordination of reading music and translating…

It IS easy to get rid of a few obsolete / removed interfaces. But in a chassis switch with 384 FastEthernet ports to remove after they've been replaced with GigEthernet blades, removing those 384 individual ports is tedious. This is something a computer should be able to do automatically, in any of several forms: * A new…

I like seeing "higher ranking" Thwack folks helping out, verifying advice, clarifying things. To me, it reaffirming to see a Thwack member who's ranked at "18" saying something a "13-ranked" Thwack contributor offered was advice that could be helpful. Thanks, wluther‌!

Just as you can't beat Layer 1 security, you also can't beat packet captures for troubleshooting. Good advice!

In my environment, every device gets a write memory command every day, unless there is a specific reason not to. Is your environment different than this? If not, just use NCM to write mem on all devices, and your graph should turn 100% green after the next job cycle. That's thinking out of the box. If the pie doesn't turn…

That's the "keep it simple" part--having the main monitor up, and watching when various views or windows go blank, which indicates your poller has issues. Low tech, but effective.

If you've ever restored a G2 Sidewinder, you'll probably understand why NCM is not going to be a useful tool in your belt for that task. Sidewinders get restored from Emergency Config backups that are created via the Sidewinder Cobra GUI, and stored on USB sticks or off the Sidewinder on the network. The CLI procedure for…

I'm digging deeper into your method of accomplishing this today, d09h​. The link provided references charting objects only, and I don't think that's what I need--not a graph, but a table. Am I wrong on this? In preparation for the new Widget, I've: * Created a Group that contains all the switches, routers, and firewalls in…

I didn't intentionally choose to do any grouping, but the Builder appears to assume there is a requirement to "Group Chart Data By" something. What lines might be added to cover that grouping requirement? Similarly, there seems to be a requirement for some type of legend. I've no clue where to turn to for that type of line…

This was easy. Thanks. Now that I have a group of nodes I'm interested, what method would you use to display errors or discards on the interfaces within those nodes? Preferably scaling with the highest count of port errors or discards at the top. I'm imagining adding an Available Widget like " . . . Errors & Discards…

It takes 8 hours or more to process your devices, so don't give up hope. I had 800 devices, and that took 14 hours to process. Once I had a successful notification in the tool, it also took 48 hours for Cisco to correctly analyze the data and build the reports and notify me. You're almost there--patience will win the day.

Serial number and IOS versions are shared. No configuration details are sent.

I bought it with NAM last October, and it's saved me a lot of time and effort tracking devices to their end ports. It also puts "mine-able" information in the Solarwinds Orion SQL database that our CMDB leverages for discovering impacts and dependencies. Now if I could only get SA's and Security to approve giving UDT the…

It's possible that SW set that 1 Mb bandwidth limitation when using EOC for those larger sites. 600K to 1M elements will require more bandwidth to poll/monitor/report than 30 sites with far fewer elements. I'd like to think that having many fewer elements could equate to a lower bandwidth requirement, but I can't say it's…

If you are correct about that disconnect, then NPM's Heat Maps' worth is devalued. I need to see all the clients that every AP sees, and I need the option to find them on the Heat Map by name or IP address or MAC address, or any of the other ways we accomplish the same things with Prime. Of course, the two aren't the same.…

That seems like good advice. Since we already own both Prime and NPM, it's interesting to compare their WLAN discovery and Heat-Map-building processes side-by-side. I've opened a new SW Support case for my questions. Hopefully the answers will be quick and useful.

I understand what your initial goals are. Have you paused to consider that achieving those goals will likely increase isolation between teams and reduce synchronicity and synergism? Keeping others from seeing everything builds silo walls around teams, and I'm actually trying to tear down the silo mentality where I work,…

MFA has proven fast and reliable for my organization (so far). I rely on it for ALL external access into my organization and it hasn't let me down since implementing it over a year ago.

It sounds like you might need to have a little conference call between your management team, your security group, your network analysts, and TAC. The router's OOB management port is truly out of band, designed to be plugged into an OOB or ILO network that gives you the ability to control the router when all other avenues…

Thank you for confirming you have also experienced this. It would have been nice if I'd read somewhere on Thwack about administrative changes so one could be prepared for them. Did I miss the memo?

Now your link goes to a Yahoo News page that headlines (today) with Trump forgetting he's president, and his insistence that President Obama installed wire taps in Trump tower. Goofy Yahoo.

It sounds like you might benefit from making exporting to Excel a Feature Request. I'll vote for it if you do!