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You may see, higher up in the thread, I covered SPAN sessions and when they are appropriate or inappropriate. Cisco provides SPAN for temporary troubleshooting, and recommends a physical tap for long term monitoring, due to the problems they've seen with resource utilization associated with the SPAN session.

I've used QoE for some time now, and I find it particularly satisfying to be able to help eliminate thoughts that "the network" is having problems, when I can look at QoE and see fast response times to servers, but database or html responses showing huge lags in latency. However, with all the good info QoE provides, I…

My apologies, Rakem; I believed you already had the 2000 devices in NCM, which assumes you had already discovered them when you added them, and telnet or SSH was already applied to each one. I didn't understand you meant that you wanted to discover and add those nodes. You're right--the File/Settings --> Global Macro…

Speak on, my friend; what you say is intriguing! Please assume I have no special skill sets, that what shouldn't be hard for you to perform might very well challenge my limitations mightily. I'm not asking you to do all the work, but I don't understand how to do what you've said. Is there a simple example you could create…

Agreed--for C-Level viewers who are interested only in down status of a site, even the green globes are too much. They'd just need a view that shows when an entire site is down, and when it went down. Then they know what's needed to ensure the ball is rolling. For my technical staff, the more information about that site…

This is the correct answer (IMHO).

I something similar once when a previous administrator had configured a device's vty interfaces to operate at 115200 instead of the default 9600. I got nothing but garbage out of the connection. But that was local console, not telnet or SSH. Compare the results of NCM downloading the config against your SSH session…

Experience is the best teacher. But a great GUI ain't a bad thing, and neither is a well-trained and well-staffed Help Desk.

Each of your polling engines takes on the task of being the local NCM delegate for contacting nodes and downloading configs from them. That means each of your polling engines already is an SCP server (or whatever method/protocol you selected for downloading configs from nods). There is no need to set up each polling engine…

After getting past the problems where it appears that the upgrade thinks it should be able to see if .NET 4.8 is present--but it can't, and apparently that is normal and is expected. Once I was told by Support to ignore the false license expiration alerts, the upgrade is moving along. The main instance and all of the APE…

The upgrade was halted due to the automated solution being unable to determine that A. .NET 4.8 was present on the Main Instance and on the 6 APE's. .NET 4.8 is installed on all seven of our pollers. B. The license for the Scalability Engine was current (it is) I'm working with Solarwinds Supports to get passed these…

There's the challenge--all the extra items that my admin rights don't allow, and having to get other departments do the double-checking and troubleshooting on my behalf. That's the challenge I bear as a control freak--having to rely on others for assistance. Thank you again, mesverrum​.

You may have seen earlier comments from me regarding O365. We save $6M/year on licensing fees using O365. And our e-mail and apps are slow and occasionally unavailable. Try figuring out the cost to production of that and justifying spending the $6M to Finance. What's even better is NetPath confirms the issue when MS Cloud…

Nessus is ridiculously powerful, and had no easy-to-understand guidelines about what any given level of intensity scan might do to a network. There were no predictions about using it and inadvertently causing a DOS inside our network. I watched it hang Windows print servers and cause Distribution and Core switches to hang…

Ask your firewall administrator to check their firewall logs for traffic between your poller(s) and the nodes to see what's being denied (if anything). Then request it be allowed.

You might also have some luck with this one: <!-- edited with XML Spy v4.4 U (http://www.xmlspy.com) by () --> <!--SolarWinds Network Management Tools--> <!--Copyright 2005 SolarWinds.Net All rights reserved--> <Configuration-Management Device="HP Procurve 420" SystemOID=" 1.3.6.1.4.1.11.2.14.11.6.4.1.1"> <Commands>…

We do have other failover solutions in place, but only the Network Analysts rely on Solarwinds, therefore it's not mission critical, and a failover solution is unnecessary. The thought is that if Orion's down, we've lost our ability to discover the extent of other down systems, but we can restore Orion and regain that…

It's time to leverage your Solarwinds Technical Support account, I think.

Sigh. I would. But it's been too long, too much water over the dam. I recommend you talk with Support if you have similar concerns. But I also suspect that any issues will be fully resolved, permissions included, by running the just-released updater and/or Scalability Engine solution by installing the latest hotfixes on…

Support told me this information is the correct information: However, it does't explain why I still have the UDT Job time out errors.

This is an old thread--I don't recall which hotifix did the job, and we're already on 2019.2. It works fine in this environment.

3850's running 3.6.4.E are good: 2860X stacks running 15.2.4.E1 are cool:

Oh, if only . . . Frankly, my biggest hurdle is getting other silo'd types to give me some time with them so I can learn enough about their systems to be able to build something that can be useful to them. That, and getting their community strings, and administrative / security approval to use the appropriate Orion module…

Jiri, does NCM 7.4 accept (and apply) these kinds of changes on the fly without having to stop & start any service?

You may as well move to SQL 2016 now, since earlier versions won't be supported by NTA. Save the hassle and be prepared by putting in the new version, and your upgrades won't run into that snafu.

How unfortunate that parts of, or all of, APE's must be shut down to correctly perform an update or a fix. I'm fighting that same challenge right now.

Yes, reviewing them IS required, although I think it shouldn't be. They do a good job for hub & spoke environments with little WAN resilience. Maybe that additional feature of properly discovering resilient paths will be Gen 2 for NPM in the near future. One can hope.

I think you're looking for a sweet query and output, but all I have to offer is the option of changing the time frame to include the dates you're interested in. By default you'll probably only see the activity for the last 15 minutes, but you can set custom times or dates in NTA and go back as long as you keep records.…

Interesting. I'm a version back--NPM 12.0.1. The PUA says it can't handle the upgrade to 12.2. Some internal SW folks told me in a Thwack meeting today that I had to download another set of app installers to get the job done. Then Support told me to just use the PUA to get to 12.1, then use the NEW PUA to go to 12.2. Sadly…

I, too, have seen more intuitive naming applied. I sometimes wondered at the rationale for creating naming conventions like those I initially described. Some ideas I came up with include: * The systems are in smaller, home-grown IT shops, with a fun and personalized atmosphere. * Folks get to personalize their products and…