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A picture is more intuitive, so here's a small screen shot. 1. Click on Grid. 2. Select Grid Manager 3. Ensure you have the Toolbar on the right expanded so you can see the options. 4. Select Backup and choose your options / preferences.

How strange & sad if Cisco doesn't provide similar snmp monitoring to their Ethernet switching hardware! I found OIDs similar to what you mentioned, at the link below. But I didn't notice RAM/CPU OID's referenced. ONS 15454 MSTP SNMP Fault Management - Cisco

I'm accustomed to Beta's coming with their own local SQL version. Everything needed to operate the Beta is included, and runs on the server hosting the Beta. I appreciate this, and think it's a great solution. No one needs to have a beta causing questions or confusion (or worse) in a production environment. Having…

Are you using SQL server 2016, or still using an earlier version? The new version of NTA was designed to ultimately run on SQL 2016, although earlier SQL versions remain support if you select the right SQL option during the upgrade.

There are a few caveats for 100% successful NetPath deployment, particularly if going through firewalls and discovering external providers' nodes. If it's not working as needed, it's possible you may find it helpful to route it outside the VPN tunnel between your NPM server, through your firewall, to the outside interface…

All updates on all your issues are watched with interest! Please continue to let us know how things are proceeding.

You might configure the proxies to allow NetPath to bypass them--unless you wanted NetPath to monitor the Proxies as part of the solution. I'd probably just monitor the proxies separately so each has their own alert, and ask Security to allow your NPM to bypass the proxies. Of course, if you send your NetPath info through…

One of the most important reasons for me to get NAM was to be able to use the information it discovers through UDT. I've used that module hundreds of times in the last two weeks alone, and my Help Desk and End User Platform Support teams are VERY excited to be able to get that information. It's saved me LOADS of time…

I did not have to install everything that came with NAM. In this case, I suspect "bundle" means that you've purchased the license for all the modules, but are not required to install all of them. And I believe you have the option to never install certain modules. Or install some later.

NAM had a hard limit for 100,000 elements in 2017. Given NAM lets me have 20 or more APE's, it still limits things to 100,000 elements. In 2018 this doubled to 200,000 elements--at no extra charge! I think my organization would really benefit from SAM with DPA, but everyone has their own silo and their own product-specific…

I've had similar challenges with V3. Each one was overcome by simplifying the snmp-v3 string and ensuring the rules for the products involved were identical and compatible. In one case I discovered a product that claimed to support v3, but would only do so when the Authentication password was made the same as the…

That depends on what you mean. Yes, you can run a script against single or multiple devices managed by NCM. It happens sequentially, per your settings for the amount of devices that can be accessed at once. If you allow NCM to work with ten devices at once, and you choose to run your script against 1000 nodes, it will…

Agreed. Hence my updated response and request for additional comment from others. Thanks.

When you have time, please share with us the upgrade particulars. * What modules were upgraded? * What versions were they at? * To what versions did you attempt the upgrades? * Did you fail back / downgrade to previous versions? * What specific failures did you encounter? * What was the impact to your products & customers?…

When our Cisco rep told us ACS was going away, and ISE was the replacement, we pushed back because ISE couldn't support TACACS. I've been told ISE 2.0 has been released (but that training won't be available for it until perhaps Q2 or Q3 2016). My expectation is that Cisco will think strongly about following through with…

Do you have outside vendors who support your WAN or Internet? If so, has your organization created a single e-mail address group for them to send maintenance notifications to? If so, there's your group e-mail address. If not, I strongly recommend it. Your Active Directory security administrators and e-mail administrators…

There are great resources available for planning and installation guidance. You can find them at Success Center - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support Thwack.com is also a super place to do research about installations, learn processes and prerequisites, and discover solutions. Just go to the main page at Thwack.com…

Let's slightly modify the use of NPM, since it's much more than a tool for monitoring SNMP devices. Some of the many other things I use NPM for include: * Mapping connections between nodes and displaying them graphically, with the ability to drill into them and see throughput and connection speeds * Monitoring the status…

I agree with you; it should not be adding those resources. I recommend opening a support case with Solarwinds to get to the bottom of it. Well, that or RTFM . . .

Danielle she's having another one made & shipped to me. Perhaps you'll have similar luck!

We'll be interested in reading your results, whether this provides you the information you want. Please post after you've completed it and tested it.

If everything is correctly configured, try this process: * Access NPM * Go to My Dashboards > Netflow > Conversations. (You DO have NTA installed and integrated, right?) * Look in the left half for the column labeled "Conversation". It shows ingress and egress bytes and packets and percentages between hosts. You can drill…

You've got it in one. Both traps AND syslog are necessary when timely notification is of the essence. And nothing beats a great graphic, so the quest for a color change when BGP or OSPF changes is a good one.

You may be able to find the solution by simply searching Thwack for your key phrases. A Support Casr may be more efficient, but perhaps not as fast as the Thwack community's responses.

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I've seen backup jobs finish and switches show up in the front page's pie graphs as unbacked up. Digging deeper I've seen multiple cases of my team adding new network devices but forgetting to add them into multiple NCM scheduled jobs (e.g.: regularly download startup config, download running config, write memory,…

Bacon Pie is a thing. A very big thing.

That one made me smile. Thank you for that.

That's right (IMHO).

I did that same process as part of creating new discovery and remediation Compliance processes. I was able to discover--and remediate--many one-offs and less-than-best-practice deployments. All towards making a more uniform config file, that's easier to secure and troubleshoot.