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I isolate traffic by VLAN and network switch, therefore I know all the devices on a switch by the VLAN / subnet / DHCP scope. Further, we rely on LANDesk to report all the users on a subnet, which is a slick way of getting the word out about a pending maintenance window. Plus, since LANDesk leverages AD, my report…

From the Thwack Store page, click on the hotlink for "Having an issue with an order?" E-mail the details to thwackstore@solarwinds.com. They'll get you sorted out. You can also go here: https://thwack.solarwinds.com/docs/DOC-167417#start=2275 and then click on the link for "Having issues with an order?" And if worse came…

My daughter put a 17" in the sleeve I bought her without issue. But in the spirit of full disclosure, she eventually found it too inconvenient, and uses the Thwack backpack for protecting/carrying her laptop. She started using the sleeve as a wrist rest in front of her keyboard, and then used it to raise the keyboard up a…

That's a good question, and the answer is beyond me. You can send Netflow data at your NPM server, but I don't see how NPM can work with it until NTA is installed. I DO understand your concept: NPM monitors performance, Netflow is all about performance, NPM therefore "should" be able to build useful reports from Netflow…

Score! Thanks!

That seems the wise way to go. My organization still restricts users from accessing our SolarWinds suite, therefore I tend to do individual rights configuration where appropriate instead of groups. One-offs remain, although I do use Groups when there's an entire team that gets rights to SolarWinds through AD.

That is SO TRUE!

svindler​, would you mind sharing your setup that monitors and alerts on CDP neighbor status? Rick Schroeder

Thank you for your response, CourtesyIT​. It's more than I wanted to do--modifying every node. But it does represent a work-around for something I think is a complete miss on Solarwinds' part for NPM or NCM.

I was as 12.0.1 in September; when upgrading to 12.2, I found doing four APE's simultaneously caused problems. It was better to let the first APE complete downloading its Polling Engine files/updates from the Main Poller before starting a second APE, or a third or fourth. Now, with much-improved updaters, I think the whole…

Thank you! I was hesitant to put this there, since I've had helpful Thwack admins move my content to more specific forums in the past. But I'll give it a shot.

marnell​, I think many Thwack users would like to leverage your experience. Would you mind sharing the TAC cloud sight OID, and perhaps some sanitized screen shots of your new alert, its scope, and its trigger conditions? I think folks would like to have a single widget displaying the top X devices by decreasing…

NetPath and QoE should do the job over time, but Enhanced Ping from the Toolset will give you real time stats at the rate you set. Be careful with the tool set; it can be a tool of good or evil. It's easy to inadvertently create a DOS using those tools if you're not completely familiar with their setup and the size of the…

For what, specifically, are you searching, ana.villar​?

I was rather hoping your example might be SWQL friendly, but it errored when I copied your info and pasted into a SWQL query. Any ideas how to discover which devices are using which templates, or are using "Auto-Determine"?

The Netflow configuration for your equipment will be specific to the brand(s) and model(s) you are using. You can refer to the manufacturer's configuration guides for the best solution, or open a support case if you have a support contract with them. In simplest Cisco terms, you must enable netflow on a per-interface basis…

I'm sorry you and your organization are having so many problems with SolarWinds products. I appreciate your idea of starting from scratch. But you have a lot of things that are good, right? At least you're getting alerts from NPM when systems or sites go down, aren't you? Or are you relying on users' complaints and help…

Seriously, read this and start the journey towards being able to see the big picture: A Stratagem For Obtaining Funding For Your Projects My network is tiny compared to yours, but without full monitoring, you can't say your network is running optimally. Getting to that state is an important part of doing the job right,…

Jeff (borges1120), it occurred to me that there IS an easy way to reassign nodes to other Additional Polling Engines after you add one or more APEs in the future: * Go to Settings > All Settings > Manage Nodes * Use the drop down to Group by Polling Engine, or by Vendor, or any method that shows you nodes you'd like to…

The only concern I'd have with putting your second poller on the same platform that hosts your primary NPM instance is resilience. If it's OK to put all your eggs in one basket, I see no issue with it. Given the flexibility of V-motion and restores & snapshots, if you have multiple hosts that your application can V-motion…

Osberg, are you concerned that you'll have over-written configs if you don't define a unique name? If so, would it be acceptable to use NCM to automatically copy the configs to NCM's drive space? They'll each be in a unique folder that is named for each device. It's thinking out of the box by using this slightly different…

I've long had to avoid relying on NCM automatically recognizing ASA's and letting it choose the appropriate template. That behavior is documented in Solarwinds' technical support site. I always manually choose the my template for NCM, which I tweaked to ensure NCM uses the "copy system:running-config" command when…

Work with Solarwinds Support to determine if an AWS is the right fix for your environment. Latency is rarely good for any kind of performance. It's why some organizations may choose to install APE's at geographically diverse locations. I don't have specific metrics for the performance improvement gained by moving from SQL…

Good, I'm glad to read you've covered the basics. All of my UPS brands (APC, Eaton, Best, Merlin-Guerin) have a "Security" section to enter in allowed IP addresses of pollers--it works exactly like an ACL or White List. Does your UPS have a place in which to configure itself to allow polling from your NTM device? And if…

You're welcome. I'm happy you were able to find a solution so quickly!

Ah, now I understand. Thank you for clarifying that. Please disregard my earlier post.

Cisco's policy on IOS upgrades is a head-shaker. Originally I was told everything must be under contracted support to receive any IOS upgrades, and then in the same meeting the Cisco rep got quiet and said "But some companies only license support on one of each model of hardware, and use that item's serial number for…

There are some alternate options, if you don't want to rely solely on the process I provided initially. 1. Go to your NPM My Dashboards > Configs > Config Summary. It should already be configured for some useful information, but you can customize the page to what you don't see present already. Here's mine: The image in the…

Have you opened a Support case with Solarwinds on this yet? I suspect you may have identified a bug. I tested the process by NOT using Absolute time; the results matched my expectations. It's possible you have an issue that is dependent on your version of NTA; what version is your NTA using?

That was a helpful explanation--thank you. While I have no resolution to the issue, I DO appreciate better understanding what you expect versus what you're receiving. If you do NOT select Absolute, and then run the query, do you see results that are consistent with your expectations?