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You work around of restarting the Solarwinds services sounds so Microsoft! We have hundreds of Citrix servers that must be rebooted every 48 hours to deal with Microsoft limitations . . . I had to write filters to keep my Inbox clean of their continual "node down", "node rebooted", "node up" alerts from NPM. Fixing the…

I agree with your observation that being limited to just three interfaces in the node's summary page is insufficient. May I suggest you submit a Feature Request to address this shortcoming? I'll vote for it!

svindler has it right. I'd add a suggestion to enable Real-Time Change Detection on NCM. That, combined with TACACS accounting & reporting, will show who did what, and when they did it. Plus you'll get a notification as soon as the command is implemented, courtesy of Real-Time Change Detection.

NCM can manage an ASA that's participating in FTD, and can download startup & running configs from one. But NCM cannot (so far) manage Firepower Threat Defense systems' config files, sadly. (Hopefully) Yet.

I found one issue NCM was experiencing, when it wasn't able to complete its jobs, was caused by the size of my Cisco 4510's configuration files versus the method I'd chosen to download them. 384 ports for a fully loaded chassis, 33 lines of configuration code per port, plus port-channels and VLAN's and SVI's and L3 routing…

Just . . . wow. You exemplify how users bring value to Thwack by helping each other, sharing their expertise. Thank you for this. And may your packets be swiftest of all! Rick Schroeder

I'm slightly confused by your comment. Are you saying the different application provided the desired result, or is your hypothesis that snmp-v2 works better than snmp-v3 for Solarwinds Switch Port Mapper working with Nexus? I've tried snmp-v2--it does not get the Nexus hardware to provide the DNS info to Switch Port…

Looks like I need a little more help here. The query, plain as written, isn't accepted. What newby item did I miss and need to add to make this work, please, donrobert5​?

That sounds like a perfect place for NetPath to be used for alerting.

It seems you might be missing some other options--ping, snmp, and agent port aren't the only ways to get alerts when something's down. Have you tried using Quality Of Experience metrics and alerting on them when they go exceed a threshold? QoE is included with NPM, and if you're using WMI to monitor servers, you can see…

It would be easy to configure NCM to cook bacon--and eggs! All it need do is send a CLI instruction to apply power to the appropriate interface through a relay or IC. For example, where *** Van *** energies the relay at 1:32 here: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - You Two (HD) - YouTube That could be NCM doing the work for you. Of…

It's easy to show where polling is failing by creating a couple of standard jobs to run nightly. One is the config backup task, the other is the inventory task. If administrative access is denied or fails due to credentials changing, you'll get a report that shows which devices failed to backup. If SNMP strings change,…

Thank you. I'll give this a try. My fingers are crossed!

Ugh. This is unexpected. Many devices are shut off for the evening, or go into sleep mode to save power. Others are disconnected as users take laptops home for a weekend, and are reconnected on a Monday morning. I (incorrectly?) believed once a port was set to be monitored by UDT, it would stay monitored. It's reasonable…

Thank you, David.

Thanks, gregthompson​. I ran into a glitch immediately at a pretty basic level: Not being a SQL/SWQL person, I plead ignorance. How does one modify the query to make it run correctly?

That's some impressive forethought, and a lot of implementation--and it pays off for you! My imagination didn't extend to an environment where STP isn't a basic foundation. I'm happy you've got a great working example without it. You note one APE per VRF isn't a good solution for your particular environment; have you…

I have enough IP addresses (53,000) and ports (75,000) that it may not be feasible with this kind of query. Maybe one of our SQL DBA's can offer an alternate query, unless you have a specific suggestion?

Yes, it IS taking quite a while. I'd like to find a way to let it complete. Do you know how one might extend the timing so it does not fail simply because it takes longer than initially expected?

I'm excited to see this in action later today. Thank you for your thought & efforts!

This looks like it has good potential. I've not set up a discovery like this yet, though. Can you walk me through the basics to test this via NPM or NCM?

The labeling doesn't support your idea, which isn't a bad one. Much like Custom Properties, it has to be in place before it can be leveraged. No, I'm looking for something more intelligent/dynamic, like running a discovery on the actual configuration for every physical port. Any port that has "channel group" in its…

Thank you, Eric. If you don't know about it, I'd bet it doesn't exist yet. 

Thank you for the ideas. I'm booked fully enough that I don't have the luxury of playing with them, though. I'm hoping there'll be someone who has done this, who knows how to pull this info from Cisco switches via snmp or downloadable UnDP and make it work cleanly and gracefully. Is there any input from lurkers who might…

Our care providers and their support staff regularly use dicom pings for troubleshooting communications between devices. Protocols/dicom - The Wireshark Wiki OTech: PACS Administrator Tools and Tricks of the Trade: Using a DICOM Sniffer I'd be up for seeing how other Orion users leverage DICOM information with NPM or NTA…

I've not yet found a way to use NCM to manage Infoblox configuration files for backup / restore / comparison, but Infoblox does support backups & restores via their own internal processes. If you have the manual for Infoblox, just search for "Backing Up Files". I'm running version 6.7.0 Infoblox, and automatically back the…

Version 7 45xx switches (and earlier hardware platforms) needed NetFlow modules purchased and installed. That is not the case for Version 8 4510 and 4507 chassis switches. However, the switch must be licensed for IP Base or Enterprise before NetFlow commands will work. A plain 4510 running LAN Base cannot do NetFlow until…

How does that scale to 1000 switches? Or can you query all at once and see the output in one report?

I'll fight the good fight here for a while. There's undoubtedly something that needs adjustment.

Wow. For something made available for us all to read on ate least August 16, and yet specifically noted to NOT publish until at least August 20, someone dropped the ball. How does someone miss the bold, capitalized, RED note, and publish it too early anyway?