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Performance will improve significantly once database issues are resolved:

Hear, Hear! Thank you, bobmarley​!

Those are fun and very-entertaining gifs! Thank you for the happiness, wluther​!

Good options, but don't forget the the option that is the elephant in the room: Re-IP-Address the overlapping sites. Yes, inconvenient, expensive, time-consuming. But it's a great solution for the long run. When my organization merged with two others, we found many overlapping address ranges. Rather than installing NAT,…

That was the perfect answer, stibi‌. Somehow I'd missed seeing the Flow Navigator. Thank you.

I built something like this for our C-Level staff so they could look at one graphic and see all one hundred of our facilities as green, yellow, or red. They can click on a circle to drill into a site that's yellow or red and see what's down. But I feel the most practical solution for my team is just to have the front page…

Packet captures, tcpdumps--Wireshark are all your friends for this adventure. * Install Wireshark on the server with the failed traffic, then use it to ensure your expected traffic is actually making it out towards the intended destinations * Look at your firewall audit files and packet captures:* Is traffic making to the…

Now THAT'S what I'M talkin' bout! It's the little things that have the power.

120 Admins using NCM? Impressive? How many nodes are on your network? How many elements do you manage? I have 4 pollers, NPM, NCM, NTA, just under 800 managed nodes, elements are about 35,000.

I use this exact solution--with TACACS. One job for backing up startup configs, a separate job run later for catching running-configs. It works well.

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A custom poller is your likely solution. Universal Device Pollers (UnDP) included with NPM may also help. Search Thwack for "Custom Poller" and you'll find some resources like this one:

I'm running NPM 12.2 and I have separate Web browser, Telnet. and SSH shortcuts on all my nodes' details pages.

A good question. I've not tried this, but the next time I have a failover I'll check & see. My hope/expectation was that since the ASA's trade Mgmt IP addresses when they failover, the data would remain and NTA / NPM would be "fooled" and continue showing info. I guess it's too smart for that. I'll look & see if the…

I'm running NPM 12.2, and am unable to achieve the removal of the Pencil View Editor for group accounts that have had "Allow Account to Customize Views" set to "no." I've had the users log completely out of NPM and Windows, log back in, and they still have the pencil, and that's not desirable. Any ideas for removing that…

Borgan, I confess I'm no UDT user. When I need that kind of information I'm forced to do a ping sweep of the segments on a switch, then run Switch Port Mapper against the switch (and its routing interface, probably upstream, for the ARP tables). Then I save that information in Excel format and compare it to a later…

Hi, Jiri, Yes, that’s the item that was changed. We upgraded to HF2 so we could get the QoE additional licenses. Should I have referenced NPM instead of NCM for that? Rick

Do you believe Admin Rights is required when I've allowed, in the Reports section, Report Management Rights?

Thanks for the input. This user does have No Limitation selected, but still can't view or edit reports. All other rights are restricted. I'm interested in knowing if I have to allow Administrator Rights (see below), and then try to begin restricting individual rights. Any other ideas?

A likely spot that will generate that sort of activity is Network Configuration Manager. NCM has a spot with pre-made and customized Jobs that can operate on schedules. Open up NCM and look for the Jobs. See which ones are enabled, check out their schedules for running. You can edit any job to change its targets, its login…

The error shows you haven't provided a valid Azure Subscription ID. If it's required for a demo version, that's unfortunate. Find your Azure subscription ID and enter it in the proper spot in the demo install & see if that fixes the issue. https://docs.bitnami.com/azure/faq/administration/find-subscription-id/

The solution is to identify the source & destination IP addresses, along with the destination port, and configure the firewall to allow the traffic over the required ports for the source & destination IP addresses. Will you be able to accomplish this--will your Security team allow the traffic, since it is tied down to…

Thanks, I'll give this a try Monday.

Creating meaningful, usable alerts was one of the initial challenges. And prior to that, understanding snmp and snmp-v3, creating standards-based documentation and implementing those standards for every node (include naming conventions, snmp strings, etc.). Later, upgrades were hard. And they took a lot of time. Lately…

I'd be tempted to ask Support about past instances where this happened after an upgrade. I seem to recall experiencing this exact symptom, and Support was able to find & correct the issue resulting from the migration. Maybe suggest this to them? They could look up my case number and see what they did (it was too many years…

A "Custom Application" means, to me, something that is challenging to support. There may be only one person who understands it because they wrote it. If/when they leave the organization, that custom app is a liability waiting to bite a team, either through its failure, or through the inability to further modify it to meet…

I think your questions are good ones. If I was looking at that issue I'd open up two tickets: One with Solarwinds Support and the other with Cisco TAC. You'll probably spend less time spinning your wheels that way, although SW Support can take several days to get back to you if you're not experiencing a major product…

Your Solarwinds is correctly configured to only use SSH-v2 (congratulations!), but your devices are using V1 (boo, hiss!). The right thing is to remote into each one and configure it for v2 only, deleting the v1 lines after proving v2 read-only or R/W access is successful. This includes your security solution (ISE…

It's an interesting question. You can put the same device into multiple maps. And you can manage one device through several kinds of groups (Vendor, machine type, location, etc.) in NCM and NPM. You can create nested or separate Alert Groups / Dependencies that allow the same node in several of the groups of dependencies.…

I'd be tempted to look for easily-explained human interpretation / settings differences between the two products. Your NTA graph shows it's only displaying data from the Top 5 Protocols, while the other product's graph doesn't appear to be filtered at all. Try looking at the options for either product and select the same…