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I'd ask Solarwinds Support about that first. But I've had upgrades stall until I manually verified the right version of .NET was present, and then (with Solarwinds Support's blessings) I clicked the "ignore this message" during the install process, and everything proceeded without issue.

Your request/suggestion about seeing what's available to monitor and reporting on whether it IS or is NOT being monitored is a good one. I'll be watching this thread to see what others suggest. In the mean time, I've found it simple to bypass any inconsistencies by going to the page to manage nodes, then sorting by Machine…

If you've opened a Support Ticket for this question, you're on your way to the right answer. It's excellent to ask this forum--folks who have history will be able to answer your questions. Or people with the same question will benefit from your discussion. But I'd open a ticket with SW Support online first so it gets into…

That's normal behavior when you choose to not monitor stack ports. I recommend using a VM environment for your pollers, and purchasing an unlimited license. The license might seem expensive, I know, but it enables you to monitor every physical port, along with stack ports. The benefits? * VM's make it easy to expand…

Although my network and its support teams were ready for the fast ramp up to handle Covid-19 needs, having to do so with virtually no notice was successful only by coincident and lucky forethought and planning. We were already completing the process of increasing bandwidth and throughput capacity on WAN and Internet…

That's a good question--one to which I don't have an answer. But I bet @"yumdarling" or @"danielleh" can answer it! Going back to the more esoteric and philosophical/spiritual thread, one can find meaning in defining what makes their life happy or fulfilled. For me, I went back to a James Taylor song where he sang "The…

When I moved home for COVID-19 remote working, I took my laptop & monitors, speakers & keyboard/mouse from work. I dragged up a Scandinavian Designs desk from the basement that I'd received as a college graduation gift from my mother in the early 1980s and plopped it down where I'd previously kept a piano--right in the…

ACI and NCM don't fully integrate due to ACI's file system being incompatible with NCM's methods of accessing & downloading. We use the ACI GUI for all management of ACI components. If you're able to access & download ACI config files, similar to IOS running-config files, using NCM, and can create ACI config change reports…

I don't have the links or file locations you need at the moment, but . . . Until someone provides them to you, or until you discover them yourself, consider automatically running a Config Backup Report on a daily basis (if you're not already doing that). It tells you the most recent status of each node's backup success or…

I recognize you want a Report that confirms your devices are in sync with NTP. However, a Compliance Report might not be what you intuitively would use. (Or, I might be doing things incorrectly, and YOU are in the right) Compliance Reports, in my environment, are primarily used to look for specific lines of configuration…

I, too, am unable to paste in images. Nor can I save images and upload them as Photos. When I attempt to do so I receive the message: "Uploading Capture.PNG resulted in the following error: You have reached your uploade limit of 1,000 images." Maybe I have uploaded that many, and more, over the last 16 years. I'd like to…

You've hit a good request. I have a network of ~55,000 end devices supported by switches, routers, firewalls, and WLC's whose number approaches 1,000. Some were added to NPM manually over the last sixteen years, but many were discovered using the Network Sonar Wizard. I recognize you don't want to use Discovery due to your…

I agree, and I've had less than stellar experiences upgrading multiple devices using the NCM solution. I find it faster to manually do the upgrades using other tools that end up being more reliable.

This looks good. I'm watching to see what solution is provided by others.

Although I'm not able to insert a screen shot due to my having shared 1000+ screen shots over the last 16 years, and the new Thwack host doesn't allow more than 1000, I can try describing how you can attempt to succeed with your challenge. * Open an NPM page to which you want to add a widget. * Click on the pencil icon in…

I've a few theories about why it's failing: 1. You may have run into a case where the time frame you're trying to view contains more data than your environment can process and display in a reasonable amount of time. It may mean having to leave your NTA window open for a longer time before you get tired of waiting. If you…

Over the last several years of dealing with 4510's and their Controlled and Uncontrolled interfaces being discovered by NPM, I determined the best solution is to stop manually discovering the interfaces in these nodes when the nodes are to be added to the network for the first time. The better solution is to use Network…

Clean. Simple. Thanks!

I like your topic--specific enough to draw some hope, broad enough to be attractive to many folks. What I want/need in monitoring SD-WAN includes, but isn't limited to: * SD-Monitoring. If I'm going to do anything "SD-WAN-ish", I don't want to do physical hardware setups, spending time doing physical changes in my…

We had all the baselines tracked, and we were ready to predict to Management what we could support for a predicted pandemic. It turned out we were 100% correct in our evaluations and predictions. This didn't happen in a vacuum or on short notice. We'd been planning for a larger remote support and Internet demand for years,…

Once I have a ticket created online, I generate the diagnostics files from my pollers. When they're complete I call the Solarwinds Technical Support number and reference the ticket I created online. That usually gets me into a phone queue to talk with someone in person. I might be on hold for 20 minutes, maybe longer,…

From the upper left corner of NTA, choose the drop down for Time Period. I randomly set it to 7 Days, then started drilling into one client's flow. A few clicks later it was showing 7 days of records, and the date scale below the chart shows all 7 Days: I'm using Platform 2019.2 HF3, NAM 2019.4.

On the chance you never got this figured out, NPM's Dependencies does the filtering for you. It can discover dependents automatically, or you can over-ride them, or create your own Child Dependency Groups to make dependent on a Parent. For example: * A site has a WAN router or Border router (BRT), a Distribution Switch…

Your best bet is to use the Solarwinds NTA configuration guidelines provided online. With the Cisco switch & router examples, it's possible to simply copy the examples, edit them to include your Solarwinds Poller address, and paste them into the switches & routers. Then test/review to ensure NTA is receiving the data. Some…

Folders within the local archive are (or SHOULD BE) protected by proper network permissions. A VERY few accounts should be allowed to access that archive--the NCM machine or service account, the SYSTEM account, and people who are in the local Server Administrator group for that engine. Active Directory / NTFS permissions…

I'll be watching this thread--I'm interested in seeing how IPAM can be part of that solution. I have ISE deployed to ~80,000 ports. Managing them isn't bad using Ansible and custom scripts we've created in-house. Adding new switches is pretty simple, too--but it's not automatic. Still, Ansible makes configuring a switch…

I'm using the licensed version from within Engineer's Toolset (V11.0 Desktop - ETS1) on a Windows 10 laptop without issues. It works well on my Windows 10 deployment.

I've had success manually setting the L3 devices' uplink bandwidth. Some of my sites have used bonded T1's, others used small broadband uplinks of 5 Mbs. Manually editing each router's uplink port bandwidth and setting it to the actual amount allowed/contracted/policed has worked well for displaying the percentage of…

Fluke Link-Sprinters are super for tracing cables through miles of spaghetti. We have a dozen of them and could use more. Even the smallest one has the ability to discover link, speed/duplex, switch name, switchport, and more. Depending on the model, it may not have a display that shows you the network connectivity info.…

What a great guide! Nicely done.