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This is a new one on me. The only drawback I see is that it leverages a lot of Custom Properties that may not be in most environments of other Thwacksters. I still use the old method I originally posted. But I like the potential of the new method you linked to--it's pretty cool! Although there are many changes in my…

We're hoping you've worked out the troubles making screen shots, saving them, and uploading them to Thwack so we can see how you built the new views, and what they look like for the end users.

If your current view was built in a newer version of NPM, particularly one that leveragesJava script, you may find it more time-effective to work with Solarwinds directly in a Support Case.so you can discover the line of html and its location, for easy insertion into your custom charts.

I've always had difficulties getting NPM to provide network-wide statistics. I suspect it's due to the size of my network--the report is timing out before it completes getting all the information. Or perhaps it's due to NPM trying to get information about ports that is constantly changing. NPM would need to have a snapshot…

It's possible that after your upgrade, your nodes may have new NetObject ID's. Simply browse to the node outside of your custom report graphs, access the element you want graphed, and look at its URL to find the NetObject=I: statement and compare the number after the I: to the number in your custom graph/report. If it's…

Although it's been quite a while since I worked with Novell, I'm willing to help you out if I can. Rick Schroeder

Depending on your AnyConnect or other VPN connection configuration, as well as group policies applied (or NOT applied) to the device, it's possible for a client to stay connected many months. Keep-alives and time-outs, improperly implemented, can keep a tunnel up for as long as power and physical connectivity remain. Any…

NetPath provides the information that allows us to hold the intermediate ISP's or WAN providers' feet to the fire for poor performance / oversubscription. We can show them exactly what hops suddenly have 1000% latency increases during the business day, when those performance delays begin, when they end, etc. There's no…

Find the graph you want to use that's already present in an NPM view. You might just find it's possible to right-click on it, View Source, and find the html trail that provides exactly what you want. For my charts I opened up the Minimum/Maximum/Average Bits Per Second view, viewed the HTML source and found just what I…

Amazon Gift Cards, please. It would be sweet for us to be able to spend 10,000 points for a $100 gift card. Yes, it would be even better to get a $100 card for 1,000 points or 100 points, but I'm not unreasonable.

I find myself trying to do a better job of limiting data in PerfStack when I want to simply display data throughput for multiple interfaces on one or more devices. For example, I have a pair of Cisco Nexus 7009 core routers, and I'd like to show only throughput in bits per second (or Mb/s or Kb/s) for every active…

Here's how to send your report every two hours: 1. Create your Performance Analyst that shows the number of VPN Users or VPN Sessions. I built one that also included ASA CPU Load and Memory and I/O Bits per second. 2. Set it to show the time frame you want. Last 2 Hours, Last Week, etc. 3. Save it, but remember the name…

I've discovered that Solarwinds doesn't do a perfect job rediscovering the characteristics of a new node when it replaces an old node and when it uses the old node's management IP address. The most complete solution is to delete the old node entirely and re-add the new node using the old node's IP address. That way NPM and…

If your Solarwinds NPM server can ping the devices, but it still says they are down, you simply need to Edit the device(s) in NPM and confirm it's using the correct polling methods (ICMP? SNMP-v3? Agents?), and that everything matches between the node(s) and your poller. For example, if there were an access-control list or…

This is a solution I'd expect--traffic must be allowed this way for Netpath to show all the hops. Please don't be offended if I offer a gentle and friendly suggestion: If you limit your source or destination ports and protocols to only what you specifically require for this flow, you'll end up with better security. Imagine…

1. Open up NPM's Reports area 2. In the upper right area you'll find a window into which you should type "alert" (minus the quotation marks). 3. Click the magnifying glass to the right of the search window to search for all reports that have "Alert" in their title 4. Select the Report that sounds most likely to be helpful…

This is how Thwack rocks. Solid ideas, open source sharing, folks helping folks. Thanks!

Are you still looking for participants? Define "large", please? Are you looking at sheer numbers of Netflow-reporting routers, or total elements, or what?

I'm continually amazed and impressed by your skills and experience adatole​. I look up to you so much I've got a permanent crick in my neck. Or maybe I should just admit that you make my head spin.

Wow.

Do you have firewall rules allowing your Orion server to talk to https://thwack.solarwinds.com? If not, set them up and you'll probably get the access you desire.

This may be useful for monitoring Firepower: Cisco FXOS MIB Reference Guide - About Cisco FXOS MIB Files [Cisco Firepower 9000 Series] - Cisco

If it's of any help, I spoke with Cisco TAC about monitoring Firepower 4110's. They provided this polling information: If your network management system requires a management information base (MIB) file you can obtain it from the Defense Center or the 3D managed devices at: etc/sf/DCEALERT.MIB Also in order to perform…

I had EOC for several years, thinking it was the right solution for joining three separate businesses that had merged. Each had their own Solarwinds NPM/NCM/NTA deployment. It wasn't the right product for that need. I wanted something that we'd all treat as a shared resource, not something that kept the three companies…

Talk to us about the target environment for EOC, please? * Where is it "required"? * Where is it simply "nice to have", but not mandatory * In which network deployments is EOC "unnecessary"?

In basic English, an "object reference not set to an instance of an object" seems confusing and paradoxical. My interpretation of that message is: * A custom poller has been created and remains assigned to one or more nodes that have been deleted. * Orion is confused by having a custom poller assigned to a node, and the…

Interesting. But the wonderful detailed location information leaves me wondering how much we facilitate those who could wish to use the data in ways we'd not prefer. Google Maps is quite the resource for folks on both sides of any ideals.

We use OTV to tie two mission critical data centers together. But that means if OTV becomes inactive, the whole world comes down upon our shoulders. I hate to say it, but that's one heck of an "Inactive OTV" customer poller. It doesn't even need NPM to generate alerts to us. ;^) Shoot, you'd think the data center had…

Done and done.