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No worries--what you propose will work fine. I had all physical servers hosting my pollers back in 2004. In the early days of VM, my System Admins recommended moving our Solarwinds to VM for cost and data center space savings. We tried it and were VERY disappointed--the VM world was not ready for prime time then. Our…

What NOC view would be complete without an option to view the all the resilience and WAN hops (and their latency) between two important sites? NPM 12 adds NetPath information to our tool belt. Find the latency, drill down on it by hovering over the node or the interface, contact the parties responsible for it, and Voila!…

That's an interesting way of deploying PDU's--daisy chaining them. I monitor APC PDU's in our data centers with NPM--but each one is stand-alone, has its own IP address, snmp strings, unique name, etc. It works very well with NPM. I'm hoping your Chatsworth PDU's can be monitored with NPM in ways that suit your needs. If…

I absolutely have built and rely on Groups, Parents, Children, and Dependencies to reduce my e-mail volume and reduce alerts. The important thing I wanted my team and our Help Desk to understand is that when they see a single node is down (Down Nodes is top and center of our NPM front page), they need to pay attention to…

1. Go to Settings > All Settings 2. Find ALERTS & REPORTS 3. Click on Manage Alerts 4. Enable the Alert that's appropriate. Perhaps you have one for "Node Down", or "Hardware component is in warning or critical state". You can build a new Alert, or copy and Edit an existing alert. 5. Select and Edit the Alert 6. Name the…

It sounds like you'd ideally want an "Changed Inventory" report, run daily? Weekly? Monthly? Then you'd see if someone added a GBIC or removed one, assuming the removal didn't cause an outage you'd detect with a custom "Critical Interfaces Status" alert. I haven't seen an Inventory Change Report in Orion yet. What is your…

If you're not using a Loopback address to manage the device, you'll need to tell the switch which interface to use when sending outbound Netflow traffic. Loopbacks are preferred for reliability and flexibility--especially for devices that may have more than one path into them, such as a triangular-shaped WAN, where a…

That sounds like one you'll need to talk with Solarwinds Technical Support about. Open a case with them while you're waiting for others in Thwack to respond to your query. You might be glad you did, since it'll save you some time getting the case opened later, if no one else in this forum has recommendations.

You'll probably get some good progress and attention to your idea if you create this topic as a Feature Request. Go up to the upper right area of your Thwack screen, click Create, and select Feature Request. Define your idea there as best you can, including how you'd leverage it to improve your life, or the conditions of…

I confirmed my NCM 7.4 is acting the same as yours, where the graph displays in a manner that appears to report I have twice as many nodes as I actually do. Overlayed graphs would be better, so I can immediately see my total count compared to the number of backed up nodes. "All Nodes" should be the backdrop on which…

I do believe you've uncovered a bug!

Without more info, we'll be challenged to help you. Definitely open a support case with Solarwinds via telephone--and at the same time see if we in the Thwack forum can help. Think of it as a competition--who gets you the answers you need faster. ;^)

You might try adding the unwanted colon into the Comparison Criteria's "Ignore" section and testing it a few different ways. In the early versions we were required to enter a caret in front of any character to be ignored as this: ^: You can also try various flavors of it, without the caret, with an asterisk before or after…

Remember that you do NOT have to give Solarwinds products read-write snmp permissions. They work fine with read-only. Although it's convenient to be able to shut or no-shut ports when looking at them in NPM, my organization doesn't allow read-write permissions for snmp. Yes, you should proxy or VPN or firewall this…

I think you already have the function created in your NPM, but that you aren't yet aware of it. It's a report called "Top XX Nodes by Average CPU Load", and you can add it into your main view anywhere you want. I created an entire new view called "Current Top 10 Lists", and in it I included many interesting reports: Once…

I just bought UDT, and haven't installed it yet, so I'm of little use with practical experience on that particular way of getting the job done. However, if you have NPM, you've got all you need to discover which ports have NOT had traffic on them recently. And you can decide whether they can be unpatched and repurposed, or…

Please open a Support Request with Solarwinds Technical Support on this. Explain your observations during the experience, and feel free to reference these other reported instances/complaints: * Re: Orion Agent Stops Collecting Performance Data * SolarWinds Agent Service keeps Stopping * Alert on agents not responding…

Nice archive of ancient literature! I read all of those. And hated the NLM's required to get anything new added & working.

SADNESS! The only thing sadder might be achieving MVP status last fall and not receiving a bobble-head. (hint-hint) I hope yours can be repaired! I hope mine will arrive one day . . .

Jiri had some notes about documentation and old processes for RegEx criteria filters, what was obsolete, what should work, etc. I opened a Support case for the same topic and learned I no longer needed to include ^! or ^ in my "Ignore criteria". I was able to just put in the exact phrase I wanted to not be examined. Here's…

I recently encountered a similar issue that had to do with licensing. I installed an APE but forgot to license it. It came up running fully--except for Trap & Syslog functionality. I talked with Support and they noted it wasn't licensed. A quick deployment of an available NAM license and I was back in business in seconds.…

If you're configuring a server to be discovered via snmp-v2, review these videos to see if you may be missing something basic: * Configuration SNMP and WMI Windows Server 2008 R2 - YouTube * NET-SNMP installation and configuration on Linux - YouTube No matter what you're working on, as long as you have your edge device…

meech​ Kellie, I remember seeing a NOC view in Thwack, submitted by someone, and it showed information about every circuit for each router. It included the circuit ID, the provider's corporate name, and the telephone number to call when a site or a circuit went down. I've reviewed the 21 pages of NOC views here and I don't…

If there's any benefit from mib walks on LTM 6400's running V10, let me know--I can provide them. We've also got some V11's that may be available. I don't know anything here's running 12 yet.

The problem was caused by forgetting there was yet another place in which to change the password for the account I use to do NCM's Jobs. Once I changed it in the section below the problem was solved.

I could sure use this feature! And I'd add a request to be able create a job that not only automatically added new nodes to NCM, but automatically assign them to Jobs we've created. Each time we manually add a new node to NPM, we also have to add it to NCM, and then manually open up six NCM Jobs and add the node to each…

The question offered a hint that showed the counted of desired letters and words to be entered, which was " Gain visibility into _ _ _ / _ _ _ _ _ _ _ " . The correct answer for this clue would be in the format of three-letters followed by seven letters, per the spaces in the hint. Many people were thrown off by the…

Would it work for you to edit the device templates to remove the startup config backup line on each one? If that doesn't make sense, how about replacing the contents of the show startup line in each template with the contents of the show running config line? Then it wouldn't matter if NCM called for startup or running.…