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I've experienced varying performance of NPM with different browsers. My best long-term historical satisfaction has been running NPM in Firefox/Mozilla, although after upgrading to NPM 12 I find that Chrome and IE seem to work fairly well. Which browsers have you tried, and did one work better or worse than others?

I had a similar situation when my company merged with two others, and all three had Solarwinds in place. The best solution for us all was to change out two stand-alone NPM solutions and replace them with NPM pollers, all of which report to the main/primary instance of NPM. Each original business kept a poller locally,…

Very cool techno work & discoveries!

Submit to your superior's request and make it green--AFTER getting your objections or concerns in writing, and after the person requesting the "all green" display signs off on masking the truth. If you can't get this "Get Out Of Jail Free" card, someone's gotta go--you, or the boss asking you to compromise your reporting…

You should have two forms of monitoring going: * Your NPM should be configured to poll your elements every X seconds * Your devices should be configured to send syslog AND trap information back to NPM for each event/condition. NPM could be set to its minimum polling frequency (10 seconds? I don't recall it specifically).…

A fair number of Cisco ASA 5506's and 4xxx series routers have faulty chips, and Cisco is slowly replacing them due to the high CPU issues or internal clock problems of those chips I have about a dozen routers & ASA's that Cisco says need to be replaced under warranty due to this problem. Please contact your Cisco support…

That's a good question. I looked over the Reports with "Interface" in their title, came up with one that sounded like a winner--just simply the "Interfaces" Report. But when I run it I receive an error due to the size of my network: I can't set it to 68538 rows--it just won't let me. That tells me NCM thinks I have 68538…

You're in the right area, sabtampa​. Either you can find the information here, or someone can share it with you, do it for you, or point you to good resources & links. 1. Do each of the modules (NPM, SAM, WPM) need their own application server and corresponding DB server or can all the modules reside on one main server and…

Some things I'd check if it were mine: * Is NPM set to poll L2 on all devices, or just one, or none? * Are there ACL's on either Cisco that limit polling by NPM? * From CLI on both Cisco's, do you see the CDP Neighbor Details you expect? If not, troubleshoot that. If CDP Discovery is enabled on all sides, and if NPM is…

One way would be to script out exactly the changes you want to apply, just as if you were doing them at the console or via SSH. On a Cisco device the command structure might be something like this: conf t int vlan 10 ip address 10.10.10.10 255.255.255.0 end wr Adjust the subnet mask as needed. NCM can apply that as a…

Time to start clicking. This is where you want to be for that info: Log & Event Manager

NCM cannot remediate this particular policy violation using a Remediation Script. The information presented in your screen shot tells you what must be done. Someone actually has to go to the team (or person) who provides a specific kind of access to certain user ID's, and perform the rest of the steps that are hidden by…

There might be a way to do this. It's called a Compliance Report. It has three steps, and one of them includes a Remediation feature where you'd issue a "no" command automatically, and then replace it with the new command. For example, the Compliance Report would search all configuration files for your line: "description…

I used to run Solaris for a Nortel-based network management solution, but sadly it was a nightmare to learn, configure, and use. The system was frequently down, we received poor support from SUN, it left a bad taste in my mouth. The local university in my town bought all Solaris servers and dumb work stations for their…

I don't know the answer for certain, but it seems that polling the camera as a node (if that's what you're doing) can't provide the switch port information unless the camera supported LLDP CDP information. It's a bit more labor intensive, but if I had to do this I'd label each switch port interface description with…

I had the same question earlier, after upgrading to the newest versions. It turns out that functionality has been deprecated. However, you CAN still generate a PDF if you simply access the page via Chrome and choose Print To PDF. Of you can save a few clicks and simply open the page in Chrome, then hit Ctrl-P (the keyboard…

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I run POC's on a separate VM from my production Solarwinds equipment. The same goes for Beta versions--always install them on a separate VM. When I'm done using a POC or Beta product, I destroy its VM completely and build a new test environment for incoming products. That keeps the production environment running clean and…

When I saw you'd put your Orion poller behind a virtual IP address, I thought "F5 environment, with load balancing and HA solutions for individual applications with load spread across multiple servers." Is this incorrect? I'm interested to learn why you put your Orion poller behind an F5 load balancer. I wouldn't think to…

I alert on link status and Neighbor status changes in EIGRP and BGP. Seems to work well.

Agreed, doing this via syslog is the right solution. All your devices should be reporting their syslog and trap information to NPM, even at the same time as NPM polls them for other info.

And I've even built a feature request for it here:

There is a significant difference between NPM's heat maps and those generated through Cisco Prime, taken from the same wireless controllers. I've got both set up for comparison, and I regard NPM's wifi mapping & monitoring solution a good initial try, it's not as robust as Prime. (Yet?) On the other hand, NPM does a super…

I'm lovin' my ThwackPack, wish I could purchase another for my son.

I think I found it. Instead of editing the existing old-style Down Nodes filtered by SQL AND statements, I copied that Report & edited it like this: Any comments or recommendations/

You're in the right area for asking questions about Solarwinds products. Don't be afraid of seeming ignorant--ask those questions you feel may be too basic. We all started somewhere, and you've probably got expertise to share with the Thwack forum on topics to which we are new and less experienced. I'm not aware of a way…

You might also consider using the information in this resource to show which nodes are down, when they went down, when they came back up, and how long they were down. I implemented it this morning in a minute and quite suddenly had some great new actionable information to work with. Node Downtime with Duration and Minimum…

Welcome seanchc​! There are a lot (and I really mean A LOT!) of useful training videos here for Solarwinds products. For starters, you can hover your cursor over "Product Forums" at the top of this page and see the breakdown of general Solarwinds product areas: Click on the product you're interested in learning and look…

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You're worried about two or more routers or Layer 3 switches reporting the same information twice (or even more than twice if the flow passes through multiple routing interfaces), effectively making your network appear more busy than it is in reality. NTA does not de-duplicate, as far as I'm aware of, yet. You might use…