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There are a variety of possible explanations--I'll touch the easiest ones to identify, verify, and possibly correct: * The snmp-string(s) in NPM, which are used by NCM's Jobs, may not match with the devices. Open one in NPM and Edit it, then test the snmp communications. If the test fails, you've found the problem. Your…

Yes, you can put your own link on the top bar in NPM. Simply create a new View, put in the links or script you want it to display, and then customize your Menu Bar by discovering the view and dragging it over to the place in the Menu Bar column that corresponds to the location on the bar you want it to show. I've done this…

I'm running the latest versions of NPM, NCM, and NTA with four pollers. I'm happy with their performance. No complaints so far.

It appears the Leaderboard is fixed!

Did you query Solarwinds technical support via telephone? If so, what was their response? I've seen good features removed from NCM over the last 14 years, some for good, some to be returned, some migrated to other products I don't own. Are there 7.6 hot fixes that might address your concerns yet? I've been running 7.5.1…

It appears the Leaderboard is fixed!

Wow. The poor Leaderboard. I jumped from ranked 25 to 48, now to 394th. However, I also (apparently) have doubled my point totals--time to get all those Thwack Store items? Naw, that wouldn't be ethical--these aren't MY real points. Someone's messed something up.

I see the leaderboard is working now (20161212, 3:21 USA Central Time zone). I'm also dismayed to see that, where I was ranked 25 back on November 25, I've slipped to 48th! You guys hosting SWUGs and submitting the latest templates must be going wild to rack up all those points. Unless the leaderboard is inaccurate . . .?…

I'm with you, Steven. It's one thing knowing your own points, and it's easy to see that. But the interesting item is knowing your points in relation to competitors' points. That's what I like looking at. It'll come. They'll get it fixed. It's been over two weeks, and I bet there's plenty of focus on the support vendor…

Know your environment fully. Monitor it completely (or if you can't afford complete monitoring, get Senior Administration to define what should NOT be monitored, and then the responsibility for failure is on their heads). Back up all your configurations. Occasionally restore them, to ensure your backups are valid. I hope…

I think jeff.stewart‌ may have hit the most important question: What's the available bandwidth between the locations, and what's the latency. If you have fat enough pipes, I'd consider building a main NPM instance and using local pollers at each DC that report to the main NPM. I had three separate instances of NPM, each…

We're using it. Our Info Sec team seems impressed. The learning curve is steep, but the GUI seems pretty fast.

Might there be multiple pollers involved? I have one "main" instance of NPM/NCM and multiple regional pollers. All regional pollers operate under a single job created on the main NPM/NCM server. When the jobs are complete I receive an e-mail notification from each regional poller stating success or failure. At present, all…

Some things to troubleshoot or verify: * Are you pointing NetPath at a known-open port on the destination site? If not, then change destination port to something that's being listened for on the destination. * Is your firewall configured to allow your poller(s) to send traffic over the destination port to the destination…

"Too many" is when they negatively impact performance, production, or your life.

Hi Brian, When I saw similar traffic at my firewalls, I looked for routing statements that might involve the source or destination. I did packet captures at the firewall, and eventually discovered our WAN provider had inadvertently spanned a VLAN across two ports that should not have been spanned. It ended up putting two…

There are good things here. NIce! Loads of options I'd like to tweak and adjust and change, but I've no criticism of your work at all.

If you happened to have the correct version of Network Sonar, you could run the wizard to discover and only monitor ports that are Operationally up. Or any other option shown here:

There are a few things you need before you can achieve success building a new NetPath monitor. The easiest one to ignore or miss is opening or allowing the necessary firewall ports in the following chart: If you're using the cloud, keep these items in mind: Scalability:

You'll need to do one of the following to successfully have Solarwinds monitor conflicting IP address ranges within your network: * Change the IP address scheme of the conflicting devices so they don't conflict with your main network * Change the address conflicts on your main network so there are none with those "special"…

I like the simplicity of Craig's suggestion. If I were doing this, I'd probably build a Report to show exactly that same information. That's something nice about NPM--it gives you the flexibility to accomplish tasks like this in multiple ways.

You might start a rather manual method by listing the commands that you'd use to gain this information from each type of platform and OS you're using. For example: On Cisco 4510 and 6509 platforms you can get the information with this command: sho int | in EtherChannel|in address On NXOS equipment you might use this: sho…

It sounds impossible, right? So let's double-check the basics to ensure you're in the clear before digging into NTA. * Is the policy built correctly? If it's missing some traffic definitions, and that traffic is hitting that interface, your policy may not be in play. * Is it applied? * Is it applied to the right interface?…

Version 7 45xx switches (and earlier hardware platforms) needed NetFlow modules purchased and installed. That is not the case for Version 8 4510 and 4507 chassis switches. However, the switch must be licensed for IP Base or Enterprise before NetFlow commands will work. A plain 4510 running LAN Base cannot do NetFlow until…

Can you share a screen shot of your setup? I'm interested in seeing what you're trying to scan--if you can ping it from the platform on which NTM is installed, you should see results once the scan has completed. Assuming your display and filtering options aren't getting in the way.

The two products are for different purposes. In my organization, NPM monitors available and uptime and errors and status of devices and ports. But NPM doesn't monitor the status of applications or internal processes inside servers, or the web pages that users access. That's where SAM comes in. I started with NPM to get an…

I confess I'm not familiar with Kiwi CAT Tools, but if I were to receive the same error message via a backup in NCM, I'd edit the device in NCM and run the test on the credentials there and see if it passed. If not, you can easily enable device logging in NCM, duplicate the attempt, and then go to the logs and see what…

Have you looked into creating Customer Properties for the object and inserting ATM and version information manually into the new Custom Property areas you'd create? You could create a Custom Property for ATM that requires Yes or No, and another custom ATM property that requires an NPM administrator to insert version…

I see Performance Analysis Dashboard information for VMAN and SAM and NCM, but not for NPM--which is where you placed this query. I'd like to see what you're seeing and find the limitations you've found. I found a link about some limitations, but I'm not sure it references what you're mentioning: Unsupported data in…

Again, one of your posts I somehow missed. And it's a worthy post!