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I rely on the Toolset for one place to go to for all my troubleshooting needs. A few of the items I frequently use to make my days and nights easier include: * WAN Killer allows me to prove throughput across new WAN pipes, ensuring the contracted bandwidth is actually being provided. * Bandwidth gauges are up and running…

Gray / Unknown status can either mean NPM is unable to poll the devices with snmp properly, or it can mean NCM cannot access nodes to show their config files and download them--or it may mean NCM cannot compare them due to some other issue (e.g.: NCM doesn't have access to the archive folder locations or download folder…

Does this have anything to do with having your browser remember your credentials? Or with a corporate Active Directory Group Policy that forbids caching credentials?

Peter, I have a "Physical Entities (Serial Number) report available that shows the Cisco Chasses' serial numbers, but I'm running NCM 6.1. I found this report at Reports / View a Report / Select a Report / Inventory / Physical Entities (Serial Number) I hope that works for you! Good networking! Rick

I've seen this exact behavior. It was caused by firewall rules allowing traffic from the first poller's IP address, but not from the second poller's address. Actually, I see this about four or five times a year, as people assume ALL pollers are allowed through all firewalls. Put in the IP address of the second poller in…

Oh, there are so MANY ways to do this. Let's start simple: * User Device Tracker has a Report that shows this exact information. Just ensure UDT is monitoring all your switch ports and your'e set. * If you don't have UDT, I bet you have NCM. Manually script a job that contains "sho int status | in connect" and run it…

You might find your NPM environment already has the information you need--IF you're monitoring / polling your servers. Go to Reports > All Reports. On the far right side, near the top, use the search box and type in the word "disk" and then click the magnifying glass to search for reports with Disk information. If you're…

I built a similar-sounding widget to report drive space growth over time with the assistance of excellent Thwack contributors; it might be useful to you. My Solarwinds APE's were running out of space on their C: drives due to a problem with Solarwinds JobEngine.V2 getting hung and not purging automatically. Eventually the…

Have you tried using NPM 12.2's latest Cisco ASA VPN monitoring function? Once you're seeing VPN tunnels in it, try to filter out the times when the tunnels are expected to be down. Any VPN tunnels down outside of that range should be configured to send an alert.

Last year I happened across a cool "How-to" thread that detailed how to create a Business Hours network uptime report. Check it out here: How to create custom SLA reports I read it, stepped through the example carefully, and built a sweet report in less than twenty minutes that my boss loves. Now I have it scheduled to…

This is the method I use (I don't have UDT):

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

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 health monitoring and Threshold Crossover Alarms (network performance monitoring) for FirePower products, below Mentioned…

Did you find a solution for this? Did you have to open a case with Solarwinds to discover the fix?

It's pretty easy to configure NCM to use fewer simultaneous connections and see if that fixes the problem. I had similar problems until I made a few tweaks to keep things under control. First, make sure you're not downloading the ARP and Bridge tables for now--they can slow the process a lot. To do this, start up Orion…

E-mail sent--I hope you've still got room for one more contributor. Rick

Does this thread contain the information you seek? Reporting on NetFlow data Start at the section containing "take the built in top 100 conversations report" and you'll be in a good spot. Swift packets!

You might find good help available from Solarwinds Sales, too. They can be a good resource for determine what licensing you need, and what you don't need. You might also take a look here: Server & Application Monitor Master Application Directory Once you have a count of every different type of server, then count the…

MIght the information in the following link help sleuth out the information you see? Getting WMI Objects Get WmiObject | Microsoft Docs

Half of the answer is that nodes being polled by ICMP cannot provide any location information. All they can do is show up time and latency, none of the other snmp-based or wmi-based information is available to ICMP polling.

We use Rapid7 to continually check all our Apps against vulnerabilities. Use that, or something like it (e.g.: MetaSploit, W3GF, Nipper, Nexpose, Nessus, etc.) to test all devices and applications BEFORE they are put on your network. When problems are discovered, identify they are not false positives and then correct the…

If you would be so kind as to provide screen shots of your detailed process for creating the e-mail alert, I'm sure we can advise you what might need to be slightly adjusted so you receive the alerts you need.

I, too, have this same problem with Switch Port Mapper and DNS output from Nexus switches. If you are aware of a fix or an efficient work around, I'd love to learn it.

I ran a beautiful implementation of HP OpenView called Transcend back in the '90's--it was a 3Com-centric solution, and perfect for discovering all switches & routers, reporting/managing anything that supported SNMP, and it was a one-click stop for upgrading all switches & routers to the same version of code; I really…

One day, perhaps we'll be able to trust our search results from public/free search engines. They won't have prioritized answers based on how much money someone has paid the engine programmers, the answers will be fact and truth and not opinion or untrue propaganda. And they'll be verifiable. And impenetrable by folks with…

I opted to go for a Report format instead of putting this info into a Resource in my NPM pages, but the process should be similar if you want a resource that shows ALL Nodes' uptime. Here's how I did mine, through help from those on Thwack who provided the SQL script and advice: First create a New Report: Next edit…

I recently went through a similar exercise where I wanted to know the uptime of all nodes, and be able to sort on them in descending order. The goal was to see which nodes had not been rebooted or upgraded or had a power "event" in the last 18 months, which sometimes is associated with Cisco IOS bugs. discovered the snmp…

Now you're just a squeak away from 200,000! Should happen this week, I'll bet.

I've not had your specific error show up, but I DO have issues transferring Solarwinds Updates/Hotfixes from my Main Instance to APE's that are farther away. See this thread: Further, after I upgraded to NAM licensing last year (an EXCELLENT solution to my budget & licensing needs!), it seems Hotfixes need to be made…