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You might also be interested in looking over this low-level multi-graph building page I shared a while back. I still use it, and it's remarkably easy to create and modify. It can be a bit time consuming if you do it all manually instead of using dynamic queries to only display interfaces that fill a specific need. There's…

One place you might start with is the NPM Reports page. Open it up and search for Utilization. Of the reports there, find one that sounds close and open it and examine it. You can easily copy it and edit the copy to show only the time frame you want and filter for the ports in which you are interested. I'm hoping your…

* Confirm routing. If NPM can ping those devices, routing is good. If it can't, fix that first. * Confirm there are no errors in the snmp strings used by NPM to discover the nodes. NPM's strings must match the strings of the nodes exactly. Triple check this, since it's the most likely problem. * Verify the snmp version…

Don't miss the easy gotcha where your user account doesn't have rights to the reports. Although my account is Admin level, I found there were many more reports & options available when I actually logged into Orion as "Admin". That's pretty frustrating--as an admin-level user, I create various reports. Then I can't see all…

Donald, If you have inventoried all of your Cisco devices with NCM, you can see all of their serial numbers in a canned report. Go to Reports > View Report > Inventory > Physical Entities (Serial Numbers). Select it and hit OK, then let it run. The Serial Numbers are in the eighth column from the left.

Hi Donald, You can find your Cisco serial numbers in NCM by double-clicking on one of your devices on the left side. Then on the right pane, choose the Inventory Tab. Finally, go to the Inventory Details Drop-Down window and choose Physical Entities (Serial Number). Your device's various serial numbers will be in the…

Last week I had a very positive experience with SW tech support, where a process was out of control and preventing my NTA from displaying anything--and as a side effect it was also causing NPM to bog down and eventually stop displaying. I built a case online with all the diagnostics, then called into Support. I was on hold…

Sadly, I, too, can report that I opened a case with SW support seven days ago and have not heard back from them yet. Thank heaven for Thwack, in which I can find ideas that can be followed and tested to try to resolve issues while waiting for contracted/paid tech support to respond.

I'm in favor of this. Have you created a Feature Request for it? I'd vote for it.

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Use Chrome to view the web page. Choose Ctrl-P (to print the screen). Choose option to Save As / Print to PDF. Select the location you want the PDF saved to. Click Print.

NCM will download device configurations either via the Global Transfer Protocol you've selected, or via the protocol you've chosen for an individual device. It can be SSH Auto, TFTP, SCP, Telnet--whatever you find works, and whatever meets your security needs. Either set the Global Config Transfer Protocol and use it as…

You may find the information you seek here: * Go to Admin > Settings > NCM Settings * Click on the Manage Rules tab * On the far right, search for "logging" * Find the Rule called "Logging to Syslog Server and select it and edit it * Change the String from "logging 10.10.10.1" to whatever you logging destination server's…

There are some other great pre-canned Availability Reports already available; have you investigated all of them? You can copy them as templates, or modify them per your specific needs, similar to how you've already built your current report. With some luck you'll find exactly what's causing your current report to who 99%…

That's a good question, to which I have no answer, only ideas: * Is the report somehow displaying the actual up time instead of solely using the "Average" function? * Were all nodes within the groups actually up 100%? If not, I'd suspect the report is somehow including that information in the average, which is drawing the…

NICE!

What you've requested is exactly what NCM does--you're in luck! If you can remote into the IPS device, so can NCM, and it can do the exact same download of config files that you can do manually, except automatically and on a schedule you choose. Set up the remote access for the IPS device, give it SNMP RO & RW strings, and…

Is it possible the view isn't refreshing because your NPM is not polling that frequently, or not collecting the statistics often enough? I seem to recall the NPM statistic collection default interval is 10 minutes. And I believe the default polling interval is not as often as one minute. If you've not adjusted those two…

If you pass the SCP exam you'll get an even fancier insulated brushed metal tall mug for free . . .

I tend to go straight to NPM's Message Center, then filter for the items I need, and look up the actions associated with them. Editing the actions helps when you can see what happened, what action was taken or NOT taken.

In my experience for similar situations, there is not a single place in which all alerts can be removed. You may have to open every alert and edit/search both the alert action when a device triggers the alert, AND also the recovery action that sends alerts when issue is resolved.

If it were me, I'd delete the APE that has failed to recreate/rebuild. Completely. Wipe it out, then follow the process, provided by aLTeReGo previously, once a new platform is created to replace it. RDP into the newly rebuilt/wiped server, open a web page to the Main Instance of NPM, then use the Polling Engines link as…

Je pense que vous obtiendrez de meilleurs résultats si vous contactez le support technique de Solarwinds. Beaucoup d'entre nous voudraient vous aider, mais notre capacité à communiquer en français écrit est insuffisante pour le besoin. Si vous avez la possibilité d'écrire en anglais, beaucoup d'autres personnes de Thwack…

I'm dismayed to see I no longer get any useful output for my 4510's using the above query. It did work in 2016. I don't know what's happened, nor when it happened. Perhaps, with the upgrades I've made to Solarwinds and its database over the last three years, along with a new version of SDK, and multiple password changes,…

wabbott​, the time stamp weirdness is back. The thread entries below were made yesterday, but the page shows they're only a minute old.

Better yet, add those servers in and manage them via WMI to get a better picture than just snmp info.

Here's a guess why that "Never" option might be there: At certain code levels and certain hardware versions, Cisco incorporated new virtual interfaces based on new RFC's. They duplicate (and triplicate) the physical interfaces that NPM can discover, and have names that include "controlled" or "uncontrolled". The details…

I upgraded to NAM this fall and I like it. Feel free to PM me, but the basics are: * I already had NPM, NCM, and NTA and three APE's, along with four SLX licenses * I wanted VNQM, UDT, IPAM, at least one more APE, and more licenses to handle more interfaces, but the price point was too high * I learned about NAM and…

Have you investigated the VLAN reports in NPM/NCM? If these don't do the job you need, you might consider creating a custom report based on the output of running a "show int status" and tweaking it to include the VLAN column's output. On the other hand, and I wish this to be taken as a positive bit of advice, not as…

The solution appears to take things into one's own hands instead of relying on NPM to correctly identify the hardware and automatically set the appropriate View Type: * Settings * Manage Nodes * Sort by Machine Type * Select All ASA's * Edit Properties * Set View Type to the appropriate or desired view: