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I use a canned report for this, and put it on the front page of my NPM Summary. Change "OrionServerLocation" in the URL below to your NPM server's name/IPaddress and see if you can see what you want. You can filter from the resulting pretty intuitively.…

When I change settings or add or change hardware within an existing node, I simply click "Rediscover" and "Poll Now" on the node in NPM. Then, if I added more ports, I click "List Resources" and make sure those extra ports are added to NPM and UDT. When I replace a monitored node completely, while retaining the same…

It would seem that if Fred's AD permissions have changed, especially without his knowledge, then he'd have a different experience than the other admins. If your DNS solution isn't one that does "active" tests to deal with devices that don't comply with Dynamic DNS requirements, it might be possible Fred's trying to get to…

It seems to be working OK for me now: 1/28/2017, 6 p.m. Central Time, USA.

NCM will do exactly as you do--so carefully document what you do to access a device via CLI. Then ensure NCM is set up with the exact same credentials, and that it uses exactly the same commands you do. In a Cisco switch: * Give your switch an IP address, a subnet mask, and a default gateway * Configure the switch to allow…

We run NCM V6.0 DL 500 and successfully use it capture configs from our Nexus 5020's using the Auto Determine device command template. Our 5K's run at version 4.1(3)N2(1a). If NCM can successfully connect to your 5010's, and the credentials are good for login and snmp, one would expect NCM to be able to properly discover…

I ran into a similar situation with Cisco's "Controlled" and "Uncontrolled" interfaces being discovered and automatically set to monitor until I started playing around with the Monitor Filtering Options. I suspected the Interface Description might NOT be what I expected, so I built a filter that tested NOT monitoring the…

Please provide more details about what you're experiencing, your questions about it, and in which product lines you wish assistance. NTA is a superb resource for Netflow, and if you aren't trying to get the info through CAPWAP tunnels, and if you have NBAR2 enabled on your routers, Netflow and NTA can share a lot of useful…

I'm running NPM 11.5.2 and NCM 7.4. I found it helpful to apply all the hot fixes. There are some items that have been lost with the upgrade (e.g.: Ability to easily view the Last Time Data Was Transferred or Received on all ports in a switch via a drop-down in NCM's on-server Application--that's no longer available at…

I'm always up for reading about undocumented features. Sometimes those little East eggs make my day.

Right click on the devices you don't want included in the report and choose Unmanage. To do multiples, hold the Control key down and click on all of the devices you don't want, and then right click and choose Unmanage.

I freely confess my ignorance on this topic in advance, and beg your forgiveness for offering a naïve idea: * Generate your report and include ALL the data that you want to have in a final report * Export it all to Excel * Filter the results to show only the columns you need to see * Sort the data from worst to best * Your…

Have you considered NPM's Top Ten reports? I use them to show interfaces with errors & discards, and I use that report to prioritize support. I use the view in NPM's Top Ten, and the Top Ten Errors & Discards This Hour, or the Top 40 Errors & Discards Today. They're all very useful for seeing the items that need attention…

You're heard it before--"You can't please everyone; you've got to please yourself." Reading the manual, getting the right training, and setting things up in a test environment go a long way towards providing a product you can support well. Understanding the product, and ALSO understanding the customers' needs and wants and…

I'm not sure what you're getting at here. Do you have a question to ask?

You can get some interesting information from them, if your Communications Platforms staff allows you snmp access into them. Obviously snmp-v3 is the way to go. At a minimum you can discover them using the CDP Neighbor solution on every switch, and you can certainly monitor all the switchports to which they connect. Stats…

There are lots of ways to verify & track availability. Here are two of them: * Configure NPM's NetPath so it points at an Internet destination that should always be available. You could pick 8.8.8.8, or something your customer actually needs to see. Remember to configure your firewall to allow the necessary ports out. *…

I published a script to modify text in NPM so it doesn't show FQDN info in node names. I don't see why the process can't be modified and applied to anything you're interested in adjusting. Check it out here and see if there's a way you can follow the logic and adjust it to apply to your needs. How to trim, remove, or…

I've had the same experience several times, and a well-working solution (for me) is to: * Build a test VM specifically for Beta installs, and install them ONLY on this server--never on my production SolarWinds servers * When done testing the Beta, completely delete the VM and build another in its place for testing other…

Thank you, martian monster​ for your response. How about anyone else--some of the other "1%" that are stil having problems? Still having unresolved upgrades/troubleshooting/problems associated with going to NPM 12.3 and its peers?

What's the current status on all of the original problems? Are any of them still unresolved, or is everything working well for everyone?

I used the exact syntax provided by mesverrum​ above, only substituting the actual name & label from my five Solarwinds pollers. Once I started getting close to the proper poller/node/label name I discovered NPM offered a drop-down/selection for the exact poller/label I wanted for each poller's C drive. Without that,…

I like what you've got there. However, I was able to accomplish the task using the script provided by mesverrum​; all it took was finally understanding the syntax and correctly matching it to that of the volumes that require monitoring. The output looks like this:

Might it have something to do with your snmp packet timeout settings being set too short? Assuming you have snmp-v3 correctly configured on the nodes, and also on NCM, check the packet timeout by going to File / Settings /Network / SNMP Settings. If your timeout setting is expiring before the job is complete, you might try…

Definitely contact me for any new sessions, or for NPM Beta field testing, if there are points to be earned!

I have a legacy NPM Report Writer report that you could tweak. The SQL is: SELECT StartTime.EventTime, Nodes.Caption, Nodes.Location, StartTime.Message, DATEDIFF(Mi, StartTime.EventTime, (SELECT TOP 1 EventTime FROM Events AS Endtime WHERE EndTime.EventTime > StartTime.EventTime AND EndTime.EventType = 5 AND…

Here's how to get the information you want. 1. Go to the Node Details > Vital Stats. Find the Network Latency & Packet Loss graph, then click "Export" 2. In the window that opens, adjust the Time Period and Sample Interval to whatever you desire. 3. Click Refresh.

I've never tried with a Fortinet, but (forgive me for asking the obvious) have you configured the firewall with a rule to allow access via snmp? If not, it won't matter what snmp version or string is used. Other firewalls I've managed required creating allowed network source IP addresses, protocols, destination address(es)…

I had the same need, and simple asked my E-mail (Exchange/Outlook) administrator to create a group e-mail address for my team, then put all of our accounts into it. Then I reference that group e-mail address within Orion. Before this I simply had my e-mail address on the To: line, and my coworkers' addresses on the CC:…

I recommend building your own new Feature Request for this. Then building a separate poll for it to see what options other users may wish. If you can find five or six (or more?) other formats that people would like to use instead of Excel 97-2003, all the better! For me, my Reports export in an older version of Excel, just…