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There's been so MANY great comments and reports about HA in this thread--THANK YOU all! The biggest red flag to me is HA doesn't keep the monitoring & reporting going during maintenance windows. My original intent was to ensure we had Solarwinds network status reporting 7x24, no matter the maintenance. I'd very much like…

NO one has SW HA? Seriously?

Here are a few ideas for you to consider: * If you have correctly configured your firewall with a read-only community string, AND if you have allowed your Solarwinds NPM poller to poll it (via firewall rules allowing snmp polling to come from the polling engine's IP address), then you should have historical data recorded…

I had a great experience just today with SW support. Erik called me from Manila , and we did a great WebEx session troubleshooting NCM service account credentials and NCM archive directories. In twenty minutes he'd understood my concerns, seen me demonstrate the problem, reproduced it on his own, and made some…

Some ideas: * Coordinate with the other firewall's administrator and ensure your Solarwinds systems and tools have the necessary access through the first firewall to monitor your devices. Then ensure your firewall, and the devices behind it, have the correct firewall rules / permissions for management/monitoring from your…

As always, interesting, useful, and informative. Leon, you never fail at your communication tasks. One day, let the winds of change blow to help make us more like you.

The problem is resolved with newer code--all you should have to do is upgrade your ASA to a newer release:

You may be well-served to review the server requirements from the Solarwinds Support page. Check out the requirements for each product. NPM and NCM can be installed on the same server using the same SQL database, but I recommend ensuring you're using SQL 2016, since other modules (like NTA) require it. A starter page for…

Kudos for applying skills and creativity to fill a common request!

That's the good way to follow through, Leon. Thanks for updating us! Rick

There are a number of items you may wish to filter out from your configuration comparison criteria, after which you may see significantly improved results. As CourtesyIT mentioned, time stamps will be different between configs taken at different times. And like him, I have a regular job that writes to memory on all my…

I'll add a few more words of experience to the good advice above: * Monitor port-channels and both ends of all of their physical members. This saves you from a few specific vulnerabilities:* Monitoring only the port-channel doesn't tell you if some members of the port-channel are down. You don't want to learn the hard way…

While you're at the task of discovery for remediation and migration to SSH, remember SSH-V1 is no longer accepted as secure. Upgrade to SSH-V2 as your first step, bypassing V1. If you have NCM, you can not only report on your hardware's version of codes that are compatible with SSH-V2 and are running K9 versions of code,…

As a general rule of thumb, an "unlimited" Orion NPM poller license handles up to 10,000 monitored elements--IF you have provisioned the server on which it lives with the appropriate resources (memory, CPU, etc.). I've seen a poller auto-adjust its polling rate to accommodate 13,000+ elements quite nicely. I lost some…

Thank you, Marcos. May your point-awarding challenges be easy and automated!

Also remember that polling every 120 seconds will miss some of your router's highest spikes. I don't want to overload my router or NPM or database, so I use the Engineer's Toolset and create a bandwidth gauge for several most-important interfaces, then I select the Historical Graph option for each gauge. Finally, I set…

Monitoring bandwidth utilization is a balancing act between granularity, router capabilities, and database space. The more frequently you poll, the more load you put on the router, and the more space you consume in Solarwinds' database. You won't be able to Report with any finer granularity than you poll a target node for.…

mehmoodakhan​, here are some links you may find helpful for preparing and doing your upgrade to NPM 12: * Upgrade Guide: NPM Upgrade Guide - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support * The new Stand Alone Installer: Using the improved standalone installer for product upgrades and installations - SolarWinds Worldwide,…

At best you may find all the compatibilities and hooks pre-built in NPM. At worst all you may need to do is create one or more Universal Device Pollers and reference your equipment with them. You're in a great position for starting this!

I've been watching cnorborg​ creeping up in the standings, and I saw that jump earlier today. Left me behind, although we'd been leapfrogging each other's ranks a lot these past two weeks. I won't steal his thunder, but I'll confess I, too, just broke into six digits. I didn't think it would happen this fast. Although I…

While I've not had the issue on the general alerting, I have seen it in custom reports and alerts I build to provide special notification of data center ports that change state. I suspect you'll find the alerts will show up every 89.999999 days, and you'll need to reset them. Perhaps the best thing you can do is submit a…

Thanks for your information. After opening a Support Case with SW, I learned there's yet another Hot Fix and associated procedure to remedy the UDT polling errors I'm seeing. I've not yet applied it, but I hope to within the next few days. Fingers will be crossed that I can go back to default polling settings, and that the…

d09h​, I got what I needed using Groups, per your guidance. Thank you. My original goal was to just add a single Widget or Resource to an existing view, which I was able to do beautifully with suggestions and guidance from ebradford​ (see how it was done higher up in this thread). However, I had also received a suggestion…

The ideal result will be to have a Widget/Resource in my main NPM Admin page that is always blank when there are no errors or discards on ports in the data center. When errors or discards are discovered, the node and interface (on which those discards/errors were present) will show up in the Widget with a hot link to the…

Here are some basic questions that you may have assumed, but I'd like to cover them anyway: * Have you configured NTM to scan/discover that subnets in which those new IP addresses are located? I know it's a basic question, but it needs to be eliminated before moving on. * If NTM is in a different subnet than the new…

Happy days are here now that 12.3 and 12.4 have made managing Additional Polling Engines a simpler task. The new Settings > My Orion Deployment control tab takes the labor and time out of upgrading multiple APE's, and that's something I wished for ever since I bought NPM in 2004. As they used to say: "You've come a long…

I've reviewed your attached graphic, and I've read your question, but am still having a little trouble understanding exactly what your question means. It's as if a few words may be missing in the question, and I'm having difficulty understanding it. Would you please elaborate on the issue? More details about what you…

There are a couple of places that are interesting to investigate for this topic. 1. Log into NPM's front page and go to Settings > All Settings > Product Specific Settings > NTA Settings Look around and see what might be relevant here. 2. Also, go to NPM's front page and go to Settings > All Settings > Product Specific…

Before you spend a lot of time going down this path, please consider using safer and new protocols than WEP. TKIP and AES were built to address some of WEP's vulnerabilities. Add WPA or WPA-II for even more security, since modern laptops can break WEP with free scripts from the Internet, and all they need to capture is…

Some options I use--maybe one of these will fit your need. 1. Click on Home 2. Click on Reports 3. Click in the Search box and type in "nodes" 4. Find the "All Nodes" report and select it 5. Click on View Report Granted, the above process relies on NCM being installed--you didn't say you had NCM, only NPM. You could also…