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Depending on who you work with in SW Support, I feel there is hope. I had an stunningly successful experience this week through the kind help of serena​, who provided access to a new updater that has not yet been published. We both learned some good things about the update/installation, she took away notes for corrections,…

Check out the process I provided here: How to create a report displaying the Last Time Data was Transmitted or Received on a Switch Port I use this to learn which ports on a switch can be repurposed / repatched to other devices, based on the amount of time any port on a switch has been down.

I found it useful to install it on the same platform that hosts NPM, simply from the standpoint that I know all of my devices are configured to allow traffic from that source IP address. Plus, having on it a server in the data center is an intuitive way to know it's discovering the network from the servers' point of view.

Definitely install on SQL 2016. The new version of NTA will not be supported on anything earlier.

I haven't found a way for Report Writer to calculate and display the actual amount of down time--only the start of the Nod Down event, and when the matching Up event occurred. You're right, the information you want should be present as a canned report with the output the way you want it. If the format above is at all…

* Monitor the device in Orion (and back it up with NCM, if you have NCM) * Set up Alerting for it so you get e-mails or pages * Create a Report for its uptime * If you've already got this information, simply click on the node in NCM and you can graph its uptime/downtime. * From the graphed up/down time, you can drill in on…

This is one of the few complaints I had when upgrading to NCM 7.4--losing the ability to view all the outputs of scripted commands sent to multiple switches.

I haven't run into this particular variation yet. I'd open up a support case with Solarwinds via telephone and ask for help.

I find it useful to take two actions for questions like this: 1. Open a support case with Solarwinds right away. They can take a few days to get back to you for low priority cases, but they will get to you and help you out. 2. At the same time, post a query like yours to this forum. There's no guarantee folks will have the…

I would like this, too. If you don't get a response showing how, please feel free to create this as a Feature Request. As a work around, I put a shortcut directly to Device Tracker on my browser bar, but it's not nearly as convenient as what you requested.

Still unresolved. NCM and Two Factor Authentication for logging into a device - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support

Bump. Is this still unresolved?

It appears you may have missed defining the snmp-v3 source: snmp-server host [ipaddress] version 3 auth [username] I suspect once you have added that you will have corrected the problem. Once you have successfully implemented snmp-v3, reconsider a few of your options: * You could replace MD5 with SHA, if maximizing…

I can help you with the first half of your request--if you have NCM. Just create a new NCM Job. Select the nodes against which it should be run, create the exact script and syntax you want run against them, and either fire it off manually or run it as a scheduled job. What you do with the output . . . well, that's the part…

Orion NPM can tell you if your node was unavailable during the time NCM was scheduled to download configs. NCM has logs that show the exact interaction information for every device. You can review these logs and see the exact response the device gave, or didn't give, to NCM. If you manually duplicate the process NCM used…

Special note about the Easy Button. The current release of NAM at 2018-12-18 is not activating all modules (NCM, NTA, HA, etc.) beneath NAM when NAM is licensed and activated. One must still manually activate the licenses at the portal, copy their license keys one at a time, and paste them into the License Manager within…

A simple SNMP Compliance Report with a Remediation Action can be used to accomplish this exact task. I use them frequently to find and remediate configuration issues with Cisco switches and routers. If your not familiar with NCM's abilities to do this, you can search Solarwinds Thwack for "remediation". One place to see is…

The information neomatrix1217​ provided is correct. However, if you wish to export it via another method, you can open the web site in Chrome and select "Print to PDF". While I prefer "Export to Excel", the "Print to PDF" is useful for keeping the report in its original (pretty, report-friendly) format. Swift Packets! Rick…

I can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear, but it's MUCH more convenient for me to have everything going into SolarWinds (single pane of glass, you know) and be able to search for items there, than to learn Splunk and open it up and get a query figured out. Yes, I'll learn Splunk and make work for me. No, I'm not happy…

I've manually corrected this same issue by forcing NPM to use a different template to discover/monitor/manage certain devices. ASA's are notorious for being recognized as Wireless Controllers, and certain Cisco switches may be recognized by NPM as wireless controllers, for example. Edit your nodes that are not correctly…

I've not done it, and have read articles recommending starting using your in-house SW tools to monitor the cloud. The graduate to SW's cloud tools. We're looking at Pingdom for starters.

This is a design "feature" from Solarwinds, and if you search the forum for it, you will find MANY people have discovered it. Many people have also discovered its non-intuitive and cryptic frustration. For proof, follow this link that searches the forum for that topic:…

One of my team members did import our company logo and install it on our NMP home page. We admired it for a while, then removed it--it took up too much real estate.

Making my life SO MUCH EASIER. It's what I rely on Orion products like NPM and NCM for. These products are what you want when you NEED to know what's going on. When you NEED to be secure and in compliance. When you NEED to be efficient at keeping all the plates spinning up on their posts. These are the tools that let an IT…

I recorded this process for my team to implement Netflow, and to migrate from NetFlow to NBar2 on our Cisco routers. Perhaps it will help you get it going in your environment: Convert NetFlow to NBar2 on Cisco routers & L3 switches * Identify the Interface(s) on which to enable Netflow Nbar2. Ex: routers usually use int…

There are several ways to discover this information, including automatically (via scheduled / daily reports) or manually (you look up the backup history). First way: (best, IMHO) Create a New Job (or enable an existing one). I use two--one for startup config backups, and a second for running-config backups. Here's what one…

Yes, you can do this. Discover your network paths - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support

It might be easier to say how we don't use NPM and NCM together, but I'll give a shot at what you requested--1000 points is a nice reward. We use NPM and NCM to: * Inventory everything, then leverage that information to ensure our Cisco SmartNet Support solution is up to date * Monitor status of all devices, then alert us…

If the remote sites are limited to 256Kbps, does your central site have much more than that? If so, you could test monitoring at just one site, adding one node or a small set of elements at a time to your monitoring, and gauge performance and track users' experience with the additional load. Once you've determined that…

I automatically capture and display that kind of data on the front page for my Juniper MX104 routers when I set NPM to show them in Summary Mode. I wonder what's different between our two deployments of NPM and Juniper routers. Perhaps because I'm running NPM 12.4? (NAM RC2) Or maybe we're not talking apples to oranges…