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The good thing is that I have a spreadsheet of all the devices' IP addresses and MAC addresses. I'm hoping to find a way to use NCM & NPM to find the switch ports connected to all these devices, so I can apply a config change on just those 300 ports. Digging through 140,000 ports manually can be done, but there's got to be…

Here's a fun script for getting this information: https://github.com/abhid/cdp_crawl

It's a fun project to build and run a CDP Neighbor report and get the output into Excel format. I just ran one earlier this week for a Manager, to show how many CDP relationships there are. The number was 3744, and it was a user-friendly and tightly efficient page that showed every device and its relationships to all other…

I use a combination of NPM and NCM to achieve your goals. I'll check them off: INFO: * Get info regarding inventory from txt files Check * e.g. parse txt file that contain info that we got from Jenkins Unknown--I'd need an example or two* Monitor service status on remote desktops Check--conditionally. Must be able to…

Would you kindly please 1. Share the model of ASA you're monitoring 2. Show us how often it's being polled 3. Provide a screen shot showing NPM's set up to monitor it via CLI successfully

See if this document I created helps: How to trim, remove, or truncate domain names discovered and displayed in NPM 11.5.2 and NCM 7.4 Swift Packets! Rick Schroeder

Can you work with the SolarWinds Software Developer's Kit and SWQL? This is a canned query from there: SELECT ID, UserName, ModuleName, Type, Action, Details, DateTime, ApprovedBy, RequestID, RequestLink FROM Cirrus.Audit Click on the UserName header it will sort. It's not exactly what you need, since it gets you all users…

LarryJRogers​, are you familiar with SDK ( and its many canned reports)? The SWQL queries you might build there can be used in a Custom Report or simply exporedt to CSV for use with Excel. They are many and varied. For starters the built-in NCM.Interfaces SWQL query table has a LOT of information that might be useful for…

We accomplished this a year or two ago; it was easier than I expected, few gotcha's. The issues we discovered were the sole result of deciding to build separate/new instances of SW NPM/NCM/NTA, and not the result of the planned move from physical to VM.

wluther​ is spot on. My NCM does daily jobs to "Download configs from devices" and then compares those configuration files to the previous day's configs. Then it generates a Config Difference report and e-mails it to me and my team. I analyze these reports closely every day to understand what has changed in the network. I…

You might find it in the Messaging section of your NPM. Check this out--substitute your NPM server's name: https://<server-on-which-your-NPM-is-intstalled>/Orion/NetPerfMon/OrionMessages.aspx?ShowOrionMessageTypes=audit%3b

Would it be satisfactory to you if you set up a job to automatically re-run the Network Sonar discovery process at regular intervals? I realize this doesn't automatically discover when a new volume is added to your environment; it would be a work around. I'd think there'd be a way to receive a trap or syslog notification…

It would be nice if this particular forum were being monitored. I've used this tool successfully in the past, but today I get an error message: It happens each time I try. I bypassed the proxy, verified the appropriate TLS 1.2, 1.1, and 1.0 settings. If you happened to have an idea why this may be failing, I'd love to hear…

Although I haven't found a pre-made or custom report in NCM or NPM that will do what you need, you might find benefit in using NCM's "Execute Command Script" option. It will allow you to select the devices individually or by group, and run a command script against all of them. It will display the output, which you can copy…

The tool works as expected. It was problematic to discover the correct business name and address; this is an area that Cisco or SW could improve. Further, it takes far longer to scan and upload (14 hours) than one would expect. Noting that in the documentation at SW would be helpful, and might probably prevent tickets from…

As others have experienced, I was finally able to get past the "UserID is not valid" error, but only after having help from Cisco. They were able to provide my "official" company name and address that were registered with them for SmartNet, and those addresses aren't my corporate headquarters--not even in my state. It was…

I, too, am attempting to get this working, and after an initial issue with certificates (our Web Sense didn't allow self-signed certs), now I have the error: UserID is not valid. Which UserID is it referencing? My CCO-ID? I'm sure that I've entered the correct creds there. Could it be the creds to the SolarWinds NCM…

I'm following this with interest; once the bugs are worked out I'll implement it. Relying on VAR's or Cisco to keep my serial numbers under support just isn't reliable. I'm hoping this will fill the gap that my serial numbers keep falling through.

I recently went through a smaller upgrade, and it was relatively painless since I'd been able to keep module versions close to current. Last year I moved to NAM instead of the individual licenses, and that's had some benefits for cost reduction and features added. My latest upgrade was focused on getting off of Server 2012…

Yes, I think you can accomplish this fairly easily and intuitively with NTA. For example, I wanted to display information learned through NTA that showed which the top destination domains my organization uses. Using only the canned options in NTA, I was able to get all the graphed views and pie graphs I wanted, and have…

OMG--I'm SOOO disappointed there are no pictures of a cat in the empty Thwack Pack box! Oh, the Felinity! Seriously, a Thwack Cat would be my dream IT pet. IF ONLY my wife weren't allergic to cats . . .

Before I had the latest version of NPM, I relied exclusively on the Engineer's Toolset for this. I used the Bandwidth Gauges and polled the desired switches or routers, then selected the appropriate interfaces, and chose to display the Historical Graph of each one's traffic. However, that's a LOT of polling to hit a big…

Global Positioning System?

There are a few different ways you might accomplish this, and I'm betting other Thwack people or SolarWinds staff have even better ideas than mine. * Monitor every node with NPM. Routers, switches, servers, PC's AP's, printers, etc. Everything. NPM will let you know when it's up and when it's down. This is what NPM…

Having the ability to affect multiple machine types is helpful for me. I can select all my Cisco 9300's and 4510's and 2960XRs and make the same change to their community strings or AAA settings and more. I use this functionality. On the other hand, I've not yet had the misfortune of selecting two or more different…

Following.

I'll admit, it looks complete, but also looks expensive and pretty complex. If I go back to your original premise: "What do you do when you have two sites and you cannot stretch subnet easily due to architectural constraints?" Cisco's Overlay Transport Virtualization (OTV) handles this nicely, assuming you have NX-OS…

I'd offer the idea of search results also turning up actual how-to articles right from the applications' setup & configuration pages. I'm sad to admit I'm frustrated by "Help" pages in an Orion app that are very literal and obvious, but that don't say how to do something, or why it should or should not be done. Getting…

Photoshop skills aside, it's amazing what incentives can do towards creating uniformity. It may simply require a plain request, or it may need a different corporate dress code--with teeth to enforce it?

NCM can do that with the "Execute Command Script" option. Copy the part of the config you want. Highlight a new device in the left column. Right click on it and choose Execute Command Script. In the new window that opens, the device shows up in the top. Paste in the script in the bottom window. Click Execute. You can also…