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It's time to resubmit this to Thwack as a Feature Request / Idea. It's time was due long ago.
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I had a similar problem on a smaller scale: three separate companies merged, they're all within 500 miles of each other, and each had their own separate NPM solution. We bought EOC to try to get the three IS teams working on the same page; that didn't work. It took too long for EOC to update, and each regional team kept…
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If you're not hoping to get a script that will automatically increment the stores addresses, you can do it on a per router basis, or via all routers (requires the same address updates for all systems), using the Execute command Script option. Select the router(s) in NCM, right click on one of them, and choose Execute…
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You asked "how can the two nodes that depend on the FW have a higher availability than the FW?" The answer might lie in discovering which APE's poll each resource. I don't know if you have Additional Polling Engines (APEs) but imagine you do. Now imagine a polling engine is installed that is local to the App Servers and DB…
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Any of those are infinitely better than shouting out any of the pre-release conspiracy theories about Jar-jar or Luke.
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I'd love to see a Fluke Link Sprinter. I bet this little gadget saves us the equivalent of one or two employee's in improved efficiency every year. The bigger / older the network, the more we save time tracing or toning cables by using a Link Sprinter. Just plug it into the PC's cable that's attached to the wall. It tells…
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Some causes in my network for nodes not getting the snmp information back to NPM have included: * Too many snmp polling engines are hitting the Distribution Switches. This isn't limited to Solarwinds, but also includes things like HP's printer discovery / management applications. My Distribution switches' logs show snmp…
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I've seen similar problems--nodes showing Hardware Status Unknown, and it turns out they're not able to be polled with snmp by NPM. It started two weeks ago, and the issue grew daily from only affecting a couple of nodes to 62 nodes unknown as of last Friday. I've opened several tickets with SW Support on the topic.…
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I experienced the same problem with the database supporting NPM's Syslog Reporting feature. It turned out that no maintenance had been done to that resource and it was 99% fragmented. I opened a support case with SW and learned the steps to accomplish a re-index and defrag. That, plus adding additional hard drive space for…
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The simplest thing would be to run a report in NCM looking for your NCM settings. You can also create a Policy that not only searches for those SSH settings, but remediates them if they're missing. All you need to know for remediation is the syntax for each of your device's styles and OS's. You may find it helpful to build…
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Wow! I'm just happy to have not tread on too many toes while contributing. More fun is that I'm (temporarily) at the same Level as CourtesyIT and wluther and byrona. The atmosphere is pretty rarified when trying to follow their contrails, but the scores & levels and rankings show that anyone can rise from a beginner to…
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It's nice seeing these pictures of organizations who have so many staff that are familiar with SW products! Thanks for sharing them.
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If only this were possible here. My organization forbids displaying/wearing/using swag if there is any possibility of the public or other employees developing the impression of a vendor influencing our decisions by providing gifts. This includes services, events, clothing, mugs, toys, etc. We're a health care organization,…
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onteri , please review the information at the link below, and follow the links within the page that opens. Your experience is not unique, and it sounds like you have some adjustments to make to your Solarwinds environment--but only after you and your IS Teams consider: * what kinds of alerts are available * which ones…
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It's still a good suggestion. I'd love to be able to retain trending information while letting my database save some space as stats over X days/weeks/months/years old are auto deleted to make room. Is this still out standing, waiting on implementation?
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Wireless traffic is INCREDIBLY chatty; I'd suggest significantly reducing the wireless polling frequency, or monitoring less about it, or offloading it to a different solution (I use Cisco PRIME for wireless management). When I had my Cisco 5508 controllers reporting all their data and alerts to Orion for syslog info and…
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Was the output in Alert Manager insufficient or in the wrong format? It's very easy to display them there . . .
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I see an interesting trend, serena. I appreciate the new info since this feature was released, but my company's security team question the value of so many / frequent logins to ASA's by NCM. What's SW's official thought on this? Are we experiencing unusual activity, or is it normal for NCM to log into every ASA every…
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Sounds like a Support Case to SolarWinds could answer your questions. If it's not an option they can easily show you how to correct, you might be stuck with submitting a new Feature Request to get this functionality in a new version. I trim my Change Reports down to size by only including the actual changes, plus the three…
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If you inspect the html, you'll see it's loading a number of images sequentially to create the main "animation" image: I suspect you need to reference a web site that uses a looping .gif format instead of one that's loading a succession of images. An example is the graphic I insert into my main NPM front page that shows…
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NPM has an option to only monitor active ports after discovering a switch's resources. A potential drawback is choosing that option and then discovering your switch manufacturer may support some security protocols that end up looking like more active ports. You can see if this has happened by scrolling down the list of of…
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Although I'm not familiar with getting ASA's to use MFA with NCM, you can see if there's a way you can leverage these ideas for multi-factor auth using the ideas in these links: http://www.solarwinds.com/documentation/en/flarehelp/sam/default.htm#OrionAPMAGUsingWindowsPassThrough.htm?CMPSource=THW… Multi-Factor…
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There are a LOT of Orion SDK SWQL NetFlow queries you could look into. If one of them isn't the exact tool you need, I bet you'd be able to edit it and make the query you want. Here's what I found in my SDK for NetFlow pre-built queries: I also found a pretty interesting pre-built Report that looks like it would be a great…
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Who's tested this and compared it against F5? I see an obvious advantage in Open Source cost, but I like the direction F5's going with firewalling built into their LTM's.
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Sign me up. I've sent you an e-mail with a range of times. Rick Schroeder
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I might be confused about your goals, but here's what I'd try: 1. In NCM 7.4, build your script exactly how you'd implement it from the CLI. Do this in Configs > Script Management > Add new script 2. Now go to Configs > Config Managment 3. Use the drop down to show options for how you want to Group devices. For example,…
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psalms237, you can use the "search" function: And enter in terms like "certification" or "SCP" and see the threads & resources available. You can also go here: Good luck!
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I've experienced that exact problem several times, across multiple versions of NPM. NPM's acted as if it were hung--and not for all nodes, either--just for a small number of nodes. The general work around has been to restart the server on which NPM or the offending poller resides. Please send me a note if you discover a…
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It doesn't sound good, but first you should verify you're not running into a cosmetic bug or an actual bug by calling TAC for help. If you're running an active-standby ASA solution, you should be able to fail over to the standby in a virtually hitless manner. Per this thread with a similar content to your error, some…
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A low-tech solution might be to create the neighbor's IP address as a node, monitor it (even if only by ICMP), and then receive alerts when it's unavailable. If the neighbor is protected by a firewall or ACLs so that it won't respond to ICMP or an agreed-on-and-secure-and-unique snmp-v3 solution, you could still monitor…
