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Regarding the bandwidth issue you are seeing, what is the bandwidth statement in the router configuration for that interface? SolarWinds will use the bandwidth config item to determine the interface speed. Is it actually a FastEthernet interface? The other thing to check is if you have enabled 64bit counters - you can get…

As per the error message, it looks like you don't have exclusive access to the database (i.e. there are other connections active). You may want to put the database you are trying to restore into single user mode. Here's an explanation from a quick google search http://www.mssqltips.com/tip.asp?tip=1407 Dave.

As an alternative, there is a product called Kiwi Cattools (same company that produces Kiwi Syslog). Cattools has a pre-packaged Port-MAC-ARP x-ref report that we use. It also has 'last date/time' seen information which is handy. The reports also have all the speed and duplex information. There is a freeware version for a…

No, you're not dreaming. While this ver9 feature makes the inital unexpanded node list fast to load, once we select a vendor (i.e. Cisco) it can take several minutes to populate a large list - very frustrating! Dave.

I have exactly the same opinion - for large Netflow collections, you need the ability to offload to a separate server. I have also suggested this directly to the development team. I would also like to be able to separate the Netflow collector function from the poller server as well. Sav.

The previous VoIP module only did a small subset of possible IP SLA tests (UDP jitter type tests). This was the only module that did IP SLA type operations (it has never been in the core product). A number of customers (such as ourselves) wanted not only the VoIP function, but also wanted a much more generic IP SLA…

Option 1 (adding the tag for us). Our firewall polices don't let us use option 2. Please format the tag in the same fashion as Kiwisyslog (which we also use). It would then also be useful for Orion to also parse the source IP address from a message forwarded by Kiwi (something I've requested, but not implemented as yet).…

As far as I understand, the pollers at the moment are single threaded (i.e. only capable of using a single processor instance). Raw Ghz speed is more important than how many processors or cores you have (although I sure Solarwinds has plans to change this). If you database server is separate (and has good disk I/O…

I think you have two problems here: APM (Application Performance Monitor) needs to be upgraded to v2 sp2 and the legacy Application Monitor needs to be uninstalled (if not already). Have a look here regarding the uninstall of Application Monitor Dave. Edit: Oops, I just checked the 9.1 release notes, and it appears that…

There has been a performance issue with NCM 5.5.1 regarding the size of the policycacheresults table - and the resulting impact upon the inventory run times. Here is the Thwack thread that discussed this issue The release notes for 5.5.2 has a note regarding policycache changes - which I'm hoping addresses this issue. I…

Hello ds5879, How did you determine the name of the interface? - I only get the message as posted by mstensta - which doesn't identify the interface name. Sav.

Patch has resolved the issue for us. Support also called for a follow-up (and to let me know the patch was available) - which I appreciated. Sav.

I have the same issue - although in my case I was successfully collecting data until the customer poller service was restarted. Following Steve's instructions above - it would appear that at least in my case the issue is that the nodes are not being serviced for custom pollers. I have also logged a call with support. Sav.

I would create a quick DTS or SSIS task to select the required records and dump them either into another table or date stamped flat file. A second step could delete the exported rows (or if the export was done daily, you could set the Solarwinds retention to 31 days and just let the nightly SolarWinds maintenance take care…

We would love to correlate the MAC/IP data with a connected device (as Switch Port Mapper does for a single device). This information would then be utilized within our CMDB to track and identify service impacts for problem and change activity. Currently we obtain this information from another product (much like Switch Port…

While I'm no expert on servers, I don't think it's quite that simple. We have just replaced our 3 DL380G4 dual processor, dual core 3GHz SLX pollers with DL360 dual processor, quad core 2.66Ghz machines.The new machines have a much easier job of the polling tasks and even the single core that is working slightly harder…

I've mentioned this before in another post, but we use the following SQL statement as an ADO user experience monitor within ipMonitor. select ServerName, KeepAlive, GetDate(), DateDiff(second, KeepAlive, GetDate()) from [dbo].[Engines] where DateDiff(second, KeepAlive, GetDate()) > 60 If the row count returned is > 0, then…

I have a feature request in for an enhanced export capability (). Dave.

What MIB OID are you using aLTeReGo? (if this is for a 4402 I have one in the Lab I can try to replicate?) I guess you have selected the table column that you want to display, and the column header row when defining the customer poller? I find that the selection fields are a little short to display the entire row name for…

Doesn't look like this is a hot topic for anyone else... I ended up creating a method for performing these functions outside of the current Policy Reporting function - although I hope in a future release I can bring this back into the core Cirrus product. An article showing how I am doing this is here Sav.

Hi Chris, As far as NPM is concerned, an element is a component of a router, switch server etc. For example, each interface on a router is one element, as is a single volume on a server. APM is very similar, in that it is licensed by the number of component monitors (i.e. monitoring a process on a server is a component). I…

The hot-standby server can perform polling duties for a single failed poller at a time. You configure the hot-standby to be either automatic or manual. In the automatic case on the hotstandby server, you configure the pollers that you wish to perform a hotstandby function for, and the time parm (i.e. how long the poller…

I wouldn't think you would have any issue running the additional poller and additional web server on the same machine. You may want to consider using separate NIC's however for each function. We actually run the additional web server on the database server. This seems to help with the web response times quite a bit in our…

Have you performed any poller tuning Rajiv? From my experience, 6000 elements on a single server will require the number of pollers to be increased to avoid missed polls. We generally try to stay within 5-6000 elements per poller. The provided Poller tuning tool suggests 80 pollers at this size, but we have found better…

Hi Chris - thanks for the opportunity to contribute idea's. Adding a Cirrus tab would be great - preferably with an option to authorize via the existing Orion security attributes (as per the the existing modules). Given the need to accommodate stand-alone users however - this may be tricky. As per #3, I would like to get…

We run two polling engines, one local to the Database server, and the other polling engine at a remote Datacenter (although also across a GE backbone). No issues at all (both are >3000 elements). Sav.

We run dual processor DL360's for our pollers and they do a fine job (although we buy them standard with 8Gig RAM and 64bit O/S). Your database server however needs much more RAM and fast disk (you didn't specify your disk configuration). Our database server is a dual processor quad core (low stressed CPU wise) with 24Gig…

Hi Drew, Did you find a solution for this - I have the same issue with the CISCO-NHRP-MIB when looking at IP addresses in the cache state table. Dave.

The amount of time it takes to perform upgrades. Multiple systems, multiple modules, multiple pollers, multiple upgrades per year (not that I don't like the upgraded function!) become very time consuming. Perhaps development could think of a way for all the modules to be packaged in a single certified install package -…

Asking the obvious, but have you confirmed that Orion is monitoring the nodes and interfaces that you are expecting Netflow data for? NTA should produce a status message if it is receiving Netflow data from an interface that is not being monitored - do you have this panel on your home screen so you can see these messages?…