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There was a great previous post regarding collection of QOS stats (and the issues using the current custom MIB support). Here is the link Dave. 

While I agree that this is a bug, what about doing a transformation to Celsius? At least this should give lower two digit numbers and provide a quick work-around. Alternatively, (assuming this is a Cisco device) you could do what we do and use monitor the ciscoEnvMonTemperatureTable (1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.13.1.3) with the State…

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 at least one of your pollers hasn't updated the…

What downtime issue are you trying to resolve with the NCM upgrade? Normally NCM doesn't have a 'real-time' function (except perhaps config backup based upon a syslog message receipt). I'm sure however that you could do an NCM upgrade followed by a config backup and inventory for all devices just in case you missed a…

Thanks for taking the time to follow this up Denny. Will do as suggested and let you know how it went. Dave.

Please take care of this one - it can't be that difficult to either change the default (or give us the control to set the default).... "Graphs default as Ingress yet all best practices for Enterprise infrastructure is always that CBQOS is applied at Egress and most companies apply ZERO policy at ingress" Dave.

We don't use background images on our maps, and even for very small maps (5-10 devices with no embedded maps), the best reload performance we get is 5-7 seconds. Larger maps (with embedded map elements) don't appear to make a significant difference however. We don't have database performance issues. I have offered to…

Sure, starting a long weekend here - but I needed to logon to work again anyway... Each night we refresh the nodes table that we use as a staging location (please note - this nodes table is in a separate database to that of NPM - don't delete your NPM Nodes table!) Your create table may look a little different due to…

We run an additional web server on the database server, which seems to work well. Our database server has a lot of spare CPU available (we find Orion on the SQL Server is memory heavy but fairly CPU light on a decent multi processor/multi core machine). It also removes any latency issues between the web server and database…

What makes the Universal device poller so good = MIB table support. We can now utilize custom MIB's for a large number of devices, and have a very simple alert structure. Examples for us include power supply status, fan status, temp status and BGP status. Sav.

Hi Marie, I think you misunderstand Jason's issue - he can't use the list resources function as it times out before listing all the elements. He isn't trying to add all 11,000 elements - it's not a sizing type issue. We are shortly adding similar devices, so I also have an interest in this. I notice even with lower end…

Do you notice memory increase in dllhost.exe - if so, there are a few threads kicking around regarding this issue () We have had a problem open with support since mid-Jan, but no joy as yet. We also manually unload the COM app (which restarts dllhost.exe) - I also would love a way to do this via a schedule. To make matters…

Thanks Casey, I don't see my custom properties - I'll open a case. Another UnDP question if I may... When I assign pollers, it doesn't seem to select the devices that are already assigned to the poller (i.e. when I just want to add some devices). It seems that the selection list completely replaces the nodes that were…

I'm not sure what I would be willing to give up in terms of sacificing development time for an Orion RSS feed, but I can also see this being useful. We have a large number of people running the web console all day just to keep tabs on 'what's going on' (mainly management). Having a lightweight RSS feed would keep these…

I'm having the same issue with some of our devices (i.e. needing the ability to retrieve a binary file via ftp). We are doing exactly what has been suggested above - creating a script to logon to the device and execute the ftp. This however obviously just dumps the file into a folder outside Cirrus. What would be nice, if…

There doesn't seem like many bugs listed in 5.1.3.N2.1 that might cause this impact. One is of interest however is CSCso74872. Its described as "When two SNMP walks are started simultaneously, one of them may fail with the following error - 'OID not increasing'." A litle strange however that I can't get further detail in…

We have just upgraded from LMS2.6 to 3.0 (and 3.1 is released). User tracking on 2.6 worked just fine - but you wouldn't beleive the issues getting 3.0 to work (nothing has changed in the Ciscoworks product space it seems). We don't really have a choice - both configuration management and secuirty require the user tracking…

It's a good tip and something I also use. However it's unfortunately not quite that simple in some instances. Have a look at how the SQL looks when Report Writer generates the report - any datetime ranges are generated at the time the report is run (i.e. an absolute date range is generated rather than a relative one). So…

I don't want to seem like I'm jumping on the bandwagon, but we also have seen this over an extended period of time on our additional pollers - it probably occurs every 3 or 4 weeks. My fault for not raising a problem ticket - but I kind of thought that this type of issue would be very difficult to track down. We also hide…

I wouldn't worry about the actual threshold temperature for each device (they differ between device types). I would just use the table to monitor the CiscoEnvMonState column. This column has 6 values based upon the warning and critical temp thresholds for the device.. 1:normal 2:warning 3:critical 4:shutdown 5:notPresent…

We had the same issue regarding importing nodes from NPM to NCM based upon more criteria than that provided for as standard. Have a look at this thread for the method we used (). It could be adapted for any selection criteria required. Basically we create a replica of the NPM nodes table and use a select statement to…

The bandwith statement is actually contained in the interface config (but I can see from the show int that it is indeed a 100Mbit interface and Solarwinds is reporting it correctly). You do however have a huge number of discards (input and output) on the interface. What is on the other end of the NIC? Is the speed/duplex…

I'm not sure I understand the comment "Some routers have several addresses that need to be monitored. By browsing this forum, I have gotten the impression that it is not possible to configure several addresses for nodes" You would normally monitor a device via the loopback address, and then select as many of the interfaces…

Perhaps also try running the Poller Tuning utility. If you have added a large number of nodes the previous values may need changing (particularly if they are still the default values). Dave.

I'm really glad you mentioned this Bryon - I didn't think anyone else had this issue. I have the same slowness of the home page and drop down node lists (our configuration is almost the same as yours - although we have a separate NCM database server). I might open a support ticket. Our Orion server when using node admin…

Not trying to rub it in, but I upgraded our 3 pollers, additional web server and hot-standby last night with zero issues (and start to finish took 45 mins). Best upgrade yet for our implementation. I had the evening set aside, and didn't quite know what to do after it was completed so quickly! Dave.

I created an SSIS job to parse the map files and populate a custom property. Dave.

Well, things have changed a little. The inventory process no longer seems to drive a select from the policycacheresults table, and an index has now also been placed on this table. My inventory however was still running some 13 hours after the scheduled time - but was the result of having all the inventory options selected.…

The APM module does a lot of things, but IP SLA function has never been one of them sorry. Dave.

We use the ciscoEnvMonTemperatureStatusTable for this data (1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.13.1.3) - and is a perfect example of why the version 9 MIB table support is so useful. The table contains data for all device probes (some devices have more than one), the current temperature for each probe and the threshold for each. Even better,…