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I use a cron job and wget.

The problem is that the IIS Application Pool running Orion is unloading itself after the default time period of inactivity. Following the instructions below can help speed up your first page loads. Beware, though, as the Orion suite has historically been a poor web performer - this fix doesn't make an annoyingly-slow…

1, 2, 3, 5 - To be honest, I could take those or leave them, and the general lack of these features industry-wide means that most will have some kind of workaround in place already. 4, 6 - Absolutely agree 100%, but should be true for EVERY poller, not just custom ones. 7 - A trillion times YES. NPM is the only product I…

Seconded, thirded, and one-hundred-and-fifty-thousanded. Bring back my GUI! :-)

This is just my $0.02, but I'd argue that the problem isn't with NCM, but with a NAC solution that's allowed to make changes to device configs on its own. There's so much room for mistakes in that kind of setup, it gives me the willies just thinking about it.

At VMworld last week, I was told my a few SW product reps that yes, it should work, since v5 has monitoring API that are backwards compatible with v4. Nothing you can see/do in v4 should be lost if you upgrade hosts to v5. However, since v5 has some new tricks, these won't be available through NPM until a future NPM…

I also find my self in the same predicament.

Why not just send an email to <phonenumber>@vtext.com? Just send it directly - don't use your internal Exchange server (in case it's down).

If your requirement is specifically SSL, I'd question the policy outright - seriously. Hopefully your requirement is for encrypted SQL sessions, of which SSL might be an option. If so, I'd do this via IPSec, not SSL. Get a good NIC that can handle the IPSec offloading (one for your SQL, one for your NPM) and you won't add…

Amen! I'd like this option, too... and not just for realtime alerts, but also for the changes found during a scheduled config download job. :-)

I just tested this and it works like a charm! Now I'm off to put together a bunch of 1-liners that will grab various config files. For example, I use this line in the config to grab all of my primary DNS zone files, even if some new ones are created: find /var/named/chroot/var/named/master/*.dns -print | xargs -I {} sh -c…

Not that I know of - not easily anyway without a lot of custom SQL and SQL Tables on the back end. This would be a GREAT feature request. :-)

Curiously, I've always wondered this myself. We don't use any of the syslog or SNMP features available in NCM, but if we ever decided to, this would be good to know. :-)

From my experience, even when doing a full snmp-walk on a device with 11k+ OIDs (snmp-informant), the device's CPU never deviates from baseline by more than 1-2%. As long as your poller can handle the additional datapoints, (and SNMP polling is properly implemented on the host to control process usage) I say go for it.

 I'm definitely interested in support for both LWAPPs and the Cisco Wireless Controller series. We only use thick APs at our smaller branch offices...

How about returning the admin components back to a GUI-centric model? Maybe one with .NET remoting that can be run from anywhere, not necessarily the Orion server?

I'd like to add my two cents for this feature to be added too... especially when it comes to regulatory compliance. PCI, SOX, and all the other horrible abbreviations. Knowing who what and when is a huge bonus that's just not there right now. :-)

have you tried escaping the ! like \! ?

As am I. I've often tried to find out which one of the on-call staff decided to disable an alert instead of fixing the actual problem More granular security controls would help, too, but this would be a good start. :-)

Love love love that you called it Cirrus, and not NPM up front. I prefer Cirrus, too. :-)

Two quick thoughts: 1. We use email to "page" the SMS alerts on admins' phones (i.e. 5556564432@vtext.com to alert a Verizon phone). A quick email via SMS to alert them that a critical message is waiting in their inbox where they can find more info. 2. Ten admins across the world sounds like you have a fairly complex…

I've found that for IOS switches and routers, the "Hardware ID" field is what you want. For some reason, the PIX/ASA and IPS devices don't report the same way. I haven't found a clean way (other than some post-processing with custom Perl scripts) to pull serial info about individual line cards... For devices, I set up a…

I know this doesn't answer your question, but from my experience those alerts don't mean much anyway - I feel that they're only useful in report form, not so much in a "check every XX hours and email me" kind of way. In fact, I disabled those alerts altogether after significantly bumping up the amount of array-based…

From the tracing logs, I've been able to get a valid login (Make sure that you set the AAA credentials to the same as your SSH credentials). My problem is that NCM is issuing the WLAN "show run" equivalent, but the device isn't returning any data.

Ditto. I'm quite quite interested in this, too, especially since it's one of Orion's selling points. 

Firstly, you don't mention it, but you need to be sure you're running a 64-bit OS. :-) Secondly, task manager is not the place to see the actual size of the data taken up by SQL server. A SQL server actively using 10GB of RAM won't show 10GB in Task Manager - you'll need to look at SQL's dedicated performance counters.…

* Set up a Solarwinds Kiwi Syslog server on the same subnet as the Orion server. * Point your syslogs at the Kiwi server, not the Orion server. * Set up a rule in Kiwi to forward the original syslog message to Orion keeping the source IP intact, and another rule to forward the syslog message to the compliance system. Works…

Ideally I'd like a way to natively use a SIP gateway to dial the number via VoIP/TCP, but I don't think that's built into NPM (wink!). So what I'd do is this: * Write an ASP/PHP/CGI web page that lives on a private (internal) website. * When the page is called, the web server launches a process that makes the "phone call"…