snowjay

I described this in the old forum but I'll rehash it here in case someone didn't see it. I've customized alerting so when viewing a node in the interface you can see who is being alerted on it and then if you have admin rights you are able to select/unselect who is being notified. To do this I created custom fields…

No we are not stopping the polling engine. I don't think we ever did that before.

Denny, If you open the Custom Property Editor the fields that are displayed are IP Address, Caption and whatever else you have created/selected to display. Caption is the Node Name as it appear in the Orion System Manager. In the past we have exported the data from the CPE, modified it in excel (merging changes from…

Thanks, I was just browsing the website and looking at it. Definitely worth checking out I think.

Sign me up too! 

Thanks! I didn't know about the menu bar modification but I found that you can add a syslog display to either node details and/or summary pages

They dissapear for me if I copy an alert. Say I have set up an alert "a" and then copy it to alert "b". They actions get copied to alert "b" but if you go back and view alert "a" they are gone. So much for ease of setting up new alerts.

Thanks! That should do the trick.

I agree that the show hostname/ip/mac address functions would be most useful if they reported the switch/port the device was plugged into. Even better if it is a menu option on the web site when Cirrus & Orion integrate.

Change the packet size of the ping in the Orion settings. I think by default its aabout 64k which some devices may discard. Pinging from a command prompt is by default 32k.

It works perfectly now! Thank you.

Ok here is an update on my issue... While my error shows ConfigMgmtJob.exe version 8.0.0.115, the version in my directory is clearly .144. I only seem to have problems if I try and download more than 10 configs at a time. Looks like I get the first 10 and everything else registers as a "unable to log into router: timeout".…

I have the exact same error as Michael. I was running the DLX under a 30 day temp key and had been experiencing these problems. Just yesterday I upgraded to DL200 with a full license key. The date of the installer I used for the DL200 was 11/8/2005. And now, it appends the devices record with not being able to log which…

Removing the text worked for me too. Any text up to 64 bytes worked fine but over 64 it would drop. Go figure.

You can always just leave the switches clustered and just add an ip address to the other switches. This way CiscoView will still see the cluster and show all the switches to you but you still have individual ip's that other managment tools can use. I prefer the CLI myself so ip's on everything is the way I go. Jay

I'm anxiously awaiting my temporary key so I can try it out against CW2k. I hardly use CW because it is so crappy. There is alot of info there but it cumbersome to cull through. The most useful thing about it that we probably used on a daily basis is the User Info taskbar addition that will return what switch/port a device…

Bryan, Sounds like permissions are not set right on the SolarWinds folder under Inetpub. Jason

So far I love this tool, so much easier than the clunky old CW2k. I do however have one recommendation/request/feature enhancement that I think would really be beneficial to some of us. How about autodiscovery based on CDP? Sometimes switches will be put into service with out our (HQ) knowledge so it slips through the…

I just tried doing this.. I added domain\everyone and it didn't work so I deleted that and added domain\Everyone and now it works fine. Go figure.

Unfortunately no. I'm reworking my alerts to be based on custom fields I've created in the database. This way I ,or anyone else, can go to each object via the web and see what alerts have been enabled and who is getting alerted for the object.

I'm monitoring close to 100 Cisco switches (3500 varieties) and have never had that problem. But all my alerts are set to send an alert when they are "down" and send a reset when they are "up". I don't care about unknown or warning states.

Yes, I just noticed that Notepad opens with a blank document, so that's exactly the problem. File association seems to be ok though. But if I tell it to open with Wordpad everything is there. So thats ok for now. Thanks!

Check off Integrated Windows Authentication in the IIS Manager and see what happens.

If you change the ip address and/or name of a sql server there are some commands that need to be run against the database to make it aware of the change. quote:Originally posted by ralf.hessberger I just get stuck after moving my Orion server and it's dedicated SQL-machine to a new location, to my understanding only the IP…

The Report Writer is great! Now only if there was a way to run it from a workstation instead of having to be at the server...

Ok, I can't figure this out... I have some True/False fields that I want to edit. They are in the database as 0 or 1 (datatype bit). In the edit field they show up as True or False. If I erase a True and click update it turns it to False, no problem there. But how do I change it back to True? Typing a 1 and clicking update…

Sure Don! Here is the code I used in the 02-UserDefinedFields.Resource file. I put this right before the </table> at the end of the code. This will Insert a link to edit custom properties centered at the bottom of the custom property list on the node details page BUT only if the user is allowed to clear events. Clicking…

Nice to find out about the edit custom properties web interface! I just implemented it myself. I did a few things different. I modified the 02-UserDefinedFields.Resource to include the "Edit Custom Properties" link after all my custom properties are displayed on the main page. I set the URL target=_blank so it opens in a…

I get prompted for a login but no matter what account I use it is not accepted. I'm using a 7510 with BES.

Don, Thank you as always! *off to try the new alert engine*