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The new GUI reporting tool is awful!!! It's a nightmare to get what you want. The old way on the server itself was so much better. 

so you don't have a sql cluster at the separate site? or you don't have the bandwidth for replication? I understand what you are saying, but it isn't a proprietary DB or anything. They expect your DB guys to be handling these kinds of aspects

Maybe i'm missing something but once you have the base setup. Just run configuration wizard again and connect to the new db you already have in place.

I understand what you are saying. But what I was trying to say is that it isn't really a software POV. If you have VM ware you should be able to take care of all of this through their tools and not necessarily have to worry about having different licenses or anything like that loaded to your backup center

Why are they reluctant. It makes it very simple. I guess it depnds if it's your infrastructure or a provider though giving you that connection.

i guess that's another nice thing about meraki. The roaming wireless and only seeing one ssid when connecting and knowing it's smart enough to deal with connecting to the proper AP. I get that for radio coverage. But i guess that's part of the original setup and radio coverage knowing how many ap's you need to install. If…

i know for us... we just have separate domain accounts that only are for tacacs/radius and access to other things like dhcp. but only that account can access certain things

Migrating your DB is on you. It's not really part of the product per se. You could be utiliizing the data in other areas. Then the following solution above should be sharing data from the primary to the secondary. If you aren't already syncing the db across some sort of link, you will have issues data won't match. depends…

layer 2 or mpls type extension. or with nexus I believe you achieve it through otv option. l2 can be done a few different ways too. like we use our dwdm to extend it

True but being that solarwinds is likely to be in the datacenter. It should be part of a plan to restore systems. Also, other things likely tell you systems are down aka vmware. 

I get that but i'm just not seeing the information getting pulled still. Tried to apply that mib to interfaces and node. But none of the information will fill out. im on an asr 9006

If the ap's are aleady installed why do you need someone to stand still for 8 minutes? isn't it laid out once it does first sample? Are you trying to use solarwinds for a survey or something?

It all depends on what you are trying to monitor and it's POV. WAN/Internet links you likely wnat ingress. AKA you don't send traffic out to Netflix Yes, you should do trunk links between switches. We just monitor all ports but don't pay attention much to individual user ports... but for netflow we only apply it to the WAN…

I hope so, i will check it out tomorrow. We are upgrading to 12.0.1 in the morning Hopefully it clears up a few other issues we have been having.

IMO you would want to think of a fail over solution for the whole data center and just not this product. May want to think about MPLS type connection or l2 extension depends on money and all sorts of other things.

We get the same messages on our asr 9k's. We just ignore it for the most part. Seems to be working. We also get Netflow receiver service detected long flow with the duration of ........ on xxxxx router

That's why I like Meraki's tools better. I don't see much point in building a map and it really only giving you heat map. WIth your statements the heat map would mesh everywhere anyway... So what is the real point other than wanting to know when an AP is down which a map isn't needed for

Perhaps you should go about that by policy or something along those lines. Why is the main link saturated? is it for a business use? If it's legit, look into upgrading your connection.

I'm also curious about this. A lot of our stuff is universal, but the Cisco ASR requires a minor change ... at least on putty it's ssh bugs chokes on putty's ssh-2 'winadj' requests have to change it to on instead of auto or else it will boot you out looking at the config

If you can enable netflow on the device you can monitor the traffic. It all depends on how you think the data flows or if there is one central point where it all collides. We have a large Metro wan and we usually only enable netflow on the wan links and the interconnnects to other rings. There is no point on a LAN link IMO…

I'd also like to know this. I have also started seeing the same thing

at least on cisco stuff, you model the portchannel/lag and you model the interfaces. that way you can see how it's being used and total utilization to individual port utilization

we always use the loopback. I mean that and management are the point of loopback's

That has a lot of dependencies. You probably need to run a report o something and baseline where they are at now. Older switches likely run at a higher utilisation. Response time is based on back to it's poller so again you will have to baseline normal time. We don't really mess with any of the defaults to be honest.…

uplinks and interfaces on routers... node status. 

not sure what equipment you are using but why don't you think more simple if it's dmvpn/mpls whatever.... Just run cdp or something and you should be able to see everything like it's connected anyway. Not sure if the routing part is really that important imo

I really like the flexibility of Solarwinds products. but the upgrade process has been a nightmare almost every time. Why they can't just deliver one package that analyses what you have and you select the products you wish to deploy is beyond me!!!

usually the switch is layer 2 and doesn't really see it. But the cisco router or whatever usually has that as a message when their is an ospf adjacency change.

You can monitor the differences in the bandwidth before and after... overall though. It's just email or other things so really it's about storage. I don't' think just checking your email and having a connection on your outlook really uses all that much bandwidth.