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I've long used the Paessler SNMP Tester tool for testing. It even comes in a portable format so you don't have to install it.

Neither am I a coder. Most of what I have done has been cobbled together and by asking around. What I can tell you is that the above code works (in SQL) in our environment. Things you might need to adjust at your end are: removing the references to NPM.Client or adjusting to suit your setup. Also, any Custom Poller name…

Hey apologies for no reply but I didn't get a notification. That said, your use of CASE is beyond my skill set for SQL or SWQL so all I can do is leave it and hope its right :) Looking at our InterfaceTable in DB Manager shows that there is no entry called InterfaceName but that entry does exist in the Interfaces table. I…

I can't answer the how the calculation is done as I didn't write the software. For that you will need to approach your Customer Service Manager or open a support ticket and ask that way..

Hmm, elegant. No, I don't think so but then I guess that comes down to what you define as elegant. But I digress. It sounds to me like you already have your solution, you just need to implement it in some manner. One thing I didn't say about our Priority CP is that we have separate alerts for P2, P3 and P4 [as an aside, we…

I haven't, but it will be the same process as creating any other custom poller. * Pick you technology (Node details / CPU / etc * Select a node to test against * Name, etc the poller The tough bit will be this: * Find OIDs for the following: For that last, then other than the manufacturer or an SNMP Walk, I like and…

So we have a report that does this for Thin APs. It's pretty basic but if you can code (I can't) then you should be able to reverse engineer this to do what you need. Code is: /* Query to get AP Information from the Controllers through the use of UnDPs, because APs are not nodes in Solarwinds but an extra to the…

Do you use priority or alert levels at all? We have a node Custom Property call ed Priority. It has 5 levels from Priority_1 to 5. 5 effectively means ignore. Anyway, we then assign a specific P level to each and every node. We also went a step further for some clients and have P levels on interfaces. We then output as…

To add to @"mark.gover" comment, for v7 and up you may also need to do a number of other things. First and foremost, your version of SW must be at least 2024.2.1. Anything prior to this required a buddy drop but that is likely no longer available and you'd just be advised to update. Secondly, you will need to make some…

My gut feeling, and this coming from a non-coder that hacks stuff together, is that you will need to do this in two reports. You can JOIN NCM tables to Node tables but I think getting all the data you want in to one report might be a tad messy, when a couple would be the better approach. We do exactly this. We have one…

Status - as in did it backup or not? Then try this report: which can also be used in a modern dashboard: NCM Backup Job Config Status Alternatively, we have a report I created that shows only failures: NCM Backup Failures and Reason (- All Clients) for this one you would probably need to edit out the custom properties.…

We run the modular variant of Solarwinds (I am so confused by naming conventions these days!!!) and that option is very much there for us in 2024.4.0 As a workaround, you could try using this and insert your server name/IP as appropriate (also save as a bookmark): YOUR_SERVER_HERE/.../DeviceTemplatesManagement.aspx Longer…

If you have NCM and backup all your switches with it then you can do it via that module. We do that, but what we haven't tried is to incorporate average or any utilisation in the same report ** ** though thinking about it, it would be easy enough to "Add a Section" and do utilisation through that.

I don't have an answer for your issue, but can I ask what OID's you used in the UnDPs?

There are plenty of bandwidth reports already sat in the Content Exchange area: https://thwack.solarwinds.com/search?q=bandwidth&group=150&category= (this link is a direct search there using bandwidth as the search term). You could grab one of them and see if it provides what you need and then adjust to suit. The only…

We have a similar challenge with our multi-context Cisco ASA's and I suspect the route we will need to take is using Universal Device Pollers (UnDPs). If you've not done this before then welcome to a new world of confusion...…

Here's the approach I take: * ensure the devices are accurately reporting their status for memory and CPU. * then determine the threshold at which I (or various teams) want to be alerted. * then, if different to default [which are typically warn at 80% and trigger at 90%] set the new level in 'Node Thresholds' under the…

So yes, you need the account you log in to the DB app with to have high enough privileges to view the DB. What permissions would very much come down to how your company manages security, but as a starter for 10, have you seen this: https://solarwindscore.my.site.com/SuccessCenter/s/article/SQL-permission?language=en_US 

Have you configured the Aruba with SNMP details yet? You will also need to ensure UDP port 161 is open from Solarwinds to the end node so that SNMP GETs can be actioned. Once both above are in place, then just replicate your SNMP details into this section (and test): As for the alert, then duplicate appropriate Out of the…

We finally upgraded one of our environments to allow me to try this import and I have to say "kudos for getting something out there", but it just doesn't work. Here's one we recently imported: The Node names just appear at random locations and frequently they are beneath the node icon. The names are not connected to the…

The other huge downer for bendy links is being unable to assign interfaces to it.

Typically you would segregate out the end nodes using a Custom Property. This CP is defined by you and can be based on a team name, clients, vendors, or literally anything you can think of. In your code, you'd then use a WHERE clause and target the CP.

I'm not seeing that, and I routinely have >10 tabs open. With the newer Orion Maps, some views don't allow right-click but an extra click with those usually gets you to a point where you can. 

My experience of Message Centre is that the GUI is not very good at displaying much more than about 2k events. This becomes an issue when it gets filled by 1000's of messages like: This happens because engineers configure their devices to send traps, etc but as they aren't in SW it doesn't recognise them. Instead, we…

If you only have NPM then you can only report on interfaces selected in List Resources. If you have NCM, and it has access to all relevant nodes then you can create a report, or a job, to extract information that way.

Ah yes. 'Client' is a custom property of ours. You will either need to remove, rem out or reword to suit a CP of yours. To keep a line but not have it be included, just preface it with --

Right. In which case see the report I linked for an approach. I'm not saying that's the only one, but that works for us with 5 x UnDPs for reporting on Thin APs.

We are on 2024.4.0 and it works for us. Is it for any specific Vendor and Machine Type? Perhaps we have the same and I can check? I also know that in the past I've had issues with listing interfaces and it was due to clock drift on the APE/polling engine they are managed via.

This is a perennial issue and there is no straightforward answer. However, @monitoringlife [THWACK won't let me tag them] configured an alert and shows the details here: Detect a hung server, nonresponding state - he also created a dashboard to show this and that post is a couple above the one I linked. 

Is the report you mention an OOB one as we don't have that? If so, it might be worthwhile sharing that report [in a reply] so that we can see what you are starting with. That said, the other immediate question I have is you say you have set up custom pollers. Here I presume you mean a node custom poller configured via the…