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I truly appreciate that Marc and actually that code I am able to follow it through**. One option I can see is rather than having a "live map" is that we export all their current maps and use your code to associate the group and map name together. So when a 'relevant' piece of kit is looked at it 'associates' the map to it.…

So, as I read all this, and note that we upgraded to 200.2.1 only last week then it appears we are already sorted - in as far as we can? Is that right?

Thank you as always Marc. I'll take your suggestions and put it to the guys to see what's what. I've also just found out that I now have access to the old Solarwinds for this client, so I'm going to go and see how they have done this. They may already have taken the approach of using CPs but I was basing what they have…

Marc, I hear what you say but I'm not sure I totally understand. The 'sucker' is mostly likely to be me and thus my question. But let's address my elephant .... I have a, let's say, ok handle on CPs but I don't see how they replace or supplement groups? The use situation is could be broken down this way: > Client >>…

Thanks @"ChrystalT" that reminds me that I need to go and configure just such a report for "automating" a part of our AIS process. Not all CPs are created equal, but there are some that would be considered mandatory. At present we utilise the Custom Property edit/viewer to check on what's missing but would be quicker to…

Also have a look here: https://thwack.solarwinds.com/t5/Certification-Discussions/SolarWinds-Certified-Professional-SCP-Flash-Cards/m-p/614824/emcs_t/S2h8ZW1haWx8dG9waWNfc3Vic2NyaXB0aW9ufEtKQjBZUktYTEc5SVlPfDYxNDgyNHxTVUJTQ1JJUFRJT05TfGhL#M706 @"mrxinu" has shared some Flash Cards and pretty sure NPM is in that lot.

Are these an HA pair by any chance and the one with the unknown aspects is the standby unit? If so, then it will be due to the long standing Cisco bug where it shares the same EngineID across an HA pair. Not a lot you can do about that.

I'm fairly certain you can't build a query that way. From my experience the dynamic query process is poor and you can't have more than a couple of options at most, and anything 'complicated' like say 'list all IPs between X and Y is beyond it. I may be wrong, but I haven't found a way to do subnets yet.

So we do this ... I'm not convinced it is the most elegant method but it works, which is a key starting point I guess. We have created a device template and labelled it, for want of better wording, "Cisco ASA Multi Context Startup" and a 2nd one for "Running" which is essentially a duplicate of the startup. You cam start…

The only way I can think to achieve this would be via a UnDP and a custom chart widget. So create the UnDP for the sensor OID, and presuming that the OID presents all the sensors in a table, you then need to select the specific one you want to display. You could also, at this point create a transform for the temp readings.…

Your screenshot appears to not be visible - at least not to me it isn't. However, and just a thought: If this is always from/on the same box then are you running low/out of memory? And what about use of standalone putty instead, does that also fail on the 11th session?

For the record I should add that I know about, have watched, read or otherwise gibbered over the following content: . . Use SolarWinds Query Language (SWQL) in the Orion Platform - Support Article: https://support.solarwinds.com/SuccessCenter/s/article/Use-SolarWinds-Query-Language-SWQL?language=en_US SDK Discussions Home:…

I'm not a heavy user of the SDK but in my use I haven't seen any negative impacts. Maybe when running a detailed query it might, but I'm not that experienced to push it. What I can tell you, is that in general use (as in I don't closely monitor it via perfmon or similar) , it barely touches the CPU on our boxes and memory…

My understanding is that clients (devices) do NOT show from the map. You have to manually add them - which is counter-intuitive unless they are a static point in a building. However, adding them does improve your quality of coverage display.

Unless you (or someone else) has disabled showing the link, then you download and install the app. This should be visible on any created map within the SolarWInds GUI - if not, edit the map and enable the tick box. Failing that, try a direct download: http(s)://SERVER_NAME_or_IP/NetworkAtlas/NetworkAtlas.exe It should also…

Just spotted this so imported and tried it. Only query: is there any way to extract who system is? I realise this is the 'network sonar discovery' but is there some where that also list which user actioned that?

For the benefit of anybody else that sees this thread I finally found a solution to this. The short version is: Despite contacting and asking Fortigate and being told they don't have an OID that monitors failover, we have found that they do and it is: * FgHaStatsSyncStatus 1.3.6.1.4.1.12356.101.13.2.1.1.12 The output of…

I'm hoping that by replying this will push this back to prominence. I presume by the silence that what I asked is not feasible, and that's OK, I get that. However, let me throw this slight twist then... given this situation (devices monitored "through" a 3rd party item [WLC]) then how can we create a CMDB for said devices…

Out of the box, Solarwinds only natively recognises Cisco stacks and when scanned in correctly they appear as a separate popout menu tab on the node details page.... For non-Cisco, just ensure the relevant link ports are monitored.

I'd say enable trace and run the job again. Then turn off traces and look at the outputs to see if helps. Failing that, log a support ticket. https://support.solarwinds.com/SuccessCenter/s/article/Generate-session-trace-logs?language=en_US 

You should be able to see what part is failing from the log file - found here: \ProgramData\SolarWinds\NCM\Logging\NCMBusinessLayerPlugin.log That said, you do need to be careful of certain characters (or special symbols as the Tips section on this page calls them) but to recreate it here for ease,. it states: Including…

Personally speaking, then other than some minor inconveniences, this year has felt no longer than any other. Most of that probably stems from the fact that halfway through the year we were accepted as foster carers and then for the last 4 months we have had a pair of brothers - now 2yrs and 7mths old. They have kept us on…

Yes. But unless you've already copied them to the new location/elsewhere then you won't have the historical reference.

Cool beans - also for those of a lazy nature, most of the above commands are shown in script form (as they would be in the device template) in my reply here.

Not sure I fully understand the question. But, if I do, then they are one and the same thing - just one allows you to access any node/date (events) within your retention config, whilst the other is specific to the node you are looking at.

I concur with @"superfly" - we have had a few issues in the last week or two and have needed some urgent support - some of it for us at very much out of hours - and have had no issues when calling. The less urgent stuff we have raised via tickets and that is slow.

We don't use UDT but I sometimes wish we did. However via the use of NPM, NCM and reports, we have replicated most, if not all functionality that we need. At this stage. On a basic level, you can use custom properties and then use the out of the box widget 'search for nodes' to do just this. So, we have the widget on our…

I have raised a support case and will await their response, but in the meantime I have continued to think on this. For now, and longer term it will mean more work and/or having to remember to add in new firewalls as they come on board, but it is the best I can find So... * set up the UnDP using default values but change it…

@"Seashore" @"dpad" OK - so I have this working, but I'm still concerned about the logic. What we really need to know is when/if the value changes on any of the devices from 1 to 2 or from 2 to 1. Any ideas on how I achieve that? Do I need to set the UnDP to rate? And if so, do I need to worry about the other boxes?

If I understand you correctly (and it is entirely possible I haven't) then we don't use Solarwinds to show an 'end view' to the client. This is purely for our networking team to use for troubleshooting / monitoring. So extracting the Top 10s on a per client basis is the aim, in this particular exercise. So, when I go to…