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In Virtualization Polling Settings, is the polling status green?

What does it show when you look at this VM in VCentre?

Does it pass the credential test? Was it working ok before you deleted it and then re-added it?

I had to create a custom sql query when I wanted this information for WMI credentials. I couldn't find an out-of-the-box report.

vmotion wouldn't cause any alerts unless the server goes offline for an extended period. Monitoring a VNIC will show you how much traffic the server sends

It would be easier to just monitor one or the other. As when a server NIC goes down, the network port would go down as well.

Yes you would get an alert for the network switch port and the NIC on the server if both are being monitored. But in the case of a VM, there is no physical network switch port for it. The hosts are the only ones that have the physical connection.

Thanks for teaching me something new. I've only ever looked at adding in missing serial numbers and was unable to. But I see now you can modify the fields you've highlighted.

I did a SNMPWALK on one of my Ruggedcom devices and found the following 2 OID's you could use Current ROS-CF52 Boot Software .1.3.6.1.4.1.15004.4.2.3.2.0 Current ROS-CF52 Main Software .1.3.6.1.4.1.15004.4.2.3.3.0 So set up a custom poller to poll these 2 OID's and use that info.

We monitor servers with NPM. In the case of teaming, you will see 3 interfaces. NIC 1 & 2 plus the teaming interfaces. It would be handy to know if one of the NIC's has gone down as now you've lost redundancy. You could alternatively monitor the interfaces on the switch to see if they are up/down. We monitor both ends but…

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I don't know these device but do they have a syslog function? If yes, is there an error logged when the tunnel goes down? If so, then you could use that. Otherwise run a snmpwalk over the device and see if there's an OID that show the tunnel status. 

Have a look at this support.solarwinds.com/.../Thin-Access-points-status

I used the following to display the outage time in Days, Hours and Minutes <b>Downtime:</b> '${N=Alerting;M=Downtime}'/1440} Days '${N=Alerting;M=Downtime}'%1440/60} Hours '${N=Alerting;M=Downtime}'%1440%60;} Minutes

I would uninstall the modules first. and then install NCM. Here's the instructions for uninstalling IPAM https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/ipam/content/ipam-install-uninstall.htm Here's the instructions for uninstalling UDT documentation.solarwinds.com/.../udt-uninstall-udt.htm

The custome poller will need to be shown in a separate widget. It won't appear in the Node Details widget.

You could also look at reporting on syslog messages if they contain route changes.

All of them should be fine, most are pretty old. Here's one of my ISR4451 Which SNMP are you using and which version of Solarwinds?

Change it to 0. I believe the timer is based on your session.

It sounds like the link is smaller in size that the interface. Use the bandwidth statement to set the size of the link. That will then determine the "100%" setting.

Set the time to 0 mins. The effects would be that the page does not refresh so if something goes down, you will not see that.

The interface in your example from the Solarwinds demo is not showing as being unknown. It's just not showing the status bar. If the status bar was showing unknown, you would have a grey dotted status bar (by status bar I mean the green dotted line). This is due to the "Downtime period" that it has been selected to show.…

It's not going to send you individual emails when node fails to backup unless you create an individual job for each node.

I can't see how to do this either.

I'm not sure. I think you should log a ticket for this.

I could not find the files the installer was claiming were missing so I ended up doing an online install which went fine.

What alain_p has suggested is a good way of doing it. Or the real easy way is to mute alerts on the nodes you don't want to be alerted on.

NPM does have real-time polling. There is a widget called Percent Utilization - Real Time Data that you can use when looking at an interface. You can also do this in Perfstack. You could also use a tool such as "STG Traffic Grapher" and just fine tune the polling time to achieve the view you want. The more often you poll,…

It's still there in 2020.2.6 but I'm not sure why it doesn't work for you. Try creating a new alert and see if it comes up.

I just checked one of my HSRP configured VLAN's where the VLAN's actual IP address is what we use to monitor the device and it too shows IP address as unknown. But on another HSRP VLAN on the same switch it shows the HSRP IP address. I'd never noticed this before.