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When you do the backup of the configs, you can get it to send you a report in an email. In it you can see which ones were successful and not successful. You can also click on the "not backed up" bit in the pie chart and it will take you to a page called "Overall Devices Backed Up vs. Not Backed up.

Yeah I agree. It now relies way more on Solarwinds knowledge rather than just generic network knowledge. Even though I passed, I struggled with some questions as I don't have/use all the available modules.

I agree with rharland but why would you want to backup your configs every hour? If you are worried that changes are being made, then just set up real time change detection. That way everytime someone makes a change, the config is automatically backed up. I back up my configs once a week and use real time change detection.

I'm not sure of NPM versions requiring that but some nodes may go "unknown" instead of down. For all my Cisco devices I just use "down". For servers and applications you could use "not equal to up". Using the "not equal to up" option, you should always get a down email.

atkinsd wrote: Steven and Superfly, Do you have to have a TFTP setting configured on Solarwinds to complete this process? I am guessing there is not a combo SSH/Telnet profile option? Thank you. Dwane Just noticed this question, yes I've installed Solarwinds TFTP server on my Solarwinds server. If you go into Settings, NCM…

wesleykparker​ provided the following SQL code (in another thread) to replace the syslog widget. Thought it would be good to have here as well. SELECT TOP 100 -- Edit this number for how many messages you want to load to widget (you can modify the widget for how many messages to page) let.Name AS [Message Type] ,Level AS…

You are a legend!! That's exactly what I needed. I still can't see it though on "insert variable" but either way it works. Thanks for the reply.

Solarwinds are currently working on implementing the following New Import/Export Process - An improved import/export process that will allow you to maintain subnet structures and hierarchy. Whether you're using this tool to upgrade your environment, migrate to another instance, or purely for reporting/auditing purposes, we…

No it won't if you just configure it to send an email (which is all I do). I can't check the Syslog Viewer options right now but there may be one that does an active alert. The main reason I use syslog for the alerting is that it is instant. Using an alert, there is a time delay so flapping links don't get detected. Here…

rikirvine@networksfirst.com wrote: ...but if you tell Solar Winds that the interface has a maximum bandwidth of 1Mb (i.e. maybe a downstream ISP link is limited to 1Mb) then the maximum throughput (i.e. 100%) = 1Mb. The graph should flat line if this maximum is reached and sustained. That's right, if a link is only 1mbps,…

Here's the info on ZOC ZOC - SSH Client (Secure Shell) and Telnet Client for Windows and Mac OS X I started using ZOc when I joined our national team because that's what they were using. I was happy to keep using SecureCRT but my version was pretty old and they didn't want to pay to upgrade it. I believe they both do the…

Most likely it could be but you'll need to know the correct community string for it. I'm assuming that all the devices where Solarwinds recognised the make/model are using a RO community string of public (which is usually the default string). Once you know what community string the devices use where Solarwinds could not…

It depends on your settings. Make sure your hop count is set to 0 hops. These are the settings I use for scanning 2 x /16 subnets configured as 1 scan job. Mine doesn't time out.

Yes it used to be free before the whole program was overhauled.

That's annoying that support can't fix it When you say you removed everything, do you mean you un-installed all the modules and then re-installed them by using the new installer? Or? As a stab in the dark, just check that you don't have double ups of Solarwinds programs in Add/Remove programs in Control Panel.

I don't know, I've never used the Unlimited Duration setting. But I can't see why they would change the functionality of that option.

Are you monitoring the node in NPM as the IP address on Interface Gi0/0? These need to be the same. The reason I say int Gi0/0 is because you have this interface configured as your logging source.

Fair enough but did either of those 2 options fix the problem?

Hey no worries

What were you looking for in regards to the VLAN's? Do you have UDT? As it will monitor all ports and show you what's up and down etc.

I use custom properties as well. I have one for each node called Building. I call this up in my alert email as ${Building}. If a particular site moves to a new address, I can select all those nodes and update the Custom Property in one go for all those nodes.

If you want help directly from Solarwinds, you are better of opening up a support ticket. You will then get personal assistance into your issue. This forum is used mainly by Solarwinds users who help each other out when and where they can. I'd not seen this thread before (as I don't necessarily look here every day) but I…

Does it pass the SNMP test?

By alert I mean you are simply being notified of an issue or whatever.

So you're saying that in DHCP you have 10.4.20.1/19 range setup but you are only handing out IP addresses in 10.4.20.1 - 10.4.21.250? You could recreated your DHCP scope to only list want you actually want to use as DHCP addresses. Another option is to turn on 'Enable Duplicated Subnets' so that you can add them in…

cahunt wrote: It should show on the controller page, but adding this to a larger Network Summary view it won't show. That's incorrect, when I click on the Network Tab, I have the 'List of all VLANs' view in there. And it shows all the vlans for all my switches. Like I said, it's showing 372. Then if I go to a single…

Yes you are correct. For the example only the last octet needed to be 3 digits but technically all 4 octets should be 3 digits long for proper sorting.

Same thing happens to me. Put in a feature request and post a link back here to alert others to it and vote it up. I'll vote for it

Yes it should have changed. Here's an interface that was set to 100Mb/s. Then I went into Edit Interface and changed both Transmit and Receive from 100Mb/s to 10Mb/s and this was the graph then You can see the percentage on the left has changed. Can you please show us and image of what you've put in for the Bandwidth…

Cool! jasonflory wrote: It would be great if I could do a top 20 transmitters or receivers focused on a particular interface but have not seen a way to do this. Not sure if I've read this question correctly but couldn't you just do the filter to show just that interface rather than using one with wildcards? So now the view…