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What have you configured in each of the tabs of your discovery profile? Obviously discoveries can take a long time depending on what you have configured. Also adding to the Hop Count will cause it to take a long time. If you say set 1 IP range x.x.x.x/24 and with a Hop Count of 0, then the discovery shouldn't take too long.

I use the following syntax to just show me certain interfaces on certain devices. sysname like 'SWITCH1%' and interfacealias like '%Core%' or sysname like 'SWITCH1%' and interfacealias like '%Dist%' So in this case if will show interfaces on SWITCH1 that have either Core or Dist in the interface description. The % sign is…

The interface name should update automatically on the next poll. If that's not happening, then maybe the interface name has been set manually within "Edit Interface" in Solarwinds. In that case if you do a List Resources on the node within Node Management, it will grab the actual description on the interface. Submit that,…

Have you seen this? Success Center 1) See above link 2) Not sure 3) In a non-changing network, I don't see a real issue with setting the polling time higher than the default. I've always just left it as default. 4) In think it was an issue with older versions of NPM. These days it all works as intended. I also found this…

It's using a flux capacitor

You can do this with UDT (if you have it). Or you can do this with NPM provided you are monitoring all the ports in the switch. You then create a report that shows all unplugged or down interfaces and specifies how may hours they've each been down for.

Easiest solution would be to email from Solarwinds to Jira and have Jira create a ticket from the email. Creating issues and comments from email - Atlassian Documentation

I do this as part of my config download jobs. Once a week I download the startup configs, then 1 hour later I download the running configs and as part of that job I compare it to the last downloaded config which in this case is the startup config. It then emails me all the difference details of those configs that don't…

I think these 2 links will answer your questions. How Does Orion Mark a Node as Down? Calculate node availability

I don't believe emails are queued up. So if the event has passed and all is green, then no emails should be sent.

Has the device that you're running Real Time Netflow Analyzer on been given access to this firewall?

I use the Syslog Viewer for this. I write a rule based on the syslog that gets triggered when the fan fails. I then forward that email onto the network team.

I used this knowledge base article to fix the issue when I had it but I wasn't using NPM 10.5 http://knowledgebase.solarwinds.com/kb/questions/3202/ Just turned on automatic index defragmentation on the NPM database.

If you edit an alert, the alert will not re-trigger. If you create (or copy) a rule, then it will trigger on what ever the condition is even if it's the same as an existing rule.

How are you running this script?

Add all the devices to the Ignore List. Then go into the Ignore List and select all the devices and click on Remove from Ignore List. Then they should all be re-discovered on the next scan. I've not tried this but it looks like it will work.

I would guess that a syslog would be logged when this occur. I would then alert on that syslog message. I do this for the Cisco chassis switches.

What notifications are you expecting? If the notifications were sent after a restart, that would be due to all the alerts being reset. Do you alerts have the reset tab filled out? If not, then whenever an alert is made active (notification sent), it won't trigger again until it is reset.

I would assume a syslog would be logged for a faulty power supply. So from this syslog create an email alert for it. As for statistics, Solarwinds does provide some power statistics for certain devices and IOS's but otherwise you can write some custom SNMP pollers to get the info you're looking for. This example may get…

Are you monitoring all the interfaces in NPM?

I get a compare email as part of my weekly config backups. At 1am I backup all the Startup configs. At 2am I backup all the Running configs. As part of this backup Running configs job, I get it to compare the running config to the startup config. So once it completes backing up all my Running configs, I get another email…

Are you using the Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance template? I'm using this template to successfully download configs from ASA's. On the template it shows the same as yours

Have you tried to recreate another backup job to see if it runs? Also I read in another thread that some people are having issues with scheduled jobs running since applying HF2. Backup Schedule job is not running.

What do you mean by synchronization of nodes with solarwinds syslog? Syslog just receives syslog messages, I'm not sure what you mean by the synchronization bit.

There's no Download option as they are not in NCM. Have you tried to just manually add them to NCM? You can do this by going to Settings, NCM Settings and then 'Add or Manage Nodes'. Find the node on this page, tick the box for the node and Click on 'Add Nodes to NCM'.

You'd have to set an account limitation for each user. There's about 30 options for account limitations. Pick one that best differentiates what objects they can see. Easiest one to use might be "Group of Nodes" and just pick which nodes you want the particular user to see. I use "Node Name Pattern" as different sites have…

As mentioned you need to delete the interface that no longer exists and add in the new one that you'd like to monitor.

Yes you can. Click on Customize Page and add in the resource 'Report from Orion Report Writer'. Then click on Configure this resource or the Edit button on the resource itself. Then just select the report you wish to show. You can also change the Title of the window to something more meaningful than 'Report from Orion…

What alerts are you talking about? You'll need to provide for details as your description is vague. But generally you have either a , or ; between different email accounts.

This is what I use Node ${NodeName} (${IP_Address}) was reported as ${Status} at ${DateTime} Some of my alerts though have ${NodeCaption} which displays the same as ${NodeName} so I'm not sure what the difference is supposed to be.