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NPM 8 is a pretty old version. Did it used to work? Or has it never worked. Usually you only get the error you are seeing when you first add in a device/interface etc. As it hasn't collected any data as yet to show.

Have you configured it in the GUI as per this link? Syslog Server Configuration on Wireless LAN Controllers - Cisco

It's a build in resource, it's not a report that you can modify. Click on Customize Page and see if you can add this resource in again.

What Matthew said is correct. If Orion can see the interface, it can send alerts on it. Can you please send through how you've configured your alert. The fact that you saw the link go down in NPM Events means that the monitoring is working. I'm guessing it is using the "Alert me when an interface goes down" rule for that.…

Did you see this post? IS-IS protocol monitoring on Solarwinds Maps

If you don't know SQL, then using the build in variables is another option. Decide on what you want to see in the email and then just see which variable gives you that info. For example. The faulty node IP address is ${N=SwisEntity;M=IP_Address} then in the email it will show The faulty node IP address is 20.20.20.20…

Here's mine. It's my lived in area.

It will show the FQDN if Solarwinds can get DNS resolution for the IP address. Do all these servers belong to different DNS servers? If so, you'll need to add those servers into the DNS resolution settings on the Solarwinds server so that it can resolve them.

Can you please post up a screen shot of your Trigger Condition?

In this thread I've posted what we use to backup F5's. F5 backup configuration This may also help NCM Template - F5 Big-IP (1.3.6.1.4.1.3375) - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support There's a number of threads on here. Hopefully you'll find your answer.

You could do it via the object label and just display it under the node object.

What is the reason for unmanaging them? Just so that you don't get alerted on issues? If that's the case, change the time details on your alerts to not alert you between the hours of 6pm - 6am. But to unmanage your nodes, you will need to do this manually each day.

I'd like to also see BGP. The thing I'm looking for the most is to see a link not routing traffic. For example, I have a remote site with 2 links. If the primary link stops routing, the traffic switches to the backup link. Currently in NPM, I can't see that this has occured. Both links are still showing as being up.

What sort of information are you looking for? The utilization chart will just show the utilization of the link, not what is actually causing the traffic. You'd have to use something like Netflow to give you the information of what the traffic is.

I assume you mean manage your devices with TACACS (NCM doesn't use TACACS). Within NCM, you can only assign one profile to a device so if NCM wants to back up a config, then it will always use the same device. If you have RTCD turned on, then any TACACS user can modify the configuration of the device. Once they exit conf t…

Fantastic! In the few times I've contacted support over the years, I've always had great service. Glad to see it's still that way.

The Avaya's I'm monitoring via SNMP in NPM don't show CPU or memory utilization by default. Not sure if you could use a custom poller to show them. I've not tried.

No, that's not happened to me. What do you need assistance with?

Just open Manage Nodes. Tick the box for the nodes you want and then click on Maintenance Mode and select Unmanage. Do the same to remanage them.

There probably a few build in reports that show this but the first one that comes to mind is Current Status of each Node. It lists the Node ID, IP address and Staus.

Interface Status isn't an available trigger option when the Type of Property to Monitor is set to Custom Node Poller. You need to remove this from your alert.

You need to change the Amount of historical data to load to say 1 day and then you can select Sample interval of Every 1 minute. If you go into Export, you can customize this more than the above image.

Sure no worries.

You just manually copy the file to where all the other NCM Device Types files are located. Default location is C:\Program Files (x86)\SolarWinds\Configuration Management\DeviceTypes Then you can go back into Edit Properties for the F5 device and for Device Template pick the new one you installed.

Check your SNMP settings on the remote device. Is it version 2 or 3? Then you'll need to make sure you have right community string (version 2) or right username, passwords and encryption details (version 3). Also check to see if the solarwinds box has been allowed SNMP access to the device. Another thing to check it if…

Ha! I have the same thing. But I'd never noticed it until you pointed it out

You can use NCM to get this info but unfortunately switch stacks are only shown with 1 serial number.

What is the popup? Is it the actual TFTP application?

On the Cisco's when you copy in a new Startup Config, it overwrites the old one. So there's no need to delete it first. I would try that first before you issue the erase startup config command.

This is an obvious one but I assume that you've configured your solarwinds server as a logging host on the devices?