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Post up a screen shot of your trigger. But it sounds like you need to use a Condition Group in your trigger.

As mentioned, obviously double check your credentials. If all ok, is there a firewall in the way or on the server itself?

Can you manually connect to the router from the Solarwinds server using Putty? Just making sure you're not getting blocked by a firewall etc.

Just use License Manager SolarWinds Knowledge Base :: How do I use License Manager?

As far as I can see, this can currently not be done. Here's another thread on it http://thwack.solarwinds.com/thread/44159

Are you using this template? http://thwack.solarwinds.com/docs/DOC-167294

Hi, I've not used the out of the box alert so I'm not sure how it works but I use RTCD through syslog. I assume you have NCM? As you'll need it for this to work. Follow these instructions Configure real time change detection

Have those values actually been entered in on the devices itself? If the device is being monitored by SNMP correctly and certain values don't show up, just check that the values are on the device.

I'm guessing that you are monitoring the interfaces. So what I do is that I've created an email alert that will email me if any of my remote links go over 90% utilisation for a continuous 10 mins. In the email I include a link that goes directly to the interface in question's page in Solarwinds. On that page I show the NTA…

The TFTP timeout is determined by the logon timeout set on the devices. Look for the exec-timeout command and disable it or set it to a higher value.

So are you saying that the build in alert does not work for you? How do you test it? Or are you just trying to get an email alert for this build in alert? If yes, I use the following for my transmit alert. But I've left the build in one as it is and have just written another alert that just sends the email. I have set it…

Maybe you could do a feature request to get "Historical Alerts" added to NPM views. It would be a good idea so see this if looking at a device as it shows a quick history of what has been going on for say the last 7 days.

This information is found in your NCM Jobs List. Go to NCM > Jobs Then check the Default Database and Archive Maintenance Job, and look in the 'Add Job Specific Details tab And check the Default Purge Config Jobs, and look in the 'Add Job Specific Details tab

I can't see a way of changing this. Someone else may know.

What is the reset trigger set to? If the alert trigger can be seen, then it won't alert on it again until the alert trigger clears. Which is why it works when you manually clear it. You need to find a way to have the trigger alert clear itself, that way your alert will work each week.

Either way is fine. You have to decide which view will fit your needs better. Individually picking each device for a view will definitely give you what you are looking for but it won't dynamically update when you add in extra devices.

Update on my status - I have the "correct" version of HF2 now installed and all my subnets are scanning and reporting correctly. Also my network discovery scans have started to work again although the "Last Discovery" is still showing up as 16/12 or 17/12 which was the time when IPAM and my network discovery scans broke.…

I installed the latest hotfix last night but it doesn't seem to have made any difference. Any new subnet I've added since it broke, won't scan. Any subnet that existed before hand, does scan (but it was already scanning prior to HF2). I've also noticed that the discovery no longer works. It hasn't worked since the last…

The sa account should be able to back up the database. The fact that you can't change the password for sa does that mean you don't have the correct sa password?

My setup is much smaller than yours but we do not see this behaviour. I rarely reboot the Solarwinds server. 701 Nodes, 1245 Interfaces, 22 Volumes, 1968 Total Elements. Normal service is about 90mb and V3 is at 255mb. Are you using Windows? If so which version of Windows and SQL?

Easiest way to detect this is by using syslog. Make sure the device is sending all syslogs to the syslog server. Then on the syslog server create a rule that looks for this syslog and then emails whoever needs to know. Just click on View and select Alerts/Filter Rules. Please reply back in you need help with creating the…

Done. Happy to discuss further. Thanks!

Ask the 3rd party to give you a read only account that allows you to show the running config. And get SNMP access as well so you can fully monitor it too.

Just monitor the port channel as an interface and then create your utilization report on that.

You could just write 3 alerts. And in each alert point it to only the nodes you are interested in for that alert.

What you done in your rule looks fine. In the Trigger Condition section, set "Condition must exist for more than 10 minutes"

It really shouldn't matter which end you monitor, they both will show the same info albeit "back to front". I generally monitor the remote device uplinks so that if that remote device gets removed, I don't have to do anything to my core's monitoring settings. But if it's only a single uplink to the remote device, then…

Have you configured up realtime change detection? This can email you when configs are changed and it will make a copy of the running config as changes are made. So even if you don't want to receive the email, you can easily look at all the last running configs to see if indeed any changes were made. Alternatively when you…

Download a copy of the NPM admin guide and go through it. It will then soon all fall into place. Solarwinds is a relatively easy monitoring solution to master. https://documentation.solarwinds.com/archive/pdf/npm/NPM_Administrator_Guide.pdf Good luck!

When you look at the Interface Details, what does it say for Interface Bandwidth? It looks like Solarwinds sees them as slower interfaces than what they are. You can manually set the speed by selecting the interface in Manage Nodes and then click on Edit Properties. Then tick the Custom Bandwidth option and fill in the…