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If RTCD isn't working on new nodes, it sounds like syslog is not configured correctly on them. So Solarwinds isn't informed that the config has changed to then download a running copy of the config. To see the scheduled downloads for NCM go to the Jobs section (My Dashboard, Configs and then select Jobs).

When you are sending your test email alert, are you selecting a Volume in the Test Fire Alert window as well as the node? If you are only selecting a Network Node and do the test, then you get a reply like you did.

In the first instance you added an extra line into the running config. In second instance you only removed the line out of the config and uploaded it again. To remove a route you need to do a no ip route x.x.x.x etc. So if you'd put the word 'no' in front of the route you wanted to delete and then uploaded the config…

What options have you got set for your scan? One suggestion is to set the Hop Count to zero.

This thread discusses a couple of different options for you. Hopefully one will suit. http://thwack.solarwinds.com/thread/53600

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You could try this although it's weird it works fine on one of your WLC's. Unable to compare configuration files most likely caused by broken regular expressions - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help… Do you really need to compare configurations? If yes, you could delete all previous backups on this WLC and then start running…

I've never had any issues like you've described in the many years I've been using Solarwinds. How do you normally fix the issues? There has to be a reason for why it breaks. What version are you on?

Here's the manual http://www.solarwinds.com/documentation/NetFlow/docs/NetFlowAdministratorGuide.pdf Hopefully it will contain the info you're looking for.

I'm still holding off on this upgrade....... Hope you get everything sorted.

mdemalia wrote: , such that it shows green when down and red when up. Is this a type or do you really Green when down and Red when up? If yes, I don't think that's possible. Red is the known colour for a device being down. But otherwise you monitor the backup device as you would any other device.

Best practises are to do what suits your environment. You are obviously limited by space. I had the same problem. I used to keep a few weeks worth of Netflow data but once netflow moved onto it's own database, I was limited to file storage space. So I just kept playing around with these settings until I found a happy…

I've noticed the same thing. You should add it in to the Feature Request section.

Can you look through every single device's config to make sure none of them have 192.168.200.1 listed anywhere in the config? You could add the device into your network and see what traffic it's sending. It might help track it down.

Email sent. I recently went through 17 steps of upgrades! Went from NPM 11.0.1 to 12.1.

Yes it can but you'd need to write your own Firmware upgrade template for it or alternatively create a 'Job' for it. Here's some information Upgrade IOS (firmware) using NCM - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support

As mentioned, it uses your server's DNS details to get the names.

The solution provided by wluther​ is a good one as you only need 1 alert. Your other alternative is to have your nodes in groups like Tableau, Oracle etc and then create an alert for each group of nodes.

NPM should be able to give you the info you need. But what do you see when you have a carrier issue? Link down? Syslog message? Depending on what happens in your monitoring environment when there are issues, that's how you alert on it.

You've logged 2 threads for this. You should close this one and just use Login Email Alert for Cisco WLC

I've you are scanning every subnet you know about anyways, you don't need the hop count. It will be discovered regardless. Hop count is good if you only know about the subnet you're on and want to discover others hanging of it. Also if you change, your network discovery takes way longer. I tried mine at 1 and my discovery…

Does this help? Problems in SAM with SNMP Process Monitors failing - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support

Yup I noticed the same thing. This should get you going. wesleykparker provided the following SQL code (in another thread) to replace the syslog widget. 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]…

100% packet loss would mean the node is down, so you should get a down alert depending on how often you check the alert. But in your alert you can set when it triggers the alert. So for "Do not trigger this action until condition exists for more than" ..... Set that for 1 minute and in your trigger alert, alert on the…

What do you mean by bouncing interface? An interface that goes up/down a number of times in a certain time frame? At the end of the day, you should only monitor interfaces that you are interested in if they went down. All other interfaces you can delete out of NPM.

If you've added in your AP's as separate nodes into Orion, then it will be using Node Polling interval to check the status. But if you are looking at the AP's as part of your WLC, then it's using Statistics Collection interval to get details on the AP.

There has to be a difference. You should be able to modify email alert action with no worries. To me it sounds like the SMTP server details are not filled out on your template, or time of day is not configured correctly. But to know for sure, please post up a picture of each of the 5 tabs in the E-Mail/Page Action trigger…

Can you please post up the email part of your alert? I'd like to see how you're calling the node details. Also if you rename a Cisco device, NPM will automatically update the name once the device is repolled. I'm not sure though if your device is a Cisco as you've not specified.

You could create a tunnel interface at each end and monitor the tunnel on your map. So if the tunnel goes down, link goes red. Another option is to use UDLD.

As mentioned compliance reports are the way to go. You just search for a string and it will report back on it. So it's not an alert as such, it's a report you use for what you'd like to achieve. You can also run jobs where you can execute a command on all your devices such as 'show ntp associations' and then you can look…