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This should hopefully resolve your query. After the wizard has run, you can choose to import the nodes or not. Network Discovery Using the Network Sonar Wizard

Unfortunately the Thin AP's don't have any smarts about them. Are you looking to see when an AP goes down? You could add each AP in as a node check by ICMP. This would mean setting reserved DHCP addresses on your AP's. If not, what are you hoping to see? We use Cisco Prime to manage our WLC's. This will alert me if an AP…

What a joke. Some places don't know the meaning of the words "customer service". I wonder if the customer service manager (if there is one) would be happy to see this kind of correspondence. You may as well have asked a brick wall. The reply would be pretty much the same.

With the lack of replies, I guess it can't be done. I've raised a feature request for this. http://thwack.solarwinds.com/ideas/3231

Try downloading it directly from Thwack. The one you're looking for is here Cisco 3750/2950 IOS Upgrade (using NCM tftp server) NCM Template

In syslog viewer you can create as many rules as you like. Just add in a new rule, put in the details of the syslog you're looking for, configure up an email alert for it and you're done. I've used it for all sorts of alerts like temp warnings, power supply failures, bgp neighbour alerts etc. i recommend your first rule…

Does this new switch run the same IOS as the other switches?

You are getting the down alert because the Solarwinds server can no longer ping the remote device. You need to find out what they are doing. Maybe get them to provide you with a loopback address that you can use for monitoring.

I recently had to do this as well. To forward audit logs to a SIEM do the following Create a new alert with the following trigger alert Then for the trigger actions, do a Send a Syslog Message And fill out the rest as per normal.

Personally I would write an alert rule for each group that you wish to send email to. Much easier to manage and you only have to change things in one place if an email address changes.

I was under the impression the CLI templates are part of NCM only. Whereabouts do you see this in NPM? But to answer your question, I would say it does nothing. NPM gets its data via SNMP.

Make sure the addresses are in DNS and add those DNS servers into Advanced TCP/IP Settings on your Solarwinds server.

See which path the Orion server takes by doing a traceroute. Then determine if anything along the way can stop the Orion server from seeing the device. Or maybe someone was testing the alerts in Manage Alerts thus generating false alarms.

Your chart is correct. The green line shows the link transmitting up to 100% (which is 100mbps) and the blue line shows received traffic on the link. So the left axis will only ever show up to 100mbps as that's all the link is capable of. If you untick either the blue or green box, you'll the stats for 1 way traffic…

This may be achievable if you had NCM. Do you have NCM?

The trigger is getting confused because the interface alias can never by equal to 2 different names. If you remove on of your interface alias triggers, then the alert will suppress for that particular interface alias. But if you separate the 2 interface alias triggers into a "trigger alert where ANY of the following apply"…

Add this to your alert message. ${N=OLM.AlertingMacros;M=OLMAlertMessage.EventMessage}

I just use one of the interfaces at either end. Although in some cases, even though the link goes down, the interface in fact does not. So in those cases I use either a tunnel interface or I use UDLD. Hope that helps.

You do not need SNMP R/W to backup configs. You only need SNMP R/O. But it sounds like your problem is related to the username and password. If you are monitoring your node successfully in NPM using SNMP, then your SNMP settings are correct. You don't need to do anything with it. So the easiest way to check if you can…

Are you monitoring the node in Solarwinds as 192.168.1.3?

This variable should give you what you're looking for. ${N=OrionGroup;M=GroupStatusRootCause}

NTA doesn't do monitor for up/down statuses. NTA is the Network Traffic Analyzer. It collates the netflow data into a readable format. So then you can see exactly what traffic is going over your link. You need to use NPM for monitoring up/down statuses for devices and interfaces. It can then send you an alert if your link…

I prefer to have 2 jobs. 1 for startup and one for running. I do the startup job first. I schedule the running one for afterwards. In the running one, I do the compare to previously downloaded config which will be the startup config. That way I can see if any of the running configs haven't been saved as yet.

We use both too. I do weekly config backups of all my devices. I use realtime change detection to keep up to date with any changes being made on the network. And I use NPM for all the daily information and alerts. The only time they really overlap for me, is when I'm trouble shooting an issue where I can see the problem in…

I've only got 481 nodes in my NCM database and when I do a search on community I get a "hit" on all the configs. Maybe there's a bug with higher number of nodes in NCM. I would suggest to log a case with Solarwinds for it.

This is probably obvious but is the TFTP Server service started? At the bottom of the Solarwinds TFTP Server window it should have "TFTP Server service status : Started". It doesn't start by default. And is the file you are trying to copy located in the TFTP Server Root Directory? This is configured on the General tab in…

We use Opsgenie which is an "email to SMS" service here. So I just generate an email in Solarwinds and the email goes to Opsgenie that converts it into a SMS message.

I'm in Australia and we use the English language and 12 hour clock but I just found the following on my server. This may help you?

I don't understand why people download configs every single day when you can use RTCD. I only download configs from device on a weekly basis. As part of that I also do a compare so that I can check if people are saving the running config to the startup config. The rest of the time I have RTCD running so that when someone…

I don't have LEM so I can't offer any help but you should really move this to the LEM forum. Hopefully more people will see it there. Log & Event Manager