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Awesome! Thank you for sharing.

Hi Leon. Sorry for the misunderstanding. I was thinking a fixed number of interfaces. e.g. "if 8 or more are each at 80% (or above) Rx utilization". If an SQL query is possible, that number could simply be tweaked in the query.

Hi Leon. Your example makes sense, so yes, it would be nice to have that trigger. But I'm guessing this makes the SQL/SWQL slightly more complex to implement? To give a back story on why this would be a handy alert to implement... I was working late one night and glanced at the NOC view. We have an alert that triggers for…

Hi Eric, We've kind of achieved this. Example that I've just quickly done in Network Atlas: * Click Add Object. * Right click the new object and Select Graphic.Go to Scaleable Icons, Shapes and select HollowCloud2. * Add a label as "MPLS" as the text and drag this inside the cloud. * Add an MPLS router node and drag this…

You are not alone. See this thread: Wireless Heat Map

As per the above. We're lucky that we have an unlimited license but if I had to make real sacrifices I would be monitoring: 1. All uplinks (L2 or L3) - both ends, where possible. 2. SVIs. 3. End point device interfaces (e.g. servers, storage etc). 4. Port channels? e.g. LACP, PAgP That should cover you for proactive…

Am I missing something? I downloaded the offline installer (Solarwinds-Orion-HotFix-2017.3-OfflineInstaller.exe) from the customer portal, that indicates it was released/updated today but when I run it all I get is "All products are up-to-date" and I can't progress. Also being very pedantic in the release notes it talks…

For what it's worth, IPAM 4.6 has been a horrible experience. Not what I've come to expect from SolarWinds. We are also facing scan jobs getting stuck. We have another issue where DHCP servers do not show under "DHCP & DNS Management". A dev is looking in to this and so far has found that the SQL query is taking >30…

I should have mentioned what that SQL should do Check the Events table and filter based on nodes which have gone in to a Down state (Events.EventType = '1') AND when this happened between now and 10 minutes ago (DATEADD(minute, -10, GETUTCDATE())) but only the total number of rows returned is >= 10 (HAVING COUNT(*) >= 10).

As a side note: those of you running NPM 11.5 no longer need to edit the .config file. Under Admin > Thresholds & Polling > Orion Polling Settings is now a Hardware Health section with a Preferred Cisco MIB setting. You can chose between CISCO-ENVMON-MIB (legacy - where 3850 switches are reported on correctly) and…

OK, so I first tried editing the row in dbo.CustomPropertyValues SQL table. But the changes I made here didn't show in the web interface. So I used the Inspect Element in Chrome to remove disabled="disabled" from the input field for the HTML. Then I could edit the text box and submit the form via the web interface. But why…

This is now being discussed here: Network Atlas Slow?

What about alerts when a node is in an unreachable state because an upstream device is down? Say the alert is "Node Status != Up". Would I also need to specify "AND Node Status != Unreachable"?

Thanks to both of you! Have a good weekend.

I'll be trying this! I'm sure we could cut down 50% on interfaces by doing something like this. A lot of the time engineers just add everything. Some kind of pruning mechanism built in would be really helpful.

Some excellent ideas and answers! Thank you everyone. I'll take some time to look through all the replies in more detail and make a decision on the best way to go forward with this.

Something got broken in 11.5.2 so all alerts that trigger based on a threshold won't work as expected. As you've seen you'll get alerts when packet loss is 0% for example. Even if a node is of type "external" (e.g. no polling) you'll sometimes see it triggering an alert with negative packet loss reported. For a workaround…

I've opened a case with SolarWinds Tech Support (case #600629) and referenced this discussion. If you've got the ability to raise cases it might be worth doing so and keeping track of progress here to see if we can get a resolution or at least raise awareness for this issue.

Just to cover all bases, our Orion server (which has NPM, NTA and SAM installed on it) is well spec'd and isn't low on resources. It's a physical server: 2x Intel X5550 2.67Ghz (8 cores each, 16 cores total). 32GB RAM Server 2008 R2 Network Atlas version: 1.11.0.167 NPM: 10.7 Average CPU load is 10% with 40% memory free.…

Hi, I'm having the same issue. Very slow when adding nodes. Adding multiple nodes is terrible. It even hangs when dragging nodes around sometimes. It's exactly the same running Network Atlas on the Orion server itself. My post is here: Network Atlas slow when adding nodes. I love the new layer 2 and 3 link statuses but…

Have a look at this idea and comment to make sure it gets attention: http://thwack.solarwinds.com/ideas/1573 NPM only changes the node status if the node is down or there's some packet loss (some form of connectivity issue). What we really need is via alerts (Basic or Advanced Alerts) is to be able to influence the nodes…

Hi klinnex, Hopefully this will help you out a little. There may be a better way of doing it but this works for us. Note that this is for Cisco HSRP states on devices but you should be able to apply it to your Palo Alto. Here's the scenario: Router A = Primary device (should be active) Router B = Standby device (should be…

Oops. I've just found that for some reason the volume wasn't selected under the node. I've selected the volume and will wait for it to collect data and see if it's working as expected. This is probably a false alarm

I opened a support ticket. This is a known bug in NPM 11.5 and will be fixed in due course. For now the following workaround can be used to stop alerts from triggering when a node is unmanaged: Change "Last Boot has changed" event in the trigger condition and set event filtering so that "New Last Boot Is Not Empty".