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Of course, there are other systems that want to receive traps, so output as SNMP traps would be good to provide too. I find that automatic correlation of events (both syslog and traps) is an essential function. I'm using another product to do this now. It would be nice if there was some level of integration with a trouble…

Other products that have good event handling features are Zenoss and Netcool. I also like being able to define a state machine for processing events in Nerve Center, which has not been replicated in anything I've seen since. A good event management system will support de-duplication, counting, correlation, suppression, and…

The sales team suggested running the update. Sure enough, NPM now wants a license key before it will restart, so my eval is now on pause. ;-)

It is important to be able to know if a given traffic class is dropping packets. When congestion is happening, the low priority queue may be dropping (that's a good thing) while the high priority queues are still being handled. Knowing that the low priority queue is dropping and how much it is dropping is important for…

The directions in the README.txt file that's in the zip file and the posting that you did about SP1 being available.

cmsmith, When you use the Interface Alias Pattern, do you use SQL pattern matching (e.g. %Core uplink%)? I was also hoping that the Interface Alias Pattern would work without specifying the nodes, since the pattern may appear on interfaces on other devices as the network grows and changes. It sounds like I need to specify…

My customer also needs the ability to import nodes in bulk (IP addr, device_name). Entering them manually is time consuming and doesn't add value. Can they be entered via an SQL script?

Syslog forwarding with source address spoofing is in the list of features currently being developed, according to the NPM posting by Brandon. I also use syslog-ng to do filtering, forwarding, and source address spoofing. I run it on RHEL3/5. I found that Centos 5.3 dropped a significant number of UDP packets between the…

Thanks, Andy. Does anyone have experience with it and care to comment?

Same problem here, but with a 9.5 eval. According to the directions, SP1 is supposed to contain an eval install, but it isn't there.

My SW also says 9.5.0 in the web page, in the NPM Help page (about NPM), and in the registry. There's nothing about an SP being loaded. I didn't see anything called SolarWindsVersionChecker in the set of installed programs.

I consider consolidation of multiply-discovered addresses into the core set of devices to be a key feature. It depends on how the product is originally built -- does it monitor IP addresses or does it monitor devices? I think most network people monitor devices. It makes using NPM a pain because I have to manually track…

I have 300 - 500 sites and each site is documented in Visio. While it might be nice to draw it in Network Atlas, we don't have the time available to do it right now. I have a top-level map showing each site. I want to take the visio drawing for each site (perhaps a PNG of the drawing) and load it into SW and link each site…

I figured it out, plus received confirmation from the support team while working on another ticket. Just put the files into the locations specified by the directory names in the zip file. You'll have a new resource that you can add to web pages. I replaced the Last xx Events page with this one on the home page and am now…

I'm new to SW, so some additional directions would be helpful. I downloaded the files and installed them in locations corresponding to the filenames (with the exception of installing in subdirectories of c:inetpub\SolarWindsNPM\). Do I have to restart some part of SW to make them go?

I would like functionality similar to stewie's suggestions. When I'm doing maintenance on a device, I don't want alerts. But I do want regular polling to still occur (or have a second switch that turns regular polling on/off). The reason is so that while I'm doing maintenance, I can see the impact on the device of any…

Starting over with a new view with a new name worked. Whenever I try something with the existing view, even if I change its name, fails with this error.

I have one similar to Bryan's. As he noted, it takes a lot of screen space. I'm going to look at doing a smaller one that shows the 95th percentile utilization for each site over the last 24 hours. Just having that value (a single number) will alert me to whether the utilization is high on an interface. I'd also like to…

I need the ability to correlate events. We get a lot of interface up/down events. I need to clear a 'down' event when an 'up' event arrives. The cleared events should to into a history table so that I can do reports on flapping interfaces. This will allow me to identify interfaces (and devices) that are hard-down versus…

You could use a custom poller to query the HSRP MIB and detect when it changes. Alternatively, make sure that all your operational interfaces are up/up and that any unused interfaces are down/down. Solarwinds automatically identifies devices that have interfaces in up/down state, so if you clean up the interfaces, when…