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WTF!? Back to OPEN? (Why...This...Fiendishness?)

I think being on the top left is a good thing. Having installed/administered several other products sitting high in the top right of a Gartner quadrant at one point or another, I always felt that the product did have a "completeness of vision" but the companies I worked for **didn't want to implement the complete vision…

"is a case when you are setting different values for different properties on multiple different nodes...": Yep

Interesting. Thanks for the input! I'm stuck with "free only" tools for now (outside of the core monitoring tools) until I can get something up and running as proof of concept. If that goes well then I'll look more seriously into Splunk to see what we're missing. I've messed with it before, but only as a quick eval, and…

Thanks! It works much better than just setting an account limitation by node status. I've had slownes issues with certain web resources that had groups built out of groups, etc. and this group is slightly "slow" but not too bad at all, possibly because I don't have a lot of non green nodes + applications (~ 200 objects in…

Thought of another one that may be worth considering...aren't you as excited about hypothetical licensing options as I am?! "Upgrade" or "Disaster recovery" licenses that are basically short term "eval extender" licenses that can keep a trial system alive for s short period of time.. Maybe these are the same license key…

I'm surprised more of these don't contain the phrase "an access database"

DW: Yes, please. ...and a bump

Disclaimer: I haven't tried searching out tools that do this so my experiences may not be well rounded. Usually I'm stuck using a specific solution or vendor that has already been decided on.... Q: Do you currently monitor your website performance? A: Yes....mostly. Almost always: I like to add out of the box website…

It really is weird. I can only assume they once elected someone who was a Monty Python fan. I'd bet this was added to all sorts of things, like getting a fishing license or a legal way to get out of speeding tickets.

I'm also wanting some "extra" info in all of the account related settings (Orion user, Windows User, AD Groups). If you're voting for this, here are some other requests related to trying to keep track of account attributes:

I was going to answer this with "Main page -> Search Nodes" but tested both...and they both work now!? I swear in a previous version they did not. Currently running latest version of NPM (10.7). We were on 10.5 at the beginning of the year, but have been doing a lot of perf tuning since then...either the feature was…

Voyager 1 was launched from Earth in 1977 and entered interstellar space on August 25, 2012. Less then 1 year later, this feature request was submitted. "The more you bump" ♫ミ★ ♫

Mine are pretty boring/routine, used for classification (City, State, Environment, Comment), etc. , alert routing, and for organizing tree views. These are more notable: "AlertForwardingGroups" => A string. CSV list of names of support groups to send alerts to. In alerts I use "Alert if <some conditions>.... AND…

I like this because currently I may have an 2 email actions (and a reset) with the email subject/body text all set up going to person A, then I have two more that are identical in text, but going to group B. Even if you get the alerting text/data to be "the same", you still have to keep making "copies" of the same alert…

Just a thought... Maybe what is missing is kind of what LEM does...being able to do event management with rules applied to the events. Except LEM doesn't really hook into all of NPM's events/alerts/syslog "event inputs". Having said that, Orion *has* an event manager....of sorts, it takes events as inputs (SNMP traps,…

I've done something similar. It worked really well as long as people would just follow the basic rules. The only problems I ran into were mostly people related (not defining requirements well up front, demanding last minute changes that could affect everyone's routing, demanding our system process alerts *exactly* the same…

A Fleek (of Geeks) <- probably will go out of style in some time A Circuit <- Maybe reserved for electrical, or law/courts A Stash <- Maybe reserved for mojolicious devs, or anyone who likes all things "420"? One definition is "a store or supply of something, typically one that is kept hidden or secret." A Conundrum? A…

I'm also wanting some "extra" info in all of the account related settings (Orion user, Windows User, AD Groups). If you're voting for this, here are some other requests related to trying to keep track of account attributes:

I have had similar issues with the Universal devices pollers. They only pull/use/recognize a node if it's set up as SNMP and since the SNMP credentials are tied to the node as how it's monitored this means I have no choice but to use SNMP to monitor the node. I wish I could just add the SNMP credentials to the node without…

hmmmmm... I've tried several of the "real developer IDEs" like Eclipse or Visual Studio when trying to learn new languages and I find that they have such a dizzying array of buttons and options and preferences to set (especially initial environment setup, loading things the first time from scratch) that I get frustrated.…

Solarwinds: SAM, IPAM, NCM, NPM, UDT SCOM PagerDuty RiverBed VCops We also have internally developed these components, for better or worse: An Event manager, with a web front end we added to NPM as a "Web View" An Email parser to convert emails into events/alerts An "integration" service so we can use a common integration…

Updated to "What We're Working on" on 2023-05-17!

for "I learned ....that the team that does the monitoring and notification for the companies IT enterprise must be involved with all the teams they support." Agreed . For larger companies, I've found that if monitoring is put into a certain team/silo (like a network or server team, or "apps") and is not a separate entity…

Agreed + upvoted. Personally, to do this I would like to see a "severity" field/attribute associated with every alert that would also be used/linked to determine the alert color. When alerts are sent from NPM to AlertCentral via the "share alerts" feature you have to pick a severity (Warning/Critical/etc.)...so why not…

This would be a great Halloween costume: Cable cut repairman - One of those "across the chest" belts holding 10 cans of Mountain Dew - A big dried glop of clear silicone (fashioned into a teardrop) applied to the corner of one eye.

I wonder if this is being worked on.... if Network Atlas is "soon" to be officially decommed?. Anyone have/heard any news on when that might happen? I believe its "deprecated", but isn't officially unsupported (or auto removed when you update to the latest version of the Orion platform or NPM). I still have users who…

Personally: Any icon or click-able item in the "Management" section in the node view (or any other class/object, if there are any?) should be restrict-able using the account limitations. Currently these are at the top of an accounts settings (" Allow Node Management Rights", etc, but I would think they would belong in…

My "horror" story: This was an app that used a special version of Sybase that had been cut down to make it more efficient/speedy. The only way to access it (generally) was through a command line tool everyone used. I was tasked with writing some code to pull data out of it, then query other databases, then put data back…

Mgmt: "Prove it's not our network because the vendor we're using for the new XYZ cloud app says everything is fine on their end and and they see no issues" You: (spends days looking into everything, setting up all sorts of monitoring) You: "Based on these basic tests, our side is good and their HTTP response time is…