tonymckay

Something else that would be beneficial related to scheduling maintenance windows in advance would be the ability to remove polled values and alerts, post-maintenance. Having the ability to remove polled data for "approved maintenance windows" is something i've seen in other softwares, so that you can omit that downtime…

In my experience, it's driven from the configured speed within the interface details. If you issue a "bandwidth" command on an interface BEFORE discover, it seems that solarwinds will discover that and base the percent utilization off of the configured bandwidth. If you've already discovered the interface, you can edit the…

Thanks for the response, and i'm glad to know that we're not going to lose existing capabilities, but have the option to purchase increased functionality if the need arises.

Is there a response to this? will the included (free) syslog and trap modules be pulled from existing NPM installations, and replaced with a platform we must now pay for?

Are you the cable internet provider? If not, do you have the SNMP creds to the cable modems? You can certainly get more information from a cable modem with SNMP, such as SNR performance and throughput.

We've run into the same issue where an agent has forgotten a network element that would be impacted by scheduled maintenance. We've found that putting the node into maintenance mode/unmanage once the node is down, then the availability will still show 0% for the duration, having no beneficial effect on availability…

The best way to handle monitoring of a sub-rate (<100 mb/s) circuit through a Cisco device is to use the "bandwidth xxxx" command on the interface that is sub-rated. For example, on interface 23, i would issue: "config t, interface 0/23, bandwidth 27648, end". This sets the bandwidth on the interface to 27 mb/s, in…

The scenario we are using complex conditions is that we have 2 separate UnDPs (samplerowentryAdminState & samplerowentryOperState). We have a complex condition that basically should say "if Admin State equal to Up and Oper State not equal to Up" to alert. The complex condition only triggers on the first half of the complex…

Also, be sure to monitor all pertinent OIDs on your CMTS(s), such as Upstream SNR per interface, Percent cable modems online (cable modems online / cable modems registered) x 100, etc. SW had a BEAUTIFUL platform in the early 2000s called the Broadband Management platform. It interacted directly with cable modems for…

We just used a derivative of the Bind 9.6 application monitor to discover RNDC stats, etc, from BIND 9.8, so yes, it still works. You may have to play with the script, such as adding sudo in front of the Perl script, or changing the directory of the named.stats file, but it works fine. 

There is a "Store Parts" section you should set to "Yes" under the Location Info tab for the specific spares depot you are setting up. See example below.