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It's interesting reading the comments of others about the lack of development of the syslog and trap functionality over the last x number of years. For me, it seems like it was only yesterday that these components were added to Orion, but in reality a number of years have now passed, and without any significant…

kmaxwell, I tend to share in your concerns about web performance, but the general direction is to move everything to the web, so I wouldn't hold out much hope for the Win32 app to stick around. As Mav mentioned it's a goner. Guess I'd better participate in this one too, just to get a feel for it, even though our dev…

Kellie, While I understand (conceptually) the premise of trying to strike a balance between the needs of all of your customer base, and granted you will never make everyone happy, I have to wonder whether you actually received feedback from customers stating that they thought the web views were too dense in their…

Cool... I was going to shoot you an email earlier to see about converging on it, but then I saw the email from Thwack concerning your post. Glad it's working. If you're interested in doing the same thing for interfaces, there's some info in the "Content Sharing Zone" concerning that as well. With a little manipulation,…

OK, I'm at a loss here... I created a Domain\Everyone account on our server, gave it the priv to clear events (with no other special privs), then deleted my specific Domain\User account. When I subsequently logged in, I first verified that the account at the bottom left of the web page was noted as being gpnet\Everyone,…

Let me do a little testing with a Domain\Everyone account and see if I can duplicate your issue. We don't use this particular type of account, but I assumed this would work. See, that's what I get for assuming... :)

I must be missing something here...? :P The only way to delineate areas of responsibility is by assigning different privileges/views based on the account credentials. If the 136 remote office personnel are the only ones who should have the ability to update custom properties via the web, and there are only 5 other…

Joe, from an alerting perspective specifically, I believe you should be able to do this today... How about if you create a new custom interface property (for example: "IF_Function"), populate it with either "Primary" or "Backup", and use this field as a qualifier for the alerts. With advanced alerts, you can have one for…

It's because of things like this that I'm staying with 8.1 - too much work and hassle to fix all the things that get broken in 8.5.1 Yeah, I would have preferred to have it be a little more stable and work right out of the box with all of our customizations as it has in the past, but so far we've been able to overcome the…

OK... Attached is a zip file containing the resources we created to modify specific custom properties from the web site with 8.5.1. Unfortunately, I don't yet have a sufficient understanding of ASP.NET, so they are coded in classic ASP, and my expertise in that area is very limited as well. So, to all you coders out there,…

Sure... Put them in a different domain. :) OK, I know... Not funny. :( Seriously, short of adding 100 specific accounts, or some other means to delineate responsibilities, I'm afraid I'm almost out of ideas at the moment. The only other thing that immediately comes to mind involves creating a single, local user account for…

This is a topic that has been mentioned on numerous occasions, and I believe it goes without saying that a full-blown IP SLA component would be a significant addition to Orion. With the addition of the netflow module, SW is already taking advantage of other functionality that is built into the infrastructure devices, and…

Seems like a pretty straightforward query. Our reports take a couple of seconds each to load, but it doesn't sound like ours are as slow as those noted here. Sounds like it's definitely in the web component though.

Yeap... You will need to have specific accounts either for those who you want to have the priv, or those who you don't want to have the priv (whichever is less). For example, let's say you only have 5 people who need to update this custom property via the web, and 500 people who don't. It would be easier to create 5…

I'm curious what happens if you run the reports from the Report Writer app itself. Do you see similar response times, or does it seem to take considerably longer to render on the website than from within Report Writer? To take it one step further, what happens if you run them on the SQL server itself using SQL Server…

YAY!!! :) Yeah, if you want all your users to be able to edit this info, then you don't need the hack, but you would have to give them the view customization priv, and that may not be a good thing. :) I am having the same problem, once I allow edit customization everything works with no issues. This is not something I want…

This worked, except that it only works for one "Down Alert" resource. I have two sections of down devices based on the SQL query filter. Anyone else experiencing this problem? Which methodology did you follow (Guru's, or mine)? Either one should work. With Guru's, simply place two of the modified "Down Nodes" resources on…

Cool... I'm glad it worked for you. I haven't looked into the other functions yet, but I will once I get a chance. :)

Dal, Can you explain what you mean by "add different custom text to each node"? Also, I understand that everyone has their own perception, but when considering the evolution of NPM, NCM, and the associated modules as a whole, I think most will agree that Solarwinds products have come a long way in the last couple of years.…

YAY!!! :) Yeah, if you want all your users to be able to edit this info, then you don't need the hack, but you would have to give them the view customization priv, and that may not be a good thing.

Torrie, I've looked over everything and I can't find anything wrong. Can you verify that your EditCustomProperty.Update.ASP file looks exactly like the example in the README file? Also, have you tried it on the 7.8.5 release? We've not yet upgraded to 8.1, so I haven't tried that out myself.

Torrie, Maybe that the Admin account is the only account with the Allow View Customization box checked? John, I think that's why it's working for Admin, but it should also work for users with the ability to "Allow Event Clearing", even though they don't have the priv to customize views. That is, as long as the hack is in…

I followed yours. Only the admin acct is able to make updates. My test server is 8.1 Hmmm... Haven't seen this. Let me see what I can find. The fact that only the admin account can do it leads me to believe it's related to the security mechanism. Out of curiosity, do you have toolset integration enabled, particularly for…

Wow, that could really add up to a lot of data. I'm surprised that long-term data would need to be any more granular than hourly, especially when you're looking back over periods of 1/2/3 years. I would think that trends would be obvious at one hour, or even one day granularity. Also, I assume you plan to use reports to…

I had implemented a CustomProperty way back in the 7x NPM but eventually removed it because I couldn't figure out how to clear the "ticket/comments" fields after a node came back up. Each time a node went back down, the "old" custom property data was still in the database and it was causing confusion. I might have to give…

Thanks Vic, I had a brief look at it. I like your logic, this will come in handy for other things as well. If I can figure out how to list the Interface custom property in the Web admin GUI, I'll post it in the CSZ. Thanks NG. Now, If I can just figure out what's happening with Torrie's config...

I think I followed the instructions pretty closely however members of my NOC are unable to edit/update the field. My QA server is ver. 8.1 and my production server is 7.85. Clear Events is 'Yes'. Which path did you take (NG's, or mine), and which of your servers are you using to test this?

Oh, you actually want it to be "SECURE"...!?! Well, POO!!! :) The only things I know to do is either follow NG's suggestion of using the "allow clear events" mechanism, or bite the bullet and build your own custom security mechanism. I tried the "allow clear events" mechanism when we upgraded from 7.8.5 to 8.5.1, but for…

Chris, I have to buck the trend a little and rank them 1,2,3, and here are some comments on each: * Search Function - From an operational perspective, we really need the ability to quickly and accurately identify where a device is attached to the network; preferably from the website. * Switch Port Mapping - We would like…

Gotcha... We don't currently use the "baseline" function, but I can see where this could certainly be useful for others.