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Orion doesn't have a native mechanism to display multiple elements on the same graph. Many people have expressed interest in having such a feature, so hopefully it will be available as an option in a later release. You could export the data from multiple interfaces to be displayed in Excel, but that's kind of a pain in the…

Jake, I'm glad it's working for ya. FYI, I read in another post that SP3 is supposed to be available sometime today, and I believe it addresses an issue with a memory leak in the custom mib poller among other things. For those of you who have written custom resources in classic asp, v8.5.1 (and maybe 8.5, not sure) doesn't…

Hi all... Interesting that this gets brought back to the forefront, as we were just talking about this very thing today. We've talked about it before and it just hasn't been a priority, but we are now taking a hard look at our operational processes and procedures, and this is one the things that was brought up. Our Ops…

Chris... First, you can use the timers in the advanced alerting engine to delay the rearm for a period of time, which in effect correlates or groups the down events for that period of time. Naturally, this might give the appearance that a device is hard down for a longer period of time than it really is, but it serves the…

Ken, It certainly would be nice to be able to use group accounts as opposed to individual accounts. This is something that has come up several times, but I don't believe anyone has been able to get this to work.

That's a good catch. Thanks for sharing. :)

To what report type are you trying to add the custom poller info? They don't appear to be available to all report types within Report Writer, as I assume they are not always applicable. As for adding this to the node details resource, I've not yet done it myself, but I see no reason why it can't be done with a little…

How many elements are you monitoring, what are your polling and statistics collection intervals, what's the current size of the database, and how often do you run really large reports? Personally, I like the DL380-G5's Just a note... Win2003 Server Standard only supports a max of 4 GB of RAM. With 6 GB, you'll need the…

This would help us as well.

Based on your message, I assume you are using "basic" and not "advanced" alerts. The basic alerting engine requires one to manually go into every alert in order to make changes to the devices associated with each one. This is bad enough with only a few alerts, but it's a real pain in the hiney when you have a complex,…

Also, something else we did was we went into "Component Services" and change a couple of things in the "SolarWinds Orion NPM" properties. On the "Pooling and Recycling" tab, we changed the number of worker processes to "4", and set the"Memory Limit" to "100000". With this, we always have 4 dllhost.exe processes running for…

Is your situation one where there are periods of time when no one is logged in to the web site? Something I've noticed since moving from 8.5.1 SP3 to 9.1 SP5 is that it takes a long time for the website to come up if the w3wp.exe process is not running when you try to connect; whether following a reboot, stop & start of…

What you are seeing is likely SNMP community string indexing. In cases where multiple instances of a mib are present, such as the case of the BRIDGE-MIB, where there is actually a mib table associated with each VLAN, the method used to specify which table to get is by appending "@VLAN ID" to the community string.... I…

Jackie, Are you looking for the info in the form of graphs, or will tabular data work? It would be very easy to go the tabular route via a report from Report Writer, which can be viewed as a resource on the web. If you prefer to have the data displayed via graphs, then that's "do-able" as well, but a little more involved.

Just curious... Why would you need the "Basic Authentication" method enabled?

That's odd. As long as the correct username is represented in the upper right-hand corner of the Orion web page, and that domain user's account within Orion has the "Allow Account to Customize Views" parameter set to "Yes", then they should always see the "Edit" buttons. Do you also have a <DOMAIN>\Everyone account…

Gene The beauty of the advanced alerts is the ability to tie them to multiple conditions; those inherent within Orion, and especially custom properties. Have you already created and associated some custom properties with these nodes for the purpose of classifying them by location, function, etc? If so, you can use those…

Yay!!! Thanks Don. Looking forward to seeing this, and other new developments. Vic

Don, Thanks for the teaser on the new alerting engine. What I would really like to see is the ability to configure alerts based on custom properties. It would really be nice to be able to control which devices/interfaces are tied to which alerts from within Custom Property Editor. This would save time when adding new…

Paul, That's correct. Support for polling custom mibs was introduced in v8.0. Prior to that, Orion was considered more of a "fixed configuration" tool with respect to what data it could collect. Meaning you get what you get when you take it out of the box, and the pricing somewhat reflected this. Now, with the addition of…

V8 will have the ability to poll custom mibs, which should be able to capture this, but previous versions don't have this ability. We generally use a high "receive error" count on switch ports as an indicator of a possible duplex mismatch with v7.8.5.

I believe bouncing the service will reset counters such as "High Errors & Discards Today"; if you care about that sort of thing.

Torrie, I can't specifically answer the DirectLink question, as we don't use it, but as a suggestion, if you're using Windows Pass-Thru authentication, perhaps you can make the views in question available to anyone via a Domain\Everyone account. Naturally, this depends on your security preferences, but I thought I would…

Can you spell out for me exactly what you want to do? I'm too dense to figure out what you mean by "errors per percent of bw". :(

As far as nodes are concerned, try looking at the following post. The "Outage Duration" report attached near the bottom of the thread may provide what you're looking for. If not as-is, it may with a little manipulation. Further manipulation may also make it useful for interfaces as well.

I believe you need to add NodeID as a field. You can hide it under "Field Formatting" if you don't want to see it in the results. The URL is looking for the "NodeID", but it can't find it if it's not passed as a field in the report.

Here's what we have currently, but we are awaiting final approval for a project to upgrade all components and expand the instance to accommodate approximately an additional 8,000 elements. NPM Host Server = Dual 3.2 GHz Xeon, 4 GB RAM, Win 2003 Server 3 Additional Polling Engines = Single 2.4 GHz Opteron, 1 GB RAM, Win…

Chris, Do you have SQL running on a separate server? If so, ordering of the tables can easily be done through SQL Enterprise Manager. Not sure if you knew that... :)

This appears to be a "feature" of 8.5. Apparently, devices with interfaces that are "shutdown" now appear with the flashing grey box, which is supposed to indicate that some underlying elements of this device are in an "unknown" state. To me, if it sees that the interface is shutdown, then it knows the current state, so it…

Toefur, Unfortunately, these are global parameters. I believe the only way one can configure interface-dependent values would be to modify the website code itself. That's not to say it can't be done, but I haven't personally looked into exactly what it would take to make it happen.