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*** Update *** I'm starting to see instances where ConfigAutoDownload.exe gets hung from time to time. It's happend a few times during periods of normal change activity within our environment, and it happens every time we use Cirrus to make a mass change. When it happens, it just sits there and ties up CPU resources until…

There has been a lot of talk about integrating Cirrus and Orion, and I'm hoping this will take care of the issue of them being disparate as far as the managed device lists. Personally, I would like to see them share a common SQL database, but I'm not sure if they're going down that road or not. ~Vic

Yeap. Unfortunately, that's how it works. Orion gives you the flexibility to administratively assign TX and RX speeds for interfaces. When it discovers a bw change on an interface, it doesn't automatically update it in the database. It would be nice if there was a check box in the interface details views within System…

quote:Originally posted by charlesdf23 We are having the same exact issue. Having to add each individual user is getting real old. Once again, documentation is wrong. We use the domain\everyone account as described in the Admin Guide, and it works quite well for us.

Thanks for the feedback, John. So far, this sounds like the release that will finally get us into the V8 arena.

We also tried going down the service account path, but found that the only way to get the Configuration Wizard to run the database piece was to use the SA account. I'm no SQL guy, but from what I've seen, it seems that when the Config Wizard is run, it checks to make sure that it is "GOD" on the SQL server before…

The syslog entries are logged in the SQL database, so wherever it resides is where the syslog info will land. Where is your SQL DB now?

Wow! Average disk queue length around 16... That's not good. Do you have transaction logs and data on the same RAID 5 array? We had some odd SQL connection issues at one time when we were running on lesser hardware and even on better hardware when sharing an instance with other databases. As far as the CPU usage, are…

Miron, Open your report in Report Writer. From the Design window, select "Field Formatting". Select the field in question, and you should see a place for the "Web URL". Here, you will need to plug in the URL to the page in question, and use the correct variable for the target element. For instance, below is a URL from one…

I'm curious about this as well.

This has been requested quite often, and If I recall correctly, SW has stated that they are working towards being able to provide this functionality.

Micah, Web performance has been an issue for us as well. We are in the process of building a beefier box to which we can move the web server, but in the meantime we have streamlined our views in order to reduce the load times. The resource on our views that is the biggest CPU hog is the "Node List". For our larger views…

OK, that's a little freaky. We haven't used basic alerts for quite some time, but we didn't have this issue in the past. Is there any chance you could migrate to advanced alerts instead? They are much more versatile, and the ability to link them to custom properties can greatly simplify alert management. Also, the use…

Try changing "Login.asp?" to "Login.asp&".

Did you try ${IP}? I believe that's correct when dealing with basic alerts.

Bryan, From what I understand, each NPM instance can only map to a single NCM server at this time, and the plan is to incorporate NCM into EOC in the relative short-term. Longer term, NCM will most likely have the same "remote collector" architecture as NPM SLX, which should allow customers to consolidate discreet NCM…

Chris, I believe the value you seek is "TriggerTimeStamp" in the "AlertStatus" table. Have you tried using this? You may have to use ${SQL:{query}}... ~ Vic

Chris, I believe this has been mentioned before, and that your assessment is correct. I'm not sure if this is viewed as a problem, or simply a matter of semantics. There may be those who want to be notified when outages that occurred during business hours have been resolved, regardless of when it occurs. I agree with you…

I wanna plaaaaay!!! :) We actually had some issues with the VoIP module during our evaluation, so I'm curious to see if they have been resolved. We would really like to have a product that provides this functionality, but I just didn't feel like v1 was done on both sides. :(

quote:Originally posted by cliu Vic, Ok, it took some digging, but I found that under the List Resources option. Thank you. -Chris Oh, I guess I could have mentioned that... Vic Cato Technical Lead - Network Operations Georgia Pacific

Check in System Manager to make sure that you have it configured to collect "Interface Error Charts" and "Interface Traffic Charts" for that interface. Vic Cato Technical Lead - Network Operations Georgia Pacific

NG, No, it's still in 8.5.1. I can't explain the maps, but I imagine some of the icons and gifs are used in displaying the local GUI's like System Manager, as well as for the shortcuts on the Start menu and such. Also, I was told that some of the dotnet files are used in some way (how, I don't know).

A new feature was added to 8.5 which will automatically update interface speeds upon detecting a change. They also added a checkbox allowing you to tell it to not dynamically change the speeds of interfaces where you have administratively assigned the speeds. During the upgrade process, it reverts to the discovered BW for…

As a matter of practical policy, when we upgrade to a newer release, we always upgrade the Orion host server and all additional polling engines at the same time. Not knowing the details of all changes that are made with each update, we assume it best to keep everything consistent across our entire Orion installation.…

There's really no way to change the poll rate (in bulk) for a particular group of devices, short of possibly using a direct SQL query. However, you can make a change to all monitored devices from within System Manager. If you have less than 1500 devices that you want to poll more frequently, it may be easier to change the…

We overcome the port state issue by limiting which interfaces are presented in particular views. We don't currently monitor workstation connections on access switches, but we have the same issue with server ports on server farm switches. Our group is primarily concerned with network infrastructure ports; however we do…

Kenneth, can you be a little more specific about what you're trying to do? What alert actions have you configured for the syslog rule, and what would you like to have represented on the Orion web site, and where (summary view, node details view, etc)? ~ Vic

This can come in handy. Thanks for posting. One thing I would like to do is add an "If" statement that only displays the marquee if there is text in the SiteLoginText field, otherwise this consumes some space at the top of the page even if there is no message to relay. I could easily do this with classic ASP, but…

Zikona, The particular file in question (C:\Program Files\SolarWinds\Network Performance Monitor V7\SWNetPerfMon.DB\SWNetPerfMon.DB) contains parameters used to connect to the database. If yours is missing or corrrupt, I believe you should be able to re-run the Configuration Wizard to resolve it.

We are doing some similar things...Kinda... Our group (Network Services) is operationally responsible for all network infrastructure components in each of our data centers and associated campuses, as well as for all remote routers, but we are only responsible for LAN devices at remote facilities for business units that…