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Pampas, It sounds like you may need to have a look at the "Custom Property Editor". Information such as you mentioned above can be associated with nodes, interfaces, and/or volumes through the CPE, and can be displayed and filtered upon in a number of ways. As for how to input the data, those who have direct access to the…

You can pass credentials in the URL like so: AccountID=user&Password=pw

How do you have your conditions configured? If you are only suppressing if the parent is "down", you may want to consider including the "warning" state as well. Depending on where your devices are in the polling order, you may have child objects flagged as "down", while the parent is still noted as being in a "warning"…

Have you tried to rerun the config wizard? What account are you using to login? It almost sounds like the account you're using doesn't have a menu bar assigned in the DB (why, I don't know). Is there another account you can try, like maybe the default admin account?

Jluke, The times that a device is scheduled to be unmanaged and managed are stored in the Nodes table as "UnManageFrom" and "UnManageUntil". You should be able to easily create a custom SQL report in Report Writer to show when a device is/was "scheduled" to be unmanaged/managed, but remember that this is only good until…

Thanks for the info, Josh. I know some comments about the roadmap for Orion have been quite sharp lately, and it's good to see that SW is listening to the concerns of customers. You truly have a great product, and with the news of the pending release of V8 and the Netflow module, it sounds like it's about to get a lot…

Bill, There are many elements that play a role in performance. Here are some questions I would ask of your installation: * Are you running SQL Express, Standard, or Enterprise? * How many of each type of elements are you monitoring? * How big is your database? * What are your polling and statistics collection rates? * What…

Check out the "Updated Requirements" section on the following page. http://www.solarwinds.com/support/Orion/docs/ReleaseNotes/releaseNotes.htm

I don't believe so. Graphs require some historical data, which is not stored for "polling completion percentage".

Dirty, How about trying something like this: Backup interface status: ${SQL:SELECT CASE Status WHEN 0 THEN 'Unknown' WHEN 1 THEN 'Up' WHEN 2 THEN 'Down' WHEN 3 THEN 'Warning' WHEN 4 THEN 'Shutdown' END FROM Interfaces WHERE NodeID = '${NodeID}' AND InterfaceName = 'Tunnel1'} I played around with this quite a bit in our…

You should be able to do this with a SQL query in your trigger action. Is there some commonality to the interface names (are they all tunnel1, or something) or some other mechanism by which you can query the other interface on the same device? If there is, I'll take a shot at building the query for you.

Snowjay, Were you able to get your code to work with "Edit Custom Property"? I've tried it, but can't seem to get it to work. I don't know much about coding, but I did the best I could based on what little I do understand, and I also tried going through SW Support, but didn't get anywhere. Thanks, Vic

Miron, If it's web-based, you should be able to place a "Custom HTML or Text" resource on the desired view, and wrap your URL inside an inline frame within the resource. Try placing the following into your new "Custom HTML or Text" resource. Just replace URL with your actual URL (inside the quotation marks), and adjust the…

I don't believe so. At least I don't see a way to uninstall it. Your best bet may be to make a copy of your SolarWinds and InetPub\SolarWinds directories and hope for the best. If something goes wrong, at least you can restore the files back to a known working configuration. Of course that doesn't cover any registry…

I ran into the same problem with "function". To get around it, I used "DV_Function" for device function and "IF_Function" for interface function. That might not exactly be the workaround you wanted, but it works.

We have seen some similar issues related to GRE tunnels, where if you delete and re-add them to the router config, they stop reporting via SNMP. Subsequently, the only way to resolve it is to reload the router. That's a bit different from your situation, but still weird none the less.

We handle our APC UPS traps via Custom SQL reports. Below is an example query to show which devices have sent traps within the last 24 hours with battery-related issues. Not sure what brand of UPS you are using, so I don't know if these are the correct variables in the WHERE clause, but you get the idea. You will likely…

I remember getting an email a while back stating that they were going to begin charging a maintenance fee for the wireless management packs, and I seem to think they may have mentioned that there would be additional changes as well, but I can't exactly recall. I actually learned of the exact cost of our next renewal as a…

Josch, I feel your pain. Based on the new pricing model, and the fact that the Wireless Management Packs now have an annual maintenance cost, the cost of our next renewal will increase by 275%. When I asked SW about it, the response was that the pricing was being adjusted to more closely align with industry standards,…

Hey Chris, Well, you can change the MachineType to anything you want, but unfortunately it will be overwritten, as this is something that's collected and updated during the scheduled node rediscovery. You're right about the desired use of custom properties... Would be nice.

If you are pointing syslog messages from the switches in question to Orion, you could certainly set up a syslog rule to watch for these messages and trigger an email action.

SQL will pretty much consume all the memory that's allocated to it. Personally, I would like a minimum of 8GB of RAM (with 6GB allocated to SQL) for 10,000 or so elements with SQL 2005/Win2003 (64/64).

quote:Originally posted by josh@solarwinds.net What MIBs are you hoping to import into Orion? Specifically, we're looking for information on: 1. Types of devices that you want to monitor 2. Stats that you want to collect/monitor 3. OIDs that you're trying to collect from Thanks, Josh Stephens SolarWinds.Net Josh, Are you…

Eric, Can you be a little more specific about exactly what you are trying to do? Are you looking for a report showing the availability of all 90 routers for the last 30 days, last month, etc? Vic Cato Technical Lead - Network Operations Georgia Pacific

Herwig, What if you try the following? BTW, when I built this, I first did it the way you had it, but decided to use the custom SQL instead. When I first changed it, it wouldn't allow me to save it, as it was complaining about an incomplete trigger condition. To resolve this, I had to delete the alert altogether and add it…

Given a choice between the two options presented, I would have to go with #1. Keeping the OS separated on their own pair of disks (RAID 1), and the other 6 as a RAID 10 array for the DB should provide a significant improvement in performance given the obvious differences in the current and new hardware. Of course, that is…

Chris, if you're running v8.x of Orion, you should be able to set up a custom mib poller to collect this data. We have not yet upgraded to v8, so I can't answer your question specifically, but perhaps there's someone else out there who can... ~ Vic

I'm curious about this as well. I just figured it's beta, so It'll get fixed sooner or later.

Colin, We are using the 6704's for core interconnects, as well as core to server farm interconnects, and Orion handles them quite nicely. We are currently running Orion v7.7. FYI... Depending on the code you are running on your switches, you may run into a cosmetic bug, where the ints on the 6704's falsely report giants.…

We have the same problem of no alerts on Sundays, but we're still running 7.8.5.