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Mark, I appreciate the info, but I don't really even know how to spell ASP. I just know enough to be dangerous. Besides, they are looking for someone with "excellent communications skills". I ain't got nunna that. :(

What flavor of SQL are you using? You can change it in Enterprise Manager if using SQL Standard or Enterprise Edition. You could also use Custom Property Editor to create a new cp with the target name, then highlight, copy, and paste all the values in the existing cp into the new one. Then you can delete the old one, if…

Do you know how to view the specific ifindex for each port in IOS? Try "show snmp mib ifmib ifindex".

OK... I'm now working on installing and configuring Cirrus on our production server, and I just went through the whole 1900 "exercise" again. In our particular environment, we have 3 models of 1900's (1900, 1900c, and 1900 Lite FX). In the attached zip file, you will find a device template file that I modified to work for…

SolarWinds, Any thoughts on this?

Also, for some reason I can't open the simple example. It just shows up as blank for me... :( Had to save it to my machine locally and then I could open it.. :/

One year of detailed data... OUCH!!!... Maybe... Well I'll throw my thoughts out there. There are a few things I would wonder: * How many interfaces are we talking about? * What are your polling and statistics collection rates? * If your reports are slow now, what are your current server specs? Here's what comes to mind: *…

Chris, Yes... A report showing startup vs running mismatches is a must have. Too often people make changes, forget to commit them to nvram, the device reloads for whatever reason, and the changes are gone. A quick, at-a-glance report that points these out would be helpful. Of course one could always schedule a job to…

The ability to give a reason when an alert and/or event was acknowledged would be very helpful. It would be nice to have a set of convenient reasons in a drop down list (that is configurable) but also have an "Other" option that allowed manual entry of reason for an outage. The ability to then report on those outages with…

Yeap. It worked in 7.8.5, but not in 8.5.1. I posed this as a question in one of my cases as well.

FYI - I MUST specify the server name within the login credentials. Just specifying the username results in a failure. That bites... I guess you'll have to keep this in mind if you ever move/rename your NPM host server.

NG, We ran into problems in the past where if you had a lot of changes to make and ran Sys Man on the remote poller, it pretty much sucked the lights out of it and experienced sporadic gaps in collection data. Once we were able to run it from the NPM server, the problems went away. I haven't had 8.5.1 running long enough,…

Gene, Are you sure you haven't configured a delay on either the "Reset Condition" or the "Reset Action"? Also, have you seen the "Outage Duration" report (see attached)? You may be able to manipulate this report to show exactly what you're looking for.

Perhaps if one day the functionality of LANsurveyor and/or Cirrus is incorporated into Orion, by virtue of having knowledge of device dependencies, a truly dynamic mechanism for alert suppression can be achieved. Someday, I would like to see many of the SW applications merge into a single, cohesive toolset, allowing for a…

Tim, I may try IE8 on my desktop and see if that helps. IE is our corporate standard, but I'm not sure that v8 has been adopted yet. I might also sneak Firefox on there and give it a go as well. :) Denny, I hope I didn't come across as saying I think you should support two solutions going forward, as I understand that…

Cool.. In most cases, this works well, but if in time you start adding more and more custom resources along with vastly differing target audiences, the security implications may quickly over-run this methodology's ability to scale. Once that happens, you may need to implement a custom security mechanism of some sort to…

Thanks Jrutski. Are you looking at Windows Task Manager? I've seen issues in the past where Task Manager doesn't accurately represent memory usage for SQL instances, particularly if you have the instance configured to use more than 2GB of RAM.

Tim, Thanks for sharing this. I'll have to play around with this a little and see if I can figure out how to expand on it. Also, for some reason I can't open the simple example. It just shows up as blank for me... :( One of the biggest benefits to Orion is the ability to customize the website, and even though you guys are…

I would be interested in the code you used to add comments to interfaces as well. Could you post that as well? NG... Sure thing, I'll do my best to put it together within the next few days. I put a little something together explaining how to edit custom properties for interfaces via the web and placed it here, in the…

I'll attach the resources that we use when I get to the office tomorrow morning.

I was kinda hoping that multithreading would be rolled into the changes to the poller that are required to make the upcoming web administration possible. Wishful thinking... :(

Thanks a bunch... :) I had everything but the "string.Format(" and the ", node.NetObjectID)". I'm too stupid to learn asp.net. :) Oh, and if anyone else wants to use this, it should be "View=NodeDetails&NetObject", not "View=NodeDetails&NetObjectID" (drop the "ID"). :)

I think what we really need is the ability to add a custom SQL query string as a condition I agree. Don't know when, but I see it as a key feature. Denny, If I reply 100 times to this thread, asking for this feature, will that raise the sense of urgency and help get it into the product more quickly? :)

another minor change but int he same space would be to allow a Custom property field be called from the "email To, CC and BCC" field int he action tab. I would then be able to assign Node contacts as a custom property and not have to separate out the devices in alerts etc. You should be able to do this today. We use this…

Cool. So I guess I'll have to find another job in a year or so... I is tu stooped ta lern nuthn nu... :)

Yes, the servers we are currently staging are traversing a firewall to get reach the majority of systems that it is managing, as we are moving in the direction of becoming a service provider for a number of discreet companies beneath our parent company. I don't personally work on the firewalls on a day to day basis, but…

I don't believe they are available for eval. They are listed on the on-line price sheet in the "Orion Network Performance Monitor" section as "Additional SLX Polling Engine" at a cost of $13,975.

Guess it's time for me to start looking for another job. :( Perhaps I can sell popsicles on a beach somewhere... :)

Is there a way to create a second column for the second custom poller. The reason is to see if the other custom poller picked up any serial numbers that the first poller was unable to. Well, try something like this. It's basically the same query, but I named the first mib value "Value1", and added another column labeled…

I've been having some problems responding to the emails from Support that are supposed to update the cases. On several occasions, my responses show up as a blank message on your end, and I have no idea why that would happen. Here's the last update I sent, but I never heard any feedback. *** snip I’ve been doing a few…