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So if an Orion report allowed you to exclude a set of "outage" times for specific nodes/interface would that solve your problem? Denny, I would also want to include a reason for the outage, and it would need to remain in the database long after the original "event" was purged.

I've been throwing around some ideas of how to do something similar, but just haven't had time to try to make it happen. In our situation, I would like to have a way to timestamp outages of a certain duration or greater, along with the cause of the outage, and have this info remain in the database for an extended period of…

We don't use the "All Nodes" resource, but we do use the "Node List - Custom grouping and filtering". This one has always been the problem for us, and we've not yet moved to 8.x. It proved to be so highly impacting that we replaced the resource on the various summary views with a link so that it would only become a factor…

Thanks for the feedback. :)

I'd like to cast my vote for SP3. PWEEEEEZ!!! :) The "next release" sounds like it might take longer. :(

Denny, I think I have to agree with Videotech on this one. Orion itself is licensed based on the maximum number of elements you wish to monitor. Shouldn't the same principle apply to the add-on modules? Shouldn't each additional function be licensed based on the maximum number of devices or elements to which one wishes to…

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.

This is great. I was wondering if this would get rolled into the next release. I look forward to seeing more innovations like this. :)

Thats odd. I created a new alert that triggers when the CPU utilization is greater than 1 on a device matching a particular custom property in our environment while using your trigger action (with my email address), and it worked. Actually, it named the device 3 times; once for each of the variables. Also, it put the "%"…

V4 seems exceptionally slow when loading and selecting devices from the device list. We currently have a little less than 2,000 devices, node monitoring is disabled, and our server hardware should be more than suitable to handle the task. One thing I've noticed is that Cirrus doesn't appear to be mutli-threaded. This is…

I haven't looked into this yet, as we are still getting our 9.1 instance off the ground, but I thought the following notation in the release notes for SP3 for 9.1 was quite interesting. "- Custom property values may now be defined using variables, or macros, following the ${VARIABLE} format." Depending on how these values…

We do not use it and have also removed it from all of our menu bars. As others have stated, it's not as useful in larger environments with thousands of monitored devices, and we prefer to just see the things of interest. Most of our views are set up primarily to show areas of trouble (or potential trouble), but we also…

Hmmmm... Based on your description of your node details view, it doesn't sound like it should take an exceptional amount of time to load. Of course, it also depends on which charts you're loading and the time period associated them. I've attached a snapshot of the resources we have on our default node details view and it…

Well, in 8.5.1, the "Edit Custom Node Property" and "Edit Custom Interface Property" resources are among the very few that have been converted to the new ASP.Net code base. It was my experience that trying to use the "Allow Event Clearing" mechanism to secure these new resources had absolutely no affect. The good news is…

Hmmmmm... OK. :) Thanks, Denny.

Yeap... I certainly don't claim to be an HTML expert (not by a long shot), but I was just playing around with this a little. One way to do it (dealing with summary views) would be to add a "Custom HTML or Text" resource to whichever view you would like, and include something like the following code. Naturally, you will…

Disk space requirements for netflow collection engines will vary depending on the vendor and various factors, but they can consume a HUGE amount of disk space, as well as CPU resources. We don't use the SW module for our netflow needs, but in our particular case, we're currently consuming a little over 100 GB of disk space…

I'm using IE6 SP1. I've tried setting things back to defaults, but the only thing that works is "plain text".

Jackie, Have a look at the following post. It provides a little insight into how you might go about having multiple graphs of differing element types on the same summary view. This is by no means the only way to do it, but it's pretty straightforward and simple. The question that comes to mind when I think about your…

That's odd. I had it working when we did the eval. We recently purchased Cirrus and have not yet installed it on our production server, but once we do, I'll provide an update with the specifics. It's been a few months, but I seem to recall creating a specific profile for the 1900's which included the appropriate commands…

You could also create a different node details view for the folks you want to see the config listing resource, and change their accounts to use that view.

Cool... So how about something like this: <span class="content"> <%=GetUsername()%> (<a href="">thwack.solarwinds.com/.../Logout.aspx">log out</a>) <br> Logged in Since: <%=Profile.LastLogin %> </span> Tim, you're the man... :)

Uh, oh... That's not good. :( Didn't see that one coming and I'm out of ideas at the moment... We aren't load-balancing, so this never even crossed my mind. I'm sure there are those out there who are, so does anyone have a workaround? I agree that this definitely shouldn't be the default behavior. :/

Thanks, Chris. Is it just a matter of creating these fields in the database? I may go give it a try and see what happens. :)

jrutski, Good to see you're still around... This is one of my biggest questions as well.

Cool... One "gotcha" I see with that has to do with monitored switch ports that are Up/Down. For instance, we actively monitor all switch ports on our server farm switches for trending and performance reasons, but we (Network Services) don't act on server ports that go down, as the servers are controlled by another group,…

Gene, Glad to see you got it working. As for triggering "on status change", if the normal state is"Up", did you try setting it to trigger when status is not equal to Up. I'm not sure if that will trigger for each change, or just the initial transition. I'm guessing it may only do it for the initial transition.

Same issue here.

When I first started playing around with it, I was in "tinker" mode and didn't want to toy with the "real" accounts table. Also, I want to build a web app for changing the permissions, as opposed to doing it directly in SQL, and I'd rather get that worked out before intgrating it into the accounts table. So, the plan is to…

Thanks Denny.This is good to know.