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good- I've heard Netsuite is running a little sluggish today. Must be a network problem... Sorry Mark. I couldn't help it. Seems like it's "dog-pile on SW week"... :)

I would really love to see a CiscoWorks IPM-like product built into Orion utilizing Cisco SLA where you can set up ping/tcp tests between any devices like 2 ends of a serial connection. BB I agree. I believe they are looking at implementing a similar mechanism for measuring synthetic VoIP traffic, but I don't know the…

Just for the record, we're building a fresh installation of Orion 8.5.1 in our production data center, and so far we have not had any real issues with website performance in general. Generally speaking, there doesn't seem to be any difference in web performance for any of our views, as compared with our experiences…

 I would definitely say that the website access in 8.5.1 is slower than in 8.1. Mark or Denny, There seems to be a number of people in this (and other) posts who have noted a significant difference in web performance for 8.5.1. I understand that there were some major changes to the web site, so have you been able to…

My comments mirror those of NG. One of the most appealing aspects of Orion is how receptive it is to customization. Though it requires some work to re-apply customizations following an upgrade, the benefits afforded by these modifications, and the associated increase in operational efficiency, more than makes up for the…

What I would really like to see is "who's logged in NOW". This would be very beneficial when performing maintenance and making intrusive changes to the app.

Thanks Denny. I do appreciate your response. Following Tim Danner's suggestion, I think I have a solution for the ones that populate the "InterfaceAlias" in the database by scheduling a SQL job to run the following query on a regular basis. UPDATE Interfaces SET Caption = '', FullName = '' WHERE (InterfaceAlias <> '') The…

I agree that manually configuring alert suppression, especially in larger environments, is cumbersome at best. On the other hand, I also have a basic understanding of the potential complexities involved with building an intelligent dependency discovery and tracking mechanism. Maybe someday this will be included in Orion,…

See my latest post on the following thread. Not sure if it applies to anyone else, but maybe it will help someone... :)

The short answer is yes. Guess my answer was too long. :(

Larry, The advanced alerting engine will do what you're looking for. You can easily set it up based on text in the interface description, or assigned custom properties. That's the beauty of advanced alerts. Hopefully, you're running v8.1 with the latest hot fixes, as this is said to provide the most reliability as far as…

Well, POO!!! Something I noticed is that I don't see all the same comm strings in the drop-down box on all of our polling engines. In fact, one engine that currently has no assigned devices doesn't have any comm strings in the list. So, wherever it's getting them, it's not the same list for all engines. Is it possible that…

Finally tried it out. Very nice work, Tim. This is a real solution to something that's been a problem since we first installed Orion in 2005. No longer does one have to suffer through the lag time associated with loading a large device list. Hopefully we can look forward to other performance enhancing solutions like this…

The report includes a status icon, the node name, and the text associated with the custom property. I'm trying to attach a zip file to this message which should have everything you need to make this happen, if you so choose. Within the zip file, you will find a snapshot of what it looks like on the web, a copy of the…

There are a few things lacking in the new "Search" resources, as compared to the classic asp resources they replaced. I plan to write something of my own to restore them to their pre 8.5.1 usefulness.

Yeah, that's the drawback to doing it this way... I've been playing around with the possibility of using the toolset integration popup menu to include options with links to node details views, but the XML parser doesn't seem to like the "&" in the URL. Or at least I couldn't figure out how to make it work. I'm a failure...…

You're welcome, and I agree it would be nice to have. Perhaps there could be a check-box in the interface detail within System Manager to denote the special handling of these interfaces..?

You can create one stored procedure to encompass all devices, or only what's filtered via a WHERE statement. Then, you set it up as a scheduled SQL job that runs as often as you would like.

How do we access old forum topics? Topic 2061 showed how to do custom scripting to accomplish this with a mouse rollover (I think)... http://www.solarwinds.net/SolarWindsForum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2061&SearchTerms=web,page,script I believe this was just to achieve the pop-up graph via mouse rollover, but not for multiple…

 Yeah, but does 8.1 have the "no alerting on Sunday" hotfix? From what I understand from others, this has been resolved. I hope to have the time to begin testing 8.1 in our lab within the next week or so.

Well, since we're not collecting the same info as you, and I don't know the exact syntax of your URL, I'll just take a SWAG at it. The best test I was able to perform with it in our environment was to pull a value from one of our custom pollers, insert it into an iframe URL within a custom resource on a node details view,…

As to the future, if we were to re-write the poller, we would almost certainly make it multi-threaded. Do you want this so that you could get more polls out of given poller? If I say "yes", does that mean you'll be more hesitant to do it, since you won't sell as many polling engine licenses? Just kidding... Kinda... :) As…

 Thanks. Will this be fixed in a new release? Don't know. I'm not sure SW views this as a "problem". I'm guessing that maybe the original intent was to only have one "summary" view per menu bar, though you can really add as many as you want. If there's only one summary view on a given user's menu bar, then naturally you…

We have the same issue, and have since first enabling RTCD with v4.0. I opened a support ticket a while back, worked with Support, and the last correspondence I had with them was pointing to a potential issue with the patch level on my SQL server. To be honest, I haven't looked any further into it, since we plan to upgrade…

Report Writer will give you a single value (current, average over time, peak), but not a graph as you mentioned. If you're looking for a graph similar to those found in the interface details views, that's another story. I suppose one could write a web resource to display an interface graph on a summary or node details…

You may also want to try just ${Caption}. I'm not sure you actually need to specify the table. Can you export the alert def to a file and post it here?

If you are trying to create an "inventory report" within Report Writer, it doesn't have a mechanism to associate data collected via the custom mib poller to a device. I imagine this is by design, as there are many factors involved based on the type of data being collected, and the simplest approach is to park it in its own…

Yeap... I can't post anything unless I use the "plain text" editor, which removes all the carriage returns. Not real happy with the new forum so far...

Jackie, You should be able to create a new report to show current CPU and memory usage by selecting a report type of "Current Status of Nodes, Interfaces, etc.", and then selecting the desired criteria. I've attached a sample report for CPU and memory utilization, as well as one for current interface utilization. Feel free…

Gene, First of all, what version of Orion are you running? If it's 8.1, do you have all the hot fixes installed? There are some known issues with advanced alerts prior to v8.1, and from what I understand, they have been resolved in 8.1. As for the alert itself, it sounds like you have it configured correctly. Feel free to…