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Marcy, OK, here's the poop... After looking and thinking about it a bit, I don't believe you're going to be able to configure exactly what you're looking for with an advanced alert alone; or at least I couldn't figure out how to make it happen. The problem lies with the fact that in this scenario, a calculation needs to be…

OH, you're gonna make me THINK!!! :) I think we can do something like that. If you're primarily targeting errors related to oversubscription, I would think you want to track TX Discards, but if you're looking for carrier or physical level problems, I would think you want to track RX Errors. Just my thoughts... I'll see…

Yes, that's what I meant to say... Ordering of columns within the tables... :) All you have to do is right-click on a table from within Enterprise Manager (ex. Nodes), then select "Design Table". From within this view, you can select the column to be moved by clicking on the little box beside a column that you want to…

Now, what would really be nice is the ability to search arp/cam/mac tables from the website. In addition... Have a report viewable from the website that shows basically the equivalent of a Switch Port Mapper output. This would be HUGE for us, as it could seriously reduce the number of cases we get from the server folks…

Did anyone ever get a resolution for this? Though it doesn't appear to be causing an issue for us, we are seeing the same thing with a new install of v5.5.1. It would be nice to clean up the error messages though.

Since the trigger and the rearm are actually noted separately in the database, you may be seeing both in your output. What happens if you add "and ActionDefinitions.TriggerAction = 1" to your WHERE statement? This will only show the entries associated with the trigger action. Also, you said you only have one target…

Response time between the NPM and SQL servers plays a huge role. While there are those who have had varying degrees of success with a distributed architecture over higher speed links with ~30ms response times (T3, OC3, OC12, etc.), it's generally not reccommended.

We wanna play too...

When the site was first brought up, some people had issues with their posts not working correctly, and the suggestion was to use "Lean and Green". I assume these issues have been resolved...? I must say that I have to echo the sentiments about the name of the site, as well as the dark theme, but "light" doesn't seem to be…

Oh yeah... Guess I forgot to mention that little detail. :) You always want to include the variables you have in the URL as variables in the report as well. If you don't want them to be visible, you can always hide them from being displayed in the report itself.

I am using Orion Version 7.8 and i added the ArubaOS (MODEL: Aruba2400), Version 2.4.0.4 wirless controler but it does not show the access point and clients i dont have knowlege about MIBs please help me on this How to install the MIBs and where i can find where to install mib that mens in to solawind server or aruba…

I'm sorry about the loss of your custom settings. We have realized that this was the wrong way to implement this new feature. Starting with 8.5.1, upgrades from pre-8.5 will treat all existing interface bandwidth values as custom and not overwrite them. It's too late to save the custom settings for users who upgraded to…

WINNT, We have written a "Site Database" application that we use to store info about all of our sites. Another user on the forum (jrutski) shared some code with me that he had written, and we based our app off of his code. It's web-based and viewable directly on the Orion web site. In fact, it dynamically derives some of…

The NPM server (or polling engine) stores some information locally about the devices it monitors, while other bits of info are only stored on the SQL server. I'm not sure if these particular SNMP values are included in what's kept locally, but if so, I've seen issues where there is an inconsistency between the info stored…

Denny, We are about to make some significant upgrades to our Orion implementation, and as part of that, we are considering the purchase of a Hot Standby Engine. Unfortunately, I was unable to find any official documentation detailing its true capabilities. As a result, I spent several hours looking through each and every…

I've seen something similar, whereby some resources would suddenly fail to display, display incorrectly/partially, or an error message would be displayed in its place. I've experienced this with both 7.8.5 and 8.5.1. In my case, it appeared to be related to a memory leak in the website. Once the memory consumption reached…

We are not running the Application Monitor, so perhaps someone else in Thwackville can help. The only suggestion I can offer in the meantime is to exclude the nodes in question from the alert.

Kenneth, The "Active Alerts" resource displays alerts generated by the alerting engine, not the syslog server. Furthermore, I'm not sure what version of Orion you are running, but prior to v8, the "Active Alerts" resource only displayed alerts generated by the "basic" alerting engine, and not the "advanced" alerting…

Aaron, I wouldn't say that there's anything really special about the views that we created for our various business units and such, but the idea behind providing access to multiple customers is to come up with a formula that works, and hopefully make it "cookie-cutter". In our case, what we did was create a view with all…

We haven't noticed any problems with 8.5.1 automatically adjusting speeds on multilink interfaces when changes are made. Are you saying that yours isn't detecting the changes? Do you have bandwidth statements configured on your router interfaces, and were they adjusted when the speeds changed?

Well, POO!!! I had everything but the "!string"... Thanks Tim. :)

There is a new job called "Import Devices from Orion Database". This allows you to point to an Orion NPM database and setup a scheduled import of devices. This would allow you to add a device to NPM and then on next scheduled import, have this device appear in NCM. Chris, I thought it was determined that this was broken…

Yes, I agree that enabling customizable queries would further empower those like yourself. I envision having people create alerts and share them with everyone in the Content Sharing Zone. This way everyone can have access to them and be able to take advantage of the collective efforts and abilities of the community. Maybe…

Are you really only looking for the duration in minutes for the outage that just occurred to be included in the reset email? Using a derivative of the example above would tell you the duration of every outage associated with the device in question for the last 30 days instead of simply the one that just occurred. At any…

Chris, this has been brought up before, and I don't believe it can be done within Orion natively. The only way I've been able to come up with to make this work is to create a custom property, then create a SQL job to copy the value from the database field you want to track into this new custom property field. Then, using a…

You're certainly welcome. There's no way to change the polling order, but then you really shouldn't need to do so. If your objective is to suppress alerts for a particular group of nodes that are dependent upon another device, then the alert should be configured to trigger when a child node is flagged as "down", and…

Please tell Denny "THE COMMUNITY HATH SPOKEN!!!" :P

Yeah, I know this is something that they have on the radar. If we only had the ability to change the value of a custom property as an advanced alert action, then we could make this work. Though it wouldn't be scalable, and wouldn't be as pretty as having the app make intelligent decisions with regard to alerting based on…

Miron, Rather than adding a "Custom HTML or Text" resource to your view(s), and then editing it to include the code of choice, you can create your own resource that already has the code snip within. This saves some time if you have a significant number of views to which you want to add a particular function, and also acts…

Here is the original post to which he's referring, and yeap, it works quite well. Here's the actual trigger (posted by KBASH). CREATE TRIGGER [trg_CalcMinUp] ON dbo.Nodes FOR INSERT, UPDATE AS DECLARE @NodeID AS int SET @NodeID = (SELECT NODEID FROM INSERTED) UPDATE NODES SET MINUTESUP = (SELECT SYSTEMUPTIME/60 AS…