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If you want to allow drill-down to local maps, you could add them as well, or even build an HTML MAP. I wanted access to all the content on the Weather Service site, so I wrapped the image in a link tag, with the magic target="_New" attribute so it pops in a new window. The result looks like this: <a href="<a…

We are quite new to Cirrus, as we are just now beginning to play around with the eval, and we are seriously considering making a purchase. My concern with putting it on the same server with Orion is the fact that the security piece of Cirrus doesn't have the flexibility and granularity that we would like; such as being…

To piggyback on what mschwarz said, if you are running in hybrid mode and added the switch via an IP address that resides on the MSFC (L3 engine), then you will see what you described (VLAN interfaces only). In this case, what you want to do is make sure you are using the IP address of the switching engine (SC0 interface),…

Don, I can't see your links, but it sounds like you're using the suppression mechanism from within the action itself, instead of the alert condition. This only delays the actions, not the trigger. I suspect you need to clear this, go to your "Trigger Condition", click on the "Advanced Settings" check-box at the bottom, and…

To take it a step further, I would like to have the ability to have a resource span multiple columns. For example, it would be nice to have a map (or some other resource) that spans 2 or 3 columns at the top, then the other resources represented in those 2 or 3 individual columns below. I don't ask for much... :)

Our direction is to move most functionality to the web. As we add to the web console, we will start to remove functionality from System Manager because System Manager was written a long time ago when the options in code with limited user interface options. Contemporary web consoles offer far richer options, so that's where…

Thanks Mark. That's good to know.

We have 8.5.1 SP3 in production and have not had this problem. Ours updates the web resources with new names when we update interface descriptions on IOS-based devices. The only problem we have had is in the case of some devices (such as 6500's), whereby if you remove an interface description, Orion will update with the…

In any case, the DB in V8.1 cannot read the 7.8.5 DB, so the only way to do this is upgrade the old server & DB to 8.1, before moving it onto the new hardware. Once you have successfully upgraded your old server & DB to 8.1 & have tested it from the web GUI, backup the DB & restore it on your new 8.1 DB server. NG, Have…

I assume this setting (along with many others) will someday find its way onto an "Admin" page on the website..?

Thanks, Tim. I was afraid that would be the case. For now, I've resorted to using an ASP resource, but will see if I can build a new ASP.NET resource from scratch that will do what I want. I'm pretty sure I can do it, but the piece thaty concerns me is getting the util bars to display. I'll play around with it when I have…

Heres what we've seen... Our previous SQL server was a clustered pair of SAN attached, dual processor HP DL380-G3's (with hyper-threading) with 8 GB of RAM (Win2000 and SQL Server 2000). One server in the cluster was hosting only the Orion instance, and it had 4 GB of RAM allocated to it. We were running Orion v7.8.5 at…

Jon, we just have a view in Orion with one giant green icon for management to see. That's aaaaaall they need to know... :)

If I understand you correctly, you want to have a resource on the node details views of your remote locations that shows the associated netflow statistics, which are actually collected from another device. I assume you are using the Orion netflow module, and not a product from another vendor. I'm not intimately familiar…

Three years ago SolarWinds support gave me a special suppression dll that allows for suppressing a node based on the status of a node specified in a custom property. OK... If you're saying what I think you're saying, I've been trying to figure out how to do this very thing. Are you saying that this mechanism allows you to…

Clint, I noticed your question was marked as "answered", but if you still want me to post more detail, just let me know.

We had this issue pop up with another device today, so we did a little digging, and here's what we found. First off, our new Orion instance is behind a firewall cluster, so we have to traverse it to reach all the devices we monitor. This is a departure from our previous configuration where the Orion servers resided in the…

Duh, I guess that's what advanced alerts are for. funny how that works Oh... I thought you were asking for a way to designate which interfaces to "monitor" (include as monitored elements), which is different from which ones to alert upon. :)

The easiest way would be to rename it through SQL Server Management Studio. Of course, you could use CPE to create the new one, select the entire column from the old one, then copy and paste the entire column to the new property.

Hey, that could come in handy if you want to jerk your data center support staff around... LOL... :)

I have attached a fixed version of \Inetpub\Solarwinds\App_Code\NodeTree.cs. Replace that file and let me know how it works for you. This version will treat null values the same as blank ones. Tim, is this something that will find its way into SP3, or should people grab it here?

John, I believe these are held in the "WebCommunityStrings" table in the database. Have you tried to blow them away here?... ~ Vic

Try Interfaces.OutPercentUtil and Interfaces.InPercentUtil.

Well, at the risk of looking like a goof (BTW that NEVER happens ), I'm going to ask what might be a silly question... Are you talking about logins to Orion, or some other website, app, or database server?

Scott, You can either define one node details view per user, or you can define which node details view to use depending on device type. If you want to have the ability to open more than one node details view for the same device (or device type), then I suppose you could add a link to the node details view page that allows…

Instead of "network wide" availability, you could create a view or report showing availability of all devices minus the cameras via custom properties. Or better yet, if your UPS's can send a syslog message to your Orion server, you can forward the message via email, or something of that nature. We have ours configured in…

Well... Kinda... We have a report which shows all nodes that are currently unreachable, and a custom property text field which can be edited by our Ops folks from the Node Details view. This report is included as a resource on the "Home" summary view, and can include ticket numbers, or any other pertinent info. We also…

Anyone else experiencing this problem?... Anyone at all?... SW support recommended implementing the changes noted in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/909444, but this doesn't seem to work for us. :(

See the following post.

I believe "Outage Duration" was included in the additional reports that were available for download to customers with active maintenance contracts. I just looked, and I no longer see the additional reports available for download..? Vic