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Udaemon, We aren't using maps with our Orion installation, but here's something I've seen. Sometimes my view will stop updating after drilling into a device or interface, and then using the "back" button to return to the parent view. F5 will cause it to refresh, but it doesn't restart the automatic refresh. Once I click on…

Launch the Custom Property Editor. Place your mouse somewhere on the toolbar. Right-click and select "Customize". In the box that pops up, select the "Commands" tab. Scroll to the bottom of the "Commands" window on the right. Drag and drop "Update Report Schemas" to your toolbar. Double-click on the new icon. That's it...

Lyle, Assuming you know where the resource files are on your server, you should be able to edit this particular resource file. I don't have the Broadband version of Orion, so I don't have that particular resource, but here's where you can change it in the "High Errors and Discards Today" resource. Perhaps you can locate…

I would say make the system name what you want it to be, and contact SW to have your key reset.

What if you try changing the "Archive Time" value in the registry..? HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SOFTWARE > SolarWinds.net > SWNetPerfMon > Settings If you're trying to have it run at midnight, try using 12:00 AM.

1) I would like to have an easy mechanism to control not only the menu bars, but the tabs at the top of the page as well. As it is today, we have created a lot of different groups of views for various functional areas of our network, and it would be nice to be able to tie them to tabs at the top of the page for easy…

Not exactly... You could set up UnDP's to collect such info as interface speed, duplex, and alias, then have it diplayed on the node details page, but I believe you would be hard-pressed to come up with a way to collect and present such things as mac & IP addr's on each port, and display it in a single view. I suppose you…

OK, I'm taking a stab at this. I've gotten far enough that it displays a list of all the facilities matching a wildcard, or launches the summary view for specific facilities, but I'm having trouble with setting the view limitation. I think all I need to do is update the "WhereClaus" field for the limitation associated with…

quote:Originally posted by lucast Suggestion.... Make a copy of each of the resource module scripts from the Netperfmon/resources/.... directories. Rename them. Modify the ASP code to read in a URL parameter. This parameter would contain the DV_Facility code to look up. Modify the SQL query in each module code to include a…

Zthiel, The objective is to configure devices to send syslog messages to the Orion server, not to have Orion go get them. Naturally, the configuration on the sending devices will depend on the device type or operating system. From what device types would you like to collect syslog data?

Have you tried stopping the services on the Orion server (and any other polling engines you may have) before making the SQL change? When the services are running, the polling engines hold a copy of the DB info, and are the master. Changes made directly to the DB while Orion is running will be overwritten at the time of the…

What if you try ${Node.Caption}? Also, I would be curious to know if ${NodeName} is actually looking at the SysName column in the DB, and if this field is populated for the devices in question. I've seen the "test alert" function do some funky stuff, so I don't completely trust it. :(

In the meantime, you might want to think about creating a report with the appropriate logic and add it to the web as a resource instead of using the ones out of the box. For example, we have a report as a resource on various summary views showing all interface "issues". Included in the logic of the report is a mechanism to…

We haven't had any problems with database maintenance, but I can't get the trap receiver to send emails. It performs other actions, but for some reason, I can get email to work.

Well, Yeah...BUT... you will need to use the advanced alerting engine, and there are some issues with it prior to v8.1. When configuring the trigger action within the advanced alerting engine, there is an "Alert Escalation" tab where you can configure the action to repeat until the condition is cleared.

Alij, I have the same issue when dealing with alerts that have no rearm condition, such as "Interface Speed Change". Since I can't figure out a way to have it rearm and remove the alert condition, I have to periodically remove them manually. To do this, I simply launch System Manager on the polling engine monitoring the…

The alerting engine is a separate component from the polling engine and therefore is not actually polling or collecting data itself. It has to rely on the info in the SQL database. This parameter is how often the alerting engine looks in the database to see if it needs to trigger/reset an alert. Vic

Ken, I'm not sure how you currently have the alert configured, but you may want to include "UnManaged" into your conditions. In order to clear the alert, how about if you alter the "Reset Condition" to something like the following: Node Status = Up OR Node Status = UnManaged

BUMP... I would like to know the answer to this as well. Is there any benefit to having multiple CPU's (physical or logical) for the polling process? My polling engines are currently on servers with single CPU's, but I'm curious if anyone has any insight into whether the process can multithread, and whether there's any…

Is this a situation where you can simply plug this text value into a URL as a variable (along with any other necessary variables such as login credentials), and the resulting page will show the info you wish to see? If so, I see no reason why this wouldn't work.

Kevin, it seems like I'm using this paradigm a lot lately, but you could create a custom SQL job to count the number of syslog messages received from each device over a given period of time and have it populate a custom property with these values. You can then create an alert to monitor the values in this custom property…

Do you have another nic in the poller? If so, can you put the OV address on the second nic and use static, persistent routes on the server to point to the devices previously monitored by OV? Wouldn't that source from the desired interface? With them being on the same subnet, I'm not sure if Windows will let you configure…

This is a known issue, and I don't believe there's any way around it. If you have multiple summary views on your tool bar with varying associated view limitations, selecting other views like Events, Syslog, etc will result in the use of the limitation associated with the previously selected summary view.

That's the beauty of SQL being an open database. We have an application called "Formula" from a company named "Managed Objects" that acts as a manager of managers. Some of our in-house resources custom built a module for Formula that pulls data from our Orion DB via direct SQL queries. I can't tell you much about how it…

Well, I'll take a stab at it... What release of Orion are you running? There are some known issues with releases prior to 8.1, although I don't recall anyone mentioning this particular issue. If you're running 8.1, are all the hotfixes applied? Is there anything different about the way these particular alerts were built…

Kbash, This works very well. Thanks for sharing. There will be a little something extra in your check this week. Vic

quote:Originally posted by BryanBecker Why won't the basic alert suffice? The action items are the same. BB Bryan, In our case, it's much easier to manage alerts when they can be tied to custom properties. The basic alert works, but we are utilizing the advanced alerts whenever possible to take advantage of the association…

Unfortunately, I'm not familiar with IP Monitor. Is it HTML based? If so, you may be able to add a new web resource to your Orion page/s that includes a view of your IP Monitor page via an iframe. If you still need this, and it's HTML based, let me know the URL and I'll see if I can build a resource for you. Also, does it…

I'm not familiar with Zyxel devices, so are these characters representing the privilege level? Is there any way to configure the switches to display a different prompt? Or, is it possibly a language support issue?

Chris, Have you considered either of the following node details web resources? Current Percent Utilization of each Interface Traffic and Percent Utilization of each Interface As an alternative, you could create a report in Report Writer and add the report to the node details view(s). This way you could also filter on just…