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My colleague discovered a work around. I had to delete the existing SLA node in Orion, readd it in Orion, then I was able to add it into IP SLAM. I believe this may be due to the fact we previously had custom pollers setup on these SLA nodes and something must have been conflicting with IP SLAM. We are in the process of…

Also read this: http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/grumpyolddba/archive/2007/01/26/how-fast-is-a-disk.aspx It is the best 'guide' I've ever located on disk throughput with RAID arrays. The key to RAID 10 (aka 1+0) that most folks don't understand is that you mirror first, then stripe. You need an even number of disks.…

Nope. They are grouped by my source node. Basically, I see the source node name twice in the tree and ma not able to get the target nor target URL to show. I have tried all of the different options when editing that window. This is why I am so confused and am uncertain if I'm just missing something very easy. It makes…

DirtySouth, How much RAM does your SQL server have and are you using NTA (netflow), as well?

In my experience, that is a lot to have on a single box. Glad it is working for you. You must have polling intervals turned down? Our polling engines start choking around 7k elements. I also have our db on a standalone server with the actual db backended on an extremely beefy SAN (we had run into issues with disk queue…

Your netperfmon db lives on a single drive? As in, 1 spindle? During a shutdown/restart of all your engines, what is the avg disk queue length on that drive?? Are you running 64 bit SQL or 32 bit and utilizing AWE to be able to allocate the 27 GB of RAM to SQL?

Hi Chris, Ticket 114988 entered today. the main part of that ticket is for other issues I have been noticing, with 2 services seeming to "hang" w/o actually crashing. Not certain if it is all related.

I researched this extensively when I was having performance issues ~6 months ago. Correct me if I'm wrong but because Orion is a 32 bit application, even when it is run in 64 bit Windows, it will still have a maximum of only 2 GB of memory addressable. Right? It has something to do with the way 64 bit Windows emulates 32…

byrona, Do you notice this happening after you have added new nodes or made a bunch of changes (edited node names, added interfaces on already monitored nodes, etc)? I have been noticing that my secondary polling engine will intermittently go sideways after many new nodes are added or many existing nodes have been edited.…

Interesting. I will be opening a ticket with SW today about this. The error was resolved when the NetPerfMon service on my secondary polling engine had seized and been manually restarted.

The way this SHOULD work, is kind of like iTunes. I should be able to select multiple interfaces at once and change a setting in ALL of them by making one change. If this were still an Application driven function, I'd make a feature request. But I don't see the point since it's moved to the web. In your web page, click…

Thanks David. The primary polling engine seems to be handling those numbers fine. The only problem is that the NetFlowService.exe service on the polling engine continues to consume more and more memory until it eventually crashes (I suspect this is because it is throttling how fast it writes to the SQL db based on what…

David, Case #94908 opened was opened on May 12th. Do you know if there has been any progress? I have made NTA work by limiting the number of flows pointed at it. Currently, it is working with only ~1,500 PDU's average. When I point flows from my entire core network at it (~9,000 PDU's avg), the NetFlowService.exe process…

Hello, I posted this in a different portion of the forums but it might be more appropriate here: Can you give us a date yet on when Orion will have IPv6 support? My Engineers are turning up IPv6 soon and are wanting to move my management network into it first. I have a large Orion implementation and have only just begun to…

Thank you!

Was this ever resolved outside of deleting the WLC from NPM and adding it back in? I am having this issue with 1 of 3 WLC's and really do not want to lose the historical data. *edit* I am running Cisco WLC's and all 3 are added in as nodes in NPM. 2 of them display their "thing access points" just fine. 1 of them does not,…

Count me as another one eagerly awaiting this functionality. I was also just bitten over the holiday weekend. 2 of my polling engines stopped syncing with the database and it wasn't caught until yesterday morning. :( Odd thing was, netperfmon was still running and not frozen up. They just stopped syncing. Anybody know if…

Thanks EZakes. We may not be able to use the SAN I mentioned in that thread and it may be desirable to keep the Orion SQL db on its own server. Hence these hard drive questions. Reference the AWE solution, that has been working great. I am looking forward to moving to 64 bit Windows Server and 64 bit MSSQL so that AWE will…

Hello, Can you give us a date on when Orion will have IPv6 support? My Engineers are turning up IPv6 soon and are wanting to move my management network into it first. I have a large Orion implementation and have only just begun to look into this. If this feature is being driven by customer demand then please put me into…

Very cool. I will have to research this and see if it will work in my environment. Thank you!

Sure would be nice if you could see the avg. disk queue length for yourself. There is good info about how to get that data in this thread: I am uncertain if a very high average disk queue length would directly result in a lower poll completion or not. Your poll completion number looks good. I would try to monitor the avg…

I agree. Being able to use both is very desirable. Why was it necessary to disallow editing from the System Console? 

IMO, 9.5 with SP4 is stable enough to consider upgrading. Like you, I was being pressured to upgrade to 9.5 but I waited for SP3. Should have waited for SP4 but even so, it wasn't too painful. I ran into the web site service error that they fixed in SP4 and a couple of other things. There are still some things being worked…

BTW, you guys may want to enter that in the docs somewhere, if it isn't already. Just for customers who try the Eval first, then upgrade their license later. I checked the docs and either missed it, or it isn't in there. I know it is easy and I should have checked the engine I'd installed on but still... it cost me a bit…

Still not working. I can add the SLA node I originally had added when I first installed this product, but no other nodes. The nodes already exist in Orion. Doesn't matter what the SNMP string is, it fails in the same manner. As a test, I changed the SNMP RW string stored in Orion for one of my SLA nodes to gibberish, then…

As stated in another post, I am very pleased with the auto configuration feature. I was very nervous about this but it works well and I am impressed.

I just completed the process yesterday afternoon and am waiting on one question to be answered before closing my ticket (129107). Just as a heads up, you should plan on it taking a little of your time. 30 - 60 minutes, depending. There are a lot of manual things you must do, hands on. To be safe, I took my entire Orion…

Thanks Craig. So what is the easy/nice way to view specific HTTP operations? I feel like I am missing something very simple here. Let's say I want to view all HTTP operations from all of my SLA nodes to http://www.apple.com. What is the best way to go about it?

No worries. Let us know if that worked for you and if you have any other questions.

Thanks. Good documents. I have IP SLA installed now. No troubles, at all. Starting to play now and I must say, I am impressed. Adding new 'operations' is a bit too "hands-on" intensive for items already configured on my SLA routers but that is a small thing. I was very nervous about the auto configuration this product does…