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You could either place a remote poller at the location behind the firewall and allow it to collect "local" statistics and push those back to the main poller. (Depending on the target nodes, you could also use an agent for this). Or you could set your target nodes up to gather availability statistics via SNMP and then open…

You should be able to limit your results in your dynamic query builder: -ZackM Loop1 Systems: SolarWinds Training and Professional Services * LinkedIN: Loop1 Systems * Facebook: Loop1 Systems * Twitter: @Loop1Systems

Try looking through this guide and see if that answers your questions, keeping in mind that this is by no means an all-inclusive list of topology choices. http://www.solarwinds.com/documentation/Orion/docs/ScalabilityEngineGuidelines.pdf - ZackM http://www.loop1systems.com

initially, you need to see what you actual retention rates are for Syslog, by default it is only 7 days. Settings > Polling Settings -ZackM Loop1 Systems: SolarWinds Training and Professional Services * LinkedIN: Loop1 Systems * Facebook: Loop1 Systems * Loop1 Twitter: @Loop1Systems * ZackM Twitter: @ZackM

Some might say that the driving purpose behind UDT would be to show you Layer 2 information... Can you elaborate on your situation? What types of devices are you monitoring with UDT? Do you have all of your Layer 2 devices in the UDT inventory with all of their switchports being actively monitored? -ZackM Loop1 Systems:…

This this: Cisco - Node Details with Group Membership

The simplest way to do this would be to create email distribution groups in your email software and then target the group email address directly. Alternatively, you can create a custom property that can hold up to 10 email addresses (comma-seperated) and then call that custom property in the "To:" field of the email action…

Try this for your query: SelectA.Name,A.Components.ComponentName,S.ComponentStatisticData,A.Node.SysNameFROM Orion.APM.Application AJOIN Orion.APM.CurrentStatistics S on S.ApplicationID = A.ApplicationID AND S.ComponentID = A.Components.ComponentIDWHERE A.Components.ComponentName = 'Number of Active Sessions' As far as…

As I read it, you have 2 scenarios to solve for: * Suppress "down stream node" alerts when only the WAN link is dropped * Suppress alerts to a single notification if the entire site goes offline Based on that, I would look at this: WAN Link: * Create 'Child Groups' for each site, with membership including everything but…

I would look at a combination of custom properties and multiple email actions. For instance: Create a Node custom property called "AlertOnCall" and assign the on-call email address to each device as needed. From there, your Node alerts would have 2 email actions. 1) Set this email to send to your default distribution list…

without knowing exactly what report your are referring to, my initial thought would be to create an IP Address Group for your specific host and then create a report for that as the focal object. Managing IP Address Groups Example: Creating a customized web-based report for an IP address group -ZackM Loop1 Systems:…

That's a very 'it depends' kind of question... Your best bet would be to map out a schema on the whiteboard and envision who needs to see what. Once you get that down, I would try and identify something about the nodes that makes them stand out. You will want to make a custom property on this. For instance, I have seen…

That's one of those "it depends" kind of questions. But the general rule of thumb is that the shorter the polling interval, the more strain on a polling engine (and more granularity in polling results). The opposite is true as well (more time between = less strain = less granularity) With a few exceptions, I have typically…

I don't think NetPath creation is currently supported. That being said, I'd much rather my users use a tool like Traceroute NG than have a ton of ad-hoc NetPath probes and services running amuck Traceroute NG Software - Download Free Traceroute Tool | SolarWinds

I can't speak directly to performance metrics, but we have very large installations of SolarWinds worldwide (all are about 80%+ capacity per polling engine with about 60 engines right now). We run all of our SQL in their own dedicated environments like this: For every 6 polling engines, we have a SQL cluster: - 8 core,…

Can you throw together a tiny little demo table of what you expect the end result to look like? I'm having a hard time visualizing this one in my head. I think it can be done, but I hesitate to spend a lot of time on an assumption of what you want only to find out you were looking for something else Let me know what…

Are you looking for a report that shows the results of that specific UnDP? Try this: SELECT N.NODEID, N.CAPTION AS 'DEVICE', N.IP_ADDRESS AS 'IP ADDRESS', N.LOCATION AS 'LOCATION', CPS.STATUS AS 'CURRENT STATUS', CPS.DATETIME AS 'LAST POLLED' N.CUSTOMERNAME AS 'CUSTOMER'FROM NODES N JOIN CUSTOMPOLLERASSIGNMENT CPA ON…

Certainly. The trick is to use the Session Trace option in the NCM settings. http://www.solarwinds.com/documentation/orionNCM/docs/orionNCMAdministratorGuide.pdf page 172 Troubleshooting Device Connections When you experience problems connecting to a device, you may need to perform a session trace to troubleshoot the…

you should be able to setup rules in PM that follow that schedule, the real "risk" is in your auto-approval and accidentally adding a patch that might break some other application... as far as the process to confirm the OS is up, just time your WMI inventory jobs with your patch schedules. all of the reporting requirements…

You could accomplish this with a custom SQL report embedded in your different pages. What objects would you be alerting on? Just nodes, nodes and interfaces, SAM components, etc.? If you could tell me what objects you care about, and the custom property field that you want to use as a limitation, I might be able to get you…

can you post the report in question here for review? from your primary engine: C:\program files\solarwinds\orion\reports right-click, edit copy/paste the text here please

1) Make a summary view with only the 1 map. (settings > manage views) 2) Create a custom menu bar with only 1 link to the map view you just created 3) Edit the user and change their home tab menu bar to the one you just created. You can also remove menu bars for all other modules (if any). 4) Change the user's home page…

Unfortunately not, however, if you use the "Custom HTML" resource, you can make as many links as you want with unique fonts, colors, etc. -ZackM Loop1 Systems: SolarWinds Training and Professional Services * LinkedIN: Loop1 Systems * Facebook: Loop1 Systems * Twitter: @Loop1Systems

You cannot get perfect hardware specifications as they are generally independent among different environments. There's not really a one-size-fits-all approach, it's more of a general guideline one-size-fits-most scenario. However, generally speaking this would be a good starting point for you. Primary Polling Engine…

It sounds like it would be easiest to just make an hourly scheduled report and send that. There isn't a native away to send all alerts in an aggregate email, and alerting on group objects won't really work because a group is a distinct object on its own. (you cannot alert when a group has low disk space, because a group…

Top of my head: Reset Alert when ALL of the following apply: Node Status is equal to UP I'm not sure I follow the logic here. If you look for an UP status, when would you not get a valid alert fire/reset condition?

are you saying you want to know if they are equal, or only when both are above a threshold at the same time? e.g.; Alert me when Interface A XMT = Interface B XMT vs Alert me when XMT or RCV critical threshold is breached for BOTH Interface A and B for XX minutes I'm assuming the 2nd option, which austinzak​ put you on the…

I would suggest getting rid of the "group" requirement and instead creating the report on interfaces, using the same criteria that are in your dynamic query(ies). Group objects in Orion don't always work the way you'd assume them to, as they are their own distinct object type with their own metrics, and the child objects…

Did you create actual groups (Settings > Manage Groups); or are you using your custom properties to create groups visually in the dashboard? The easiest way to achieve what you're looking for is by alerting at the group level so that the alert threshold is the status of the group object, which is an aggregate of ALL the…