NCM Manual Download of Configs - timing issue

I'm not personally too familiar with the TACACS side of this but on the NCM side you can break your backup scheduled job into two parts, one pass for running configs and another starting a few minutes later for startups. Hopefully that gets around this issue for you if there isn't an easy way to fix it in the TACACS setup.

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I use this exact solution--with TACACS.  One job for backing up startup configs, a separate job run later for catching running-configs.  It works well.

Which version of NCM are you using?

And what TACACS solutions are you running--ACS? Or something entirely different?

I've had many problems with ACS logging/reporting capabilities and reliability, and am anxiously awaiting for our ISE to replace it.

But the earlier advice is appropriate:  One job for backing up startup configs, a separate job run later for catching running-configs.  It works well.

Hi Guys,

thanks for your comments.

the automatic download jobs work perfectly fine. It is just when the fellow device admins are impatient and download startup and running config manually on the webpage. We have about 120 admins working with NCM And many of them are not patient. The Orion Team is constantly cancelling Download Jobs that are "stuck"'on itializing because others were not waiting 30 seconds before hitting the Download button again.

I am almost certain that this is a TACACS timing issue however at the moment it is my/Solarwinds fault And I want to get some proof that it is not.

thanks

120 Admins using NCM?  Impressive?

How many nodes are on your network?

How many elements do you manage?

I have 4 pollers, NPM, NCM, NTA, just under 800 managed nodes, elements are about 35,000.

35.000 Devices/Nodes over 3 Polling Engines NCM Only (unfortunately)

import of nodes via SDK from a CMDB

my largest installations when it comes to number of nodes.

But not the most complex installation

cheers

holger

I didn't answer your question correctly... the Customer has over 70.000 Network devices, but only half of them need to be managed by NCM. So the Network is a lot bigger than the NCM Installation represents.