Backup reports on NCM

Hi,

Does anyone know how I can generate a report from the devices that are being manage in SolarWinds which devices are being backed up via NCM and which are not?

Thanks,

Michael

I'm somewhat of a newbie still but I wrote a report looking for configtable.nodeid being null.  Note that you'll have to specify which types of devices you want to include, or ignore. 

Hi smttysmth02gt,

Thanks for the info. As I am new to creating reports I'm not quite sure how I would do this. Are you able to explian in  more details how I would generate the report to include  configtable.nodeid = null

Thanks

Michael

Check this link out.  You can use SWQL to write custom reports that suit specific needs you may have.  Maybe someone will come along and suggest something better for this purpose.  I'm sure that would be helpful to a newbie like myself as well. 

SWQL Functions · solarwinds/OrionSDK Wiki · GitHub

We have reports that shows the backup status of running and startup config, i think they are default reports that came with NCM.

You can also see which nodes are not managed by NCM in the Manage Nodes section.

This might not be the answer you were looking for but i am also not very good at making these reports, hope this helps anyway.

Yeah I knew that was there, but for larger environments (such as the one I work in), it's a lot easier to have a direct URL to custom reports that isolate specific things I want to see. 

Hi roelb,

Thanks for the details. When you mean "You can also see which nodes are not managed by NCM in the Manage Nodes section." are you referring to the NCM Setting > Manage Node and then looking in the NCM License heading, whereby any listed with "No" are not being backed up on NCM?

Sorry for all the question, but first time I am using SolarWinds and NCM

Thank you.

Thanks Smttysmth02gt. Just to go back to the original question where do I enter configtable.nodeid = null in the report?

Not to step on roelb's toes, but yes.  But that particular setting only shows which nodes have whichever specific setting selected. 

To do what I was recommending, you have to write a custom report in SWQL.