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Re: Health Check for NPM
BillFitz Jan 28, 2009 8:49 PM (in response to swack)Hi Swack,
Thanks for the post. I can understand the value of having experts confirm that you are running optimally. In the context of an NMS like Orion, 'optimal' is going to depend on many factors, and the definition is bound to change from deployment to deployment.
There are several ways you can perform a bit of a 'self-exam' on your deployment.
For starters we have a great article on polling intervals by our head geek Josh Stephens:
Understanding SNMP Polling and Counters
Next, you can see stats on your current polling processes by checking out your "NPM Engine Status". Go to Orion System Manager, File, Polling Status. Adjusting your intervals according to your needs and priorities will affect those values.
Also, remember you can point Orion at Orion, especially when combined with APM (which includes an Orion monitoring template). You can effectively monitor and adjust your underlying hardware capabilities based on what you deem appropriate for your network. It may seem obvious, but I do speak with clients who inadvertently are monitoring everything BUT the Orion server itself.
I know it's not the same as an on-site checkup, but I hope that helps!
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Re: Health Check for NPM
Yann Jan 29, 2009 4:14 AM (in response to BillFitz)Hi Swack,
Follow the steps of the below tutorial from time to time ensure Orion is not overloaded and manage to poll correctly your Network Elements. Focus on the two first steps (Ensuring SQL Server Compatibility and Reviewing Polling Completion Percentage). If there is an issue then the two last steps should help to solve it (Adjusting Database Summarization and Polling Interval / Polls Per Second Utility).
This is something you should definitely check each time you add few Nodes or any network elements to be monitored to balance efficiently your Polling Engine.
http://www.solarwinds.com/support/orion/docs/gaps/gaps.htm
HTH,Yann
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Re: Health Check for NPM
brahuna Jul 2, 2009 11:32 AM (in response to Yann)I am showing a 93.63652 polling completion on this. I have the polls per second over double the recommended setting. We are still seeing gaps in the data.
What else can we try? I have a case open (104025) but have not heard anything.
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Re: Health Check for NPM
brahuna Jul 6, 2009 8:00 AM (in response to brahuna)This is getting worse now. We are at 92.43893. Any ideas? I have not heard anything from support.
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Re: Health Check for NPM
bshoppJul 7, 2009 12:41 PM (in response to brahuna)
Did you get resolution to this?
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