Orion NPM Architecture, Speed, and SQL
In my last post, "What NPM Tips and Tricks do You Have?" I asked about tips and tricks, expecting a mashup of different things from all over the NPM world and to a certain extent that's what happened....
View ArticleProduct activation since version 3.9.1
Hi, I would like to say, that the "new" activation procedure of all products is a pain in the ass.All our servers are not connected to the internet and it is a lot more work to activate every...
View Articlecustom property field - content deleted
We use a custom property field to group nodes to specific applications so our alerts are easier to manage. The value in one of these property fields was somehow deleted for one node. That node failed...
View ArticleAdditional Polling Engines
I have SAM installed on a physical server. Would there be alright installing Additional Polling Engines on a VM or would it be best to installl the APE on physical server?
View ArticleCustom Group Alert Help?
We're a 100% Cisco shop and recently placed port-security protocols/configs in place for all of our visitor phones and unsecured conference room phones. The ports are configured to shutdown should...
View ArticleVMware polling stopped after ESXi upgrade
I'm managing our VMware cluster using the standard NPM virtualization interface, and it's been working well. We recently upgraded our VMware cluster from ESX4.1 to ESXi5.0 (inc upgrade to vCenter 5.0),...
View ArticleAdd new IP address to an existing Node?
I'm attempting to use the Perl SDK to add an IP address to an existing node: specifically the Orion.NodeIPAddresses. I'm getting an access denied error: <UserMessage>Access to...
View ArticleSupport the storage hardware heath monitor
Want to add amulti-vendor storagehardware monitoring, such as power supplies, fans, temperature,controller battery, SFP modules, UPS,diskand otherhardware information.Nowthe problems frequently...
View ArticleApache template problem
Hey all, not even sure that I am posting this in the right place. Has anyone seen a problem with the built in Apache ServerUptime component in SAM 5.5? The check is giving an 'unknown' status even...
View ArticleApplication Monitoring Template for Windows Server 2012 DirectAccess
Hi, Has anyone tried to create an application monitoring template for Windows Server 2012 DirectAccess? As I would like to be able to monitor some of the more advanced features of DA which is available...
View ArticleLSI MegaRAID controller
Hey everyone I am pretty new to Orion and I am getting into monitoring our current servers on the network. I have a Windows 2012 JBOD box that has a LSI MegaRAID controller in it. I'd like to manage...
View ArticleExchange 2010 Remote monitoring with WSMAN
Wrote a script that works swimmingly on the exchange 2010 server, but when I run it in the SAM Template I get this error: MailboxDatabaseCopyStatus : Value cannot be null. Parameter name:...
View ArticleSCP taken and passed
The exam guide along with real-world experience was good prep for the SCP exam. All questions well written and a good balance of npm vs basic network troubleshooting.Good times.
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how do we create snmp community strings?
hello all, can anyone tell me in details on how to create SNMP community strings? thanks
View ArticleQoS designs and network borders in a BYOD, bandwidth hungry world
Taking a step back from internal QoS designs, one thing that I have worked on for a large portion of both my professional and consulting career is border queuing. To take a walk down memory lane and...
View ArticleWhere security and failure meet.
Over the past few weeks, I've been talking about how failure, in broad terms, affects our roles. Most of our discussion has focused on a mistake that causes an outage. However, I'm honestly surprised...
View ArticleSCP Branded Shirt Interest?
As a result of recent interest in SCP branded polo shirts, I've been discussing the idea with a vendor to offer them up for sale to SCPs. The idea right now is to offer a male and a female version,...
View ArticleAlerts - Percent variable being displayed as a variable
Some of my alerts display their received and transmit statistics in what appears to be an exponent.It should be displayed as a percentage.Any ideas on why and how to fix this?Hee is an example: Alert:...
View ArticleHow to monitor desktop, laptops and other non-essentials without showing as...
Hi All, I have been wanting to monitor all the devices on my network including desktops, laptops, and network printers and such, which I can, but what I don't like is that when these devices are...
View ArticleSolarwinds IPAM (IP address manager)
Hi, Can someone there provide me any inputs if this Solarwinds IPAM (IP address manager) is still need for NOC type of work. As what I've seen this toll is more on IP address/DNS-DHCP/Subnet...
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