Spanning tree topology map
Spanning tree, as we know, is an extremely useful function of a network. However, equally so, in the hands of an inexperience engineer, or with someone adding network devices or 802.1q capable network...
View ArticleXP Support Coming to an End
When XP support endsand Microsoft stops issuing updates, a number of existing XP machines will be at risk. How concerned are you about the security risks associated with the end of Windows XP...
View ArticleWant to prepare and send daily node down report with the event time from NPM
Hi All, I am able to prepare daily current node down report and schedule it but the issue here is i am not able to get the RECENT time when the node went down ,so i removed the column of event time but...
View ArticleJitter from MIN and MAX Response time
Hello, We are trying to calculate the Jitter by subtracting the Max from the Min response time. We created a SQL Query but to no avail. Have you tried this before? SELECT TOP 10000...
View ArticleSupport for McAfee Sidewinder Firewalls
Request Config backup support (NCM) and FSM support for McAfee SideWinder Firewalls.
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Customize the Hover-Over Popup tooltip
Let's customize the tooltip the way we want. For example we want to include SNMP contact information and some Custom Properties like Building, Site etc. By the way this feature is already exist in...
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vCenter versus Orion Cluster CPU?
Below are graphs of the Cluster CPU utilization for the same cluster for the past 7 days. One graph is from VMWare and the other is from Orion. Clearly these two are not at all the same, any ideas...
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Custome View for Specific Nodes
I am finding this a lot harder to accomplish than I thought I would... But I may be missing something really simple... Here my problem.... I have deployed a large number of Brocade MLX-e switches...
View ArticleNCM Sripting Time
How much time takes you to complete a script to change the banner motd to this? .........._ _,---._ .......,-',' `-.___ ....../-;' `._ ...../\/ ._ _,'o \ ....( /\...
View ArticleTrue APE's for the IP Address Manager application
It would be a very good idea for the developers to create true Additional Polling Engines (aka APE) for IPAM. I know there is already a file named SolarWinds-Orion-IPAM-v4.0-Poller.exe in the...
View ArticleRunning tasks at the same time in FTP Voyager Scheduler
I have upgraded to FTP Voyage recently. I noticed tasks scheduled at FTP Voyager Scheduler are running only one at a time and cannot be running at the same time. When one task is running, another is...
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Additional Resource - Node Health Overview
There's a Hardware Health Overview resource in NPM:an Application Health Overview resource in SAM:an IP SLA Operations Health Overview in VNQMI'd really like to see a "Node Health Overview" resource...
View ArticleCisco IPS 4270 Interface not see On NPM
Hi I have a cisco ips 4270,when i insert on NPM I can see only management interface , not all the 10GB interface.I cannot read a configuration (ihave NCM)I must use a particulary procedure?thanks
View ArticleHow are you using additional pollers?
As we're constantly looking for opportunities to respond to the needs of our customers, one area we have been investigating recently is the Additional Poller and how they are being used.Presently...
View ArticleAdvanced Alerts : manage groups
Let me clear my scenario more briefly.Let us suppose if parent went down .. for example Firewall. In that case what will happen, we will get bunch of emails showing that firewall is down, and other...
View ArticleAlerts Suppression
Hi,I have the following nodes setup on each clusters:INTERNET --> Router (Gateway) --> LAN Switch --> 6 ServersEach node has SNMP community string and Location setup and are all currently...
View ArticleOrion team structure
I am curious as to how other shops set up the teams that build and maintain the Orion monitors and alerts.Do you have a group of people that just build the monitors and another that builds the alerts ?...
View ArticleWhy are my down interfaces reporting high utilization?
Howdy! New NPM 10.6 user here. I've had our NPM install up and running for about a month now and while it has been spot on with node/interface down alerts, there is something suspicious going on with...
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