We are installing Cisco 4110 within the next couple weeks. Any tricks or tips to get optimized performance out of SolarWinds with these?
Also .... What interface on the 4110 are you monitoring? Our rep told the chasis monitor will not provide any information but that was the only interface on the 4110 that we can get SW to communicate with.
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I would like a way to see how many points you had started with and maybe below that see how many points have been added after full filling a requirement or even a pop that says ex:(200 points have been added to your account). Laura Desrosiers
https://thwack.solarwinds.com/ideas/7061
Provide a day-by-day, week-by-week, month-by-month, year-by-year, historical graph of Thwack Points Earnings under a user's profile. (BTW, I am totally flexible as to how the earnings are reported)
Peter Monaghan, CBCP, SCP, ITIL ver.3
https://thwack.solarwinds.com/ideas/7105
I'm not entirely certain that this is the right place for this, as it's not a new feature request, but more of a proposed minor modification of an existing feature. I had just noticed that the steps between levels seemed odd to me, with some sharp increases followed by plateaus, and at the higher levels, it taking fewer points to gain a level than at some of the lower ones. So I played with the numbers a bit and came up with what looked to me to be a smoother progression curve. It does still plateau a bit at the higher levels so that no level increase would require more than 50,000 points and so that the point total for level 30 would remain unchanged at 500,000 points. Graphs included because they were easy and why not.
Current Increase Step | Current Cumulative Total | Proposed Increase Step | Proposed Cumulative Total |
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Working on an alert for response time using NPM v10.7. If I am correct, the warning and critical response time thresholds that I can set on the Node edit properties page are related to "current" response time. If my trigger condition is pointed to the variable Response Time and the Trigger must be sustained for 4 minutes (2 polls), why am I not seeing any alerts when I have a node that has been above the critical threshold for several polls in a row?
Do you use any IM in work at all or maybe some fancy collaboration platform instead?
If I write a custom SQL variable for the Advanced Alert Engine to use to populate information from more than one field in the database:
${SQL:select...}
... it seems to only report back the first value.
Example:
${SQL:select NodeID, IP_Address, DNS from nodes where nodeid like '1' or nodeid like '2'}
This returns a value of '1'.
We are trying to use this to populate information for multiple devices in a cluster when an alert fires one of the device in that cluster.
Is this possible?
Thanks,
Jason Henson
Loop1 Systems
www.Loop1Systems.com
Modern network and systems engineers have a lot to deal with. Things like overlapping roles, constantly changing client devices, and new applications popping up daily create headaches beyond comprehension. The amount of data produced by packet captures, application logs, and whatever else you have to help troubleshoot issues is astounding and can leave even the most skilled engineer reeling when trying to track down an issue. The human brain is designed to recognize patterns and outliers, but it is simply not equipped to deal with the scale of today’s IT issues.
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One of our APE was down for quite some time and wasn't able to communicate to Main Poller. Once the APE was back up, we received an alert for "job Scheduler v2 Results Notified Error" as 71K. I understand this was due to APE not being able to communicate to Mail poller and Database but how do we fix this or what actions need to be taken to clear them up?
We have a need for saving the report each day to same file.
it seems like you haven't put this as an option while creating scheduled report. I have make a ticket on Thwack but got no answer. https://thwack.solarwinds.com/message/348212#348212
I also sow that other users need this option. See following
https://thwack.solarwinds.com/message/328091#328091
https://thwack.solarwinds.com/message/308748#308748
Is it possible to build this?
I would like to be able to compare server configurations. For example, we have clusters of servers and they should have identical configurations, so it would be useful to be able to get a dif of two or more servers to see differences easily. This would include applications, files, IIS configs, etc.
Hi
I am new to Solarwinds IPAM and its API, and in the descriptions, it says that the API can do CRUD operations with subnets. When I looked at it, it references the subnet and parent data as SubnetID and ParentID. How do find out what the SubnetID for a subnet is? Also, how do I find the ParentID for the group? My main goal currently is to be able to move subnets into groups based on their location data. I can script it myself to put it into the group I want, so I don't need the script to figure that logic out. As long as I can script it so that I can move a subnet into a group I am happy Can someone help guide me in the right direction in accomplishing this? Thank you.
I don't see any option to save scheduled reports from Orion in any format other than Excel 2003 (XLS). I know CSV and PDF are options, but they are not feasible.
Is there a way to save in a not-so-antiquated Excel format (XLSX)? If not, might there be a feature request out there that I can add on to?
Hi All,
This is possibly an easy one, but I can's seems to find a way to display information on a node page about which group this particular node belongs to. I have a lot of groups for different purpose. Many are used for my dashboard. When node is down - I just want to see which groups are affected. I can probably achieve it with reports, but I would like this to be available straight on the node page. Something like:
"This node is a member of the following groups:"
Group01
Group02
etc.
Thanks,
Alex
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 Network Atlas. Extending the hover-over pop-ups on maps
The picture is taken from an old thread. Customization Question
Some other posts related to this feature:
http://thwack.solarwinds.com/thread/36419
http://thwack.solarwinds.com/message/112290
http://thwack.solarwinds.com/message/109555
http://thwack.solarwinds.com/message/178893
Actually the "poll now" button appears :
- for node view when you have "Allow Node Management Rights" checked.
- for application monitor when you have "SAM User Role" = Admin.
The idea is to have the possibility to enable the option for accounts without giving administrator rights.
For example we have an team dedicated to alerts treatment. I don't want them to be administrator.
When an alert is triggered, they have to apply a procedure. And they need to wait for the next poll to close the ticket/to be sure that the procedure works.
With the "poll now" (without being admin), they can force the next app monitor check and close the ticket.
Node :
Application :
With all major PC and mobile device software manufacturers supporting Progressive Web Apps (PWA), I'd love to see WebHelpDesk move in this direction.
It would be great to get notifications and a richer web experience from WebHelpDesk, especially on mobile devices.
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