Do you prefer agentless or agent-based monitoring? Are there situations where...
When I’m evaluating a monitoring system, one of the first things I check for is if it is agent-based or agentless. The use of one method over another doesn’t necessarily spell disaster for the project...
View ArticleDevice discovery and polling IP address
Hello thwack community, I have a brand new installation of NPM along with a few other modules. I have a question that I haven't been able to find an answer to. Whenever I try to discover some of my...
View ArticleShow us a NOC view and get 500 thwack points!
The User Experience group wants to see how you've customized your Orion to create your own NOC view, or NOC views you like and are using from other products. What do you like about your NOC view? What...
View ArticleOID to get current system date for HP Procurve switches?
Hi,I'm trying to monitor the date/time stamps on our HP ProCurve switches, but I just can't find OIDs for it.If they even exist for ProCurve switches..I was able to do this for our Dell PowerConnect...
View ArticleWhat We're Working On - Log and Event Manager (LEM)
In case you missed it, the Log & Event Manager team recently released our 5.6 version which was packed with great features. And as always, there’s more exciting stuff coming, here's a sneak peek:...
View ArticleI have a request from management to get a logon logoff report with only the...
When I produce a report I have approximately 20 or 30 logons for each user, I just want the first and last logon/logoff of a user on a particular day or days.Is there any document that can tell me what...
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Powershell Monitor Coding Help
I am trying to write some code that will report on the number of sessions in the XenApp 6.0 estate marked as 'Down'. This is the first PowerShell I have tried to put into Solarwinds and need direction....
View ArticleLimit emails sent on network outages?
I have our Solarwinds server sitting at a remote site monitoring our environment and over the weekend we have some network issues that caused Solarwinds to not be able to connect to them. This caused...
View ArticleNexus 7k Core switches - what do you monitor?!
We've just bought two new nexus 7k core switches for our new building, I've started to set them up in Solarwinds but wanting to see how/what people monitor on these type of switches? Currently we will...
View ArticleReservable assets email out on scheduled Time
Can we have the ability for web help desk to automatically email users who have booked reservable assets based on the scheduled in time? This way users would receive an email to remind them to return...
View ArticleWPM: additional poller and alternate web console?
We currently run Orion SAM and WPM on the same server. We have an additional poller that we use for SAM, but we have not yet leveraged it for WPM. I have a couple of questions:1) The additional...
View ArticleHow to monitor the polling server is up
Hi, I am stuck with this problem where one of my polling engine is down (but the services are all running). How could I monitor that the server is up? I do not want to monitor all the nodes for the...
View ArticleHow are you handling IIS App Pool alerting?
Using SAM 5.2, our organization is monitoring each separate app pool on each separate Windows Server. But every time the app pool recycles, it can take anywhere from 5 minutes to 25 minutes for the app...
View ArticleIn Cisco devices, the Total Memory report incorrect
Hi, I realized that the Total Memory value in Solarwind reporter are incorrect. And the percentage of MEMORY Utilization may be incorrect also, because it take value of Used Memory divided to wrong...
View ArticleDell m6220 - Did not receive VTY entry prompt from device after CR
Can not get CatTools to backup the configs on my Dell m6220 switches. Have read several existing posts but their resolves did not work. * have changed from Dell Switch CLI to Cisco.Switch.IOS -...
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Alert for sum of EIGRP neighbors
So, I want the ability to monitor and alert for the ammount of EIGRP neighbors on more than 1 router. I have 3 routers(being load balanced) that service as tunnel endpoints. Tunnels aren't exactly...
View ArticleH3C Monitoring
Is anyone utilizing Orion NPM for H3C (HP) A series switch monitoring; specifically CPU, memory, environmental, and possibly IRF (that might be asking much). I am able to monitor interfaces without...
View ArticleDifferent Polling Time
For NMS plotting, we need to polling for different interval of time? So availability for each node is monitored accordingly. For ExampleNode 1 will be monitored for 9 AM to 5 PM only.Node 2 will be...
View ArticleAdditional polling engine on a different subnet
My Orion NPM and database server are located in our internal network. I want to setup an additional polling engine to poll all of routers with public IP addresses. This additional polling engine...
View ArticleAllow customization of the File Sharing "Landing" page.
We would like to be able to brand the page that external users see when they follow the link to the file sharing upload / download page.
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