Interface Rediscovery on IF-MIB:linkUp
We currently utilise the IF-MIB:linkUp trap type to immediately transition an interface status in NPM to UP rather than waiting for the next scheduled poll. This is done via the trap viewer and Alert...
View ArticleAny way to create a report that will pull me up a list of interfaces that are...
We have a case where we are experiencing asymmetric routing over some of our routers, there is some receive traffic coming down our DSL back up lines. We have a very large estate and I need to weed out...
View ArticleDo 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 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 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 Articleunknow status when assigning active directory template to some domain...
I assigned the template Active Directory 2008 R2 - 2012 Services and Counters and come of the components only show a status of unknown. These components are working on other domain controllers and it...
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MAC address detection
Hi,I have a NPM and IPAM module.I would like to create an event (trigger or something) which will detect a new (unknown) MAC addresses on the network and send an email to the administrator (all MAC...
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 ArticleDisk space alerts not working for one server
I have SAM configured to monitor volume space for all of our servers. Yesterday, I found that one of our servers had zero disk space left, yet we were never alerted. We have received disk space alerts...
View ArticleServer and Application Monitor causes High CPU - wmiprvse.exe
Anyone else experiencing High CPU on Windows 2008 servers since implementing SAM with WMI polls? We are seeing the wmiprvse.exe service consume a lot of processor since starting to use SAM. I've...
View Articleconstantly increasing cpu load on ipmonitor server
there is a NEW installation of ipmonitor on our customer's windows 2008 server and the cpu load is constantly increasing during the last week (s. screenshot attached)there is nothing else installed on...
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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 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 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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