Re: The death of SNMP
Until there's an alternative to SNMP that is just as simple and universally supported, it can't just go away. It's the one protocol I expect to be present on every device I manage. And the data to be...
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Re: What tips and tricks do you have for networking?
Great advice! I like to pair that with a healthy dose of "don't try to fix anything until you understand the problem." Too often I've seen engineers flail about trying to resolve an outage by issuing...
View ArticleRe: Can't monitor multiple events in taskscheduler log?
Just found out this is a bug, and was fixed in 5.5.0 SP1. I am running 5.5.0.
View ArticleRe: Can't monitor multiple events in taskscheduler log?
SAM 6.0.1 is out. Time to upgrade SolarWinds SAM 6.0.1 Release NotesSolarWinds SAM 6.0 Release Notes
View ArticleRe: VMWare DPM - How does VMan deal with this?
Hi Simon, NPM, SAM, and VMAN are 3 different products in the SolarWinds portfolio. The alerting and collection engines between the products are different and one product does not (generally) tell...
View ArticleRe: Removing Stale Email Addresses
Hey guys! Would you mind voting on this idea http://thwack.solarwinds.com/ideas/3102 requesting a more friendly solution? Thanks for this workaround!!
View ArticleWhere can I see the message returned by my linux shell script?
Hi All, I am completely new with SAM and I have been asked to monitor a linux process in SAM by writing a script. I have manged to to get it running and working and SAM does displays the status of the...
View ArticleRe: I can't see my "custom properties" in Advanced Alert Manager
Jimmy, In AAM- it appears under "Type of Property to Monitor" we have "Interface" selected, but are looking at "Network Nodes" custom properties. Node CPs won't be available for the interface object...
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Re: Where can I see the message returned by my linux shell script?
The Message variable is seen on the "Components" Resource on the "Application Details" view, as well as the "Component Details" resource on the "Component Details" view as pictured below.
View ArticleRe: NetFlow Stopped Exporting from a 6509
I don't think this is going to work; it looks like you're running a Supervisor 1A/MSFC2. That supervisor went end-of-life in 2004 and end-of-support in 2010. I'm pretty sure NetFlow v5 requires at...
View ArticleRe: Dashboard slow refresh status
Hi Kolev, Sorry, I'm still not sure what is going on from your description. Maybe posting screenshots would help me to understand what you are experiencing?
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Re: Ticket Status that follows a workflow
Thanks for adding it as a feature request, Regarding the second request, my custom field is a yes / no option however i only want the job to be able to close if it is set to yes. Also, if i make it a...
View ArticleRe: Orion Advanced Alerts: Alert based on Team (group)?
I second the warning about using the suppression tab. The problem is that suppression conditions are always evaluated independently of the trigger condition and kills the trigger. So in your example...
View ArticleJuniper Interface no longer exists. Data collection terminated.
I started moniting Juniper switches this week and now I am seeing this error on multiple ports "Interface no longer exists. Data collection terminated" I am using NPM 10.6 and SNMP to pull the...
View ArticleRe: Re: I'd like to create an SQL report on collected WMI Collection stats
What about this? SELECT n.[SysName], a.ID as AppId, a.Name as AppName, c.ID as CompId, c.Name as CompName, csd.[TimeStamp], ped.AvgStatisticData FROM APM_PortEvidence ped INNER JOIN APM_ComponentStatus...
View ArticleRe: UDT Port Usage Report
I think I'll go with that, after a few minor alterations. SELECT Nodes.Caption , DateTime ,PortCount as 'Port Count' ,ActivePortCount as 'Active Port Count' ,(PortCount -...
View ArticleRe: Orion Advanced Alerts: Alert based on Team (group)?
We also use a custom property, called DeviceType. We use that to direct alerts (some alerts look for devicetype = prod server, others switch/router/whatever), and also to filter views and resources....
View ArticleRe: Need help understanding Poller Stats
Hmm.I ran a couple of tests and found that they do come back actually. How did you specify to only add “new things”?The only way I could exclude them was to set the Advanced Filter to exclude certain...
View ArticleNCM: ignore all white space in config file comparison
I've some switch that emits random amounts of white-space in their configuration files. I kid you not... I wandered why I had 20,000 configuration files for switches from this vendor until I diffed the...
View ArticleRe: Fortmanager OID
here is the output from the walk, I stripped out some of the specifics relating to my devices (names, ip address, etc) .1.3.6.1.2.1.1.1.0 = String: "xxx".1.3.6.1.2.1.1.2.0 = OID:...
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