SCP exam overview - my perspective
I like to take tests. I'm just weird that way. At one of my jobs, they actually put "exam hamster" on my business cards. For me, It's like doing a crossword puzzle and most of the time I don't have a...
View ArticleIs there a way to troubleshoot why the the "test" button fails when adding a...
I was asked to add a node (not a windows server, a UPS or similar device) to Orion that must be added via SNMP. Adding it and then hitting the "Test" button returns "Test Failed" but no details (for...
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Transform SystemUptime to clean Format in Universal Device Poller
Him as I am quite new with NPM I am trying to get the system uptime displayed in Nodes Overview for my Cisco Network Devices.Using Universal Device Poller I can get the corresponding value from SNMP...
View ArticleDatacom DM 4100 Netflow/Sflow
Hello, I need some help with NTA on a client network. Im trying to configure a Datacom DM 4100 switch, i made the sflow config on the switch, and solarwinds tells me that he is receiving something, but...
View ArticleCisco Wireless Controller 5508 Netflow
We are successfully using NTA 4.1.0 with other data sources and have now configured our Cisco 5508 Wireless Controllers to export NetFlow to NTA and are seeing the following error: NetFlow Receiver...
View ArticleCommon list of Netflow applications to add
Hello everyone, Has anyone seen a common list of applications that you can add to Netflow? For example, Netflix, youtube, facebook, etc... Big bandwidth hogs like streaming video can usually be seen...
View ArticleBizTalk Server 2013 Monitoring Solarwinds
I am having issues monitoring my BizTalk 2013 environment using Solarwinds. We have a two server Production environment and need to look at monitoring Send Ports, Receive Ports, Hosts and Receive...
View ArticleUpdate Custom Properties for Group
Hi,Is there any Orion verb to update custom properties for group/container?
View ArticleAccount Limitations - Not working.
Hi, I hope I'm being thick here but I'm having issues with some Account Limitations I'm trying to implement. I've created an account that wants to be a) limited to nodes that start ABC (for example) b)...
View ArticleNCM data in "report writer"?
!Hi All,I want to modify the "IP Addresses on each interface" report in NCM. I can't find interface IP's in report writer - only node IP's. I'd like to generate a .csv file, from report writer,...
View ArticleHow to join multiple custom pollers?
I am trying to join several custom pollers that do not share a single key or have a proper relationship. Is it possible to join these pollers with an SQL statement?Here is a post I found that is...
View ArticleExpose Dashboards without Authentication
I am new to SAM and I am trying to figure out if there is a way to expose dashboards without having to require authentication. I didn't see anything in the Admin Guide about it.
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Way to group/ merge duplicate results in the report
I'm aware that the solarwinds report is able to group the results in column but, is there a way to group or merge the duplicate results in the report and instead of displaying in column it will display...
View ArticleHow can I configure Cat Tools to connect to Dell SSH?
I am attempting to configure Cat Tools to backup some of our Dell PowerConnect 5548s running-configs over SSH, however I am running into problems when initiating the SSH session. Since the Dell SSH on...
View ArticleSQL or VIEW to select group-members
Hi, can someone point me to a sql statment that generates a list of nodes which a member of a certain group?@SW Team: For future use it might be good to have some views (i.e. one per objecttype) with...
View ArticleSyslog messages format
Why, when I send to Kiwi Syslog Server a message like "<25>Jul 10 18.04.33 Hostname Appname Message", it only understand the priority, but the timestamp and hostname has ignored and the log look...
View ArticleReplicated NetFlow
Since we send the NetFlow streams to 2 different systems I wondered if Orion can handle streams sent to it from a replicator device? For instance we also have Arbor that can replicate the data and...
View ArticleCPU alerts, reporting top ten
Hello, After I upgraded from 6.1.1 to 6.2.1, this is no longer giving any stats in the alert. Here is what is in the body: Node: ${Caption}CPU Load: ${CPULoad}. The top 10 processes running at the time...
View ArticleAudit Failure from where?
Hi all, I am finding logs in servers where some account is not authenticating from my SAM server as seen below: The computer attempted to validate the credentials for an account.Authentication Package:...
View ArticleNetflow tool requires Admin access to run
Hello, We've just purchased the Engineer's Toolset 11 for one of our Network Engineers to test out. In the course of his testing he has discovered that the Netflow Real-time Tool pops up the UAC....
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