Does Anybody Actually Use the CLI?
An observation I have made over the years is that during acquisition of a storage, network, or computing system in general, most storage and system administrators I know seem to care deeply about...
View Articlenetwork goes down every 3 weeks
hi guys i'm experiencing an issue that happens every 3 weeks for the last year, the users internet connection goes down until you reboot the core switch then it is ok for the next 3 weeks until it...
View Articledisk monitoring with mount points
Is there anyway that orion will monitor the mount points on a windows disk? Say I have a 80gb partition and create a mount point thats 80gb and mount it to the 80gb partition. Solar winds doesn't show...
View ArticleLogin screen in report email
I have a weekly "Interface Percent Utilization Report" sent to one of my customers, however, the report URL link and the .PDF attachement just show the SolarWinds login screen and nothing more. When I...
View ArticleFoE and APE Scenaro across WAN question
Can anyone help me understand how FoE would perform in the following scenario? We have our main polling engine in our UK data center, and an additional polling engine (APE) in the United States. We...
View ArticleCopy View with Left Navigation enabled
Running NPM 10.4We have custom pages for most device types, but we really dig the left navigation. Is it possible to copy a page/set of pages with Left navigaion enabled? I noticed all of the tabs are...
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Alert when ESX Status in equal to UP
Has anyone successfully done this before?polling I submitted a ticket and they said that this will need to be a custom sql alert because there's no template made for it yet.
View ArticleInterfaceName property
I'm trying to use this code snippet to loop through the VLAN interfaces on routers to change IP Helper addresses. The problem is that the InterfaceName property includes a dash in the name so you...
View ArticleNPM newbiew question
I've been playing around with some of the alerts, but didn't find this option. I would like an alert to be generated if NPM cannot successfully poll a device IP after two polling intervals with X...
View ArticleShare Calendar with Sharepoint
I am working with a customer that has recently installed Orion and Alert Central. They would like to import a sharepoint calendar into the alert central calendar. Has anyone tried and succeeded this?
View Articleanybody successfully using any Cisco 3750's with the C3KX-NM-10G module...
anybody successfully using any Cisco 3750's with the C3KX-NM-10G module working in NTA (Netflow Traffic Analyzer). We are trying to avoid buying routers at our satellite locations simply to gather...
View ArticleNetApp Disk Failure Alerting
Model: NetApp FAS3160 (2 Node Cluster) We have had a couple of single disk failures in the past couple of days and I am trying to figure out if Storage Manager can alert me when this happens. I see...
View ArticleCustom SWQL Query Resource Help
I'm working with EOC trying to use the Custom SWQL query resources to get a resource to show me all Acknowledged alerts from Orion servers. The following works in SQL: Select...
View ArticleTip: Linux Configs in NCM
It's not the most elegant solution in the world, but I managed to get this working. Let's say that you want version control for httpd.conf and php.ini on a *nix server is running SSH. Here's what I...
View ArticleNPM - unable to discover Hardware resources
I have added a physical box (server) in to NPMOS = rhel 5.7 Model = HP ProLiant DL580 G7The snmp poll is fetching all the volumes/interfaces/mem information from the node, but its not able to discover...
View ArticleCustomizing Alert Central Subject Lines
I am working to enhance the subject lines of the alert central emails to be a little more informative, much like the email alerts directly out of Orion. There is some inconsistency in the variable...
View ArticleAlert Central email: Default notification fields
Hi Solarwinds family! I have Orion with SAM, NPM and some others. I use Advanced Alerts to alert when issues arise. The emails received directly from Orion are very specific and useful because I...
View ArticleIPAM Events - What interactions are there?
We purchased IPAM last week and I installed IPAM 4.0 yesterday. Today I was looking around in it while skimming the admin guide when I decided to clear some of the obvious events to reduce the clutter...
View ArticleWHAT WE ARE WORKING ON POST NPM 10.5
Because NPM 10.5 has been released recently we are already working on the next release of NPM. Here is a preview:Web based reporting UI with new "out of the box" reports with chartsReports that will...
View ArticleCISCO-FIREWALL-MIB
I'm looking to see if within Solarwinds I have to install the CISCO-FIREWALL-MIB? I cannot find where this MIB is. After spending a couple days trying to work out Advanced Alerts with different OID...
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