How to import a list of nodes with a certain attributes into NPM
How to import a list of nodes with a certain attributes into NPM. I am new to Solarwinds and I am trying to figure out how to perform what should be a simple task. I have a list of Windows nodes to...
View ArticleSWQL report writer all cisco devices
Hello, I am trying to use the SWQL as my selection method for a custom table. I have been going through documentation and once I came across the 1.9 SDK I have made much more progress. My question is...
View Articleping component monitor for external nodes?
Is there an equivalent of a ping component monitor in NPM? Need to ping an external node. (External nodes which don't have ICMP functionality, regretfully.) Short of scripting it, of course. Thanks!
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How does Solarwinds populate graph details?
In this graph how does Solarwinds populate the non bandwidth data and by this I mean the description of the chart?I understand that the part of the description circled in red is pulled straight from...
View ArticleSNMPv3 and Cisco IOS upgrade
I have been using SNMPv3 for monitoring my Cisco ISRG2 routers for a few years now and has worked great except the last 2 IOS upgrades. Once we upgrade the IOS on the router I'm unable to gather stat's...
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Weird issue with NPM / UCS Blades with VMWare and Disks
So we have a much of our ESXi hosts running on UCS blades and all of them are showing the following error. It seems that the drives are not checking in to the hardware monitoring. Has anyone else seen...
View Articlepull a map using a variable like ${Node.Caption} on the nodes view
recently had this proposed to me and went in to try it out but when you add a MAP to the node view it then wants you to select the ONE map that you want it to pull in.thought that there should be some...
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DPI tracking of SWIS web services
DPI question here - is it possible to create an application using the URL for our main poller under the assumption it would be primarily 17777 traffic or would this loop in all 1433, and even the agent...
View ArticleObtaining Interface Utilization - RECV & XMIT Percentage
I am trying to obtain the Interface Utilization Receiving & Transmitting Percentages found within the Vital Statistics tab for a Node. More specifically I am looking for how to obtain the...
View Articlehardware (and VM) inventory system
Any off-the-shelf solutions for that? I need to keep a log of changes done to the systems, and be able to quickly match MAC, IP addresses with physical hardware (and VMs) and Orion objects. Ideally...
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Nexus 5548UP native fiber channel interfaces
Sorry if this has been answered somewhere and I was just unable to find it. We have just purchased 2 Nexus 5548UP's for a new SAN project. Switches are up and running and have been added to NPM. We...
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Intermittent QoE failures
Hi, I am seeing some odd QoE issues and was wondering if anyone else has run into this. For whatever reason, my QoE apps will just stop working. The agents show up and connected, but the status of the...
View ArticleUser connection information for Citrix XenApp 6.5. NPM or SAM?
We are attempting to gather user-specific data from our Citrix servers running XenApp 6.5. We've looked for custom MIB pollers using the UNDP tool, but didn't see any user-specific data, and a MIB...
View Articlehow to poll CPU and memory on VSS Monitoring Protector 408 devices
Anyone out there know how to poll CPU and memory on a VSS Monitoring Potector 408 device?
View ArticleDPI issues with additional poller
Anyone here using an additional poller with NPM 11 and having issues with Agent management and the DPI module? I'm getting repeated errors that it's unable to find the SolarWinds.AMS.Proxy.dll but the...
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Web Reports Problem with Charts
Happy Friday to everyone, We are running into an issue with web report charts, when referencing peak transmit and receive bps.Notice the duplicate "2 MB" entries. This happens any time it should...
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Monitoring Cisco UCS Chassis (one works one doesn't)
So I've been struggling a little with the directions on adding a Cisco UCS chassis into monitoring. I've found the http://www.solarwinds.com/documentation/Orion/docs/SettingUpCiscoUCS.pdf doc to be...
View ArticleAdvanced Alerting Help
I apologize in advance for this wall of text, but I feel like I have a pretty complicated issue I am trying to deal with.To start, the computers we have deployed have huge problems with dropping hard...
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Y Axis chart dynamically updating and duplicating
Hi guys, I have this issue where the y axis on a bandwidth chart keeps scaling inconsistently. I would like to be able to have a fixed scale such as 0, 1, 2, 3, etc. Mbps instead of 0 bps, 488 kbps,...
View Article95th percentile value from Report Writer
Can someone help me with the 95th percentile value extraction from Report writer for Multiple Interfaces?
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