Is there a way to obtain historic records of the Web Console's access logins?
I need to know the duration of the sessions of web console users, and if possible get a periodic report.
View ArticleSNMPv3 with ESXi?
Hi, Putting this in the NPM group, since it is an SNMP issue.... Please don't ask me why (long story), but I am trying to get NPM to poll an ESXi server. Anyone get this to work? I have the ESXi 5.1...
View ArticleAlerts based on nodes in a Group
In NPM 10.4 I was able to create an alert based on any node in group "core routers" went down it would notify me via email. After the 10.5 update appears that my manually created group disappeared....
View ArticleMulticast logs filling Event log.
HELP! How do you turn this event off? We just upgraded to 10.5 and it's filling up the event log. Unless I missed it, I can't find an Advanced Alert that has this message text that writes to the...
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Removing a fan from monitoring?
Hello All, One of my customer sites is reporting the following error: Fan 4 is not connected and I would like to remove it from monitoring. Is there a way to remove just that fan node? Thanks!
View ArticleThe Myth of the 5 9's
I just posted this over on my personal blog (The Myth of Five-Nines | AdatoSystems Monitoring), but I'm sharing it here too. Hopefully you can use it to help explain to colleagues, customers or...
View ArticleWithin the down Interface View question.
Hello Within the down Interface View; question:: is there a way to flag or mark the displayed interface has been acknowledged or is being worked on . That way the next person knows if that Down...
View ArticleNPM won't accept SNMP credentials
I added a switch to my company's network and have been having trouble keeping the node status to up. Every now and then, NPM will tell me the node is up, but then about four minutes later the node...
View ArticleVM Host Memory Used vs. Memory Consumption
On the ESX Host Details screen of a VMWare host what's the difference between the Memory Used gauge and the Virtual Machine Memory Consumption line graph? I would assume (which is always a mistake)...
View ArticleSQL Query to get node custom properties
I know this will work in 10.4.2 : select syscolumns.name as [Column], syscolumns.colidfrom sysobjects, syscolumns where sysobjects.id = syscolumns.id and sysobjects.name = 'Nodes' and...
View ArticleMonitored disk status not changing the status of a node
Hello, Per a post I found elsewhere on Thwack (Re: Monitoring Disk Space change the status of a node) the status of a node's interfaces and volumes should affect the node's status. However, I have a...
View ArticleNPM vs SCOM Network Monitoring 2012
Hi Guys, We are currently using NPM 10.3.1, NCM, NTA, IPAM. We are building a new green field data center and i have been tasked to look at SCOM 2012 network monitoring as a replacement for NCM. I know...
View ArticleBug: Editing a node while adding a new one
When using the NPM web front end, the following quirky behavior is found: 1) From the NPM Home Page, click Manage nodes a) Click Add Node b) Give it an IP Address c) Select polling method (for the...
View ArticleUnmanage question
I set some devices to become unmanaged in a few days time for an outage. The outage has been cancelled so now I no longer want them to become unmanaged. But I can't find out where to cancel this...
View ArticlezLinux
Hello Thwackers! I wanted to reach out and see if anyone has had any experience with monitoring a zLinux installtion with Orion? Our mainframers are wanting to install a bunch of extra tools to...
View ArticleAlert emails not being sent when SMTP server is temporarily unavailable -...
We have an advanced alert configured to email an on-call phone when a critical device reboots. We had a core switch reboot and Orion detected this - I see it in the event log, but we did not receive an...
View ArticleMonitoring MS UM IVR
We are using Microsoft Unified Messaging for voice mail and for its IVR abilities. The tutorial below shows how I might beable to use Performance Monitor to get at some data. But I need to be able to...
View ArticleCisco IOS update and Node appears red in NPM
I just updated the IOS on a Cisco 3750G switch. When I rebooted, the Node went red in NPM and still remains red. The switch in question is in a DMZ. I can ssh into the switch and ping the switch from...
View ArticleAlert definitions which never triggered till now
Will I be able to find out alert definitions which were never satisfied or which were never alerted? I wanted to see whether there is any alert which was configured wrong, because of it, it never...
View ArticleIs there a command line for solarwinds orion npm?
So that I can use bat file to generate reports and export it to a certain location
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