Calling All Volunteers - We'd Like Your Input on Alert Central!
Do you use NPM but not Alert Central? We’d love to have your fresh eyes review some Alert Central items that are in the works. If you have an hour for a virtual meeting and are interested in checking...
View ArticleJob Engine v2 gone whack
I'm seeing our JE2 process has 2.1 billion jobs in queue and has dropped about 15K jobs in the last 15 minutes. Has anyone seen this before?I have a ticket open on this but just checking to see if...
View ArticleReport for Universal Device Poller Transforms
I need to write a report with values from Universal Device Poller Transforms that are assigned to a particular node. I can't figure out how to get the proper fields to show up in Report Writer. Is...
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Why does the Application pool timeout?
It seems that when running the Config Wizard that it fails more often than not with the following error: Of course i can go restart the Application Pool and the SolarWinds website, but why does this...
View ArticleLog for Failed "Add Node"
We are trying to troubleshoot being unable to add a group of Nodes in one particular domain. Are there any logs in NPM that would give any information as to why they failed (i.e. timed out, bad...
View ArticleIncident Ticketing Intregration with NPM
Hi there... Is there *any* existing commercial or open source packages on the market today that have integration with NPM? I'm familiar with Solarwinds WHD and we are evaluating it currently, however...
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Alert based on traffic volume
Is it possible to do an alert based on traffic volume? We have an internet link with a utilization allowance of 200Gb per month. I'd like to get an alert once the link gets to 190Gb of the allowance...
View ArticleHow can I view all nodes in a group and subgroups in NPM?
We just deployed a fresh instance of NPM 10.6 and discovered all of our nodes. I've been in the process of organizing them into groups and subgroups with the following (generalized) structure:...
View ArticleNPM migration, better off updating to the latest version on existing server...
We are undergoing a hardware upgrade for our NPM and want to upgrade to the latest software versions of NPM, VNQM, SAM and Engineers Toolkit while we're at it. Would we be better off upgrading to the...
View ArticleDelete "Summary of" text on web based report
I have a report for distribution but want to delete all the "Summary of" text information generated on the page. How can I accomplish this?
View ArticleTabular Power Supply Poller for Cisco 3750 Stacks - not reporting proper status
So I have built out tabular pollers; but for some of the 3750 stacks the 2nd and 3rd switches are reporting these Power Supply's Down.I can not use that for an Alert due to bad values. I have even re...
View ArticleCustom chart showing utilization assistance for NOC view
Hi everyone,I am wondering if it is possible to create a table that contains the a column for Location Field, Inbound % Utilization, and Outboud % Utilization for the WAN interface at each of our...
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NPM showing interface errors that don't exist
Running NPM 10.6, NTA 3.11.0 here. My Top 10 Chart shows errors all the time like this: If you zoom in on an interface you get this: BUT..... If you actually login to the switch and look at the...
View ArticleAdd Custom Report to Available View Resources
I need to add a report I wrote to a view that I am developing but I don't see how to add the report to available resources that I can choose from when I edit the view. I assume its something simple but...
View ArticleImport new interfaces for existing nodes automatically
Ok, I've gone through Thwack trying to find a straight answer but not having much luck. So can someone help me? 1) Does Solarwinds NPM 10.6 automatically detect new interfaces on existing nodes and...
View ArticleAlert email flood control?
From time to time, due to some misconfiguration or some other incident, we notice alert flood from Solarwinds. While it is no mistake of Alerting Engine, is it possible to define thresholds to stop...
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Link Speed upgrade
Hi all, One of the nodes we manage under Solarwinds NPM had it's link speed upgraded from 1 to 2 meg the other day, Solarwinds is correctly monitoring the increased traffic speed, I was just wondering...
View ArticleDetermine how Solarwinds could be manipulated for automation
Please assist. I will appreciate. How we could manipulate Solarwinds that would be useful for an automated deploy. This could be a command line interface or an API or anything else that would let us...
View ArticlePolling Engine CPU 100%
We have a dedicated server with 16GIG of Ram and an Intel Xeon CPU E5 26430 @ 3.30 Ghz (8 cores). We have roughly 6k elements and 95% of those elements are polled on the default intervals. We are...
View ArticleIs it possible to create a new (virtual) node based on a node group?
Is it possible to create a (virtual) node based on a node group?The idea being to create a group of real nodes with a common property, such as physical location, and to have a virtual node...
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