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Cisco Industrial Switch - Ignore power monitoring
Hi, I have a heap of Cisco IE3000 industrial switches that have dual DC power supplies. Our enviroment only requires 1 of the power supplies to be connected which is perfectly fine and you can turn...
View ArticleWhat Custom Properties do you use?
I'd like to start an open ended discussion on what custom properties people use in their environments and how they use them. For instance, do you have network switches that have certain properties...
View ArticleIP SLA http monitoring via proxy server?
We are using VNQM v4.0 on NPM 10.6.1, is it possible to do http ip sla monitoring through a proxy server as I can't see an option for that. Thanks.
View ArticleLimiting Syslog View
Hey, I'm currently trying to set up a user account for a client and I need to limit their access to the Syslog messages. Is it possible to add an account limitation that means they are only able to see...
View Articlesystem center service manager
Is anyone using scsm 2012 along with your orion suite? If so how do you link the 2 products? Email? Or do you use scom as a proxy? We recently implemented Web Helpdesk and it is meeting most of our...
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STP and VLAN details in Atlas 10.7 RC4
I upgraded to RC4 last night and so far I am impressed with the added functionality for VLANs and trunks. I am having difficulty getting STP and VLAN info to display in the tooltips in Atlas. I have...
View ArticlePlanning for a new SolarWinds NPM deployment
Hello, Would like to get a recommendation for hardware plan for a new deployment of Orion NPM. I have about 1000 nodes I am going to be monitoring via SNMP, I would like to know what is the best...
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Has anyone been able to make the 'Browse for Logo' option in the NPM Web...
I would like to put a custom logo on some of my reports and I thought that I should be able to do it using the "Browse for Logo" button when creating a new web report. However, all I get when I browse...
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Issues after deleting Groups
I am deleting and adding nodes using Sonar. I figured I would delete the groups and dependencies as well. Now every node on the maps in Atlas says that 'Object status is UP, one or more child...
View ArticleNew node showing up in NPM but it can't be pinged
I added some new nodes to NPM that are not yet in service but are showing up status in NPM. I cannot ping any of these nodes. These are disaster recovery devises that are normally down but we need to...
View ArticleTrying to query last month and have it show each date
Hello All! I'm trying to query last months 95th percentile but I would like it to show me each day in the report. I'm working with custom SQL to build this report and already have one that pulls last...
View ArticleInconsistent Unicode character support in Groups
Hi, When creating a group with Unicode characters in the group name, the resulting name is gibberish like BørgeWhen creating a dynamic query within the group, where the name of the dynamic...
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Fresh Installation for NPM 10.6.1 and no Virtualization tab
Hi I installed the new NPM 10.6.1 following the administrator guide step by step but I found no Virtualization tab next to theother installed Solarwinds products. Instead, I found virtualization link...
View ArticleDynamic Query (REGEX) help
Hello All, I have recently discovered the dynamic query feature (with regular expression support) in NPM and I would like to use it to group devices and applications on my network. I have been trying...
View ArticleHow to troubleshoot MSSQLSERVER SERVICE stops?
I realize this is not a Microsoft forum, however, I also know there is a plethora of knowledge here, so... Yesterday, our Solarwinds server stopped. (Orion Platform 2013.2.1, NCM 7.2.2, NPM 10.6.1, NTA...
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SNMP Trap Alerting questions
I have an external server that is sending SNMP traps to my NPM server. These traps have a certain variable in them that indicate a circuit ID. The problem is that this server sends the same snmp trap...
View ArticleSWjobEngineWorker2.exe is killing my CPU
I have seven pollers. All are at 50% load or less. Yesterday at 4PM, outside of any patch cycle, update cycle or change cycle, one of my additional pollers spiked to 100% and has stayed there. It...
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NPM add a node - option "Active Directory Domain Controller" ?
I am wondering what exactly is this feature doing in NPM: "Active Directory Domain Controller" in add Nodes dialogue...Cannot find any hint in documentation - what does it really do? My guess based on...
View ArticleWhat port does Network Atlas use to talk to the SolarWinds server when...
What port does Network Atlas use to talk to the SolarWinds server when running Atlas from a different machine?My server sits behind a firewall, so I need to open up a port so I can edit maps locally...
View ArticleWhat's the best way to find nodes which are ICMP up but not responding to SNMP?
I have a few nodes (especially net-snmp Linux) which are finicky when coming back up and often need SNMP service restarted. While it's easy for me to spot them, Node UP but hardware health, volumes,...
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