Use SNMP-based Tools Carefully, Or They Can Turn Against You
SNMP is a wonderful, sometimes maddening management protocol. It can provide monitoring, powerful trending, and alerting when things go wrong on the network. But too much of anything can be bad, and...
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SolarWinds Saved My Bacon
What was life like before using SolarWinds? Life Was tough before we deployed SolarWinds, our network wasnt very large and we had few outages (thankfully) however we didnt use any monitoring tools and...
View ArticleRe: FoE and APE Scenaro across WAN question
I will do my best to answer.Passive server is NOT running as an additional poller, it is basically a full blown Orion installation. Now what happens is assuming the secondary Orion server in the US is...
View ArticleRe: Use SNMP-based Tools Carefully, Or They Can Turn Against You
Our biggest issue is educating our admins. There is one particular admin that it took us clsoe to six months to break her of setting up SNMP with Public as the community string. We had several battles...
View ArticleRe: Does Anybody Actually Use the CLI?
I'll use a GUI all day long, but there are some things a GUI isn't and scriptable is one of those things that it isn't. I'll even admit that I've come across a device with a scripting system but no...
View ArticleRe: Does Anybody Actually Use the CLI?
To me the CLI is only good for scripting and batch files.
View ArticleNew to SolarWinds NPM & interested in improving reporting?—We want to talk to...
The SolarWinds UX (User Experience) team is looking for people who have only been using SolarWinds NPM for 6 months or less who are interested in spending an hour with us to get a sneak peek at some...
View ArticleRe: Use SNMP-based Tools Carefully, Or They Can Turn Against You
We don't have a lot of devices, but I would say that no, we're not 100% organized here in regards to SNMP traffic. I'm not even sure how much is too much to be honest, but so far with several admins...
View ArticleNew Orion product users--we want to talk to you about reporting!
Are you a new Orion user (6 months or less of experience on NPM, NCM, SAM, NTA, IPAM, UDT or WPM)?Are you interested in getting a preview of what reporting on the web might look like?Do you have one...
View ArticleRe: How do you run sudo commands against alert central?
What commands are you needing to run?
View ArticleRe: Calendar Question
It is only possible to set the color of the group. All calendars for a given group will show up with the groups color.
View Articlemove DB from win 2k8 R2 to esx appliance
Currently running WHD ver 11.2.1 on win xp pro with users testing. I have created a win 2k8 R2 (64bit) server, installed WHD 11.2.1, copied across the Frontbase DB and all was ok.On the win 2k8R2...
View ArticleRe: SAM Beta Participation Points
Beta points are not awarded typically until after the release candidate has been made available and sometimes not until GA depending on the number of participants. So long as your boss was the one to...
View ArticleRe: Group creation with Generic Application members problem
I believe this issue has been identified and resolved internally under case FB244888. The fix will be included in beta 4 once it's released. I appreciate you bringing this to our attention.
View ArticleRe: Alert help for when a Node comes back online
Thanks Rob for the reply, I am showing the exact same settings in the reset action of the original alert. Although it works for the servers but not for the specific router. I do not have that setting...
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Re: Alert help for when a Node comes back online
Assuming the action we are looking for is an email action, we'll need to "Add new Action" to the reset action, select "Email/Page Action" and configure the desired settings (including SMTP server.)...
View ArticleRe: Popup display in a third-party custom package
Thanks, Lawrence. I got partial success. The first popup does appear that is within my code. At the end of the code, there is a line to restart the system, shutdown -r -t 60 -c "Restarting your machine...
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I just added the email action. I tested and it looks good. Thanks again for your help!!
View ArticleRe: Alert help for when a Node comes back online
Absolutely, please let us know if we can help.
View ArticleRe: Alert when ESX Status in equal to UP
You could try using JOIN in Custom SQL ALert. JOIN VIM_Hosts ON VIM_Hosts.NodeID = Nodes.NodeIDWHERE (VIM_Hosts.OverallStatus != 'green' OR VIM_Hosts.ConnectionState != 'connected')
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