Has anyone else reading this observed similar traffic with unmanaged nodes?
Yes, I have, and it's randomness coupled with persistence is driving me nu... is very exciting. We have about 15 unmanaged and offline nodes yet some are showing up and some aren't. In example below, Encoder-VM05 is one of eight identical offline unmanaged nodes, yet only Encoder-VM05 shows up in "high packet loss" alerts, others don't.
All of them also show "average CPU load" and other stats. They've been offline (shutdown) for over a month. Their total life span was less than a week. So this is "average" of what? Solarwinds monitoring the Land of the Dead?
The original post was in 2008. That was six years ago, and yet the dead and unmanaged nodes are still very much alive. This is sad.