Nexus 7k Core switches - what do you monitor?!
We've just bought two new nexus 7k core switches for our new building, I've started to set them up in Solarwinds but wanting to see how/what people monitor on these type of switches? Currently we will...
View ArticleRe: How to monitor desktop, laptops and other non-essentials without showing...
We used an approach similar to what rob.hock and mcam mentioned above.The alerts for my network devices reference a custom property (specifically the Department out of the box field). Anything that...
View ArticleDO NOT TRIGGER THIS ACTION UNTIL CONDITION HAS EXISTS FOR MORE THAN ###
Hi, I found an old thread http://thwack.solarwinds.com/message/61066#61066 which I could not update, so here is the request again.I also need to be able to specify individual times for alerts on nodes,...
View ArticleRe: Show us a NOC view and get 500 thwack points!
Just so everyone knows, if you submitted a NOC view by August 10, as per the requirements in the original post, you'll get your points. Apologies, I am running behind on requesting them! Please email...
View ArticleRe: 500 thwack point limited time offer: how would you like to use Cron to...
Hi everyone, I have received a number of emails about my tardy awarding of points. Shame on me! Apologies and working on rectifying this now. If you do not see points by end of day Friday,...
View ArticleRe: 500 thwack point limited time offer: how would you like to use Cron to...
My biggest thing would be improved discoveries. Currently the only option is daily. We have a very large network. I would stagger our schedule. So let's say for example that I have 21 networks I...
View ArticleRe: Orion NPM 9.5 Wireless Tab: Wireless units not showing
Hi,3Com APs are not officially supported right now. Some of them could be discovered as generic APs though. I would suggest you to open support ticked and send SNMP walk, so we can check why it is not...
View ArticleRe: OID to get current system date for HP Procurve switches?
Hi Mateusz,Thank you for your reply.It is mostly about being able to look into a devices log file to see what happened whensomething went wrong and to have the correct time stamp in the log.Some older...
View ArticleRe: DO NOT TRIGGER THIS ACTION UNTIL CONDITION HAS EXISTS FOR MORE THAN ###
Hi Robert, As far as I am aware, this would still be a feature request, as the "do not trigger..." field is a fixed number. Your idea of having numerous alerts for different delay times is exactly the...
View ArticleRe: 500 thwack point limited time offer: how would you like to use Cron to...
Cron is super powerful but its syntax is complex. I always have to look up the syntax when updating. Like all Linux commands, powerful but cryptic. With a good frontend, cron give total control of...
View ArticleRe: What did I miss?
Thank you, i passed along your info to the networking team. We will see what they say!
View ArticleRe: DO NOT TRIGGER THIS ACTION UNTIL CONDITION HAS EXISTS FOR MORE THAN ###
Thanks Stuart, Thought that I was missing something really obvious for a moment!Idea logged as http://thwack.solarwinds.com/ideas/2719Robert
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Re: Alert for sum of EIGRP neighbors
Roman, I tried this but it's not working correctly. I set up seperate pollers with that OID for each router, and when I test those, they come back with correct values. I created a new transform: {R1} +...
View ArticleRe: Alert for sum of EIGRP neighbors
Also, I created an alert on this new transform poller and it is having the same result. I am being spammed by hundreds of emails every minute. Sometimes it returns decimcal results like 11.9 neighbors....
View ArticleSimple alert not working
Hi guys, I have created some very simple alerts in Orion Alert Manager and they are not triggering as I would like.I want to be notified if a switch or router in my network goes down. The alert rule is...
View ArticleRe: Importing device results in: "Machine Type: Unknown"
Moved to the NPM area. What product are you running gungineer?And that same node was properly typed before you deleted it?Any other change between the delete and the re-discovery?
View ArticleIs there any way to determine if polling has failed?
I monitor systems in several data centers around the country and occasionally the SNMP parameters get changed or the SNMP service stops on a system. I these cases the system remains "up" due to ICMP...
View ArticleInner workings of the Orion audit databases?
Hello, In lieu of granular unmanagement rights I have been tasked and thus working on a secure means of allowing for select people to modify the unmanagement details of specific nodes. My method will...
View ArticleRe: Is there any way to determine if polling has failed?
A prime indicator of this is an interface status is "unknown". I have an alert created to trigger on this, and the majority of the time its a SNMP polling issue...
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