Re: Additional Polling Engine
hi MagnAxiomcan you please give me the download link ( the link you mentioned does not work ) of additional pollers which is in the customer portal ( i don`t have access to it for a while and need the...
View ArticleRe: What network support and troubleshooting are in your software toolkit?
nmap is usually my first stop in diagnosing a problem, then native Windows tools like netstat and nbtstat come in handy. I spend a lot of time in vSphere, so RVTools gets heavy airplay. esxtop, too. I...
View ArticleRe: Alert driven infrastructure changes
The gotcha with automation is that it will do exactly what you tell it to do. Developers deal with this problem often, when the applications they write don't work as intended, they work as coded....
View ArticleRe: Alert driven infrastructure changes
You bring up a interesting point, and one that I struggle with. Im not sure if the network of tomorrow absolutely needs some of this stuff. With the cost of 10 gig and 40 gig optics coming down, a...
View ArticleReports
Why do I get three different charts with different colors when I run a report by department? Is there just a maximum on the number of rows in the bar chart and it is just overflowing them? Then why...
View ArticleRe: What is with this Thwack forum...Can't stand it!
If you need an "onboarding mission" for your help forum, you're doing it wrong.
View ArticleRe: Change SolarWinds Information Services SSL Certificate
You said, "...to change how the certificate is selected for the "OrionBasic" (v2 and v3) and "/Json" (v3 only) endpoints. ..." Does this mean the JSON interface is unable to access any NCM tables?
View ArticleRe: WHD - Anyway to modify reports headers to fit columns?
Hi, the prinscreen of report settings would be great. Could you please create these two for us, please? Reports look awful when you click on Run Report button, not on Generate PDF report, right? Thank...
View ArticleRe: Additional Poller Help!
Is the database on the same server as the poller generally and how would I be able to find out if it is? SolarWinds best practices recommend against installing SQL and Orion on the same machine,...
View ArticleRe: Additional Poller Help!
its a very straightforward install. it will prompt you for your primary NPM server and your DB server name/IP and DB credentials.
View ArticleRe: WHD - Anyway to modify reports headers to fit columns?
The report looks fine when you “run report”. It only looks back when you print it or select PDF. Here is what it looks like: Here is the report settings:
View ArticleRe: Start FTP-V with a specified local browser window
Solution (kludge) found. 1. Start "New Site Wizard" to create a new profile.2. Set hostname to "Localhost"3. Leave Username and Password blank (they aren't used).4. Select "Open a local...
View ArticleRe: Alert me when a multicast routing group has different status from normal
It is more likely the multi-cast polling impacting performance then the event generation. It may not be a bad idea to engage support to take a look, but the below statement should disable the poller...
View ArticleRe: The death of SNMP
agree with shadowsbear really dont think its every going away they will just make newer versions all the time.
View ArticleMonitor Linux softraid (mdadm or /proc/mdstat) with Orion
Hello, I have a linux server with a couple of raid arrays that I would like to monitor with Orion. If one of the disks starts to fail, the array goes into degraded mode, etc, I would like to know about...
View ArticleRe: 407 Proxy Error in Alert Manager (GetURL)
Running into the same issue myself. I did have one go out but all subsequent others are doing the same.
View ArticleRe: What tips and tricks do you have for networking?
Probably Networking 101 but easy to forget: Always follow the ISO layer model when troubleshooting. I've had (and seen) more than one instance where troubleshooting started at some higher layer, only...
View ArticleRe: Web JetAdmin discovery connection
There is some progress on this. Support got it working the only issue I have now is to figure out how to not sync the non hp printers that get picked up. I will post some screenshots when I finish.
View ArticleRe: What tips and tricks do you have for networking?
one trick for this is to insist that all new cables are installed underneath old cables. Now when that old thick ethernet cable needs to be pulled out it's probably the one on top. If you install new...
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