Re: Do you monitor your systems bidirectionally? Ingress and egress traffic...
we monitor on both HUB and spoke sites. this is to ensure we get the correct readings and that there is not a one way issuethis ensures that the hub and spoke agree upon stats
View ArticleRe: The death of SNMP
Perhaps the death of SNMPv1 and 2c. But net-snmp, or v3, will live on. It's a little like IPv6, in that it's been around for years (I wrote a paper on SNMPv3 for SANS 10 years ago) but it's still not...
View ArticleRe: The death of SNMP
Until there's an alternative to SNMP that is just as simple and universally supported, it can't just go away. It's the one protocol I expect to be present on every device I manage. And the data to be...
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Re: What tips and tricks do you have for networking?
Great advice! I like to pair that with a healthy dose of "don't try to fix anything until you understand the problem." Too often I've seen engineers flail about trying to resolve an outage by issuing...
View ArticleRe: What tips and tricks do you have for networking?
follow the MAC or IP Route. This helps me figure out where the issue is 90% of the time. Then it is ussually a misconfiguration there, at the last device.
View ArticleRe: The death of SNMP
I think it will stick around for a while. Some poeple may start to look at alternatives, but I think no one company will be 100% SNMP free. This will be similar to IPv6 deployment, there are thoese who...
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Re: Bought some SolarWinds swag from the thwack store? Show us!
I happen to wear it today!
View ArticleRe: Bought some SolarWinds swag from the thwack store? Show us!
Hey Mike - Since I am fulfilling the backpacks myself, I plan for 1 to 2 bulk shipments per month. Yours will be shipping tomorrow and you should receive it this week. Apologies for the delay!
View ArticleRe: Report for Link Utilization over 24 hrs
Microsoft time. Basically the full numerical value for that specific day.
View ArticleRe: Trigger Actions randomly not firing.
This is what I found out about from support. Apparently, if a node goes into unmanage, it ignores any reset trigger actions. I would say this is a serious design flaw, but since it does not appear to...
View ArticleRe: Trigger Actions randomly not firing.
Hello When node is going unmanage alert engine stop executing action on that node. Can be turned off:Settings-> Polling settings -> And check this:Allow alert actions for unmanaged...
View ArticleRe: List Resources Custom resource for NPM summary page
hcy01ukOkay, I was able to follow your excellent instructions to replicate your results.This is exactly what I need to accomplish, only I need it to show up on our custom sql results/report resource....
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NTA 4.0 FAQ
Hello, NTA 4.0 RC is available for all customers that are covered under maintenance. This is a whopper of a release for NetFlow Traffic Analyzer. NTA 4.0 brings one minute granularity for all data!...
View ArticleRe: How Do You Make The Most Of Your Flow Data?
WAN Application performance metrix as well as user monitoring, alerting, and reporting.
View ArticleCan a task be associated with another ticket automatically?
Here's our scenario: A Help Desk technician images a machine, then it needs to go to two application engineers to QC the configuration, then it goes back to the help desk to finish the setup. I...
View ArticleRe: Orion Advanced Alerts: Alert based on Team (group)?
we have a custom property for Department as well, seems like the most reliable solution.
View ArticleRe: How Do You Make The Most Of Your Flow Data?
Other than troubleshooting, how do you make use of your flow data?I produce a few reports that are delivered weekly to Network Engineers and Analysts. One set is edge/WAN and the other is Core. With...
View ArticleRe: Route to group samples
Hi Ken, What feature are you working in? I' not sure what you mean by "route to group". Andy
View ArticleRe: Orion Advanced Alerts: Alert based on Team (group)?
I second the warning about using the suppression tab. The problem is that suppression conditions are always evaluated independently of the trigger condition and kills the trigger. So in your example...
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