Custom Hardware Report
I am having to run 3 reports and do some excel magic in order to get what i want, which seems to be should be pretty standard. Wondering if I can have a custom report made? This is what I am looking...
View ArticleRe: NPM showing an enormous number of discards in Cisco 6500
Do you have NIC teaming configured on a device connected to either of those interfaces? Here's a KB that may be useful: SolarWinds Knowledge Base :: I am seeing a high number of discards reported on...
View ArticleRe: What tips and tricks do you have for networking?
Yeah, just yesterday I had a situation occur where someone had either not labeled the port config correctly or the cables weren't seeded where they were meant to be. The rest of the week will be spent...
View ArticleRe: Looking to purchase NTA, but it's not accounting for Netflow sample rate
I'm assuming you mean Juniper jflow or sflow, (Netflow is specific to Cisco) v3.11 (as well as recently released v4.0) , should have the following behavior:- sflow should work (sflow is by nature...
View ArticleRe: Where's your Single-Pain-Of-Glass?
You haven't watched "The Last Crusade" lately, have you ? The Grail is made of wood... carpenter's cup and all that. Geez... I wish people would use reliable sources for their information...
View ArticleHow can I find a file that has a name including a datestamp?
I'm trying to determine whether a file exists with a name that includes the current date. The File Existence Monitor seems like the tool to use for this, but I find that if I use date variables in the...
View ArticleRe: Scheduled Report Won't Run
It didn't work. The log still has the exact same message. Thanks anyway. I'll just have to wait until they have time to install the new version.
View ArticleRe: SAM Permissions
It would seem that by adding the domain\SAMSVC account to the local Distributed COM Users group, I am albe to connect/query WMI resources... I suspect I had to wait a while for AD to propogate or...
View ArticleCitrix Number of Current Users Logged In
I was just wondering if anyone has set something up for Citrix to monitor the number of users currently logged in. I didn't find much in the way of a search other than a third party SNMP extension:...
View ArticleRe: How Do You Make The Most Of Your Flow Data?
I built a cost allocation model identifying servers owned by business lines, export conversation data and calculated the associated consumption of network resources..I look at the flow data to validate...
View ArticleRe: Can't even get past the Wizard - Email Error
if your using exchange 2010, your exchange server will require authentication, simplest way is to create a exchange user and use that email and password to authenticate with,if not point it to...
View ArticleRe: are you a Cat manager or Chicken Farmer?
I completely understand your 90's .com example. A quote I heard last week on twitter from an EX-VMware rep was "After spending a few months in real environments it's very clear to me that Hybrid Cloud...
View ArticleRe: Re: NCM Policy Reporter Config Block Regex
Thanks for the suggestions but have not been successful. I wonder if it is the way the Policy Reporter interprets the config block... In the screenshot the interfaces shown are empty.
View ArticleHelp with SWQL query that needs to access a custom property
Hi, I have a SWQL query that is failing when trying to access a custom property in the Nodes table. Works fine: SELECT CaptionFROM Orion.NodesWHERE NodeID='990' Does not work: SELECT...
View ArticleRe: Scheduled report misfire in 5.7 ?
Hmmm, possibly. I did get the report just after midnight as scheduled so it may have been a PEBKAC error. Thanks!
View ArticleRe: New Log & Event Manager (LEM) Library & Support Page!
The page looks good, but it looks like the link to the upgrade guide is dead!
View ArticleRe: Re: Mass On-call Update and Inter-Group Escalation
Thanks for the reply. I would still like to see an easier way to update several months worth of on-call rotation data. Either uploading a pre-formatted file, or (my preferred solution) with a...
View ArticleRe: Server installed with NPM v10.4 is sluggish after some time
Is the DB on the NPM server itself? What does the incoming syslog / trap rate look like?
View ArticleRe: Migrating NPM and SAM to new server
We just did this, moved DB as well and it went great. I would do a fresh install, we noticed a huge performance gain doing a fresh install of everything on a server 2012 R2 vm.
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