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Re: Can you keep a secret? And (how) should you?
I have been trenching forward with bringing our alerting more in line with SLA, Escalation, and tiers compatibility and hopefully scalable as the business grows. Alerts setup as T1, T2, T3 naming...
View ArticleRe: Copying the freakin' NPM nodes to NCM DB. It CAN'T be this difficult!...
Admin/Settings/NCM Settings then click on Cisco vendor, In the resultant list pages (in my case 32 pages!), you can click the "select all" checkbox at the top (not labeled, but you'll find it), then...
View ArticleRe: How can I get a complete list of advanced alerts and the emails...
One of the "big three" questions my team gets is:Which alerts is my device configured to generate. Thank about that question... From the owner's perspective, it's not an unreasonable one. For what will...
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Re: Network mapping surprises
No surprises in this list: Virus / botnetInternet connections from ISP that customers thought they have changed from (And still paying )Decommissions servers that are still running live servicesrough...
View ArticleRe: Create Group and Nested Group
Hi Subbu, Thanks for the info. Can you similarly tell me about nested grouping?Rgds,TJ
View ArticleSolarWinds Wins Again
Last April our team began our journey with SolarWinds, taking over the NPM Tool from our Network Group. We were reeling, looking for a tool to replace an IPSwitch product that had been oversold and...
View ArticleRe: Network mapping surprises
mostly switches or hubs that were found when someone loops a couple ports and causes an outage.
View ArticleRe: Best practices to backup my NPM,SAM,NCM and NTA, ***not only Database***?
I have been backing up the database from SQL server. Not sure how to backup my settings and views in SolarWinds. Would love to know if there is a way to do so.
View ArticleNOOB! Installed Orion NPM...it's broke already.
Installed Friday 3/29. Host is Windows Vista 32. 3GB RAM. NPM installed fine (took a while), opened, ran, I started discovery process. It found all network devices and started pulling data via SNMP....
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Re: NOOB! Installed Orion NPM...it's broke already.
Page 15 of the Install Manual, Solarwinds does not support installation Vista
View ArticleRe: SolarWinds LEM locking up daily...
I would "as networkjr" suggested, check your VM resource allocations. The new upgrade is now compatible with unlimited resource allocation. This was not the case with the previous version where you had...
View ArticleRe: Log and Event Manager, HIPAA, and a user group
The NIST database is always a good starting point. The HIPAA Security Rule Toolkit - NIST http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-66-Rev1/SP-800-66-Revision1.pdf
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SolarWinds to the rescue! A real-life success story
These days, I've been traipsing around North America visiting various client sites to work on what has become an extremely wide variety of projects. At one site, upon my arrival, I was asked if I knew...
View ArticleRe: NOOB! Installed Orion NPM...it's broke already.
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr! Why the heck doesn't the installer check for the O/S?
View ArticleRe: NOOB! Installed Orion NPM...it's broke already.
Good question. You would think that would be an easy step for the installer.
View ArticleRe: Upgrade to NPM 10.4.2 causing new alerts looking how to adjust
i was hoping to keep monitoring the Fans but would like to allow for fluctuations in fan speed so i do not get an alert when the fan kicks into high gear..I should be able to adjust for a specific...
View ArticleRe: Alert Central in a NOC
Good questions! We have a 3 Tier organization as follows... NOC - Tier 1Admins - Tier 2Engineers Tier 3 Our NOC would watch the AC console and their user accounts would be set for no email. If they...
View ArticleRe: Hey new Alert Central users--we want to talk to you!
Hi Randy, I'll do some checking with PM and Dev. In the meantime, can you post specific issues directly on the Alert Central main page? Thanks! Kellie
View ArticleRe: Upgrade to NPM 10.4.2 causing new alerts looking how to adjust
You can edit the alert to not trigger until the condition has existed for XX minutes / seconds from within advanced alert manager. I'm not able to access advanced alert manager at the moment, or I'd...
View ArticleRe: What We Are Working On
Another possibility is to put the version in the line. This might be easier for you to know if there is something new, post what you already run. If we put the date, you need to remember when you last...
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