Re: Making room for failure
Being at the Engineering Line Manager level but reporting to the VP means I know how easy it is to make technical mistakes and even get to participate them sometimes while at the same time needing to...
View ArticleCisco UCS server blades not showing Hardware Health of Servers option in List...
I know that UCS blade chassis' are managed through the FI's but with no link back to the FI from the production IP monitored node (Windows 2008 R2) in this case then I am too far removed from the...
View ArticleRe: Tell Us If You Think That MS Lync Is Going to Own The Corporate VoIP!
We have a fairly large enterprise with a multitude of VOIP installations including solutions from Cisco, Nortel, Avaya and NEC. We have deployed Lync and are currently using its VOIP and desktop...
View ArticleRe: how do we create snmp community strings?
the V7000 storewise has no CLI.. where will i encode the those commands? thanks
View ArticleRe: Orion NPM Architecture, Speed, and SQL
It's now occurring to me that, if you really want to dig into performance problems with your SQL server, you could always point SAM at it and load up the SQL performance counters. Could be a quick way...
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Re: Orion NPM Architecture, Speed, and SQL
That looks like a lot of memory. Is your db server hosting more than the Orion NPM database? Are they VMs? Might want to look through Resource Monitor on your SQL server to find out how much memory...
View ArticleRe: Device discovery and polling IP address
Ok...after spending a few hours this morning looking at it I have found that when I test credentials from the manage credentials engineers toolset I don't see any traffic leaving from the server in my...
View ArticleRe: How to monitor desktop, laptops and other non-essentials without showing...
What comes to my mind is to set up on these devices shutdown/sleep action to run the script (using Orion SDK) against Orion server which will make them unmanaged on shutdown/sleep and a startup/wake...
View ArticleRe: Device discovery and polling IP address
You should really open a support case for this, but here are a couple more things to check. Are you using the hostname or IP for discovering the new node?Do you have IPv6 enabled on your Orion server?...
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Re: Orion NPM Architecture, Speed, and SQL
Its a physical box dedicated to just solarwinds (I hijacked a old exchange mailbox server ) I did remove the thwack web parts. The part that gets me is sometimes its really fast. Just the other day we...
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What did I miss?
Thursday just before the end of the week, after a team meeting I received the call. We all know it, it starts with "what the #$#@ is going on with the network!? (for some reason it always gets blamed...
View ArticleRe: NCM is seeing date change as a change Cisco Nexus 5548
NCM provides a filter which includes some canned strings the filter out time changes when the confiig change report runs. However the NXOS time string is different then what is provided with NCM. If...
View ArticleRe: How to monitor desktop, laptops and other non-essentials without showing...
Does this require elevated level creds though? I would hate to have SDK available from each system to for say remove or add nodes...
View ArticleRe: TrippLite UPS SNMP MIB
I realize this is an old post. We have several TrippLite UPSs and are using these pollers. (Thanks grantsewell !) I've also found and added the following poller but it doesn't seem to be supported...
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Re: Cisco UCS server blades not showing Hardware Health of Servers option in...
Hardware Health of Cisco UCS Blade Chassis is a function of NPM, not SAM. To enable UCS monitoring check "UCS manager credentials" under "Additional Monitoring Options" when adding the node as pictured...
View ArticleRe: Cisco UCS server blades not showing Hardware Health of Servers option in...
i was unsure of SAM/NPM but have both here- I have added the fabric interconnects using the ucs manager creds and that's working great.except that upon adding the blades for monitoring I am not seeing...
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IPAM 4.1 - first beta available
IPAM coming with another preview of what we are working on. We understand that management IP Addresses is not a simple task when you use DHCP and DNS servers.This beta is mainly for all folks who were...
View ArticleReport - Can I add freespace percentage?
Hi, I'd like to create a custom report that contains all volumes with a freespace percentage less than XX%. I've copied and modified the Disk Volumes Basic report but cannot figure out how to...
View ArticleRe: What did I miss?
A few things to consider:If the two links are not in a port channel, only one of them is actively being used due to spanning tree, depending on your setup.If the switches are also layer 3 devices, load...
View ArticleRe: Display interface as unplugged rather than down (even if its...
Michal,We cannot have engineers pick open network ports to use based on shutdown in Solarwinds since they see both shutdown end devices and ports both as just unplugged. Instead we still have to go...
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