Re: 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....
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Re: 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...
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View ArticleHow to include request detail from original ticket when sub-tickets are created?
Trying to configure a way for the HR department to open one ticket for new hires and then sub tickets are created for PC provisioning, phone provisioning, AD account creation, etc. We can get the...
View ArticleRe: What tips and tricks do you have for networking?
Color coding is good, more important is labeling.... Both sides, with both endpoint's info. Especially for long Data Center Runs, or between floors. Bad labeling will get you every time.Beyond that,...
View ArticleRe: The death of SNMP
Each entity is going to develop their own proprietary sense of a transport protocol to reign you into buying whatever the heck they are selling next for you to use as a monitoring tool.But I can't see...
View ArticleRe: Updating different modules
I would download the modules and install 1.NPM, 2. SAM, 3. NTA, 4.NCM. NPM, SAM and NTA will have same database and NCM will have it's own database (latest version it's integrated). Please make to...
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NPM 10.5 Custom Report with Multiple Universal Device Pollers?
Hi,I am trying to create a custom report with the NPM 10.5 report writer for Fan Status on Cisco nodes.I have the following Universal Device Pollers assigned to my Cisco Nodes: ciscoEnvMonFanState and...
View ArticleRe: Email supervisor on all new tickets
You can create an Action Rule that will fire on ticket creation by a tech which will send you an email. Processes>Action Rules>New:Action Rule Info:Rule Triggering>Evaluate criteria only when...
View ArticleRe: The death of SNMP
Deprecating SNMP makes no sense - which explains why Microsoft are doing it.A bit like putting a tablet based UI onto a server OS
View ArticleTech Permissions
I don't see all my techs under tech permissions. I have a 25 seat license and I only see 12 under Setup>Techs>Tech Permissions>assigned techs(tab). What gives?
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Re: Email supervisor on all new tickets
Thanks! I totally forgot about action rules, figured it would be a general setting.
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Re: Reports
See how it put Trademarks & Licensing in a separate graph with a different color? Is this overflow or does that department have some setting that is different than the other groups?
View ArticleRe: SNMP V3 with Cisco devices
If I'm not mistaken, 9.1 had a few known issues with SNMPv3. An upgrade to 10.6 would very much be in order. Here's a primer on SNMPv3 configuration with Orion: Implementing SNMPv3 in SolarWinds Products
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Re: Determine Group Membership From Node Page
There's no out-of-the-box resource that appears on the Node Details view that will show you which groups the node is a member of, but I was able to do this easily enough using the Report Writer, as...
View ArticleCustom WAN Charts
I would like to make a view that will show all of my WAN connections and their current WAN usage. I would like to have all of my locations show up on one page with information that refreshes every 15...
View ArticleRe: reading snmp value's Cisco 1847 & HP Switches
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor, as the name suggests, is focused primarily on monitoring applications, and the servers those applications reside upon. For network devices, such as routers,...
View ArticleHP ProCurve Switches are not showing CPU/Memory Utilization
Hello, In my network I have the below HP ProCurve Switches 5308xl4104GL265025242910 al-48GI can monitor all the interfaces and environment features of all these switches but not able to montitor CPU...
View ArticleRe: HP ProCurve Switches are not showing CPU/Memory Utilization
Sasi, Could you perhaps send me SNMP walks of a couple of those devices? (rob.hock{at}solarwinds.com)...
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