My team also need some begin training on Alerts and creating Maps.
emmab
My team also need some begin training on Alerts and creating Maps.
emmab
Any resolution to this? I am attmpting to do the same thing.
I am new to LEM. This morning I was with this lady from Solarwinds told me that SPOP folder contains certificates.
So for example, if i push an agent to computer A and then that computer's IP or name changes for some reason and it shows as disconnected. Then we have to stop the solarwind agent services on that PC and delete the spop folder. After that, restart services again and fresh spop folder will be recreated. Repush the agent on that computer and it will show as connected. So SPOP actually communicates with LEM manager for certificate purposes.
This product is so complicated and confusing to work with though.
Not at present, but definitely a known FR. Tracked internally as #251292.
Looking for the same (similar) alert. What I found was thought the Custom sql alert is there, you still have your hands tied a bit. The Custom SQL Alert limits what databases/tables you can query. Only there WHERE is available, Select and FROM are restricted. I want to alert on Operation Status != Connected. I found the db where that data is [SolarWindsOrion].[dbo].[VIM_Hosts]. This specific table cannot be queried from the Custom SQL Alert. The following select statement works in SQL managment studio. If you are not the VMWare admin talk to them. vCenter can be configure to send SNMP trap to Orion and you can alert off of those. I opted to just let vCenter send an email alert and by-pass Orion. (hint-hint nudge-nudge towards SolarWinds to work on ESX Host Alert templates ;-)
SELECT [HostID]
,[HostName]
,[VMwareProductName]
,[IPAddress]
,[ConnectionState]
,[OverallStatus]
,[NetworkUtilization]
,[NetworkUsageRate]
,[CpuLoad]
,[CpuUsageMHz]
,[MemUsage]
,[MemUsageMB]
,[VmCount]
,[VmRunningCount]
FROM [SolarWindsOrion].[dbo].[VIM_Hosts]
WHERE (OverallStatus != 'green' OR ConnectionState != 'connected')
When ever it is available, I use the CLI. I have noticed that when you use some GUI's it makes odd automated choices and tends to make the text based configuration more difficult to read (i.e. asdm). CLIs are require much less bandwidth for administration - so you can say, put SSH to these addresses in CoS1 and not worry about taking much bandwidth from priority apps and you are able to connect easily even during congestion.
When doing a mass configuration, I would rather prepare the configuration in excel or notepad, then paste it in instead of clicking through it. I recently had to deploy WAN accelerators that I had to create the tunnel through the GUI in order for it to automate the key exchange. Steps were scroll to the bottom, click add, type in name, Tab, Tab, Tab, Type in IP, Tab, Down, Down, Tab, Space - Repeat that sequence 45 x 44 (44 tunnels on 45 devices)! No fun... The company has an automation tool, but it is at a cost and I had to beg and plead, kick and scream to just get them to approve the purchase of the devices (my work pinches pennies, sometime to a fault). Although the rest of the configuration could be done in the CLI and took 30 seconds to set the rest of it up (find, replace, copy, paste, done!).
I must have all firewall changes documented, approved, and implementation validated. To document a change using the GUI, one would need to use screen shots and/or video recordings, but a good change validation is usually done through text comparison which does not translate well to screen shots, so a CLI is a must here.
Thanks for posting this! I have to make an IP-helper change on some Cisco switches, and this will help me out a bunch.
The NPM Admin Guide may be the best place to start: Orion Network Performance Monitor Documentation
Loop1 is a SolarWinds partner that offers formal training as well: SolarWinds Training Classes | Loop1 Systems, Inc.
I have actually been doing a lot of reading about netflow with cisco 3750X 48PF-S. my current version is 12.2(58)SE 1. I talked so cisco about this for 30mins. Netflow is not supported on the C3KX-NM-10G you would need the C3KX-NM-10G expansion module. This is the tricky thing though even though the netflow is not support the same config will work on version 12, but you will not get the desired results and sometime not get any results at all. you need to upgrade to ios version 15.0 1 SE and you will get the desired results that you are looking for.
So how do others use AC? Is the idea that the end user receives an AC email stating that there is an alert (just an email stating that there is an active alert). Then, click the link that takes you back to the AC alert. Click on the Original Email tab to fully see where the alert is being generated?
I have to be doing something wrong. The amount of detail that is getting sent to AC is getting lost somewhere.
Thanks,
Robert
Great, thanks for the information, if I insert the variable in the subject line, will it give me the alert name in the subject?
I have added a physical box (server) in to NPM
OS = rhel 5.7
Model = HP ProLiant DL580 G7
The snmp poll is fetching all the volumes/interfaces/mem information from the node, but its not able to discover any hardware details.
its running the HP SIM agent 6.3.1.
I m not able to understand, what could be the reason for not discovering hardware details.
The HP servers need to have "HP Insight Manager" installed or just HP Insight Management agent is sufficient?
Thanks,
Chetz
The email is only a notification to the current on call user. There is very little information in the email beyond a basic summary and severity such as:
Alert Status: NOTIFIED
Time of Alert: 19/06/13 12:06:41 PM
from: MyOrion6
lab-win7x86's Alert me when an interface goes down
Assigned To: IT - Linux
Severity: Warning
Last Note:
Ned Stark was notified at ned.stark@cjones.org
On Call Now:
Ned Stark (IT - Linux)
User will have to determine if that is enough info to reply or if they need to click the link and see more about the alert and its original source (email or orion).
If you would like more alert info in the emails then i would make a feature request for it: Alert Central Feature Requests
Alert Central tries to only pull very generic stuff so that it can support many different sources of alerts.
It does, for node down, my subject line is "Node Down: ${ObjectName}".
A more complicated one for low disk space is "Volume ${SQL:Select Substring ('${Caption}',1,3) AS Caption} on ${Node.Caption} is currently at ${VolumePercentUsed} full".
Linux low disk - "Volume ${Caption} on ${Node.Caption} is currently at ${VolumePercentUsed}% full ${SQL:Select CAST( ROUND (${VolumeSpaceAvailable}/1073741824, 0) AS Decimal(18,2)) AS Gigabytes} Remain"
We purchased IPAM last week and I installed IPAM 4.0 yesterday. Today I was looking around in it while skimming the admin guide when I decided to clear some of the obvious events to reduce the clutter on the main IPAM page.
After some digging and some reading, it appeared to me that the IPAM events are separate from the other events in Orion. While that was a bit unexpected, I was not too concerned until I could not find any way to "clear" alerts like I can in the main Orion events section. Is there a way to “clear” the events from IPAM?
Along the same lines, the “Last XX IPAM Events” resource appears to not support filters. So am I right to assume that the way to get a filtered list would be to create a custom report/SQL and add it as a resource?
Am I just behind on my IPAM learning curve, or are the IPAM events truly isolated and untouchable?
If you have not already done so you can setup a custom poller to monitor pools and nodes and alert on them. just not a built in alert yet.
also to be able to set the custom time period vs 24 hours.. most of our work is only a hour or two but end up getting unmanaged for 24 hours.
I am running CatTools 3.9 and am trying to backup the config from a Brocade switch. When I run the Device.Backup.Running.Config script I receive the error "Did not Receive command prompt after connecting via SSH"
I have searched the forums and the CatTools pdf but have been unable to locate an answer for this problem.
The ability to undelete nodes or interfaces so you dont lose stats. it is very easy to delete a node or many nodes and poof there goes a lot of good information. without restoring a database that is.