Re: Orion NPM Architecture, Speed, and SQL
One other thing that I found was to make sure your roll up is happening. I had something break once in the nightly roll-up, and it was a month or two till I noticed it. So it was an extra month or...
View ArticleRe: VMware polling stopped after ESXi upgrade
Same here, still no resolution on this one. Support has said to me that this was not their responsibility. This is a Microsoft and vmware certificate issue according to them. Ours has not worked for...
View ArticleRe: vCenter connection failing again
Mine still not working. Solarwinds support said to me that this was a microsoft and vmware problem.
View ArticleRe: Product activation since version 3.9.1
Hi Karel, I sent you an email with my contact information. I'm happy to discuss at your convenience. -Craig
View ArticleAdditional Polling Engines
I have SAM installed on a physical server. Would there be alright installing Additional Polling Engines on a VM or would it be best to installl the APE on physical server?
View ArticleRe: custom property field - content deleted
Any idea why this happened, I lost almost all the custom property values when I added a new one: User petart changed custom property SITE_NAME. Property changes: "Values": added new restricted value(s)...
View ArticleRe: Additional Polling Engines
IM(ns)** you can go virtual on all the polling engines. The only server that "needs" to be physical (and it's up for debate) is the database server. Which should be separate from the polling engine. So...
View ArticleCustom Group Alert Help?
We're a 100% Cisco shop and recently placed port-security protocols/configs in place for all of our visitor phones and unsecured conference room phones. The ports are configured to shutdown should...
View ArticleRe: Monitor a Given Directory for File Writes
Sounds like the simplest solution would be to enable file auditing on that directory and use the Windows Event Log Monitor to search for the specific event that's written to the event log when a file...
View ArticleRe: Exchange 2010 Remote monitoring with WSMAN
Got it figured out today. Scripts working nicely. Had to make sure IIS allowed Windows Authentication and the user account had Exchange Operations Manager permissions. Only weird issue at the moment...
View ArticleSCP taken and passed
The exam guide along with real-world experience was good prep for the SCP exam. All questions well written and a good balance of npm vs basic network troubleshooting.Good times.
View ArticleRe: how do we create snmp community strings?
hi sir, how do you have any idea on how to enabe netflow on HP E3800 switch and IBM Storewise storage? thanks
View ArticleRe: how do we create snmp community strings?
I hope you are not going to set a Read/Write community string without using SNMP v3 (encryption and authentication capable). Windows systems are not capable of SNMP v3. Most network devices and unix...
View ArticleRe: how do we create snmp community strings?
i have created SNMPv1.. i did not create read/write community string. i can now see some interface on my netflow source and a node from top10 netflow sources by percent utilization..however my...
View ArticleRe: QoS designs and network borders in a BYOD, bandwidth hungry world
I think we are in the same situation as you zackm, cell phones are about the only non-work devices that people bring to work. We also have the added benefit of being a service provider so we have so...
View ArticleRe: Where security and failure meet.
At our company each team (Windows, Linux, Networking) is responsible for defining and auditing their own security. We also have external auditors that audit both our internal and customer systems. We...
View ArticleRe: Orion NPM Architecture, Speed, and SQL
Having fast hardware and storage throughput is also part of our strategy as many others have also suggested. We also use a separate dedicated web server and also try not to overload the platform...
View ArticleRe: SCP Branded Shirt Interest?
I think I would prefer the polo in either a black or charcoal; I think that the SolarWinds logo colors work well with those.
View ArticleRe: Alerts - Percent variable being displayed as a variable
I talked with a technical support rep and found a solution.Change the following variables:${InBps} to ${InBps as bandwidth}${OutBps} to ${OutBps as bandwidth} In summary, the message looks like...
View ArticleRe: Device discovery and polling IP address
There are no access-lists blocking the snmp traffic for that device. I ran a netstat -a to try and see if any udp port 161 traffic is leaving while I'm testing the credentials but I don't see any...
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