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Recommendations for monitoring a remote network
We currently use Solarwinds to monitor a lot of equipment on our corporate network. We have a need now to monitor equipment on a new remote network that we have acquired. Many of the devices on this...
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10.4 hardware health monitoring - anybody know what a bias current sensor is?
Hi all, I think this may fall under "be careful what you wish for" but here goes. I've just upgraded to NPM 10.4 and have found some "interesting" things with the hardware health monitoring: Does...
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SNMP v3 - need help with credentials
I have looked through the Admin guide and the often referenced Cisco doc on SNMP v3. I have gone through the many posts on it as well. So I am starting to think I am doing something uniquely...
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NPM 12.5 BETA 1 IS OUT!
I'm pleased to announce that the Network Performance Monitor (NPM) 12.5 Beta 1 is now available! This beta includes certain items that are mentioned in What We're Working on for NPM (Updated December...
View ArticleWhat are we working on for SCOM MP (Management Pack)
To receive updates on the SCOM MP roadmap, JOIN thwack and BOOKMARK this page After the SCOM MP v1.1.1 service release in Nov of 2011, which fixed a few issues and provided compatibility with NPM 10.2,...
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Configuring Cisco UCS Monitoring
Hey all, I'm in the process of adding our new (and first) UCS systems into Solarwinds, and there are a few questions coming up. A little searching produced various bits of info, but much of it was from...
View ArticleGrafana: NPM datasource
Has anyone looked into integrating solarwinds as a datasource with grafana? In our company we have a lot of different monitoring systems and data sources that can be merged together and correlated...
View ArticleNPM is too slow
Hi Team, Solar winds console is very slow and unable to browse properly in our environment. As I am not getting any permanent fix for the issue. Could you please assist to resolve the issue.
View ArticleTIPS & TRICKS: Stop the madness! Avoiding alerts but continuing to pull...
This is the first in a series of posts where, in the name of giving back to the community, I’m going to share some of the customizations that make SolarWinds a little more robust for us and our...
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The Ultimate CPU Alert
CPU alerts are a yawner. Grab the CPULoad, check it against a threshold (maybe even a per-node custom threshold, as explained here: TIPS & TRICKS: Stop The Madness: How to set alert thresholds...
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SolarWinds Agent using 2-3+ GB RAM
We're noticing that the SolarWinds agent is consuming a significant amount of RAM on our servers. In this instance, it's using over 3GB. Restarting the agent does temporarily alleviate the issue. I'm...
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Help with using all of my polling engines resources
Hello Community, I have a pretty powerful main polling engine (see screenshot) and dont ever really get close to even 20% utilization. The issue is that my platform is still somewhat slow. I recently...
View ArticleNPM 12.3 Orion 2018.2 Upgrade Feedback
What has your upgrade to NPM 12.3 on Orion Platform 2018.2 looked like? We on the product manager team would like to hear about it all, the good the bad and the ugly! For a starting point here is a...
View ArticleHP iLO v3 monitoring by SNMP
Hello In iLO v4 available SNMP settings, and successfully polled Hardware Info and Hardware Health and other components.But in iLO v3 available only SNMP Trap settings.How can I configuring iLO or...
View ArticleWhat's SNMPv3 Context?
I am planning to add some Cisco switches later today on NPM 9.5 I was wondering what's the SNMPv3 context section about? I know you can leave it blank.... I hope but I was wondering if I had to fill...
View ArticleSNMP open ports on the firewall
HI,i installed the Orion and the toolset behind a firewall, i need to open ports for the Orion, and for the Toolset, can you please assist with that ? what are the ports i need to open on my firewall...
View ArticleNPM auto-login with NOCview
Hi all, I'm trying to get some NOC view screens up with have a browser auto-login to Orion NPM with NOC view enabled. This is what I have so far: I use the following UR: to auto-login:Network...
View ArticleHigh number of discards - Cisco 3850
We recently replaced several Cisco 2960s with 3850 stacks. After seting them up in Orion, we get several million transmit discards per hour on some ports on these switches, but not on any other models...
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