How to confiure Syslog
I have reviewed the help for NPM, and it seems that all you need to is start the SNMP Syslog service, and SolarWinds Syslog service. However, i am still not seeing any messages. Is there something I...
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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...
View ArticleMemory usage reporting incorrectly on CISCO ISR 4331
Does NPM have a problem with this IOS? Cisco IOS XE Software, Version 03.15.00.S - Standard Support ReleaseCisco IOS Software, ISR Software (X86_64_LINUX_IOSD-UNIVERSALK9-M), Version 15.5(2)S, RELEASE...
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...
View ArticleHow to confiure Syslog
I have reviewed the help for NPM, and it seems that all you need to is start the SNMP Syslog service, and SolarWinds Syslog service. However, i am still not seeing any messages. Is there something I...
View ArticleTransmit Discards; But Router Stats Show No Errors
Our Internet Cisco router is showing no interface errors, but Orion is showing interface transmit discard errors in the thousands. Shouldn't the counts match?
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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 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...
View Articleconvert time ticks to another unit?
Does anyone know how to use the UnDP transform function to convert a system uptime value that reports in time ticks into minutes or hours?
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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...
View ArticleTransmit Discards; But Router Stats Show No Errors
Our Internet Cisco router is showing no interface errors, but Orion is showing interface transmit discard errors in the thousands. Shouldn't the counts match?
View ArticleMonitor VPN Tunnel
I'm trying to use the Custom MIB Poller to monitor the status of a VPN tunnel on a Cisco ASA. Has anyone figured out how to do this? I've found the following OID in the...
View ArticleHow to monitor hardware health of Dell Force10 m-MXL
we have several Dell Force10 m-MXL switch in our network. Solarwinds showing Hardware health option in list resources. but not polling hardware health.please let me know how it can be possible.
View ArticleAnalyzing the SW Nightly Database Maint Logs
In attempts to better understand the unique components that make up our SLW instance I have started looking at the DB main logs, trying to find ways to optimize our instance. I have consistently seen...
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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...
View ArticleTransmit Discards; But Router Stats Show No Errors
Our Internet Cisco router is showing no interface errors, but Orion is showing interface transmit discard errors in the thousands. Shouldn't the counts match?
View ArticleSNMP 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...
View ArticleHow to monitor Netscaler
I have a netscaler that I use for my citrix environment as a gateway. when I configured snmp and added it to solarwinds I only get the interfaces listed under the list resources. How do I get it to...
View ArticleSNMP 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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