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What'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 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 ArticleShow us a NOC view and (don't ) get 500 thwack points (we still want to see,...
The User Experience group wants to see how you've customized your Orion to create your own NOC view, or NOC views you like and are using from other products. What do you like about your NOC view? What...
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How to format AlterTriggerTime AlertVariable to desired format
Hi All - First of all thanks for trying to help me out. We have a Customer owned SolarWinds Orion NPM 12.1 installation which is integrated to an upstream OSS aggregation solution via SNMP. We are...
View ArticlePolling Intervals - Best Practices
Hello,I had a tech reset all intervals back to default values.The original Tech who setup the system has left the company Is there a best practice to setting these polling intervals?
View ArticleExternal Web access to Solarwinds web console
I am working on to access the Solarwind webGUI externally. I already have the following things configured for this setup:External public IPDomain configurationExternal DNS recordFirewall and NAT rule I...
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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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Alert Trigger Logic
3 servers. Each server has two volumes (C: & D:) and each volume has a different threshold to trigger an alert. In my example, let's say I want to trigger C: at 35% or less and D: at 10% or less....
View ArticleALERT: Node AAAA-000# is Down.
I am getting this error on one of my switches from Solar Winds. Have checked the SNMP settings, IP, etc and nothing seems to work. The switch is alive and well, and I have several other switches being...
View ArticleHow to monitor a remote isolated network?
I need to monitor devices that are connecting to a service providers network, but they will not allow us direct access to pull SNMP. We need to see real-time info and I am looking for options. The SP...
View ArticleNetwork Atlas download
GreetingsI just upgraded to 10.4. I would like to install the upgraded Network Atlas on my desktop. I can't seem to find a download link. Does anyone know where to get the install executable for...
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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...
View ArticleAdditional Web Server Broken Images/Radial Gauges
I've added an additional web server and there are many broken icons and radial images across multiple pages. Anyone ever experience this? Does a new additional web server need any Orion platform hotfix...
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Tell Us Your Unknown Devices v2.0
Those that have been part of the Thwack Community a while may be familiar with the long running Tell us your "Unknown" devices! thread which had been active since 2007. That thread had become too...
View ArticlePolling Intervals - Best Practices
Hello,I had a tech reset all intervals back to default values.The original Tech who setup the system has left the company Is there a best practice to setting these polling intervals?
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False Routing Neighbor Down Alerts
I have alerts set up to notify me if a routing neighbor goes down on any router or switch in our network. There are some devices that have BGP neighbors that are shut down for various reasons and...
View ArticleBug with Manage Accounts - Groups
A few releases ago I noticed that under Manage Accounts - Groups section our groups that we put into the system no longer show up. Individual accounts still show up fine. When we go to the Account...
View ArticleNPM Menu Bar Color Change
Is there a way to change the color of the top Menu bar on NPM from black to another color? The logo of my company is Solid Black so the image is subdued in the menu bar. I found some older posts but...
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