Summary Page Setup Ideas
What is the most common setups for the Summary Page? I'm looking for best practice ideas. Besides out of the box setup, what changes have people made? Pictures would be nice if possible.
View ArticleSolarwinds Network Map Not Loading Gives an Error
HiThere, We have an ongoing issue with Solarwinds which is that Network Map stopped loadingfrom few days ago. This was working just fine and now It’s trying to load themap for few seconds and gives and...
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 ArticleMultiple issues post upgrading to Orion platform 2018.4 NPM 12.4 etc
1. Menu bar disappeared2. Unable to rollback to old charts3. Ping stuck on main polling engine4. Getting server error when opening a node details page5. CPU and Memory polling stopped post reinstalling...
View ArticleSWQL not working properly in 2018.4 (NPM 12.4)
Hi All, Seems like some of my SWQL scripts stopped working in 2018.4. One example is the one listed below. It works in 2018.2.1 SP1, but in 2018.4, it gives the following error: Incorrect syntax...
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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...
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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 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 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 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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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...
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Database Details option fails
I can't recall if this was working before upgrading to NPM 12.4 but now when I click on Database Details at the bottom of the All Settings page I get the following error. Anyone seen this before?...
View ArticleHas Orion been unreliable for you?
I have had nothing but issues with Orion since v12, all the bugs, crashes, I thought I made headway and ran for 2 months then Christmas eve crash and back to the normal cycle of crashing once a week...
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 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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How to configure SNMPv3
I have followed instructions found online how to configure SNMPv3 to work with SolarWinds but I seem to get a connection failure when I do. This is my routers config: Router1(config)# snmp-server...
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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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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...
View ArticleHow is % Packet Loss calculated?
In the Orion NPM response time & %Packet loss chart, I see a single bar on a particular minute 50% packet loss. I'm assuming that Orion sends out one Ping for each monitored node per minute? If...
View Articlehow to calculate bandwith utilization
I want to know how NPM calculate bandwidth utilization I used this formula found in thwack Bandwidth Utlization formula:Utilization: The averagepercentage of bandwidth utilization rates the report...
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