Solar Winds NCM saved my Bacon
Prior to purchasing NCM we were using CAT tools to backup our network equipment configurations and to notify us when configuration changes were made. NCM has filled that niche in our company and has...
View ArticleAssign an Alert to specific nodes
We have expanded our NPM environment to include both network devices and servers. The problem is that we are now so big that the Network Team is being flooded with alerts that are happening on servers...
View ArticleQuestion regarding the NTP Server being used by Alert Central
I have a question related to Alert Central. I am getting the "unsychronised --> time server re-starting --> polling server every 64 s" error. Has anyone ran into this before? Since we cannot...
View ArticleMD5 Password generation script
There are a number of scripts I've found where people are executing password updates on Cisco IOS nodes. But none of them appear to use MD5 passwords, or account for them within their scripting...
View ArticleProblem with Mount Points
We recently updated SW to NPM 10.5 and SAM 5.5. Great, wonderful, everything went well everyone was happy... BUT... My belief with mount points is that SAM 5.5 is supposed to pick them up as regular...
View ArticleLog directly into ipMonitor without being prompted.
To log directly into ipMonitor, you will want to use the following URL: https://127.0.0.1/login_form.htm?guestlogin This will work locally. Externally, you will want to use the hostname or IP address...
View ArticleHardware Health Alerting
Hello all, so I am trying to configure my advanced alerting to ignore fan alerts for a specific node. I have tried it in both the trigger field and the suppression field and can not figure out why it...
View ArticleLEM Customers: Extending Log Management to Workstations, July 25th 1:00 CT
Join SolarWinds Sales Engineer Rob Johnson on July 25th at 1pm for an exclusive presentation for LEM Customers on LEM’s new Workstation Edition Features. There will be a live demo on expanding your...
View ArticleCommand Line Options - No Prompt for Upgrade
Is there a command line option to not bring up the prompt for upgrading the remote client? We use command to remote machines and have not started upgrading the remote clients as of yet and would prefer...
View ArticleScheduled on Call techs are being ignored
My scheduled on call techs are being ignored and the only notification being sent is to the user listed under "If all notification steps (including optional repeats) have been exhausted:" section.
View ArticleSyslog email alert not parsing variables
We have a few syslog alerts set to email us when it finds certain words. The problem is when the email is sent it only shows the variables used not the values they should be. Is there anything that...
View ArticleHow do you monitor virtualization?
I'm curious how others out there monitor their virtualization infrastructure. Specifically, do you run your NMS as a VM inside your production environment, as a VM in a management / monitoring cluster,...
View ArticleNPM Having trouble validating SNMP read/write string
I just added a new Minuteman RPM series UPS to the network and am trying to add it as a node with SNMP credentials so we can use UnDPs to monitor specific values, but no matter what Read/Write string I...
View ArticleExchange 2010 Application Templates
We have NPM 10.5 and SAM 5.5. I have added application templates for Exchange Mailbox services and it works great and shows up under the applications tab, Exchange view. Great. Add the HUB and CAS...
View Articlesimultaneously monitoring interfaces
Hi,Is it possible in the Orion Web Console (NPM 10.5) to create a view where you can put traffic charts for certain number of interfaces?I mean, its a collective view for a group of interfaces with...
View ArticleResolved tickets
Once a ticket in WHD is marked resolved... how long does it remain in the my tickets view? Shouldn't this drop out when a ticket is resolved?
View Articlecan alert central send email when alert is no longer active?
Can alert central send email when alert is cleared or no longer active? Example would be alert is sent when node goes down. Can one be sent when it comes back up?
View ArticleUnable To Get Interface Down Alerts In Report Writer
Hi All, Iam Unable To Get Interface Down Events , With report Writer, Interface Down Alerts Are Not Triggering . Some Times It is Working Fine But Sometimes It is not Working even the interfaces are...
View ArticleSupport for IBM Switches (formely BNT)
Hello Team, I´m looking for Cattools basic support for IBM Switches (formely BNT). Those have a quite similar CLI to the Cisco IOS Devices, however some prompts are different.IBM System Networking:...
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Why nodes are showing down in solarwinds NPM even though the ips are...
Dear Admins,Greetings. As i am new to solarwinds, Some ips are suddently showing down in our solarwinds monitor even though the ips are reachable from my pc.After one hour the issue is clear.My...
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