Re: Monitor Linux softraid (mdadm or /proc/mdstat) with Orion
Once the MIBs are loaded into NET-SNMP you'll want to run an SNMP Walk of the device to ensure they're working. Verify the OID's you'd like monitored. Then create a Universal Device Poller (if you own...
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Re: Export temperature value
The Universal Device Poller included in NPM will show the value of the SNMP OID being monitored, as the example below demonstrates. Unfortunately, while SAM/NPM's out-of-the-box Hardware Health...
View ArticleRe: NPM 10.7 Beta 2 Available
Can I recommend that the Interface Details resource show both VLAN name and ID?
View ArticleRe: Import Subnets to IPAM through excel
Maybe I missed something - I thought if you import a spreadsheet with subnets smaller then /20 then they would automatically add IP addresses?If not then what is this option for?Admin>IPAM...
View ArticleRe: LEM Reports Run Endlessly
I wanted to pop in on this thread and let you know that LEM 5.7 RC3 (just released yesterday) has a focused effort to eliminate these "endless reports" issues (with side effects of improving...
View ArticleRe: Slowness and Timeouts in LEM
Hey TTL, and others, not sure if you're in the other thread I just replied to, but we did make some serious improvements in LEM 5.7 RC3 (released and on the portal yesterday) that tries to address this...
View ArticleRe: AppInsight Alert / Database usage
Is there any online guide available for upgrading SAM to the latest version?
View ArticleRe: Java autoupdater enable after update
I do believe that prompt is caused because JRE7 is still installed on the machine. It's triggered by the JRE6 autoupdater (because there are no more update for JRE6 and Oracle has coded that response...
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Re: AppInsight Alert / Database usage
Upgrade procedures are covered in the Administrators Guide. Upgrading SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
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Re: Determine Group Membership From Node Page
You'll need to download the attached report and copy it to the Orion server in the Report Directory. Normally located in "C:\Program Files (x86)\SolarWinds\orion\Reports". Next, add a new "Report from...
View ArticleRe: When will your SCP badge be added to your profile?
Hi, Patrick I would like to take the SCP exam, I have already sent my email one month ago, with my personal information to have my SCP number.
View ArticleRe: Newbie question: Upgrading to SAM 6.0.0
epenney, an 8 hour upgrade is extremely unusual. If you'd like to determine why the upgrade is taking so long, I suggest opening a case with support. We'd be interested in looking a diagnostic before...
View ArticleFOE for three or more servers in a single environment
Hi everyone I'm interested in installing FOE in a DR topology with three NPM servers located at three seperate sites (each having a different public address, of course). Only one server would be...
View ArticleRe: Do you monitor your systems bidirectionally? Ingress and egress traffic...
we monitor on both HUB and spoke sites. this is to ensure we get the correct readings and that there is not a one way issuethis ensures that the hub and spoke agree upon stats
View ArticleRe: The death of SNMP
Perhaps the death of SNMPv1 and 2c. But net-snmp, or v3, will live on. It's a little like IPv6, in that it's been around for years (I wrote a paper on SNMPv3 for SANS 10 years ago) but it's still not...
View ArticleRe: The death of SNMP
Until there's an alternative to SNMP that is just as simple and universally supported, it can't just go away. It's the one protocol I expect to be present on every device I manage. And the data to be...
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Re: What tips and tricks do you have for networking?
Great advice! I like to pair that with a healthy dose of "don't try to fix anything until you understand the problem." Too often I've seen engineers flail about trying to resolve an outage by issuing...
View ArticleRe: VMWare DPM - How does VMan deal with this?
Hi Simon, NPM, SAM, and VMAN are 3 different products in the SolarWinds portfolio. The alerting and collection engines between the products are different and one product does not (generally) tell...
View ArticleRe: Removing Stale Email Addresses
Hey guys! Would you mind voting on this idea http://thwack.solarwinds.com/ideas/3102 requesting a more friendly solution? Thanks for this workaround!!
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