Alert Manager - Process Monitor Alerts - Many Alerts or One?
We are re-evaluating our strategy for our Process Monitor Alerts. We currently have a heavy amount of Process monitor alerts where the only difference from alert to alert is the name of the process...
View ArticleRe: Odd node showing up in LEM
Haven't tried deleting them. I probably will go ahead and do it. Checked logs, but didn't see anything particularly noteworth happening at the times indicated.
View ArticleRe: Odd node showing up in LEM
Usually when these "odd nodes" appear, deleting them works and they don't come back. If they do come back, you may need to use nDepth to search and see what sort of data is coming in from the bogus...
View ArticleRe: Helpdesk War Story
In more than one place I've worked I've had people tell me they couldn't VPN into the office. Their internet connection was down, but because they'd been told that the VPN was connecting to the work's...
View ArticleRe: Interface errors and discards alert?
Hi, Do you know if there is a way to do the discards and xmit errors that are based on something other than "This Hour"? Thanks.
View ArticleHeads up: How to use data intervals effectively in NTA 4 in conjunction with NPM
Hi Guys, Just thought i'd throw in my experiences so far in NTA 4 and provide some heads up on functionality / how to use the product based on experience:Love the new data retention feature for NetFlow...
View ArticleNCM - SCRIPT FOR DHCP SERVICE DNS ADDRESS CHANGING
Hello all, This question has been asked before from my searches a couple of times, such as http://thwack.solarwinds.com/message/127654#127654, but never answered. So I would like to ask it again in...
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Re: Alert Manager - Process Monitor Alerts - Many Alerts or One?
You are correct that having many similar Alerts can be condensed, and it will help in making sure that you do not overload the database with too many similar queries. You can add a Condition Group and...
View ArticleRe: Alert Manager - Process Monitor Alerts - Many Alerts or One?
You may instead want to drive your alerts using the Application Status instead of Component Status, leveraging the ${ComponentsWithProblems} or ${ComponentsWithStatus} macros in the email notification...
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Re: Formatting Views
If they are in different columns and the columns are not the same width then they will be of different heights.
View ArticleRe: CISCO 2960 - Packet Loss Between VLANs
What is 192.168.x.250? Does that lie beyond your firewall? You have a static route stating that if a packing is coming from (anyIP, any subnet) send it to 192.168.x.250. Static routes have a cost of...
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Re: View limitation for Group Summary view
1) Create a group summary page2) Customize page3) Select View Limitations4) Select your limitation category. (Group of Groups allows you to select groups via check boxes. The Group Name Pattern option...
View ArticleRe: CISCO 2960 - Packet Loss Between VLANs
The 2960 is not a full layer 3 switch. It does not support the ip routing command. He'll be fine if he puts in a layer 3 switch.
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Re: Monitor multiple instances of the same process
If you left it as-is you would see the cumulative total CPU, Memory, and Virtual Memory consumption for all jstart.exe processes. If you wanted to alert when there were fewer than 4 instances of this...
View ArticleRe: Winning The Loser's Game of Information Security
That reminds me of the Twitter accounts that retweet or copy other users photos of their credit card.
View ArticleRe: Re: CISCO 2960 - Packet Loss Between VLANs
While true that the 2960 is not a full Layer 3 switch, a 2960 does support inter-VLAN routing using up to 16 static routes (need to update IOS to LAN BASE and at least the version below). Routing...
View ArticleAdvanced Alerts send IM message with Chinese showed in messy code
Hi,everyone: I am using Orion NPM Advanced Alerts to send alert message to third-party IM application via "HTTP Post". Since the message contain some chinese txt for more meaningful. The IM recipient...
View ArticleSet NCM Credentials
Hello all - I've managed to successfully create nodes using v3, and add that node to NCM with v2. One thing I am not seeing though is how to set the credentials for NCM? I used XmlDocument xdoc = new...
View ArticleRe: Re: CISCO 2960 - Packet Loss Between VLANs
Thanks for the assist... it's been a while but that is what I was trying to say. I wasn't sure if the 2960s were capable of a routing protocol.
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