Hi everybody,
I don't know why but all the interfaces' status of switches in the network have been changed to "Interface Disappeared". Does anyone have any idea in this regard?
I am using version 10.0 of NPM.
Interface Disappeared
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Re: Interface Disappeared
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Earned my SCP Certificate
Very Happy..! I just passed through my SCP certification.... Earned my badge!!
Thanks team for all those wonderful blogs and guides..
Regards,
Prashanth S
-India
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Re: WHAT WE ARE WORKING ON POST NPM 10.5
+1
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Re: Latest SCP Test Takers
Hi Team,
I just passed my SCP exam today few hours ago. Thanks Gerry and team for your support.
I didnot get any SCP number/Certificate id though. Kindly let me know when will I get the ID and also about the hard copy of my certificate.
Thanks again team.
My Details :
Login Id : SWI00010853
Regards,
Prashanth S
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Re: HTTP monitor multiple IP addresses Dyamically
I've been playing around another idea:
To manually set the secondary IP Address of each machine as a Custom property, and then use it in the HTTP Monitor on my template.
It's still very "manual", but saves the time it takes to drill into the HTTP Monitor inside the template of each node and bypass the ${IP} macro.
However - I can't seem to get SAM's HTTP Monitor to use this custom property as a macro variable.
Am I missing something, or is it simply not supported?
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Client Certificate Management Problem
I have Windows XP SP3 machine that I cannot get the 3rd party cert installed on. I can do everything else I need to the machine, but I cannot install the cert. This cert is working fine on hundreds of other machines. When I run the Client Certificate Management tool I receive the following results from the task:
Client Certificate Management
Object: CN=WSUS Publishers Self-signed
Status: Failed
Details: NotFound Not found
Has anyone else seen this issue before?
Thanks.
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Re: Managing the Management Tools
You hit on a huge one- false alarms, or frequent alarms because too much is being monitored. It's easy for a system to devolve into visual noise and alert overload, and then it runs the risk of being ignored.
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Use SNMP-based Tools Carefully, Or They Can Turn Against You
SNMP is a wonderful, sometimes maddening management protocol. It can provide monitoring, powerful trending, and alerting when things go wrong on the network. But too much of anything can be bad, and SNMP is no exception. When not properly managed, SNMP itself can become problematic.
Most seasoned network admins buy into basic best practices like disabling SNMP when not in use on host devices, changing strings occasionally, and using ACLs to control who can use SNMP so resources like router CPUs don’t get DOS’d by the very protocol meant to manage the environment.
But sometimes other SNMP-related issues creep in when we get sloppy. It’s easy for multiple admins to set up eval copies of SNMP-based config management or monitoring software without coordinating the polling cycles of each. Or to perhaps set up a special monitoring instance that’s meant to use SNMP to help pinpoint some specific problem, without implementing common-sense safeguards (like we don’t want to SNMP-read our core routing tables every 10 minutes). Worst, these tools are easy to put in place and forget about, which means our SNMP traffic can get out of hand and become problematic.
Is your own SNMP house in order?
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SolarWinds Saved My Bacon
- What was life like before using SolarWinds? Life Was tough before we deployed SolarWinds, our network wasnt very large and we had few outages (thankfully) however we didnt use any monitoring tools and we relied on our end users reporting issues to us - not ideal.
- Which SolarWinds product(s) saved your bacon? SolarWinds Orion - we get alerts when things break and have a chance to fix before users even notice. Config Manager has saved me a couple of times when critical switches at remote sites were struck by lightning.
- Did you consider other options, and why did you choose SolarWinds? Yes we have considered other options, but solarwinds just works and that's what we need. A product that does what it says it will do.
- How has life been since you've rolled out SolarWinds in your environment? Life has been great - being on call is a far better experiance with no nasty suprises at 3am for an issue that happened at 6pm. Configs are saved in a central place, everything is peachy
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Re: Login screen in report email
Thanks, I'll check this out!
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Re: FoE and APE Scenaro across WAN question
I will do my best to answer.
- Passive server is NOT running as an additional poller, it is basically a full blown Orion installation. Now what happens is assuming the secondary Orion server in the US is on a different subnet, which most are you can do one of two things. First, instead of having your users use an IP Address to access the Orion web console, do it via DNS. Then when a failover occurs from the UK to the US, as part of the failover we will update DNS to point to the IP Address of the US server.
- The secondary Orion services are not running. We typically recommend at least two NIC's, one for normal server communication, this is the IP users would hit or you would tie to DNS and the secondary would be for heartbeat, server replication, etc. for the FoE product. We have methods in place in the software to try and avoid split brain.
- This is not a possible or realistic deployment scenario with FoE.
- Same as #3
As I was discussing before, may make sense to discuss offline on your planned deployment strategy and we can discuss how all the parts can and cannot work together.
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Re: Use SNMP-based Tools Carefully, Or They Can Turn Against You
Our biggest issue is educating our admins. There is one particular admin that it took us clsoe to six months to break her of setting up SNMP with Public as the community string.
We had several battles with some uneducated admins in our TSA...I mean data security about SNMP, but were able to educate them on ACLs, and other simple securing steps.
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Re: Does Anybody Actually Use the CLI?
I'll use a GUI all day long, but there are some things a GUI isn't and scriptable is one of those things that it isn't. I'll even admit that I've come across a device with a scripting system but no CLI. Even then, it was still missing something valueable... Output and the ability to parse the output as part of the script.
Actually, I think Rharland2012 said it better... "When those things aren't necessary, a well-crafted GUI is the perfect tool in the box"
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Re: Does Anybody Actually Use the CLI?
To me the CLI is only good for scripting and batch files.
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New to SolarWinds NPM & interested in improving reporting?—We want to talk to you!
The SolarWinds UX (User Experience) team is looking for people who have only been using SolarWinds NPM for 6 months or less who are interested in spending an hour with us to get a sneak peek at some revised design ideas for reporting on the web.
If you have used NPM for 6 months or less and have an hour to give us between 7am and 11am Central Tuesday, June 25th to Thursday, June 27th, we want to hear from you! Not only will you get an opportunity to influence future development of NPM, you will also get 2,000 points in the thwack store which you can use to buy t-shirts, caps, and other SolarWinds swag.
Don’t worry if you’re not the most sophisticated users on thwack. We’re really looking for noobs for this, so if that’s how you would describe yourself (as long as you’re someone who would be creating reports as part of your job), then we want to talk to you!
To sign up or learn more, contact kellie.mecham@solarwinds.com directly by sending me a private email. Thanks!
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Re: Use SNMP-based Tools Carefully, Or They Can Turn Against You
We don't have a lot of devices, but I would say that no, we're not 100% organized here in regards to SNMP traffic. I'm not even sure how much is too much to be honest, but so far with several admins running network inventory/discovery polls in half a dozen different packages, we haven't had any issues yet.
At some point, I'd like to get around to tracking just how much traffic is being generated but considering the size of our network it really hasn't become an issue yet.
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New Orion product users--we want to talk to you about reporting!
- Are you a new Orion user (6 months or less of experience on NPM, NCM, SAM, NTA, IPAM, UDT or WPM)?
- Are you interested in getting a preview of what reporting on the web might look like?
- Do you have one hour to spend with us any time between 7am and 11am CST on Tuesday, June 25th, Wednesday, June 26th or Thursday, June 27th?
Then we want to hear from you! We're looking for new users who can walk through some flows for web reports and tell us what you think. Space is limited and we have room for 3 one-hour sessions. We’re really looking for noobs for this, so if that’s how you would describe yourself (as long as you’re someone who would be creating reports as part of your job), then we want to talk to you!
To sign up or learn more, contact kellie.mecham@solarwinds.com directly by sending me a private email. Thanks!
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Re: How do you run sudo commands against alert central?
What commands are you needing to run?
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Re: Calendar Question
It is only possible to set the color of the group. All calendars for a given group will show up with the groups color.
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