Re: LSI MegaRAID controller
Hardware Health Monitoring in SAM is a simple one check box affair for Dell PowerEdge, HP Proliant, IBM xSeries, and Dell/HP blade chassis. After that, the out-of-the-box pre-configured alerts are...
View ArticleRe: Monitor a Given Directory for File Writes
Sounds like the simplest solution would be to enable file auditing on that directory and use the Windows Event Log Monitor to search for the specific event that's written to the event log when a file...
View ArticleRe: Exchange 2010 Remote monitoring with WSMAN
Got it figured out today. Scripts working nicely. Had to make sure IIS allowed Windows Authentication and the user account had Exchange Operations Manager permissions. Only weird issue at the moment...
View ArticleSCP taken and passed
The exam guide along with real-world experience was good prep for the SCP exam. All questions well written and a good balance of npm vs basic network troubleshooting.Good times.
View ArticleRe: Server restarted even when no restart option was selected in Solarwind...
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View ArticleRe: Alerts - Percent variable being displayed as a variable
I talked with a technical support rep and found a solution.Change the following variables:${InBps} to ${InBps as bandwidth}${OutBps} to ${OutBps as bandwidth} In summary, the message looks like...
View ArticleRe: Device discovery and polling IP address
There are no access-lists blocking the snmp traffic for that device. I ran a netstat -a to try and see if any udp port 161 traffic is leaving while I'm testing the credentials but I don't see any...
View ArticleRe: How to monitor desktop, laptops and other non-essentials without showing...
You could also set those groups to best available so it would take ALL turned off before the icon turned red (then it's party time)And also don't forget to mark all your access switch ports interfaces...
View ArticleRe: Solarwinds IPAM (IP address manager)
+1I think the best way to integrate it into a NOC type of work is to scan all the company subnets, add all the DHCP servers (though maybe with read-only), set the default scan interval to 2-3hours to...
View ArticleRe: Device discovery and polling IP address
This does not make sense.Switches are L2 devices and do not have IP addresses on their interfaces.Switches are usually managed through a dedicated Vlan/Interface, not loopbacks (but some switches can...
View ArticleNCM is seeing date change as a change Cisco Nexus 5548
Subject says it all. Every day NCM sees a change in date as a change to configuration. Is there a way to not have that happen? See attached.
View ArticleRe: Making room for failure
Being at the Engineering Line Manager level but reporting to the VP means I know how easy it is to make technical mistakes and even get to participate them sometimes while at the same time needing to...
View ArticleCisco UCS server blades not showing Hardware Health of Servers option in List...
I know that UCS blade chassis' are managed through the FI's but with no link back to the FI from the production IP monitored node (Windows 2008 R2) in this case then I am too far removed from the...
View ArticleRe: Tell Us If You Think That MS Lync Is Going to Own The Corporate VoIP!
We have a fairly large enterprise with a multitude of VOIP installations including solutions from Cisco, Nortel, Avaya and NEC. We have deployed Lync and are currently using its VOIP and desktop...
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Re: Orion NPM Architecture, Speed, and SQL
That looks like a lot of memory. Is your db server hosting more than the Orion NPM database? Are they VMs? Might want to look through Resource Monitor on your SQL server to find out how much memory...
View ArticleRe: Device discovery and polling IP address
Ok...after spending a few hours this morning looking at it I have found that when I test credentials from the manage credentials engineers toolset I don't see any traffic leaving from the server in my...
View ArticleRe: How to monitor desktop, laptops and other non-essentials without showing...
What comes to my mind is to set up on these devices shutdown/sleep action to run the script (using Orion SDK) against Orion server which will make them unmanaged on shutdown/sleep and a startup/wake...
View ArticleRe: Device discovery and polling IP address
You should really open a support case for this, but here are a couple more things to check. Are you using the hostname or IP for discovering the new node?Do you have IPv6 enabled on your Orion server?...
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Re: Orion NPM Architecture, Speed, and SQL
Its a physical box dedicated to just solarwinds (I hijacked a old exchange mailbox server ) I did remove the thwack web parts. The part that gets me is sometimes its really fast. Just the other day we...
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What did I miss?
Thursday just before the end of the week, after a team meeting I received the call. We all know it, it starts with "what the #$#@ is going on with the network!? (for some reason it always gets blamed...
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