HOWTO - Create a Spiffy WAP MAP with Network Atlas
If you have Solarwinds Network Performance Monitor [NPM] tool and more than a few Wifi Thin Access Points in your environment, I'll bet you've been tempted at some point to create a "WAP MAP" using the...
View ArticleLost all admin rights NPM after editing with multiple tabs?
The troublemaker:NEVER EDIT ACCOUNTS IN MULTIPLE TABS!If you do, you'll probably loose all admin rights for all accounts (like I did). The solution:Open "Database Manager"Expand "NetPerfMon"Right-click...
View ArticleGoogle Maps in Orion NPM - How to Video
I've made some changes to the original Google Maps that I introduced about this time last year. This version provides a status icon on the map for each unique latitude and longitude value in the...
View ArticleTransmode TM-3000 DWDM and Packet Optical
UnDP for Transmode TM3000 (and possibly other transmode devices). This UnDP has support for the Transponder cards, Optical Amps, EMXP, MPLS-TP, and some of the alarm reporting. Please let me know if...
View ArticleAn unexpected exception occurred during installation (Executing NCM 7.x.x...
When running NCM installer received following Error. Microsoft.Deployment.WindowsInstaller.InstallerException: The installation source for this product is not available. Verify that the source exists...
View ArticleOpengear Console Server Extended Pollers
Opengear Console Servers (CM4xxx, SD40xx, IM42xx, IMG4xxx, IM72xx, ACM5xxx, ACM55xx) using firmware 3.11.0 or newerManufacturer Opengear Inc.Refer to OG-STATUSv2-MIB for OID details: Opengear SNMP...
View ArticleGoogle Maps in Orion NPM - How to Video
I've made some changes to the original Google Maps that I introduced about this time last year. This version provides a status icon on the map for each unique latitude and longitude value in the...
View ArticleSome Things Solarwinds Admins Can't Live Without
Here are some SQL queries as doing weekly Solarwinds Maintenance and creating custom alerts that we as an MSP can't live without. I will most likely update this often but here are some I store in my...
View ArticleBad trap packet received from Node with IP XX.XX.XX.XX. Error description :...
ERROR TrapService.TrapService - Bad trap packet received from Node with IP 192.168.1.1. Error description : Unknown user and engine. Packet discarded Why receiving such Events when Node sending the...
View ArticleGoogle Maps in Orion NPM - How to Video
I've made some changes to the original Google Maps that I introduced about this time last year. This version provides a status icon on the map for each unique latitude and longitude value in the...
View ArticleHow to combine advantages of Group with Custom Property feature
Starting point is an interesting customer requirement, which can be classified as "I can't believe that this is so complicated to solve...". Task:Nodes are organized via Group Feature - one group per...
View ArticleAdvanced Alerting Engine Architecture Design
Having worked within the SolarWinds environment for eleven years I've always struggled with Alert management. It seemed like every time there needed to be a format change to an alert email or the...
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