What We're Working on for NPM (Updated March 30, 2015)
The 11.0 release just occurred today, but we're already hard at work looking at items for future release. We have some game-changing new features in the works, so please stay tuned. Kindly find below...
View ArticleNo More Net-SNMP Nodes
As an avowed Linux-head and long-time *nix Sysadmin wanna be, I'm more than a little miffed to see all of my pretty pretty non-windows servers lumped into this big bucket of "net-snmp" in 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 ArticleAdding Live Weather to the "Worldwide Map" Resource
Adding Live Weather to the "Worldwide Map" Resource Summary: This will allow you to add live weather to the worldwide map based on the OpenWeatherMap project (free).Limitations: The map must be on a...
View ArticleWho want's to talk to Product Manager about bandwidh network issues? 2000...
It's easy, spend 15 minutes on a phone, friendly chat with Product Management about how you deal with network bandwidth issues or unknown application detection. As a bonus you will receive 2000 thwack...
View ArticleAlert on Nodes that stopped responding to SNMP
Custom alert for Nodes which stopped respond to SNMP: use Advanced Alert Manager and create custom SQL alert on Nodes with this custom SQL Query:SELECT LastSystemUptimePollUtc FROM Nodes WHERE...
View ArticleNode Downtime Reports
We’ve prepared two reports within Report Writer to report on node downtime: Node Down Time Report – shows outage duration for each node when and how long it was downSummarized Node Down Report –...
View ArticleTFTP Service blocking Config Wizard on APE installs
During an upgrade from NPM 11.01 to NPM 11.5, whilst also installing NTA 4.1 and SAM 6.2, I noticed a consistent error message although it pointed to different files on different systems (image...
View ArticleWhy is my SQL so slow?
A way to troubleshoot:1. Edit web.config in C:\inetpub\SolarWinds and change to True<add key="HubbleActive" value="False" /> When Hubble is active, it calculates and counts a number of...
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