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Configuring SNMP Version 3 on AIX
It took me a while to get the right combination of AIX SNMP Version 3 settings that will work with Authentication & Privacy enabled for Solar Winds.Hopefully the steps below will help you get it...
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Google 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...
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How to trim, remove, or truncate domain names discovered and displayed in NPM...
If you are unhappy with NPM displaying the FQDN information of your network equipment for any reason (e.g.: the domain section takes up too much space in your diagrams and documents), I followed this...
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Automatically balance nodes against multiple polling engines.
To give a little back, here's a script that I developed.PROBLEM:We have multiple people adding nodes to additional pollers, and they don't choose the one with the least nodes currently being polled....
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Cisco ASR Showing 95% 98% Memory Used.
Since we are seeing very frequent issue with ASR Memory Consumption . Let me try to explain in a little details. Issue: Cisco ASR Showing 95 % / 98 % Memory Consumed. Troubleshooting :- When we...
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Vertical listing of reference table in nodes details page using unpivot and...
A client asked for a way to use an reference table to pull values for a node. This particular reference table has a list of all SiteCodes for the nodes.One way of doing it is to just dump the values....
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Alerting with Custom Properties - Trigger Condition Yes/No
I wanted to outline some additional ways to help with cutting down on alert noise with Orion. I'm building off this previous thwack post. This post talks about using a Custom Property as a toggle on a...
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Clickatell - SMS Gateway - Alert Overview
This overview talks about using a 3rd party SMS provider to send text alerts from Orion. I've used Clickatell in the past and really like their API's, ease of use and reliability. The nice part about...
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