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Orphaned Limitations clarificaiton

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I just ran a Orion Deployment Health Check and one of the items that came back was to check for orphaned limitations.  It supplied a list of found orphaned limitations and then a KB article to resolve it.  The KB article is MT103094 and here's the URL for it  https://support.solarwinds.com/Success_Center/Orion_Platform/Knowledgebase_Articles/Troubleshoot_orphaned_limitations_in_Orion_Platform_products.

 

I just need to 100% understand the SQL script before I do anything. 

 

The KB says to run the following query ...

 

"DELETE FROM [Limitations] WHERE [LimitationID] NOT IN

(select [LimitationID1] as LimitationID from [Accounts] where [LimitationID1] is not null union

select [LimitationID2] as LimitationID from [Accounts] where [LimitationID2] is not null union

select [LimitationID3] as LimitationID from [Accounts] where [LimitationID3] is not null union

select [LimitationID] as LimitationID from [Views] where [LimitationID] is not null)"

 

So here's my question, do I enter this SQL query as is or do I need to fill in the limiationIDs that are bad???

 

Case in point here's one of the orphaned limitation errors "Found orphaned Limitations: Limit the Account based on the Custom Property 'Region' in the 'NodesCustomProperties' table (id: 3)"

 

Do I need to enter limitationID 3 anywhere in this script or does this script remove the bad entry for limitationID 3?


Re: Orphaned Limitations clarificaiton

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The script checks the places a limitation could be used, if any limitationID you have is not in use in any of those places it deletes them all.  One shot and they are all done, no changes needed.

Re: Orphaned Limitations clarificaiton

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Awesome, thank you, that's what I assumed.  I didn't want to make any changes to the DB without fully understanding what I was doing or entering it wrong.

Re: Menu Bars, Menu Items

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Hi Brent,

 

For SWQL try

 

Orion.Web.Menu

Orion.Web.MenuBars

Orion.Web.MenuItems

Switch Port Usage report

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As a self confessed non understander of reports within Solarwinds is there a way I can make it:

 

Tell me the number of ports in use (at the time of running the report) for a specific subset of devices?

Re: Printer monitoring - specifically HP toner level

Re: Cisco 819 help.....

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An Inventory Report from Network Configuration Manager would not be possible at the moment as it does not check the 3G/4G information.

I did find SNMP OIDs that can be utilized to find and identify a lot of 3G/4G Statistics.

 

Get signal Strength

1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.661.1.3.4.1.1.1.18

Get RSSI

1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.661.1.3.4.1.1

Get phone #

1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.661.1.3.1.1.4.18

Get SIM

1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.661.1.3.1.1.3.18

Get IMEI

1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.661.1.3.1.1.2.18

Roaming status

1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.661.1.1.1.6.18

 

These OIDs can be used in Engineer's Toolset MIB Viewer and MIB Browser, or can be tracked through Network Performance Monitor:

 

Add into Network Performance Monitor

  1. To access the Application on the Solarwinds Server, please go into Start> Programs> Solarwinds Orion> Network Performance Monitor> Universal Device Poller.
  2. Click on New Universal Device Poller
    1. In OID, enter in the OID Above
    2. Under Name, you can enter in the MIB Name
    3. Leave Advanced as-is
    1. Polling Type: Node
    2. Polling Interval (Leave blank)
    3. Keep Historical Data: Yes
    4. Status Enabled
    5. Select Next
  1. In the Assign (Poller Name) to Nodes, select the Devices, then select Test.
    1. If it comes back as a green checkbox, then it is returning information
    2. If you see OID not Supported, then the device does not support this custom poller
    3. Select Next
  2. Display (poller Name) Results on Orion Website
    1. Select Chart Next to Node Details - Summary
    2. Select Finish

 

 

Universal Device Poller

The Universal Device Poller is the application that will allow you to poll non-standard and not out of the box information from any SNMP enabled device. If you already know the MIB and/or OID for the data you want to pol.

 

The following resources provide more information about Universal Device Pollers:

• "Monitoring MIBs with Universal Device Pollers" in the SolarWinds Orion Network Performance Monitor Administrator Guide.

o http://www.solarwinds.com/NetPerfMon/SolarWinds/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/wwhelp.htm#href=OrionAGMonitoringCustomMIBs.htm

• The following will show you how to add an OID, search MIBs, Transform a MIB result, and create a Table to show on your Website.

o Create a Universal Device Poller (UnDP) in the Orion Platform - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support

 

This is an older Legacy Report Writer Report, but this will work with these pollers: NPM Node UnDPs and the Nodes Assigned

 

Re: Notepage alerts with Orion

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Notepage is not free- you would need for SMS/text messaging-

Many other alert options are included with Orion-

Send an email or page
Play a wav sound
Log alerts to a file, the windows event log, or the Solarwinds.com event log
Text‑to‑Speech a string
Send an SNMP trap
Send a Syslog message
Run an external program
Execute an internal or external VB script
Email a web page
GET or POST a URL to a web server
Send a Windows NET SEND message

 

Alerting resources for Orion Platform products - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support


Re: Changing Default Dynamic WMI Port's to Static Specific Port's Windows 2012 Server's

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I have tried above steps . But still I am facing the issue

Re: WANTED - Inventory/Asset management DB application

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@Network_Guru,

 

Apologies, I realize this post is ancient...I was just curious what solution to ended up with?

 

Dwyane

Re: Roles and Permissions In Network Config and Management

SNMP Fails with " Test Failed. Exception of type 'SolarWinds.ApiProxyFactory.TransientApiProxyException' was thrown. "

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FYI For anyone who gets the above failure (Test Failed. Exception of type 'SolarWinds.ApiProxyFactory.TransientApiProxyException' was thrown.) on an SNMP test this seems to be (in a couple cases I've had in different organizations, installations) an issue with NIC priority in systems with multiple NICs.  Changing priority doesn't always fix it but disabling the interface that doesn't have your poller's primary IP does. 

 

You may also see that your poller is not syncing with the database or that it is not 'up'.

 

This has only happened to me with VMWare boxes but, FWIW, I've only installed SolarWinds on VMWare VMs.

I've had this happen without doing anything explicit with the box, sometimes it seems like performing windows updates can do this.  I've never had sole administrative access to the systems so I can't verify that another administrator didn't come in and change something or enable a NIC that was disabled but it seems like this has also happened.

HA Setup and Scheduled Tasks

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If we have an HA setup of Solarwinds, including our APE's and one of the APE's has a scheduled task configured for a recurring maintenance, then do we also need to seprately create that same schedule on its HA box?

Re: HA Setup and Scheduled Tasks

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Is the task an Solarwinds task?  i just looked on a couple of my APE's and don't see anything specific to Solarwinds.

 

If it's not then you shouldn't need to do anything with the HA boxes as all the work is done by the active node using information from the database.

Re: HA Setup and Scheduled Tasks

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Sorry - I should have been clearer.

 

This is using the "Unmanage Scheduling" kludge for non-standard schedules. If you've not used it, then essentially you fire up this tool, pick your node, etc and set your paremters such as length of non-management and then save it. You then have to create a windows scheduled task that uses this saved file to trigger the relevant action in Solarwinds.

 

As I type all this I realise that whilst the Solarwinds functionality should fail across the windows side probably won't....!


Re: HA Setup and Scheduled Tasks

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No problem,

 

So as long as the task is pointing to either DNS name or VIP of the server then you should be ok.

 

TBH i don't use the utility and borrowed a rather nice PowerShell based utility and run it on a separate server to the pollers, we do a large amount of automation and reporting so having a separate server for all these things made sense. there a number of different versions on THWACK so find one that works best for you and do the same that way you have all the flexibility (we hook into our CMDB to check certain attributes before unmanaging/remanaging).

Re: SNMP Fails with " Test Failed. Exception of type 'SolarWinds.ApiProxyFactory.TransientApiProxyException' was thrown. "

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Hi twomonkeysayoyo,

 

Many thanks for this info, I am intrigued by this as I have this issue at the moment.

 

I tried following your resolution and realised that on my poller, I have two active NICs, one which gives me general network access, the other which connects to a site directly for polling.

Unfortunately, disabling any of these would cause issues meaning we won't be able to monitor one site or the other, which is clearly counter productive!

 

During your time working towards this workaround, did you manage to identify what the root cause is? I am wondering if there is another work around that would be more suitable for my issue.

 

Kind regards,

James

Re: SNMP Fails with " Test Failed. Exception of type 'SolarWinds.ApiProxyFactory.TransientApiProxyException' was thrown. "

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As far as I know your poller will not support dual homed configurations.  I don't know why, but you may have to get another poller or figure out a network workaround.

Re: SNMP Fails with " Test Failed. Exception of type 'SolarWinds.ApiProxyFactory.TransientApiProxyException' was thrown. "

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Hi twomonkeysayoyo,

 

Thanks for the quick response!

 

I found another thread which got me thinking about firewall rules and accesses. I ran a test with the firewall up an connecting to the second site and I received the error.

I then did the same with the firewall off and found that this was successful without errors.

 

Happy Days! It is doing exactly what I want it to do, however it requires additional ports open on my firewall! Now to figure out which ones specifically as I thought I had the standard ones set up.

 

So, in the event of safety, the firewall is back up and I am now working this out.

 

What I did find interesting during my investigations on this is that despite the exceptions being thrown up, I was able to run SNMPWalks from the polling engine successfully.

As you could imagine, this threw me off the connectivity trail for a while!

But it is worth pointing out, if you have this or a similar issue, try the SNMPWalk tool from the polling engine!

 

Kind regards,

James

Re: SNMP Fails with " Test Failed. Exception of type 'SolarWinds.ApiProxyFactory.TransientApiProxyException' was thrown. "

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I managed to resolve my issue!

 

After a weekend of wracking my brains, trying to work out why the device was able to complete an SNMP walk but wasn't able to add the node from the Poller, it hit me this morning... The issue wasn't with the connectivity between the node and additional poller, but the connection between the additional poller and the primary.

 

I had a look over my APE and realised the local firewall was enabled like we wanted, however the rules were not set for the right ports.

I spent over an hour looking at these rules first to make sure and be certain that they weren't there before creating a new rule for internal devices to allow traffic between ports 17777, 17778, 1433 and 1434.

 

I clicked ok... Logged back in to my platform, and tried adding my node again...

 

With bated breath and crossed figures, I hovered my mouse over the test button... I was one click away from relieving my weekend long headache...

 

Click...

 

"Test successful"

 

The sigh of relief was more a cheer of jubilation...

 

Not a big win, but by no means a small one either... And hopefully this may help someone in the future

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