The engineering behind SolarWinds
I am trying to locate information on how the front end of SolarWinds NPM interacts with the SQL database part of SolarWinds. I find information about all of the products and their bells and whistles,...
View ArticleRe: Network Topology Horror Stories
I have seen more then my fair share of Y cable connectors for power. Customers claim that the Power Grid does not fail on the Power Suplies so why have 2 separate power grids or 2 separate UPS systems...
View ArticleRe: The engineering behind SolarWinds
The NPM admin guide gives a general breakdown of how all of the pieces come together to perform monitoring. Page 31 in the pdf, or page 9 using the guides page info gives...
View Articlesnmp v3 connection refused
Hi there, Thanks for reading. Im having trouble downloading a config from one of my edge routers using the NCM Config Manager. I recently configured snmp v3 in Solarwinds and on my router. I'm seeing...
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The problem was in the chair. The Config Mgr uses SSH / Telnet credentials, not the snmp medium I configured. Once I configured a connection profile in Solarwinds and assigned it to the config, I was...
View ArticleRe: snmp v3 connection refused
For SNMP data collection, you will need to add create a snmp-server view in order to allow to see the MIB information and snmp-server group to include the view name. SNMPv3 you have to explicitly allow...
View ArticleRe: The engineering behind SolarWinds
Orion is a State engine.The database holds the information or state of an object (server, switch, router, interfaces, application, etc.)The monitors go out and query the state of that object and update...
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Re: Roles and Permissions In Network Config and Management
Hey Jeffery: Can you share more information on how did you set up different levels of access for help desk , System Administrators and Network Engineers on our Solarwinds Server. Is there a way to...
View ArticleRe: Roles and Permissions In Network Config and Management
I use existing AD account groups and add them Solarwinds. I then assign different rights to each of these groups in the settings-->Accounts--->Manage accounts --->edit the group and you can...
View ArticleRe: Roles and Permissions In Network Config and Management
So we have two groups IT Infra team and IT support so I want to give admin role to IT Infr and just ability to discover nodes to IT support is possible to get this granular ? Role Based Access in NPM...
View ArticleRe: Exploring a new network from scratch
Great tips/post! I'm stealing a few to improve on our Standard Operating Procedures.
View ArticleRe: Network exploration
I also prefer a manual approach. A tool/trick I use for discovery which I would consider manual is putting the domain name into robtex.com > click Lucky > click Graph. It shows where the...
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Re: Active Directory Lockout Tool
useful tool. Curious if you can provide what kind of logs the nlparse.exe would read ?
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Re: Too good for QoS
Dude, Nick, you are so out of the non-QoS club, I guess it's just down to me now. Don't worry, I got it. And just an FYI, I just ordered a new 500MB Verizon MPLS because users are complaining about...
View ArticleVLAN setup on switch
In my workplace we own a S5700-52C-EI switch, and we want to separate the guest WiFi network from the rest of the company network. There are 3 VLANs created at the moment: VLAN 1 - by defaultVLAN 100 -...
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