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Re: Too good for QoS
.We use Qos in our boarder Huawei NE40E, But I have no idea about our core switch, if I should enable Qos?And how?I am afraid that the performance will fall.
View ArticleRe: ROUTER LOGS
At a bare minimum, you should have your Cisco routers sending syslog data to either Splunk directly or a Syslog server that has Splunk monitoring its logfiles. This will give you immediate access to...
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Re: Not without my IPv6
You deserve a high 5. I get ignored. I have it in my contract that I won't participate in social media or allow my picture taken until the internal network is converted to 6.
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Re: The engineering behind SolarWinds
Thanks so much for the explanation. That helps a lot!!!!
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Top 5 Requested Reports Needed for the Network Team
I'm writing some custom reports using the OOB report writer and Crystal Report Writer. I'm curious to see what reports people would like to see in NPM and other Orion modules. So for example, downtime...
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Topology discovery with Network Performance management
We have a very large and a very dynamic network with many hundreds of routers/switches all of them are monitored by Solarwinds. The main issues is that we are constantly changing hardware somewhere,...
View ArticleRe: VLAN setup on switch
Dellpe I am by no means a senior network engineer. However, I would like to try and help. Many years working as a customer support engineer has taught me to ask questions. So I guess I would ask for...
View ArticleHaving a Trap create an Event is needed.
If everything else creates an Event, why doesn't a Trap create an Event. A Trap should create an Event then the Traps can be seen in Context with all the other Events.
View ArticleRe: Topology discovery with Network Performance management
Have you looked into autodiscovery scheduled daily? Just input your point-point or loopback subnet address range and it will discover and offer to add all your switches for you. More difficult would be...
View ArticleRe: Top 5 Requested Reports Needed for the Network Team
ALerts history, duration not up, events, top net bandwidth, top net application netflow
View ArticleRe: The engineering behind SolarWinds
Also Orion web console is written in .Net to interact with both SQL data and SWIS API data. While some have made custom resources in .Net, I prefer to use the Custom Query resource and SWQL. So far...
View ArticleOSPF on layer 2 trunk port?
Hello, I was setting up a lab and I stumbled across this question. How do you advertise routes over a layer 2 trunk port? I have Cisco 1921 R1 that has a serial connection to R2, both routers are...
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What’s Your Config Error Nightmare?
It’s always a tough job for a network admin to avoid configuration errors from happening on the network devices. It could be the result of manual errors and oversight, some technical glitches in the...
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Re: VLAN setup on switch
untagged port = access porttagged port = trunk port Connect your business devices to untagged ports which are part of VLAN100 and the Wi-Fi AP to an untagged port on VLAN 200. Create ACLs on your L3...
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Re: Finding unmanaged Switches and Hubs on the LAN
BPDUguard is great option for those who generate BPDU packet, unfortunately most of unmanaged switches do not generate BPDU. However if BPDU guard is enabled and user made a mistake such as looping...
View ArticleRe: OSPF on layer 2 trunk port?
OSPF adjacency has to be formed between R1 and R3 before they can exchange routing database. Create a VLAN and SVI on both routers and add this VLAN to the allowed VLANs list on your L2 trunk between...
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Re: What’s Your Config Error Nightmare?
It had taken weeks and I’d just finished commissioning a new multiple machine-room office, loads of racks of routers, switches & servers and the transit packaging was broken down for removal....
View ArticleWho Is Standardizing Their Network Device Configs?
For years I feel as if I am the only one who standardizes everything, especially network device configs. Am I the only one? Who else has already standardized all/most of their configs? By brand?...
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