Re: What is complexity?
Ok, based on the variety of tools/modules that you use I assume that there is nothing like one perfect NMS which fulfills all the management needs of a complex network out of the box! It is rather an...
View ArticleRe: SCP Configuration for archiving Cisco Configs
Bottom right corner of your screen, click on the arrows. (Show hidden icons) Click on the Key for SCP/SFTP configuration.
View ArticleRe: What is complexity?
I believe Solarwinds comes close to being the perfect NMS. The more complex the network, the more complex your management tool may be. The extra tools I use aren't for monitoring but for management...
View ArticleRe: What is complexity?
Ok, so you're doing configuration tasks for routers/firewalls and so an via CLI...wouldn't you consider that inconvenient? I mean if you have a large network with many devices like routers and...
View ArticleRe: What is complexity?
NCM can make configuration changes and for bulk changes, I use it. For just poking around or making a small update, I will log onto the device itself. So NCM can do the job without the need of putty etc.
View ArticleChannel goes down after failover
Hello to everyone, I am experiencing one issue: I have configured FoE on 2 servers and registry/file are sync.Everything is ok.But problems starts after failover occurs.Secondary server becomes...
View ArticleNagios active discount code
FYI: If anyone else is attending the Nagios world conference this year, the discount code "JOE" just worked for me. Saves $100 off.
View ArticleCable Management, in Theory and Practice
Hey all, Just wanted to get everyone's best tips & tricks for cable management and general network technician help. Thanks!
View ArticleRe: Cable Management, in Theory and Practice
First thing about cable management...... it takes time and documentation. Couple things I try to do whenever I take control of a network. Color codes my cables when possible, easier to due with copper...
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Excellent! Sounds like you guys have quite the system.
View ArticleAny way to detect changes in a WAN interface?
Not sure if this is something SolarWinds can help us out with or not, but I thought I'd ask the community their thoughts or suggestions on how to handle this. Backstory: We have a Metro E connection...
View ArticleRe: Any way to detect changes in a WAN interface?
1. You can highlight the text on a trap when your interface is changed and alert on that sequence from the Trap. (Trap Viewer on your main server)2. Real Time Config Changes Notification. It would have...
View ArticleRe: Any way to detect changes in a WAN interface?
Thanks for the quick response. Unfortunately we do not have access to the ISP Managed device to do any interface monitoring/reporting. So I fear that makes point 1 and 2 moot. I thought about option...
View ArticleRe: Any way to detect changes in a WAN interface?
Alert on the interfaces that feed the circuit. If you get alerts on your own interfaces call your service provider to check the line (non intrusive of course unless the circuit is already down). I have...
View ArticleRe: Any way to detect changes in a WAN interface?
This was on the ISP equipment. I probably didn't pick the best wording, when I said "at our HQ end" I meant this was on the HQ Metro E end and not on a remote Metro E connection. All the rest of the...
View ArticleRe: Any way to detect changes in a WAN interface?
You may see the speed of the interface change * AND that normally shows as a sys log entry(my experience).... so now you are into opening your sys log viewer and creating an alert based on...
View ArticleRe: Any way to detect changes in a WAN interface?
I'll take a peek at the sys log viewer and see what I might be able to use in there. I figured monitoring in between would be difficult. As far as I can tell, the speed change didn't result in many...
View ArticleHow to monitor SolarWinds Server with Network/SAN Outage?
Hi, recently we had SAN network outage which we were not notified since SolarWinds database was down (server was up but SolarWinds, Exchange and Vcenter databases reside on SAN). Currently, we have...
View ArticlePort Security for Foundry/Brocade
Just looking for a guide or something like the Cisco port security, I tried looking at the syslogs to get the alerts from there but Foundry doesn't seem to send any logs for err disable for port...
View ArticleRe: Port Security for Foundry/Brocade
FES devices have an option for that: Using the MAC Port Security Feature But I am not sure if that works on FCX.
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