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Re: Allen Bradley modbus ethernet
Oh, it would be great if this was possible. I'm in a similar situation with the same requirement. Modbus is an entirely different protocol, and like xpowels states, SNMP would be a contradiction....
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Fear nothing except bad backups. Even then, your tools may fail. I am an optimist in all things, excluding IT. I always attack these things with the knowledge they can and will fail. I don't think I've...
View ArticleNode Down/Reboot
How does orion know when a node is rebooted vs. being down due to an issue/problem?
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Some of it can be done with the reboot/uptime OID as zzz mentioned, which gives you information like Last Boot under Node Details. Some of it can also be accomplished with your Advanced Alert...
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What do you base alerts and reports for this? is it Last boot time? or is it the Last reboot OID we have to discover?
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Brian, There is a well documented SNMP bug (MIB2) on most (if not all) devices with regards to "Last Boot," so I would not recommend that alerts or reporting be based on this information. The bug...
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Thank you for the answer it has helped a lot and it was what I was looking for.
View ArticleRe: Config Management Has You Covered- Or Does It?
Couldn't agree more with the sentiments of the group. And I also can't say we are guilty either. While we back everything up, we aren't so good with testing the restores. We have done restores, but...
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Valid testing requies a valid test environment... we validate restore procedures as best we can in the absence of some key lab resources. Who has the where with all to replicate the unique elements...
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That's a very good point Phil. The resources are not always available. We do some of our validation currently in the production environment periodically. There have definitley been times where...
View ArticleRe: Config Management Has You Covered- Or Does It?
Really great sentiments from everyone- thanks for keeping a good dialogue going. To Phil's point, it can be impossible to fully duplicate an environment for testing, but I would offer that recovery is...
View ArticleRe: Managing the Management Tools
It's an interesting area, because good management tools are a key investment, but it's easy to let it fall off the rails when other priorities come up, when the person who built a given tool leaves, or...
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I'm curious of the people on here how many would say that managing network management tools like solarwinds and other tools is the majority of their job function. How many are engineers who are...
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I agree with many others here in that a good management system need to be well maintained; the frequency of the maintenance largely depends on the size of the environment as well as the rate of change...
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We take a tiered approach to that management aspect, with one person as managing and continually innovating as their primary function with others lending their specialty to the areas that make sense....
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For my team, we all focus exclusively on network monitoring, and use SolarWinds 90% of the day. However, we are a bit unique in that we are not a support team. With regards to the original post; my...
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As a network engineer, I agree with everything here, and I typcially need to split my days up with both maintaining an enterprise network and maintaining our Orion environment. The old IT proverb:...
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byrona, I love it when they come to us and say, "Marketing slides and the sales team told us it was all automatic." But what is failed to mention is all the setup, care and feeding that goes into...
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