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You can find documentation for all four products online athttp://www.solarwinds.com/NetPerfMon/SolarWinds/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/wwhelp.htm#href=OrionAGTitlePage.htmThe documentation contains detailed...
View ArticleRe: Managing the Management Tools
I've worked with a number of monitoring tools over the years, and besides basic upgrading and patching stuff, the most important thing is that staff actually uses the tools, and continually ensures...
View ArticleRe: Managing the Management Tools
I think care and management of the tools is critical, though it can be difficult to do with the workload involved. At my previous company, when we brought monitoring in-house in 2011, I was involved in...
View ArticleVPLS MPLS
Hi Guys Can anyone help with this question, what is the difference between these two? I am unable understand the difference between them. hope someone can explain regards Matt
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Re: VPLS MPLS
A couple of differences are:VPLS is completely static layer 2 "routing" and therefor does not scale well. MPLS is completely dynamic layer "2.5" so is scales well, and heals dead routes.VPLS is just...
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I've found that certain management tools are too complex which is why they end up being neglected. No one knows how to use them! We had HP Openview for a while. Someone came in and installed it but as...
View Articleoverruns
hi guys the interface on my router that connects to the lan is receiving loads of input errors, all of them are overruns what could be causing that and how would i go about stopping them?kind regards matt
View ArticleRe: Managing the Management Tools
You hit on a huge one- false alarms, or frequent alarms because too much is being monitored. It's easy for a system to devolve into visual noise and alert overload, and then it runs the risk of being...
View ArticleUse SNMP-based Tools Carefully, Or They Can Turn Against You
SNMP is a wonderful, sometimes maddening management protocol. It can provide monitoring, powerful trending, and alerting when things go wrong on the network. But too much of anything can be bad, and...
View ArticleRe: VPLS MPLS
Hi MPLS is the transport protocol-set and not the "service" you are getting from the provider. The "service" is L3 VPN or L2 VPN (VPLS) L2 VPN is just great if you need to extend L2 VLAN from one...
View ArticleRe: Use SNMP-based Tools Carefully, Or They Can Turn Against You
Our biggest issue is educating our admins. There is one particular admin that it took us clsoe to six months to break her of setting up SNMP with Public as the community string. We had several battles...
View ArticleRe: Use SNMP-based Tools Carefully, Or They Can Turn Against You
We don't have a lot of devices, but I would say that no, we're not 100% organized here in regards to SNMP traffic. I'm not even sure how much is too much to be honest, but so far with several admins...
View ArticleRe: Use SNMP-based Tools Carefully, Or They Can Turn Against You
Our house is indeed in order. We've used a combination of touching host devices when necessary and GPOs on our Windows boxes to specify strings and approved hosts. This has worked out very well, eased...
View ArticleRe: Use SNMP-based Tools Carefully, Or They Can Turn Against You
This is a good subject. SNMP can get out of hand, and monitoring in general can produce huge amounts of data, which can be useless unless a decision is being made against it (like alerts). Last month...
View ArticleRe: Use SNMP-based Tools Carefully, Or They Can Turn Against You
I like SNMP, but it can be dangerous when used irresponsibly. I've seen a few instances where what should have been a relatively simple config change has gone horribly wrong. One instance was pushing...
View ArticleRe: Use SNMP-based Tools Carefully, Or They Can Turn Against You
You are absolutely right, SNMP and the management systems that are using it to connect to your endpoints can get out of hand. We have had this problem in the past and there are a few ways we have...
View ArticleNPM Features
I hope that I post in right topic. I would like to inquire about your NPM features and also I want to know if it is compatible in any windows version?
View ArticleRe: overruns
Interface overruns are caused when the interface is receiving much more traffic than that can be handled by the port ASIC or the interface packet buffer. Your option is to either limit the traffic...
View ArticleRe: Use SNMP-based Tools Carefully, Or They Can Turn Against You
We use ACLs to limit SNMP access to our systems. We also configure SNMP on each host or network device to allow access from only a couple Network Management stations.
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