Re: Do you prefer agentless or agent-based monitoring? Are there situations...
I would also say that if you have an agent, you should show why that is superior to polling mechanisms leveraging SNMP. Often I don't see a clear advantage to agents except push based network mechanics...
View ArticleRe: Do you prefer agentless or agent-based monitoring? Are there situations...
Yes, that's my biggest concern with agent-based monitoring is making sure that it's light weight and won't cause issues. If an agent is crashing, that's just bad form.
View ArticleRe: Do you prefer agentless or agent-based monitoring? Are there situations...
It annoys me to no end when a network enabled device does not support SNMP. That's just not excusable if you ask me.
View ArticleRe: Do you prefer agentless or agent-based monitoring? Are there situations...
Yes, credential management for agentless (or rather, SNMP agent based) monitoring is a total pain, often breaking the central monitoring system if it can't handle multiple strings, or multiple...
View ArticleRe: Monitoring SNMP Service on Windows Boxes.
My recommendation would be to simplify the alert down to it's most basic/minimum required conditions. For example, based on the other conditions the vendor type will always be "Windows" so there's no...
View ArticleRe: How Do I add a Mac Address Field or Column?
if this the only way to track dynamic ip sources and can anyone script this for me for a fee??
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Re: How to monitor the polling server is up
This is the purpose behind the "Polling Engines" property type in the Advanced Alert Manager.
View ArticleRe: NCM credentials problem in NPM
When you are in NPM, have you confirmed that you are logging in with your domain account? It shows you current logged in user in the top right hand corner. It should show as domain\useraccount. And...
View ArticleRe: How long each interface or node was down.
Hi Gob, If I input 10 it is ok. It would get those events where the node went down with 10 minutes or more. However we would also like to display all those event that went down below 10 minutes ( 9...
View ArticleRe: Server and Application Monitor causes High CPU - wmiprvse.exe
The Windows Server 2008-2012 Domain Controller Security template is comprised of two PowerShell component monitors and several Windows Event Log Monitors. Can you try either disabling just the...
View ArticleRe: DHCP User Experience Monitor for a different segment?
The DHCP User Experience Monitor functions no differently than a workstation configured to use DHCP. That is to say, we are bound by the same RFC limitations as any other DHCP client. Unfortunately,...
View ArticleRe: Automatic template import/update from one SAM instance to another
Have you considered exporting the modified template from the Dev SAM instance and importing it to the Prod instance?
View ArticleRe: Using IBM Director 6.3 for Hardware Health/SNMP & WMI.
The issue with the IBM server not showing all hardware information via SNMP could be that the SNMP agent on that server needs to be restarted. This is a common and well known problem with IBM's...
View ArticleRe: How are you handling IIS App Pool alerting?
Both SAM Applications and individual Components Monitors can be included in groups, and groups can be dependent upon other groups. This means you can use both groups and dependencies together to...
View ArticleRe: All Solarwinds Databases seem to be severely fragmented and maintenance...
Well, The SQL server was set up using that PDF document, so it is in compliance with all of the recommendations. I ran the SQL query in that knowledgebase article and I will wait for the nightly...
View ArticleRe: NCM credentials problem in NPM
Yes tick that box on, that way it will use the security you use for NPM. If NPM uses local accounts, then domain\usersaccount won't work. Once you tick that box on, then you'll be able to log into the...
View ArticleBGP Neighbour alerts.
I've doing some comparing of the new Advanced Alert in 10.5 for Neighbour changes to my current alerts for BGP neighbour changes through syslog. And I have found that the Advanced Alert is received...
View ArticleRe: What we are working on post VoIP & Network QM 4.0
Is there an estimate time on when we can expect that the ability of integrating to Avaya CM will be available?
View ArticleRe: Change default node in Custom view
What It sounds like you're looking to create your own custom summary view, with select interface information. After creating the custom summary view, you would use the "Custom Object Resource" to add...
View ArticleRe: How to Access un-monitored interface ports and display the vlan they are in.
Short of oid polling I would and do simply monitor those ports in UDT. that allows you to pull plenty of operational information besides the standard NPM Interfaces.
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