I can run the script below successfully on one switch, but when I push it to two or more, the second switch never tftp's the files…  I think this could be one of a couple issues:  NCM is pushing the commands too fast for the switch, which causes the tftp sessions to time out.  And/or, the switch can't tftp doc's to both the bootflash and slavebootflash simultaneously. 

So, is there any way to slow down the execution of the commands in NCM? 

Is there a better way to do this that I'm missing?

Thanks in advance for the help.

-Adrian

format bootflash:
${CR}
${CR}
squeeze bootflash:
${CR}
${CR}
format slavebootflash:
${CR}
${CR}
squeeze slavebootflash:
${CR}
${CR}
format slot0:
${CR}
${CR}
squeeze slot0:
${CR}
${CR}
format slaveslot0:
${CR}
${CR}
squeeze slaveslot0:
${CR}
${CR}
copy tftp://10.8.217.39/cat4500-ipbasek9-mz.122-46.SG.bin bootflash:cat4500-ipbasek9-mz.122-46.SG.bin
${CR}
copy tftp://10.8.217.39/cat4500-ipbasek9-mz.122-46.SG.bin slavebootflash:cat4500-ipbasek9-mz.122-46.SG.bin
${CR}
copy tftp://10.8.217.39/cat4500-ipbasek9-mz.122-46.SG.bin slot0:cat4500-ipbasek9-mz.122-46.SG.bin
${CR}
copy tftp://10.8.217.39/cat4500-ipbasek9-mz.122-46.SG.bin slaveslot0:cat4500-ipbasek9-mz.122-46.SG.bin
${CR}
config t
no boot system flash bootflash:cat4000-i9k91s-mz.122-20.ewa.bin
no boot system flash bootflash:cat4000-i9k91s-mz.122-20.EWA1.bin
boot system flash bootflash:cat4500-ipbasek9-mz.122-46.SG.bin
config-register 0×2101
redundancy
main-cpu
auto-syn standard
end
write mem

Is it possible to somehow remove the links embedded in the reports that I send with the Orion report scheduler?

I currently have a dashboard of the last week of performance for my boarder devices that I want to send in a report with the report scheduler but I don't want all of the links in it.

Thanks in advance for any responses!

We have Avaya IP Phones (9630) and the PC is connected to the phone. These connect back to Cisco 3560 switches. I have the switch ports configured with both switchport access vlan XX (LAN) and the VOICE vlan….switchport voice vlan XX. We see traffic that says source IP of the phone but not from the PC. We are looking to see if there is a way to better configure Netflow or the switch to help show the flow correctly from the PC connected to the phone. There is no way the IP phone is using 53 percent of the link in ONE call. So I am looking for the correct way to read the results and also better configure the devices maybe.

In the ver 8.5 I can write the report use some html element,as illustrated in picture

but in ver 9.5,I can't use any html element in my report,as illustrated in picture,why? and how I can use html element again

Hi,

I am testing Orion NPM v10 which uses the Universal Device Poller. When starting up the UnDP application it says "In order to fully utilize the Universal Device Polling functionality, you should download and install the MIB database. Would you like to do this now?" I have selected "Yes" and completed the download but even when I unzip and place the file in the correct directory and restart the UnDP application I get the same message over and over again.

I am placing the MIBS.cfg fils in C:\program files\solarwinds\common

Any ideas on how to resolve this or is this a "feature" of eval copies?

Thanks in advance,

J

The
Orion website is currently unable to display this page. Orion polling
and alerting services often continue running, though this page cannot be
displayed. Please take the following steps to attempt to alleviate the
issue:

1. Log in
   to the website again and navigate to another Orion page, allowing you
   to isolate the error to this page.
2. Ensure
   the Orion services are still running.
3. Check
   that your SQL Server is still running and accessible.

Please
notify SolarWinds of this error. We will address and help you fix the
issue.

Your
specfic error is:

Object reference
not set to an instance of an object.

Hi,

           I want to know how long history data of NPM remain in database . My company need to create yearly report and I found some posts in this  forum that it History data only stay in db for 3 months. Please update me if I am wrong . Thank u

Hey all,

I am trying to set up monitoring of a new Cisco UCCX system for a client. I was wondering if anyone else out there has had a crack yet as I'm not 100% positive which services etc I should be watching. Any advice would be very appreciated

Jason

Orion’s Advanced Alert Engine is a powerful way to set up alerts on possible events in your network.  A big part of what makes it so powerful is the ability to create a wide variety of logical statements via the user interface.  So if you want an alert when a node goes down, but not if that node is named Stan, Kyle, or Cartman, then you can set up a trigger condition that will evaluate each down node and if it matches your conditions, the alert is fired.  If not, then it lets the event pass without a remark. 

What’s happening on the back end of the advanced alert engine is that it’s running a SQL Query.  The trigger condition that you create is actually generating that SQL Query.  The alert engine then executes that query every X minutes, and if it evaluates to true, it fires.

One thing that sometimes trips up users is the way the trigger conditions are constructed.  Each trigger has at least one Condition Group.  The Condition Group is a set of statements that are evaluated together.  Each Condition Group has one of the following logical operators that define how the different statements are treated:  All, Any, None, and Not All.

All and Any are fairly straightforward.  All roughly means “AND”.  If I say,

Trigger if all of the following are true:

Node is Down

Node Name is Kenny

then the whole statement is true only when a node named Kenny is in a Down state. 

Any roughly means “OR”.  If I say

Trigger if any of the following are true:

Node is Down

Node is Warning

then the whole statement is true if a node is in a Down or Warning state.  My recommendation to users is that you stick to All and Any.  They are simple, and I can’t think of a logical statement that you cannot accomplish using all or any.

What about None or Not All?  What do they mean, and why did you include them if you don’t think we should use them?  Well, second part first.  We included them because the control that the advanced alert engine uses to turn your statements into SQL Queries is something we license, and it came with all four logical operators, even though we only wanted two of them. 

What do they mean?  None is roughly the same as saying “not any” or “not a single one”.  If you have a series of statements where None is the operator then the engine will look at each statement under it and if any of those individual statements is true, it will construe the whole Condition Group as false.

Trigger if none of the following are true:

Node is Up

Node Name is Chef

This alert will trigger when node is in any state other than up, unless the node is named Chef.  Note that you could just as easily create an alert with an all that accomplishes the same thing:  Node is not Up and Node Name is not Chef. 

Finally, Not All is roughly the same as saying “at least one is false”.

Trigger if not all of the following are true:

Node is Up

Node Name is Chef

With the logical operator changed, this alert will now trigger any time a node is in any state other than up, but it will also trigger if the node name is anything other than Chef, which would make this alert pretty much useless.

There’s a more formal and detailed explanation in the Orion Admin Guide called Understanding Condition Groups.  My advice is stick to All and Any.  Every time I’ve seen anyone try to use None or Not All, they get unexpected results and end up more frustrated than satisfied.   

Denny

Well, after a couple of weeks of vacation and a couple of days of either a nasty virus or some weird sort of altitude sickness, I am back in Austin and back in action. Wow what a ride it has been… You see, as anyone who has traveled with me can attest, nothing just "happens" with me. Every second of my life somehow becomes an adventure. Whether it's the fishing trip in Canada that somehow cost an entire town its electricity or the time I accidentally spray painted my bathroom blue…(read more)

So Cisco today announced availability of the Cisco ISR next generation, you can read more about it here or here.

Coming up to this release, we have been working with Cisco to ensure interoperability with the Orion family of products and that it works out of the box, which it does with the latest shipping versions of Orion products.

However, my main reason for this post is one of the cool new features with the new ISR.  With the ISR G2, you only need to install a single image file and then you get licenses from Cisco to evaluate or enable after purchase on the box.  For those of us that have been around for awhile, this is pretty cool since you don’t have to download a new IOS image and schedule an upgrade, you just need to install the new license.

Based on this change, we worked to put together an add on package to help you see what you have licensed and installed on the ISR G2 in your Orion node details page.  This add on package for Orion NPM can be found here on the thwack content exchange.  Included in there are three things:

1. Node Details resources to give you visibility into the various licenses on the ISR box and their current status, see screenshot below.

2. Report template to allow you to schedule and deliver this data to others

3. Alert to let you know when your license will be expiring soon so you can plan for it

Additionally, for installing and configuration of licensing, Cisco License Manager (CLM) can be used.

For more information about Cisco License Manager, please visit: http://www.cisco.com/go/clm.

I admit it; it can sometimes be bewildering and frustrating understanding the ‘unknown’ status APM gives. You’ve posted as much on several thwacks and, well, I’ve got some explaining to do. First, a brief review on how another Orion product works.

NPM for example, uses ICMP to determine the status of a node by sending pings in a process that works something like this:

“Ping”, echo response = node is up.

“Ping”, no response = node is down.

APM doesn’t ping to determine the status; it polls using the scheduler. On Windows servers, it looks at processes that are running by querying the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI). As a point of clarity, there are SNMP monitors for Windows servers too; but here we are focusing on WMI monitors. If for some reason WMI is incorrectly configured or doesn’t respond in a timely fashion, performing another query doesn’t always help. In fact, WMI itself could have a problem while the application is fine. The status is reported as Unknown until APM is certain it can report the true health. The component status text (shown in the little orange info box on the App Details view) will tell you why the component status is unknown.

I hope this explanation helps you to understand how APM determines the status. An alternative solution may be in gaining access to the state of processes without going through WMI. We are actively investigating all options to address this in a timely manner.

Welcome to the new SolarWinds corporate blog.  We've wanted to launch this for a long time, and are really happy to finally be in a position to offer our thoughts on a range of topics.  We'll focus primarily on the evolving IT systems management landscape, and along the way share our beliefs on why we are building a strong and sustainable software company to serve the IT pros in the industry.  There will be a range of bloggers from SolarWinds here, offering different points of view, and we hope you mix it up with us in the comments section.   So, without further ado… let's get it on.

“What happened to VoIP?”  This is one of the first questions people have asked about the new Orion module, IP SLA Manager.  The answer is nothing has happened to the old VoIP module; we just made it better.  Before I elaborate, let me take a few steps back.

Cisco has this really cool technology called IP SLA which enables you, the network engineer, to run a series of tests that can help you assess the health of your network from the perspectives of each of your remote sites.  Why is this important?  You may know everything is fine between you and your office in New York, and you may know everything is also fine between you and your office in San Francisco, but what about connectivity between San Francisco and New York?  This is where IP SLA can help.

These tests are actually called ‘operations’ in IP SLA lingo. For example, if you wanted to check call paths between your VoIP call managers, you would create a VoIP UDP Jitter operation, specifying one device as the source and the other as a target.  Once you’ve created the operation, you can start collecting call path metrics between those devices.  This and other similar use cases are what drove us to release the VoIP module for Orion.

As it turns out, IP SLA supports many operations other than just VoIP, things like measuring the round trip time to access a web page (HTTP), or measuring the time it takes to request and receive a reply from a DNS Server (DNS), or measuring the response times between IP SLA nodes (UDP Echo).  Many of you VoIP customers asked us to support these operations as well, and we have kindly obliged. We took the VoIP module, added support for these IP SLA operations (in addition to several others), and renamed the module ‘IP SLA Manager.’

Some of you are asking, 'I've already been creating IP SLA operations on my routers… what's so great about IP SLA Manager?"  The answer to this is ease of use.  If you've been manually creating operations using CLI, you will appreciate IP SLA Manager's easy to use web interface for creating IP SLA operations.  A wizard will walk you through the process, and, once operations have been created, Orion will start tracking historical data on these operations.

If you’d like to learn more about IP SLA, our Head Geek has a great video here.  We’ve also written a white paper on the ‘Basics of IP SLA,’ which you can find here.  Lastly, you can try out IP SLA Manager for free; you can download it here.