The Importance of Standards
Throughout my career I have worked on a number of projects where standards where minimal. You have seen this type of shop—the servers may be named after superheros or rock bands. When the company has...
View ArticleOnline logging
There are a number of companies doing log analysis in 'the cloud' - What do people think of the security implications of this? Your logs that are uploaded are generally inside some sort of private...
View ArticlePacket Analysis
Is Packet Analysis one of the tools in your tool box, and if so, how often do you use it.
View ArticleLEM sensor/analyzer deployment for multiple sites
Hi All, i just wanted to understand LEM deployment for multiple sites. one of our customer has 4-5 different data centers having separate security devices at each sites. we suggested to deploy one...
View ArticleBig Data—What Does it Mean for the Database Professional
In the fifteen plus years that I have in worked in information technology organizations, there has been a lot of change. From Unix to Linux, the evolution of Windows based operating systems, and the...
View ArticleDistinguish Physical and Virtual machines
Which advanced alert variable ${attName} and/or query ${SQL: query} distinguishes Physical versus Virtualized servers?
View Articleupdate top discards and errors view
could the "top discards and errors" view please be updated to also include a total packets column or total percentage. while it is a good to see what's happening or when something has high errors or...
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i have a problem in orion configure wizard.
can not connect to the sql server. the original error is: A network-related or instanc-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to sql server. the server was not found or was not...
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Using AWK and SED for viewing logs
When saving logs I like to have as verbose data as possible to be stored. However when viewing a log I may only be looking at specific parts of that log. Another concern is if I need to give my logs to...
View ArticleSNMPv3 with ESXi?
Hi, Putting this in the NPM group, since it is an SNMP issue.... Please don't ask me why (long story), but I am trying to get NPM to poll an ESXi server. Anyone get this to work? I have the ESXi 5.1...
View ArticleShould a NCM Admin be able to access NCM settings if he/she is NOT a full...
Currently, NCM settings are only accessible to full Orion Admins. We are considering making them accessible also to users who are NCM Admins only and are interested in customer input.
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Log Management for a System Admin
With rob.johnson Systems Administrators face a unique challenge when tasked with managing log collection because they have to support a diverse environment. Typically, SysAdmins are responsible for...
View Article64 bit Version of all Solarwinds products
i would like to see a 64 bit version of the solarwinds products, This would allow the product to access and use more addressable memory withinthe Servers i install the products on.
View ArticleRelocate SolarWinds log files off the system drive
As most of you know already, SolarWinds stores the log files for all of its applications on the system drive (at least for Windows-based servers). This is a very bad idea, in my humble opinion. The...
View ArticleReport for Database Transactions per Second
Hi, I am looking for a min/max/avg type of report for DB transactions/sec. I was able to come up with this for current data, but no amount of digging thru the db can let me find where the history data...
View ArticleIs there a way to report nodes that have been down for over 30 days?
Hi, The down interface/node reports that I could find all seem to stop at 30 days. Is there a way to identify or report nodes that have been down beyond the 30 days? Glenn.
View ArticleWhat's better? Polling ESXi directly or through vCenter
I am new to Orion and in the process of setting up nodes for monitoring through NPM. When monitoring my vCenter environment, is it better to poll ESXi directly or through vCenter? I see my ESXI 5.5...
View ArticlePacket Capture Option From a Node in NPM or NCM
It would be nice to have an option to start or schedule a packet capture from within Orion and the Output would be sent to a storage server.
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Downgrading LEM appliance to syslog only server??
When we first installed the LEM and configured it to receive data, we found it was locking up intermittently. We contacted support and they recommended we install 2 (maybe 3) servers total. One would...
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