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I am trying to add vCenter 5.1 to our SolarWinds system. We current have a vCenter 4 in there and is working fine, but we are looking to upgrade to vCenter 5. I have vCenter 5 all setup, but SolarWinds will not connect to it when I provide it valid credentials. The only differance between the two vCenters is that vCenter 5.1 is on the Appliance from VMware while vCenter 4 is on Windows. Has anyone else had this issue? Or does anyone have an idea of what might be wrong?

 

We are currently running Orion Code 2012.2.0 and NCM 7.1.1.

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June 15, 2013, 5:27 pm

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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

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June 15, 2013, 9:42 pm

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Hi

 

I'm getting an error when testing Exchange 2007-2010 Statistics with PowerShell on Exchange 2010 SP1.

 

Error:

Testing on node EXCHANGEMAILBOXSERVER: failed with 'Down' status.

Output:   =====================================

Message: Wrong version argument. Should be 2007 or 2010.

 

Orion is installed on Windows 2008 R2 and exchange management tools are installed.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Micah

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June 15, 2013, 11:16 pm

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Hi everybody,

 

I don't know why but all the interfaces' status of switches in the network have been changed to "Interface Disappeared". Does anyone have any idea in this regard?

I am using version 10.0 of NPM.

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June 16, 2013, 1:20 am

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Earned my SCP Certificate

June 16, 2013, 2:31 am

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Very Happy..! I just passed through my SCP certification.... Earned my badge!!

Thanks team for all those wonderful blogs and guides..

 

Regards,

Prashanth S

-India

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June 16, 2013, 3:54 am

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+1

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June 16, 2013, 8:31 am

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Hi Team,

 

I just passed my SCP exam today few hours ago. Thanks Gerry and team for your support.

I didnot get any SCP number/Certificate id though. Kindly let me know when will I get the ID and also about the hard copy of my certificate.

Thanks again team.

My Details :

Login Id : SWI00010853

 

 

Regards,

Prashanth S

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June 16, 2013, 8:53 am

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I've been playing around another idea:

 

To manually set the secondary IP Address of each machine as a Custom property, and then use it in the HTTP Monitor on my template.

It's still very "manual", but saves the time it takes to drill into the HTTP Monitor inside the template of each node and bypass the ${IP} macro.

 

However - I can't seem to get SAM's HTTP Monitor to use this custom property as a macro variable.

Am I missing something, or is it simply not supported?

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June 16, 2013, 12:55 pm

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I have Windows XP SP3 machine that I cannot get the 3rd party cert installed on. I can do everything else I need to the machine, but I cannot install the cert. This cert is working fine on hundreds of other machines. When I run the Client Certificate Management tool I receive the following results from the task:

 

Client Certificate Management
Object: CN=WSUS Publishers Self-signed
Status: Failed

Details: NotFound Not found

Has anyone else seen this issue before?

Thanks.

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June 17, 2013, 1:42 pm

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Your router can't handle the traffic.  Example we had 100Mbps port feeding our internet connected router that only had a DS3 to the internet.  So when receive traffic to the router goes over DS3 speeds for too long we would get over runs.

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June 17, 2013, 1:46 pm

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this work, if you monitor with WMI instead of SNMP.

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June 17, 2013, 1:50 pm

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Thanks, I'll check this out!

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June 17, 2013, 1:55 pm

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I will do my best to answer.

1. Passive server is NOT running as an additional poller, it is basically a full blown Orion installation.  Now what happens is assuming the secondary Orion server in the US is on a different subnet, which most are you can do one of two things.  First, instead of having your users use an IP Address to access the Orion web console, do it via DNS.  Then when a failover occurs from the UK to the US, as part of the failover we will update DNS to point to the IP Address of the US server.
2. The secondary Orion services are not running.  We typically recommend at least two NIC's, one for normal server communication, this is the IP users would hit or you would tie to DNS and the secondary would be for heartbeat, server replication, etc. for the FoE product.  We have methods in place in the software to try and avoid split brain.
3. This is not a possible or realistic deployment scenario with FoE. 
4. Same as #3

 

As I was discussing before, may make sense to discuss offline on your planned deployment strategy and we can discuss how all the parts can and cannot work together.

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June 17, 2013, 2:18 pm

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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 with some uneducated admins in our TSA...I mean data security about SNMP, but were able to educate them on ACLs, and other simple securing steps.

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June 17, 2013, 2:18 pm

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I'll use a GUI all day long, but there are some things a GUI isn't and scriptable is one of those things that it isn't. I'll even admit that I've come across a device with a scripting system but no CLI. Even then, it was still missing something valueable... Output and the ability to parse the output as part of the script.

 

Actually, I think Rharland2012 said it better... "When those things aren't necessary, a well-crafted GUI is the perfect tool in the box"

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June 17, 2013, 2:20 pm

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To me the CLI is only good for scripting and batch files.

New to SolarWinds NPM & interested in improving reporting?—We want to talk to you!

June 17, 2013, 1:08 pm

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The SolarWinds UX (User Experience) team is looking for people who have only been using SolarWinds NPM for 6 months or less who are interested in spending an hour with us to get a sneak peek at some revised design ideas for reporting on the web.

 

If you have used NPM for 6 months or less and have an hour to give us between 7am and 11am Central Tuesday, June 25th to Thursday, June 27^th, we want to hear from you!  Not only will you get an opportunity to influence future development of NPM, you will also get 2,000 points in the thwack store which you can use to buy t-shirts, caps, and other SolarWinds swag.

Don’t worry if you’re not the most sophisticated users on thwack.  We’re really looking for noobs for this, so if that’s how you would describe yourself (as long as you’re someone who would be creating reports as part of your job), then we want to talk to you!

To sign up or learn more, contact kellie.mecham@solarwinds.com directly by sending me a private email.   Thanks!

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June 17, 2013, 2:41 pm

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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 running network inventory/discovery polls in half a dozen different packages, we haven't had any issues yet.

 

At some point, I'd like to get around to tracking just how much traffic is being generated but considering the size of our network it really hasn't become an issue yet.

New Orion product users--we want to talk to you about reporting!

June 17, 2013, 2:42 pm

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• Are you a new Orion user (6 months or less of experience on NPM, NCM, SAM, NTA, IPAM, UDT or WPM)?
• Are you interested in getting a preview of what reporting on the web might look like?
• Do you have one hour to spend with us any time between 7am and 11am CST on Tuesday, June 25th, Wednesday, June 26th or  Thursday, June 27th?

 

Then we want to hear from you! We're looking for new users who can walk through some flows for web reports and tell us what you think.  Space is limited and we have room for 3 one-hour sessions. We’re really looking for noobs for this, so if that’s how you would describe yourself (as long as you’re someone who would be creating reports as part of your job), then we want to talk to you!

To sign up or learn more, contact kellie.mecham@solarwinds.com directly by sending me a private email.   Thanks!