NCM useing SWIS entities in change template
I believe that this should be possible. I am looking to create a script for FortiGate firewalls. The script would pull two variables from the database based on Node ID. The first variable is the...
View ArticleLogging security events to external syslog
Hey guys, Have been digging around and haven't been able to find an answer... What we are looking to do is send log messages to an external syslog server on possible security events within Orion (NPM,...
View ArticleRe: A Sweetheart Deal - 1000 Thwack Points!
We also use NPM and NCM. Love the ease of NCM for many reason. Once setup and pulling configs for all devices we have it email the difference from the last pulled config and email just the changes to...
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We use NPM for all of our network monitoring/alerting and looking at moving that way for server stuff as well. We use NCM to backup all of the configs, manage compliance and push config changes.
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Currently running NPM for all my network monitoring needs, with SAM, NTA, VMAN, and Patch manager. NPM is useful in so many areas, the hardware monitoring has saved me many long nights. The device...
View ArticleRe: how to download multiple configurations within NCM
To the best of my knowledge as suggested previously by superfly99, the only way to download to the filesystem is to run a job.
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Re: A Sweetheart Deal - 1000 Thwack Points!
We currently run NPM as our primary network monitor, keeping an eye on all networking equipment and links.As a Cisco house, NCM is vital to allow us to proactively back up all of our networking kit...
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We have just started to use NCM for our configuration backups. We employ NPM for statistics, trending, monitoring of all of our nodes.
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I use NCM to change Vlans in all of my cisco Switchsand with NPM y can check the vlan status and name of them are OK
View ArticleRe: A Sweetheart Deal - 1000 Thwack Points!
We use NCM for our config backups as well, we really enjoy the comparison feature. NPM for our regular monitoring and alerting.
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Been using NPM and NCM for a while now. The NPM functions have been running for 8 years while NCM has been in operation for about 5.As far as integration of the two, just for viewing configs and...
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NPM is used for monitoring and alerting all network gear and a few select servers (SAM does the rest of them). NCM is used for config backups, updates and change management, as well as compliance...
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I'm waiting for the day you can buy a SolarWinds appliance that you can stick in your rack and configure. Yes, it'd be expensive, and yes it'd be a re-badged server from one of the big three, but it...
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We use NPM/NCM quite a bit and are doing some interesting stuff, we think, to do "master template" comparison across router configs at all of our retail sites. We use NCM config change templates...
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We use NCM for nightly backup and controlling changes in our network. NPM monitors and alerts on all of our devices.
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We use both, but not together. Our Monitoring group (me) uses !NPM, among others, and our Networking group is using !NCM. The funny/sad thing is that we only found this out during a database migration...
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Re: A Sweetheart Deal - 1000 Thwack Points!
Hi all,We use both NPM & NCM for our customers. One large setup is highlighted below -Key objectives of using NPM:Monitor over 3000 network devices with about 16000 elements (yes, we do have...
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I use both NPM & NCM. We keep the hardware and circuits clean with NPM & the configs clean with NCM. NPM does it all, tells the engineers when to replace a fan, to plug the second power cord...
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We use NPM to monitor for nodes up / down (primary goal), plus monitoring disk, ram, and cpu utilization.NCM is only used to capture backups.
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Network Auditing
I did the control freak contest - created an audit report. I hadn't ever paid that much attention it - it's pretty cool. I found some things I thought I had fixed!
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