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12 Mar 2010

A Series of Unfortunate Events: Using Orion’s Syslog Server to Monitor VMware Events

by denny.lecompte
In network management, events are bad news.  At least the ones you care about are.  You can spend your whole day sifting through various informational events, but most of the ones that need your attention are telling that something is wrong.  Most network systems share their events through Syslog, and it’s generally understood that monitoring those Syslog streams is a best practice. ...
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9 Mar 2010

Easily adding double and triple gauges for Universal Device Pollers

by bshopp
Technorati Tags: SolarWinds , Orion , Orion NPM , Universal Device Poller , SolarWinds Orion NPM I ran across another cool post that a member of the thwack community put together that I wanted to share with everyone.  lasher put together some new resources for Orion NPM v9.5.1 which allow you to create double and triple gauges within a resource for Universal Device Pollers.  If you wanted...
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4 Mar 2010

Community works! - A simpler way to manage Orion email alerts

by chris.lapoint
First of all, mad props to byrona for sharing this tip with the community. I know there’s a lot of you already using this simplified email alert management trick, but I wanted to make sure to spread the word just in case. Here’s how it works. Instead of configuring static email addresses in the To: field of your Orion Advanced Alert notifications, use a variable (a.k.a macro). The value of this variable...
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2 Mar 2010

Windows Credentials and Microsoft DHCP Servers in Orion IPAM

by macnugetz
We get many, many questions on thwack regarding Windows credentials for adding a Windows DHCP server to IPAM.  There are few tips and tricks I will share that can make this process relatively painless.  First, let me explain why you need to enter Windows credentials in IPAM.  A Windows account is required to pull scopes from a Microsoft DHCP server.  This account has to be a member...
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25 Feb 2010

Different Views for Different Devices

by denny.lecompte
One of the most appealing things about Orion is the ability to drill-down from high-level info into details.  You see something green or red on the screen, you click on it, you go to a view that has more details about the thing you clicked on.  It’s powerful yet simple.  That simplicity of interaction comes from a sophisticated object model.  Users almost always start at a Summary...
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Welcome to Orion product blog, which is written by the product managers for the Orion product line. Here you'll find tips, tricks, news, and the occasional random thought about the Orion product family. We’re hoping for a dialog, not a monologue, so we strongly encourage comments on what we say and suggestions for topics.

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