As a part of the effort to make the EoL/EoS feature (available with NCM 7.2) as useful as possible, we would like to ask you to report any devices where our data is missing, incorrect, or the suggestions are misleading. We will do our best to incorporate your feedback into NCM.
Note: If applicable please provide the EoL/EoS in the following form:
Device Type, System description, end-of-sale date, end-of-support date, Vendor EOL statement URL
Thanks,
Jiri
what is Oroin core ?
Hi,
I have problems downloading Juniper config files. It seems this a common issue with downloading config files using SSH. The configuration looks fine (SSH auto, no enable) but whenever I try to download it says connection refused. I searched everywhere but I could not find any answer. I wonder if someone from solarwinds can answer this question.
Regards,
Rayan
So now that i have NPM and UDT installed i am trying to get our NCM installed on server 2012R2 but i keep getting the issues attached any help would be great.
I have NCM setup to do real-time configuration change detection using a user ID and password (tacacs+) for it to log into when downloading and comparing configs after they are changed. This works wonderfully. However, it uses this same username and password when we make a 'config change template' change when we would prefer it to use a username and password associated with the user who is implementing the change. Is there a way to set this up?
Thanks!
Are NCM credentials a pain or am I missing something?
Login Credentials are easy enough to setup.
Device credentials can only be changed at the console? Like most folks, we use TACACS for most of our equipment and those accounts are independent of the Windows accounts. For security reasons, most of our users are not allowed direct NCM console access. At the same time, I don't want the NCM admins knowing the TACACS username and passwords for the unprivileged users. Anybody suggest a work around?
NCM Integration to NPM. On the Orion NPM Web pages, why do users require "view customization rights' to add NCM credentials? Maybe I did something wrong? Otherwise, I really can't afford to have every user who needs access to their configs to have the "view customization rights". (Yes, they have access to the NCM Web Console, but it sort of defeats the purpose of NCM/NPM integration.)
Any thoughts?
I am polling and monitoring the inside interface of my firewall with no problems (My NPM server is on this side of the firewall), however my NCM server is on the other side of the firewall and because of anti spoofing I am not able add the interface on the other side of the firewall which is the interface I can successfully ssh to from my NCM server.
We don't want to get into NAT and there are various other failpoints which will not allow me to ssh (for the purpose of config backup) from my NCM on the outside to the inside interface which I am currently monitoring. To this end the easiest thing for me to do here is to add the outside interface to NCM so I can pull down my configs from there but it seems to me to be impossible to add a node to NCM without going through the process of first adding it to NPM then ticking the "add node to NCM" check box.
Anybody know of a way I can add a node to NCM without adding it to NPM??
Thanks in advance, any help appreciated.
Is it possible with NCM to do a search and replace ?
What I would like to do is search for a string like "switchport voice vlan 420" in all the interfaces of a switch and replace it with another string like "switchport voice vlan 450".
As a part of the effort to make the EoL/EoS feature (available with NCM 7.2) as useful as possible, we would like to ask you to report any devices where our data is missing, incorrect, or the suggestions are misleading. We will do our best to incorporate your feedback into NCM.
Note: If applicable please provide the EoL/EoS in the following form:
Device Type, System description, end-of-sale date, end-of-support date, Vendor EOL statement URL
Thanks,
Jiri
Is there any way to create an alert for a group that I have created in NCM? I pulling my hair out on how to do this. I have tried both the Basic and Advanced Alert Manager. Even had a Solarwinds S-Rep help add he could not figure it out. This is insane! For a product that cost this much it should be easy to do this. I have watch video upon video and read article upon article trying to find a "simple", like PRTG (notice how I quoted the word simple. Hopefully Solarwinds reps are reading this and get the idea that they need to make their product simple) way to do this.
I have been in this field for nearly 15 years and never seen a product that is so bloated with add-ons, SQL configs (which is slow on retrieving historical data) and just general interface ****. This product was designed to be difficult so that you will buy into their Professional Services. ROI is dependent on TCO. PRTG is one third the cost and can do anything the Solarwinds Orion can do and in a single pane of glass. I have spent nearly 40+ hours working on getting basic alerting to work to some capacity and my PRTG (trial of course) is up an running monitoring everything in my environment with alerts and dependencies. It took me half a day to setup and configure PRTG. I had a co-worker who never saw PRTG let alone heard of it and he was able to figure it out in minutes. No jumping around the web interface and logging into your SAM server to make adjustments. The PRTG for Android / iOS is also free, Solarwinds Mobile Admin, $670 per seat. SLAP!
This product is clearly way over rated and people are falling for their marketing. I doubt very much that I will renew come later this year. Oh, and just their renewal fee would pay for PRTG (unlimited) and maintenance for one year. WOW! Can I say it again, ROI is dependent on TCO! Please note that I had several other admins and engineers try to do what I am requesting and they are besides them selves. Thank you listening to my rant hope it has been enjoyable.
Have modified a template to backup 3Com 5500 series devices (the backups had issues and cleaning up the pagination helped)
<Command Name="RESET" Value="sys${CRLF}user-interface vty 0${CRLF}screen-length 0${CRLF}quit${CRLF}" RegEx="\]" />
<Command Name="DOWNLOADCONFIG" Value="display current${CRLF}" RegEx="\]" />
Unfortunately the template leaves the pagination disabled and I would like to re-enable after the configuration is captured:
user-interface vty 0${CRLF}screen-length 48${CRLF}quit${CRLF}
I could run a script afterwards but would prefer update via the template. Any suggestions on how to accomplish? Thanks!
Hello everyone,
I am trying to make a rule condional on the first part being true. I want to ensure "ip verify unicast reverse-path" is configured on all our WAN connections. We set a description of "DS[13]*" on all our WAN interfaces so locate that and then match "ip verify unicast reverse-path"
So far my rule looks like this "description DS[13].*\n(.*\n)*.*ip verify unicast reverse-path"
The problem I am having is some of our routers do not have WAN connections so there is no match on "DS[13]" and that causes an exception. I need this rule to be ignored if there is no match for "description DS[13]"
I would like to create several of these expressions for my rules because we dont match on just "int Fa0/0" or "int Fa0/1" but have to match on "int BVI20" or on "int Fa0/0.20". To ensure we are matching the correct interface we assign a "description trusted" "description isolated" or "description restricted" to the appropriate interface, sub-interface or bridge interface. For each of these we need to conditionally match to each of these specific descriptions then require the "ip verify unicast reverse-path" be found next.
Example
int BVI20
desc trusted <-Found this or "isolated" or "restricted" or ....
ip verify unicast reverse-path<- Require this
exit
int fa0/0.10
desc isolated <-Tested. missing ip verify produce exception.
exit
int BVI35
desc private <-Not tested no exception.
exit
Thanks.
Has anyone seen anything weird with capturing the configuration on a Cisco ASA where NCM would perhaps insert lines into the configuration? We are seeing examples where random comments such as ACL Descriptions are being duplicated. An engineer researching this said it appeared that NCM may have inserted these comments. I changed the default mechanism for capturing the configuration from "Sh running.." to "more system:running-config". I did this to capture the pre-shared secret keys in the backed up config.
I am trying to download configuration from hp5800c and FortiWeb, it throws me below error.
The test performed on NCM properties is successful, but the configuration is not downloaded.
Please suggest.
ERROR: Cannot download Running config : Connectivity issues, discarding configuration (or configuration is too short)
Seeking experts advice on how to upgrade cisco IOS from Solarwinds Inbuilt TFTP/SFTP server.
Please let me know step by step procedure for the above. I have some 50 to 60 floor LAN switches for which I need to upgrade IOS. All the switches are integrated in solarwinds (NPM) for monitroing.
Awaiting help ASAP.
Many thanks in advance.
Are NCM credentials a pain or am I missing something?
Login Credentials are easy enough to setup.
Device credentials can only be changed at the console? Like most folks, we use TACACS for most of our equipment and those accounts are independent of the Windows accounts. For security reasons, most of our users are not allowed direct NCM console access. At the same time, I don't want the NCM admins knowing the TACACS username and passwords for the unprivileged users. Anybody suggest a work around?
NCM Integration to NPM. On the Orion NPM Web pages, why do users require "view customization rights' to add NCM credentials? Maybe I did something wrong? Otherwise, I really can't afford to have every user who needs access to their configs to have the "view customization rights". (Yes, they have access to the NCM Web Console, but it sort of defeats the purpose of NCM/NPM integration.)
Any thoughts?
Hi,
I have problems downloading Juniper config files. It seems this a common issue with downloading config files using SSH. The configuration looks fine (SSH auto, no enable) but whenever I try to download it says connection refused. I searched everywhere but I could not find any answer. I wonder if someone from solarwinds can answer this question.
Regards,
Rayan
I am trying to set it so whenever the configuration is changed by someone in the Cisco routers, I want SolarWinds to download a back up.
I've searched around on NCM as well as toolset forum, and the best option I've found is schedule the backup, either daily or weekly.
Any suggestions?
I am not very experienced in Cicso, but I am having an issue downloading configurations from a particular switch while using the "Config Download" tool in the toolset.
The switch is enabled for Snmpv3, which the NCM successfully reaches and passes the SNMP verification test. When I press the button to download the config, I can see the message that it begins to transfer the files, but in the end I get the message "Transfer Failed. No configuration information available on router."
The main difference between the switches that failed to download and the ones that are successful is the IP address.
Solarwinds IP: X.Y.10.Z
Successful Switches: X.Y.10.A
Failed Switches: X.Y.8.A
I compared the configs as well and made sure that the configs have traps enabled for config-copy.
Can there be any other issues why NCM can poll the device but not do config backups?
Hi Guys,
We are running NPM 10.6 and NCM 7.2.1 and one of our engineers just pointed out to me that he cannot mange new nodes into NCM on the "Config Summary" page in the "NCM Nodes List " the "Manage NCM Nodes" is missing.I checked and the groups he belongs to has full access configured for NCM "Administrator Unlimited access to NCM functionality" this group also has the top level "Allow Node Management Rights" set to yes. At present the only way i can get this option to show i to make him a full solarwinds admin when his role involves management of devices and not that of Solarwinds it's self.
FYI I believe the same limitation applies to NTA with regards to the "Manage Sources" option as well
JonG