SCP transfer from Cisco switches - how to do it?
I've changed telnet to SCP when backing up my swtich configurations. SSH login to switch with putty works fine. So configuration seems to be ok. Also if I test the login settings that I've configured...
View ArticleUpgrade IOS using NCM?
Hello We have over 500 switches which need an IOS upgrade and doing this one by one is going to take an age. Is there any way we could use NCM to automate the upgrade? Cheers
View ArticleBGP Neighbor Add/Removals Across Numerous ASN's
Has anyone found a way to create a script that would Search through Node configs looking for missing Neighbor statements and add them? I have been able to (with NCM) find missing neighbor statements...
View ArticleOrion Interview Questions:
Hi, Please find the few SolarWinds Platform Interview questions: What is the Orion?What is the difference between snmpv1, v2, and v3?What is the process to create the custom report?Can we do install...
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Confused About Dependencies / Groups
Hi We've recently had NCM, NPM and SAM in the organisation. I have a question regarding nested dependencies and groups, and the correct practice to follow when setting this up. Our customers have a...
View ArticleNCM Config Templating cannot seem to find InterfaceAlias or I'm confused
Trying to tinker with Config Change Templates and perhaps I'm using the wrong approach. I cannot get the config template to recognize the ( @interfaceItem.InterfaceAlias contains 'Camera' ). I can...
View ArticleNeed config script to get the interfaces having ip addresses
Script to find all the interfaces having ip address from the node to push particular command on that interface
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Firmware Upgrades for stacked Cisco switches
I would like to ask how do you handle Firmware upgrades for stacked switches. I found a workaround which is now satisfying in my case. My workaround is quite simple:As you have the problem, that you...
View ArticleBackup network switch
is there a product that will automatically back a switch configuration? I know you can force a backup with ncm. I want to make a repository of the network gear and have a daily backup of switches and...
View ArticleNCM injecting garbage into MikroTik backup configs?
Backing up configs is the most important feature of NCM, and the selling point for us is simplicity. However after setting up diff emails i'm noticing garbageParticularly '[m' and '[33m' and some...
View ArticleBackup network switch
is there a product that will automatically back a switch configuration? I know you can force a backup with ncm. I want to make a repository of the network gear and have a daily backup of switches and...
View ArticleCompliance matching - Any way to match 'A' and 'B' and nothing else?
I'd like to create a compliance policy for MikroTik devices that compare addresses in a list and ensure certain addresses are in thereI know how to write the regex expressions to capture the snippet in...
View ArticleBackup network switch
is there a product that will automatically back a switch configuration? I know you can force a backup with ncm. I want to make a repository of the network gear and have a daily backup of switches and...
View ArticleCompliance matching - Any way to match 'A' and 'B' and nothing else?
I'd like to create a compliance policy for MikroTik devices that compare addresses in a list and ensure certain addresses are in thereI know how to write the regex expressions to capture the snippet in...
View ArticleReporting on specific words in a backed up config
It is possible to run a report against certain items/expressions within an backed up configuration?For example; one of the things I would like to report on are all routers with the word "Verizon" in...
View ArticleView-Only mode for User Device Tracker?
Hello folks. I am interested in giving certain users permissions to use UDT to find port connections and all of that great info, but I do not want them to be able to shut down the port or make any...
View ArticleLooking for list of NCM variables
I'm looking for a complete list of built-in variables that I could use in NCM scripts or change templates.Specifically, I'm trying to mass change the hostname and domain of Cisco devices based on the...
View ArticleOrion Interview Questions:
Hi, Please find the few SolarWinds Platform Interview questions: What is the Orion?What is the difference between snmpv1, v2, and v3?What is the process to create the custom report?Can we do install...
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NCM 7.5 - How to get Palo Alto Networks configs downloaded as XML
I was excited when I saw that 7.5 is going to support binary downloads. I'm hoping that will allow me to download configs from some PA-200 firewalls as XML, rather than the text (?) output that is...
View ArticleMigrating solar winds NCM database and application server to new server with...
Hello Guys,Just need your help to get best idea to implement below changes:We have NCM 7.5 running on 2012 R2 machine and database also on SQL 2012. We have both application and database separately and...
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