No realtime updates after upgrade to NCM 7.3.2
We upgraded NCM to 7.3.2 today and we're no longer receiving e-mail updates when changes are made to any of our devices. I took a look at the most recent admin guide and updated the program that gets...
View ArticleAutomated Config clean up
I am trying to clean up my switch configurations. There are a lot of old outdated ntp servers and snmp trap servers and other stale info with in the configuration. I have been trying to find a way to...
View ArticleOdd behavior with Compliance Jobs when hitting "Execute Script"
Ok, fairly simple compliance rule. Checking all tunnel interfaces to make sure they have CDP enabled. Everything works fine, the remediation script is fairly simple, just: ${ConfigBlockStartLine}...
View ArticleFiltering for incorrect logging hosts
I've been setting up a bunch of compliance reporting as of late and, while I now have a rule that looks for the correct logging servers, I would also like to have one that looks for any other logging...
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NCM- Realtime Config Change Detection- Usernames Not
Hello Im fairly new to solarwinds RTCD so excuse me if this is a simple fix but we have successfully configured our Cisco ASA's and Catalyst 3850 switches to send their RTCD updates to our Orion...
View ArticleNPM 11.5.2 and NCM 7.4 upgrades question
I was wondering if there were any issues that arose during the upgrades to these versions?
View ArticleFirmware Vulnerability Reporting
We recently loaded NCM 7.4 with hopes of using the tool to help automate reporting of potential security vulnerabilities in our Cisco IOS devices. While the framework in NCM looks great, the source of...
View ArticleStop import of nodes from discovery to NCM?
Hello, We use SolarWinds to monitor both servers and network devices, but only use NCM to manage configs for network gear. We started running discoveries to make sure we didn't miss any devices that...
View ArticleA solution to multi-context config download with NCM (Cisco ASA, FWSM...)
NCM 7.x has several node management improvements (common with Orion Core/NPM, new Discovery Sonar…). Due to these changes, NCM 7.x has stricter rules related to node uniqueness and duplicate nodes are...
View ArticleRunning VS Startup Accurate?
Hello, I was looking through our NCM web interface and saw the startup vs running config pie chart. I noticed that there were a small portion of the devices that did not match so I started looking...
View ArticleNCM job completion notification emails not being received from 2 pollers
we have network devices dsitributed across 4 pollers ( 1 primary and 3 additional). we are running a NCM nightly backup config job daily to download the running config from devicea dn job completion...
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How to display Cisco Interface "Last input" data in NCM 7.4 that was...
I frequently used the server-based NCM's 7.3 (and earlier) application to display the last time data was input on Cisco ports. I used the information from this field whenever a Desktop Support Tech...
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IP Address Tracker
I downloaded the free version of IP Address tracker last night and it was close to 700MB. It installed IIS and SQL Server 2008 R2 Express and whole bunch of other stuff. Is the old IP Address tracker...
View ArticleNCM 7.3+ need centralized option still?
Hello, I have NCM 7.2.2 with 4 polling engines and currently rely on the fact that only the main polling engine is the only one who performs the configuration activities due to firewall and compliance...
View ArticleComparison Criteria exclusion doesn't work
Hi, I'm trying to exclude line with date of my comparison criteria but for now it doesn't seems to works. my configs looks like : ## Tue Sep 08 00:20:45 2015 CEST# box type : VSP-8284XSQ#...
View ArticleCisco IOS Upload via SCP/SFTP Server Integrated in Solarwinds NCM
Hi,I have got some issues when I am trying to update my switch firmware through SCP/SFTP Server which is integrated on Solarwinds Network configuration Manager.SSH is allowed between Solarwinds Server...
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NCM real time change detection on reboot only
I'm currently having an issue getting NCM RTCD to work all the time. In previous jobs I had RTCD set to check 10 min after anyone logged on. I had no trust in my techs, now I trust them and no longer...
View ArticleSyslog vs Traps
I'm going through and updating our network devices. I'm faced with the option of configured SNMP traps or Syslog messages to relay information. If I have the option to use either, which one would be...
View ArticleSolarwinds NCM
My test Solarwinds Network Configuration Manager require to have a natted Address to log on to the end Network device. i.e address of servers is 10.10.10.1 But to access the network device it must use...
View ArticleNCM 7.4 Communication Problems
Per direction of our IA department we recently updated the self-signed certificate on our SolarWinds Application Server (Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise platform) from 1024 bit to 2048 bit. Here are...
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