Daily config comparisons
I am noticing on a few of my daily config comparisons that they have a bunch of entries showing changes but no changes are being made. Has anybody seen this before? I have attached my Comparison...
View ArticleProblem with Regular expression
Hi,wants to avoid interfaces Vlan20 to Vlan30 or upto any certain range.I tried with 2 or 3 regular expression but its not working, please guide Regards,Tayyab
View ArticleConfigurations not being backed up
Ever since I upgraded to NCM 7.5, I noticed 8% of my devices are not backed up. I have to manually go in and do a backup on them, then they back up normally. I have 91 nodes, that I now have to go...
View ArticleNCM only saving a portion of Nodes in the Nightly Backup
Hey all, our NCM is configured to run once at night to save the configs of all nodes with NCM enabled. Currently every log is only giving us a report of 40 nodes, when in reality it should have...
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NCM Device Templates
Hi everyone, I can't seem to find a relevant post/doc on this question, so I thought I'd ask here: I have many different HP Procurve switch models. I'm creating Device Templates in NCM for each model....
View ArticleHow do you SSH to your devices?
When SSHing to devices, do you prefer Credentials-based authentication or Certificate-based authentication?
View ArticleAre Ciena devices supported natively in NCM?
Quick searches on SolarWinds.com and here haven't really given a solid answer, so I thought I would enlist the help of the Brain Trust We have a good amount of Ciena devices that are currently being...
View ArticleMissing or Incorrect EoL/EoS Data
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...
View ArticleUnable to connect to polling engine "X" on the relevant server. Verify that...
I am trying to add a new Cisco 3850 to NCM - I get this error Unable to connect to polling engine "X" on the relevant server. Verify that NCM 7.4 or later is installed on the server I have plenty of...
View ArticleNCM - Baseline configurations question
I have a text file of baseline configurations for our switches, but the only thing I can see in NCM is a way to baseline a previously backed-up config. Is there a way to baseline our "ideal"...
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Do you need Network Automation?
I would like to find out details on use cases for network automation, especially in the context of configuration and change management. Please vote and ideally, leave a comment.
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Config Change Template - How to Test for an Existing Interface
Folks, I'm trying to create a config change template for some Cisco devices to add various interface specific interface commands. The complexity is that some the devices have a specific interface and...
View ArticleSolarwind NCM config list report for all nodes
Hello, I wanted to pull a report for all the nodes config list with the date and time stamp in a single report. Please suggest the best way I tried in the database level and could not find any...
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...
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Issue with NCM Compliance analyzing stored configs
Hello Everyone, I am running into an issue where NCM compliance does not appear to be able to correctly anaylze the stored configuration files. I am doing a simple test for port-security. I have it...
View ArticleIssues with cisco NCM Smart Advisor Connector (Reports not completing due to...
Hi All, I'm having problems with the NCM connector for Smart Advisor. The tool is collecting outputs and putting them into C:\Program Files (x86)\SolarWinds\NCMSAConnector\DataHowever when the XML is...
View ArticleMissing or Incorrect EoL/EoS Data
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...
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