Compliance reporting: comparing blocks of text ignoring white space
I am working on getting our network engineers to use the compliance reporting for checking the configurations on our devices, but they are frustrated by white space comparisons in the policy rules.some...
View ArticleConfig comparison with Nexus 1000v switches
Morning all, Has anyone had any success or experience with writing suitable comparison criteria for Cisco Nexus 1000v switches? As these are controlled by our vCenter install, the vEthernet interfaces...
View ArticleNCM 7.0.2 Fails to login due to presence of "Authorized users please note:"...
It appears SolarWinds Orion NCM 7.0.2 cannot cope with presence of “Authorized users please note:” in Cisco banner.Has anyone diagnosed and resolved this issue? Session-Trace[6/27/2014 9:48:22 PM]...
View ArticleDown arrow after entering the username
Hi, Is it possible to configure a Device Type to ${DOWNARROW} if, after entering the username, the prompt does not change? I am running some Nortel 470-48T devices, some of them automatically change to...
View ArticleDo you manage End of Life/Support for your hardware and firmware together or...
Hardware equipment like switches, routers, servers, etc. go end-of-life. So do oprating systems, firmware etc.Do you handle these two categories separately or together? Why?
View ArticleNCM Change Templates: how do I cope with SFTP-Server authentication and...
I'm new to NCM and I want to use it to copy an image from the Solarwinds SFTP Server to a switch, connecting from the switch CLI back to the SFTP server.Everything works fine doing it manually from...
View Articlesolarwinds EOL details external server
My Solarwinds NCM server is seated in the datacentre without internet access. I understand there is a EOL/EOS feature for the Solarwinds NCM. If this needs to access to external sites to get...
View ArticleDetermine model and firmware
I would like to ensure all switches inside the Solarwinds system can give me the Model, product code and the firmware version accurately rather than keeping track using a customized NCM field. Is this...
View ArticleLine Numbers in NCM Search Results
Is there any way to suppress line numbers in search results on NCM?Say you want to do planned editing for a particular instance of an ACL that has been deployed to multiple routers, or if you had to...
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