So, after looking through the community and the documentation it looks like I have successfully setup an SNMP Trap monitor. The snmptrap log file has successful traps. Now I want to be able to view those traps through the interface and alert based on linkstatus (up/down) of an interface. Basically, just send an email when I get certain traps.
Bonus points for instructions on changing the log file location.
Garrett
Hi Geeks,
Can u please advise me what are the steps for the upgradation of latest version of ipmonitor from ipmonitor version 10.6.
server is windows server 2008 , 64 bit.
Thanks
Rohith Murthy
We monitor processes via SNMP using a two line powershell script which does a snmpwalk of the current running processes on the target machines host_resource mib, returning a 0 or 1, depending it it finds the process or not. This simple script works for both Unix and Windows successfully however we have hit two problems.
The first, is that it cannot differentiate multiple processes by the same name.
The second problem is that the overhead of using powershell for these 20 external process monitors can be greater than ipmonitor itself which has over 3000 active standard monitors. I think this is because powershell is using CPU to actively check if the snmpwalk has come back yet, which can take a second or two.
Below is the simple but effective generic script which we pass the target server, community string and process name as parameters. It runs on the IPMONITOR host machine, requiring nothing installed on the target servers.
if (invoke-expression "d:\net-snmp\usr\bin\snmpwalk -v 1 -c $($args[0]) $($args[1]) 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.4.2.1.2" | select-string "$($args[2])") { Write-Host "FOUND"; exit 1 } else { Write-Host "NOT FOUND";exit 0 }
Does anyone have a better/faster/more effecive/alternate way of being able to solve or improve either of these issues?
Does anyone know if process monitoring, including monitoring multiple processes of the same name, will be added as a monitor type at any point in IPMONITOR's future?
Paul
Hey everyone, just wanted to get a quick post up in case anyone else ever runs into this issue. Promiscuous mode enabled on a virtual switch in vmware ESX (4.1 in my case) caused my snmp based monitors in ipMonitor to show as down for machines on that virtual switch. The error in ipMonitor was "The response from the remote device does not adhere to protocol specification". Setting promiscuous mode back to the default of 'reject' got my snmp monitors behaving again. I haven't put a whole lot of time into troubleshooting further, my workaround was to create another virtual switch on a separate nic port, and move the machine that required promiscuous mode onto that switch. I will be much more cautious with promiscuous mode in the future, and probably eventually open a case with VMware.
I am trying to configure a monitor for a Postgres database. I am having trouble finding instructions on how to add the ado connection
When I run the wizard it gives me a list of unavailable databases that can be configured, but the link is dead to the instructions.
http://ipmsupport.solarwinds.com/?98b610dcc3164cb398e85e73a7c66a6d
Does ipMonitor 9 understand implicit dependencies? For example, Device #1 has Monitors A and B and Monitor A is a dependency of the device. Device #2 has Monitor C and Monitor B is a dependency the device. If monitor A goes down no alert will be triggered for Monitor B but will an alert be triggered for Monitor C?
Thanks,
Kendal Van Dyke
Hi,
We recently purchased a Sensatronics Senturion and I was trying to add it to IP monitor, but it didnt' detect any of the sensors. We previously had an EM1, and that seemed to work fine with IPMonitor. Is there anything I need to do, or does IPMonitor just not support this.
Has anyone setup alerts using a GSM modem, TAP or otherwise, at least in North America? Suggestions on hardware / carrier? It seems that the TAP interface is going away, with GSM modems being the preferred solution but I can find little guidance on either. I would like to use a notification medium that bypasses my regular Internet ISP, which is more prone to outage issues than the phone system.
I cannot seem to monitor processes/services on unix based systems using SNMP. Everything works well on windows systems.
I have added the services to snmp.conf file as directed on their site, this shows the service, but I cannot seem to detect the state of the service, i.e the service stays permanently up even when the service is shut down to simulate an outage. I guess my problem as to do with the test match pattern value that I need to specify during snmp wizard.
Im using IP Monitor 9.
As I understand it, we are able to have informational emails sent when the directory modified date has changed. I need to be able to trigger an alert when a directory has NOT been changed. This would signal an automation problem in our production environment. Does anyone know if it is possible to have alerts triggered by comparing the last modified date to the current date and fire if it is more than a couple of hours or so.
Kyle
I can't seem to figure out where to configure smtp to use SSL. I have given a credential set and setup for smtp.gmail.com with the proper port but it always fails to send.
Hi,
last server failure showed that even if server was not reachable, monitor for Active Directory - tcp 389 - was still showing as up and available.
Even if I forced the test status didn't change. Is it bug or I miss something?
regards
Lukasz
I'm curious if anyone can provide any details about the Settings parameter of the MonitorAdd and MonitorEdit methods within the ipMonitor 7.0 configuration interface?
I have been successful at requesting information from the SOAP API using PHP and NuSoap.
Below is a sample of my code:
require_once('nusoap-php5-0.9/lib/nusoap.php');
$wsdl="ipm7config.wsdl"; // local copy of wsdl with last line of wsdl updated to my IP Monitor server <soap:address location="http://[my server ip]/soap/config.asmx" />
$client=new soapclientNusoap($wsdl, true);
$result = $proxy->MonitorListDesc(null); // provides a list of all monitors
$result = $proxy->MonitorView(array('mon_id'=>'1000000')); // provides monitor details for the selected monitor id
// Here I form an array type similar to the output of MonitorView
$SETTINGS['monitor']['id'] = "1000000";
$SETTINGS['monitor']['typeid'] = "6";
$SETTINGS['monitor']['parentid'] = "300022";
$SETTINGS['monitor']['nv']['ui']['name'] = "My Monitor - HTML - ID# 999";
$SETTINGS['monitor']['nv']['addr'] = "192.168.0.1";
$SETTINGS['monitor']['nv']['port'] = "80";
$SETTINGS['monitor']['nv']['url'] = "/";
$SETTINGS['monitor']['nv']['search'] = "my search term";
$SETTINGS['monitor']['nv']['retvalue'] = "0";
$SETTINGS['monitor']['nv']['failiffound'] = "false";
$SETTINGS['monitor']['notifyfailures'] = "2";
$SETTINGS['monitor']['maxalerts'] = "65535";
$SETTINGS['monitor']['maxtest'] = "10";
$SETTINGS['monitor']['testing']['up'] = "60";
$SETTINGS['monitor']['testing']['warn'] = "2";
$SETTINGS['monitor']['testing']['down'] = "2";
$SETTINGS['monitor']['testing']['lost'] = "2";
$SETTINGS['monitor']['stats']['enabled'] = "true";
$SETTINGS['monitor']['enabled'] = "true";
$result = $proxy->MonitorEdit(array('Settings'=>$SETTINGS));
To date, I've been unable to get the MonitorAdd or MonitorEdit method call to successfully return. I'm confident it's due to the fact that I have not set up the struct Settings parameter correclty. The API documentation is weak and it lacks any details on formatting the settings parameter. I've even tried to send in an XML string for Settings to no avail like below. I've contacted Solar Winds and spoke to Chris Foley but their stand reply is we don't support the API anymore. All I need to know is how the Settings parameter needs to be passed into the MonitorAdd or MonitorEdit methods!!!!
<monitor>
<id>1000000</id>
<typeid>6</typeid>
<parentid>300022</parentid>
<nv>
<ui>
<name>My Monitor - HTML - ID# 999</name>
<server></server>
</ui>
<retvalue>0</retvalue>
<cred>
<monitoring></monitoring>
<alerting></alerting>
</cred>
<addr>192.168.0.1</addr>
<port>80</port>
<url>/</url>
<search>my search term</search>
<failiffound>false</failiffound>
<follow>false</follow>
<headrequest>false</headrequest>
<useproxy>false</useproxy>
</nv>
<testing>
<up>60</up>
<warn>2</warn>
<down>2</down>
<lost>2</lost>
</testing>
<stats>
<enabled>true</enabled>
</stats>
<enabled>true</enabled>
<maxtest>10</maxtest>
<notifyfailures>2</notifyfailures>
<maxalerts>65535</maxalerts>
</monitor>
Hi everyone – the IpMonitor team is hard at work developing a number of key enhancements:
1. Bandwidth monitors will separate inbound and outbound traffic. This enhancement will provide a more detailed view of bandwidth usage, allowing the ability to test incoming and outgoing data rates.
2.Use Windows credentials for IpMonitor login.
3. Define customized device types. This will help organize data in reports.
4. Create a monitor and settings and deploy to a list of servers. This “templatized” deployment will save time and decrease the possibility of errors when deploying the same monitors to multiple devices.
5. Configure reports with non-contiguous times. Customize timeframes to leave out weekends, evening hours, etc.
6. Enhanced Exchange support - Support for Exchange 2010.
7. A shiny new printer monitor!
8. The ability to sort columns in reporting view.
PLEASE NOTE: We are working on these items based on this priority order, but this is NOT a commitment that all of these enhancements will make the next release. If you have comments or questions on any of these items (e.g. how would it work?) or would like to be included in a preview demo, please let us know!
We are using ipMonitor 10 to monitor about 400 servers right now. We are moving forward with a new backup system that runs on a separate network. To make this work we are installing a secondary NIC in all of our systems. On my ipMonitor box after I installed the secondary NIC I started getting SNMP failures on most systems. So my question is, is this normal?
Setup:
NIC Team: internal network (default gateway set)
Secondary NIC: backup network (no default gateway)
We are registering DNS for both as well. I'm trying to determine if the second NIC/network caused the issue or if it was something else. Using a SNMP test utility it would fail as well. I have since disabled the secondary NIC and things seem ok, but I did have to restart a great many systems' SNMP service before they came back online.
If it did cause the problem, is there a way to make ipMonitor only work via one of the connections? We aren't using Traps at all, just simple SNMP for things like drive space, CPU, etc.
Thanks!
Our IPmonitor implementation is working great, but seems slow to respond at times. I've got 5,585 monitors and need to add more. Aside from increasing polling intervals for the monitors, what else can I do to increase performance?
I'm guessing it's a 32 bit single threaded app so will throwing more hardware at it allow me to add more monitors?
Cheers,
Tony
I have added a Windows credential within IPM9 as obviously want to use it on a lot of Windows servers to return WMI etc. Unfortunatly, when I goto the Credential List I get the following error:
"The current network account running ipMonitor does not have permission to use the public key / private key required to decrypt the secure file. This occurs when the service account is set through the control panel and not the ipMonitor config program. To correct this issue, reset the service account with the ipMonitor config program."
I have gone through the IPM config program and the service is running as LocalSystem and I have not changed this through the control panel / services.
Any ideas why I get this message?
Thanks.
We are running the latest version of IP Monitor and are monitoring disk, memory and CPU resources on an AIX 7.1 virtual server. IP Monitor is reporting the memory and CPU are high, however, when they look with TOPAS everything looks normal. Anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks
I am attempting to test the free trial of ipMonitor. I get an error when installing.
Error 1920.Service SolarWinds Discovery Service (SolarWinds Discovery Service) failed to start. Verify that you have sufficient privileges to start system services.
I assume this has something to do with a service running on this box already as opposed to permissions, given that I am using an admin user to install it. Can someone tell me what services would be shared with ipMonitor? I do have kiwi syslog server running on this box and a trial of splunk.
Thanks,
Garrett
Hello Everyon
We currently have IPmonitor 10.0 installed on a windows server 2003 R2 enterprise edition box. We are planning to upgrade this server to windows server 2018 R2 64 bit. I have a few questions on compatibility before we attempt the upgrade.
Is IPmonitor 10 X compatible with windows server 2008 64 bit
Is upgrading the OS to 2008 with retaining IPmonitor is recommended or we need to install a clean IPmonitor on the new server.
If compatible, do we have any procedure to follow during upgrade.