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1. What browsers are supported for use with the Orion Web Console?
   The following browsers are supported for the Orion Web Console. Orion Core 2011.2.X Orion Core 2011.1.X Orion Core 2010.2.X Orion Core 2010.1.X Internet Explorer 9 ✔ ✖ ✖ ✖ Internet Explorer 8 ✔ ✔ ✖ ✖ Internet Explorer 7 ✔ ...
2. SolarWinds and ASP.NET applications (WSUS, OWA, SharePoint)
   Generally, SolarWinds recommends against running WSUS, OWA (Outlook Web Access/App), SharePoint or other ASP.NET applications on your Orion server, as other ASP.NET applications may require additional security affecting the anonymous user. However, if the correct compression scheme is enabled, W ...
3. How do I install East Asian language files?
   Installations of SolarWinds NPM 10.3 and higher and newer SolarWinds installations using Orion Platform 2012.1 and higher support East Asian locales. Microsoft's East Asian Language Pack is required to view locale-specific information in SolarWinds installations on operating systems using East ...
4. What kind of SQL Server licensing does SolarWinds require?
   Disclaimer: The following is our interpretation of Microsoft's licensing guidance. Be aware that licensing terms may change and differ between versions. If you have any doubt about your Microsoft® SQL Server® licensing terms, contact Microsoft. You do not need to worry about Microsoft S ...
5. Local character set is not displaying in a localized SolarWinds Orion installation
   Issue: Locale-specific characters are not displaying in a localized installation of SolarWinds Orion. Resolution: If you are using Google Chrome to view your web console, you may need to configure the browser display language, as indicated in the following steps: Click Customize and control Goo ...
6. CPU usage is reporting incorrectly for Linux servers using Net-SNMP
   Issue: CPU usage is reporting incorrectly for Linux servers using Net-SNMP Resolution: This issue has been experienced when monitoring Linux servers using Net-SNMP versions 4.0 through 5.7. These versions of Net-SNMP do not properly handle counter rollovers for the ssCpuRawIdle OID. For more inf ...
7. Microsoft Message Queue Fills Directory with Orphaned Files
   Issue: When there are a specific number messages in the queue, the MQ software sends them to a file in C:\Windows\System32\MSMQ\Storage Directory. Files accumulate until the directory exceeds its limit (1GB by default). Solution: Create a batch file that deletes all files from the MSMQ storag ...
8. What object IDs (OIDs) does the Orion Platform poll for network topology information? What types of network topology information does the Orion Platform poll?
   By default, SolarWinds Orion polls the following topology-related OIDs, as listed by type. Note: All data is gathered on the rediscovery interval. The IP address information is gathered from all nodes. Poller Type NameOID NameOID Value Description N.Topology.Snmp.Layer2 dot1dTpFdbTable 1.3. ...
9. Orion Platform 2011.2.2 Release Notes
   SolarWinds Orion Platform 2011.2.2 provides the following features and fixes. New Orion Platform Features Orion Platform version 2011.2.2 provides the following new feature: For any nodes that have been added to both NPM and NCM, it is now possible to remove them from monitoring by NPM while ...
10. What files and directories should I exclude from antivirus protection to ensure adequate file access for Orion products?
    To ensure that all Orion products have access to all required files, all files except executables in the following directories, listed by operating system, should be excluded from antivirus protection: Note: c:\ is the default install volume. Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP: c:\Documents an ...
11. How do I disable topology polling calculations?
    Issue: How do I disable topology polling? Resolution Beginning with the SolarWinds Orion Platform 2011.2, released with SolarWinds Orion NPM version 10.2, performance data and topology data are polled and calculated separately. in some environments, topology data polling and calculation may requ ...
12. Website Error: "Unknown net object prefix: "Y" on a page.
    Issue: It is possible to select CustomInterfacePollerDetailsURL when selecting a variable for use in an advanced alert. Including this variable in an alert message provides a broken link. This article provides another, more general solution to achieve the same result intended by the CustomInterf ...
13. Logon failure: the user has not been granted the requested logon type at this computer
    Issue: When logging into the Orion Web Console, some Individual Active Directory (AD) users see: Logon failure: the user has not been granted the requested logon type at this computer Resolution: SolarWinds uses Internet information Services (IIS) to authenticate AD users of the Orion Web Consol ...
14. Updated Topology Algorithm in NPM 10.2
    Beginning with NPM 10.2 (Orion Core version 2011.2) the same technology and data for determining topology are used as in previous versions, but topology data is no longer gathered using Network Sonar Discovery. Instead, individual polling jobs are assigned to each device that provides layer 2 a ...
15. Critical index fragmentation detected during database maintenance
    The following event is generated when a database maintenance task detects highly fragmented database indexes: Critical index fragmentation detected during database maintenance Highly fragmented indexes can significantly decrease database performance. For this reason, to ensure optimal performan ...
16. SolarWinds products on servers running Cisco Secure Access Control Server (Cisco ACS)
    SolarWinds strongly recommends against installing Cisco Secure Access Control Server (Cisco ACS) on the same server as any SolarWinds product that uses Orion Core Services. Cisco ACS can block access to performance counters SolarWinds products need to conduct monitoring. It is possible that Cis ...
17. What are the new features in Orion NPM 10.2?
    Monitoring Enhancements Discover and monitor IPv6 devices Discover and monitor Windows servers using WMI Gather statistics on a per-CPU basis for many devices Send and receive SNMPv3 traps Track and report interface availability Topology improvements allow you to correctly see more network devi ...
18. Network Discovery truncates names of added nodes
    In some SolarWinds Orion versions, Network Discovery truncates the names of nodes that are discovered and added to the Orion database. When a node is discovered and added with Network Sonar Discovery, Orion truncates the node caption (${Nodes.Caption}) to 32 characters. Captions of nodes added ...
19. Calendar error: "Specified time is not supported in this calendar"
    If you are seeing errors similar to the following, confirm that you are using the Gregorian calendar setting on your SolarWinds server: ERROR SolarWinds.Collector.BusinessLayer.EntityWatcher - System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Specified time is not supported in this calendar. It should be be ...
20. Moving Older Map Maker Maps
    For versions of Orion NPM prior to 9.5, you will need to follow the steps in this section. Newer versions of Orion NPM include the Network Atlas maps, which are stored in the database so there's nothing to move. The best way to move your custom Map Maker maps from the old server to the new is t ...