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Category » Bandwidth Monitor (Toolset)

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1. Bandwidth utilization units are in bits per second
   Average utilization is displayed in "bits per second" (bps).
2. Configuring Bandwidth Monitor
   Perform the following steps: 1. Select Gauge 2. Select New Gauge 3. Enter the IP Address of the SNMP enabled device you want to monitor 4. Enter the SNMP community string 5. Click OK For assistance on community strings for Cisco devices, click on the following link: http://www.cisco.com/univerc ...
3. Determining the Y scale on High/Low graphs
   Advanced Bandwidth Monitor will take the maximum bandwidth of the data point to be graphed and round this up to a common network access bandwidth. For example, if the maximum bandwidth on a graph is 3Mb/sec, Advanced Bandwidth Monitor will round up the Y axis to 10Mb/sec (10Mb Ethernet). Another ...
4. Email and pager notifications
   You cannot send pager or email notifications from Bandwidth Monitor. You need to use SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor in order to generate Pages and E-Mails on network Events. The Network Performance Monitor is found in the Engineers Edition. For more information on the Network Performance ...
5. Engineer's Edition Network Performance Monitor not collecting data from devices successfully monitored by Bandwidth Monitor tool
   This happens when devices test positive for 64-bit counter support but do not provide any statistics when polling the 64-bit counters. To resolve this issue: 1. Download the ftp://ftp.solarwinds.net/support/64BitCounters.zip file. 2. Close the Network Performance Monitor. 3. Double-click on the ...
6. Error message "cannot communicate with NT Box" when you try to use Bandwidth Monitor
   The SNMP Agent on the NT box is not responding correctly. You should run IP Network Browser and verify that you are unable to discover the contents of the device. Once you have confirmed that you are using the correct Community sting and the device is still not responding you will need to verify ...
7. Error message "Cannot open Bandwidth-Monitor.cfg" when you try to use Bandwidth Monitor
   The Bandwidth Monitor database may be corrupt. Not properly shutting down Windows or the Bandwidth Monitor can sometimes corrupt the database. There are a couple of ways to repair a corrupt database. Method 1 1. Close the Bandwidth Monitor tool. 2. Run the Bandwdith Monitor Maintenance (Bandwidt ...
8. Error message "Run Time Error 13 - Type Mismatch" when you try to use Bandwidth Monitor
   The SNMP Agent on the box you are trying to monitor is most likely responding with "nulls" or corrupted SNMP Packets. This runtime error has been resolved in the December, 2000 release of Bandwidth Monitor. You will need to download the latest software patch for your release of the tools at: htt ...
9. Error message "There is no valid .cfg file to open" when you try to use Bandwidth Monitor database maintenance
   The Bandwidth Monitor database may be corrupt. Not properly shutting down Windows or the Bandwidth Monitor can sometimes corrupt the database. There are a couple of ways to repair a corrupt database. Method 1 1. Close the Bandwidth Monitor tool. 2. Run the Bandwdith Monitor Maintenance (Bandwidt ...
10. Error message "Unrecognized Database Format" when you try to use the Advanced Bandwidth Monitor database maintenance
    The Advanced Bandwidth Monitor database may be corrupt. Not properly shutting down Windows or the Advanced Bandwidth Monitor can sometimes corrupt the database. There are a couple of ways to repair a corrupt database. Method 1 1. Close the Advanced Bandwidth Monitor tool. 2. Run the Advanced Ban ...
11. Error message: "Run-time error '430' Class does not support Automation or does not support expected interface within Bandwidth Monitor"
    Solution 1 - MDAC is not responding correctly. Download and install MDAC 2.5 SP2 from http://www.MicroSoft.com/Data/Download.htm. Also download and install Jet 4.0 SP3. This should resolve the problem. Solution 2 - May have an evaluation copy or prior license file(s) in the SolarWinds registry. ...
12. Error message: "Unrecognized Database Format" when you try to use Bandwidth Monitor database maintenance
    The Bandwidth Monitor database may be corrupt. Not properly shutting down Windows or the Bandwidth Monitor can sometimes corrupt the database. There are a couple of ways to repair a corrupt database. Method 1 1. Close the Bandwidth Monitor tool. 2. Run the Bandwdith Monitor Maintenance (Bandwidt ...
13. Maximum number of simultaneous gauges
    There are no set limits within the program. You are only limited by the amount of memory in your computer. When there are more gauges than can be displayed on the screen at one time, Bandwidth Monitor will display the gauges in a scrollable window.
14. Missing gauge graphics depict only the gauge needle
    The is caused by a problem with the DLL. There is a download patch available. The patch may be downloaded from the SolarWinds Program Updates page at: http://solarwinds.net/Updates/index.htm.