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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Hi, Jeremy and list members,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I have determined we are using both the NPM and the VQNM. At this point nothing has been configured with respect to the VQNM as we are looking for best practice settings or configurations for QoS, VoIP, SLA and Monitoring settings? No one that we have spoken to seems to be able or willing to provide this type of guideline data. If you or others on the list could that would be appreciated. With respect to basic up and down that is straight forward. What specific trigger levels do engineers normally set for CPU and disk utilization or other stats? Would one configure CPU to alert at above 95% for example?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Thank you,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Tom <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> cisco-voip [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jeremy Bresley<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, August 17, 2015 2:18 PM<br><b>To:</b> cisco-voip@puck.nether.net<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [cisco-voip] VoIP Monitoring in Solar winds<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Might need to provide more details to get a good answer. Are you using their NPM tool and want basic up/down/CPU/disk utilization, or their VQNM tool that does specific VoIP/QoS/IP SLA testing/monitoring?<br><br>Basic monitoring in NPM is easy, just add an SNMP string to the UC servers and discover the device within NPM. I haven't had any hands-on experience with VQNM to know how much different the process is there, but most Solarwinds products are pretty easy to get up and working. I have tried to get some CUBE and PVDM statistics monitoring in NPM using Universal Device Pollers with limited success.<br><br>Jeremy "TheBrez" Bresley<br><a href="mailto:brez@brezworks.com">brez@brezworks.com</a><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 8/17/2015 12:48 PM, Thomas LeMay wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>Hi, <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We are starting to configure Solar winds to monitor VoIP (Call Manager, Unity Connection Emergency Responder and Contact Center Express). We are new to the Solar winds product and are wondering what specific triggers other engineers have configured for monitoring purposes. Could anyone provide some examples or details on what they are monitoring and what can be monitored for VoIP and UC within Solar winds?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thank you,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Tom<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><hr size=1 width="99%" noshade style='color:#909090' align=center></span></div><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style='border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td style='padding:0in 11.25pt 0in 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a href="https://www.avast.com/antivirus"><span style='text-decoration:none'><img border=0 id="_x0000_i1026" src="http://static.avast.com/emails/avast-mail-stamp.png" alt="Avast logo"></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#3D4D5A'>This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. <br><a href="https://www.avast.com/antivirus">www.avast.com</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><br><br><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><pre>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>cisco-voip mailing list<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="mailto:cisco-voip@puck.nether.net">cisco-voip@puck.nether.net</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-voip">https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-voip</a><o:p></o:p></pre></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div>
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