First off, there's a great thread with XML language that creates a new Report for this that can be imported into your SW here:  How to find ports which have not been used for a long time ?

If that doesn't get you exactly what you want, older versions of NCM had this information as part of their Inventory solution.  It's been removed at version 7.4 and reportedly is moving to UDT.

Check this search out for other threads containing "Last  & Transmitted":  https://thwack.solarwinds.com/search.jspa?q=last+transmitted

The process below is what I built for my team's use, since the above XML report provided information for too many kinds of ports and systems.  The method I use allows you to focus on a specific switch, and it eliminates reporting on some ports that I know will always be out of scope for discovering patched copper ports for reuse (like fiber uplink ports and port-channels or local Fa0 ports).

Start off in Settings, Admin > Alerts & Reports, Create New Report

Click the small blue "Edit" just to the right of Datasource 1 and make it look like this:

Adjust the items above to match your specific needs and then click Add to Layout.

What the filtered options mean:

• As you can see from the first entry (Caption contains "Insert Switch Name") this particular report will focus solely on a specific switch.  You don't have to include this if you don't want, and you could change it to identify a switch by whatever method you prefer--or drop it entirely.
• Orion NPM may discover Cisco interfaces that are "Controlled" and "Uncontrolled" for security options (depending on IOS release and hardware platform); since these interfaces are duplicates to the physical interfaces, I don't want them included in the report, so I had it filter any interface with "ontrol" in its name.
• I'm not interested in Port-channels, therefore that's filtered out.
• I don't want any port whose status is "Up".
• It must be a Physical Interface, not a virtual or logical one.
• Don't report on Ten Gig interfaces ("Interface Name does not start with Te")
• Don't report on interfaces ending in 49-52--those are uplink fiber links on my switches, and I'm not looking for information about those in this report.  I only want to know about copper ports that can be unpatched & reused.
• Don't report on the Fa0 port if one is present

Click Edit Table

Adjust these items per your specific needs and click Submit

I put a note it to remind my Team to change the switch name inside the report:

Click Next

Put helpful information in the Report Description, Click Next.

Schedule if it needed:

Click Next

Review the setup and make any changes required:

Click Submit.

Now select the report, edit it to report on the specific switch, save it and run it. You'll get a report that sorts from the ports longest down to those most recently down, looking like this:

I export this to .PDF and send it to my Network Technicians for unpatching of ports on switches they're concerned with.

Enjoy!

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Adding Live Weather to the "Worldwide Map" Resource

Summary: This will allow you to add live weather to the worldwide map based on the OpenWeatherMap project (free).

Limitations: The map must be on a page where your can insert HTML/JavaScript. This will probably break during future releases.

Notes: If you want to change the height of your map you must do it within the HTML resource.

Preview:

Step 1: Get the id of your map element, to do this go to a page where you've inserted the map (don't go to the map page itself). Once there view the source of the page (Ctrl + U in most browsers) and search for the map element (Ctrl + F), search for 'id="worldmap' (without the single quotes but with the double quote). Make note of your map ID, in this case 753.

Step 2: Add a HTML resource to the page with the map on it that you would like to modify. To do this go to "Customize Page" >>> "Add Resource To Column X" >>> "Custom HTML".

Step 3: Paste the contents of the attached file into the Custom HTML resource you just added to the page. Make sure you update the file with your map ID you found in step 1 and change others settings you would like to.

Hot on the heels of NCM 7.7 Beta 1, I'm excited to announce the availability of NCM 7.7 Beta 2.  This beta builds on Beta 1, and includes several exciting features that can be found on the WWWO for NCM; https://thwack.solarwinds.com/docs/DOC-176911.  Click the link below to sign up.

To encourage beta participation we will continue to award THWACK points which can be used to buy SWAG from the THWACK store or just general bragging rights. We're really looking forward to getting some feedback on this feature-set!

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About a year ago I started a quest to figure out how to achieve this goal.  Since I've made some major headway I decided to share it out with the community in case it comes in handy.  There's probably better ways to do this so please comment if you have improvements!  Also, this only applies to EX (standalone and in VCs) and SRX devices; QFXes use virtual machines so it doesn't apply to them, and I don't have any other Juniper devices to verify whether or not this works there.

The problem is that when you update firmware on a Juniper device the primary partition gets updated automatically but the backup partition does not.  You must run request system snapshot slice alternate to copy the active partition over so that if you have a failover of the primary the backup is running the same version.  This is particularly important in virtual-chassis setups where mismatched firmware can cause major problems.

The only way to see the versions of backup vs. primary is from operational mode; you run "show system snapshot media internal".  There's no way to pull this information from SNMP.  So we need a system whereby we can run that command, pull in the resulting output, and search the versions on primary and backup, then report when it's different than expected.

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Step one is to create a custom configuration type and then modify or create a new device template for NCM so that it knows what command to run.

Under Settings->NCM Settings->Config Settings, add a new config type and record the name exactly:

Under Settings->NCM Settings->Device Template Management, copy the Juniper device template and give it a name you can remember.  Add a command name with the config type you created previously, and for the value you want to put inside the quotes "system snapshot media internal".  This way, when it goes to download the config it will run the DownloadConfig command which is "show ${ConfigType}".  That will in turn run "show system snapshot media internal" on the device.  Save your template and assign it to your Juniper nodes.

After you've confirmed you're able to download that config from a device, let's move on to step two.

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In step two we have to search and compare the configs that are generated.  Compliance reporting is best for this.  This part will be fairly difficult because depending on EX, EX in a VC, or SRX the output of the show command is different, and also because the order in which primary and backup are displayed varies randomly.  In addition, because compliance reports only search one line at a time, we have to make separate rules for backup and primary slices and then compare them to a known desired version, rather than just comparing them to themselves and verifying they're the same.  Add all that up and it equals many rules we need to specify.  I'll go through an SRX example and an EX / VC example and you can iterate based on whatever versions you want to look at.

     In Settings->NCM Settings->Manage Rules, create a new rule.  I've named mine with what type of device, what version I'm looking at, and whether I'm looking at backup or primary partition.

You want advanced config search enabled, alerting when the string is NOT found, and searching in a config block using regex.  Here's a screenshot of the settings I'm using.  Note all you need to replace here is the version you're looking for, but make sure you include "ex-" because we're only looking for the jbase version.  All others should be the same as that.

I've verified this search will work regardless of where the backup "stanza" falls in the config output.  It just checks to make sure the jbase version is whatever you set.  Again remember to include "ex-" because jbase is the only line that reports its version that way.  Here's an example config to show what I'm talking about (jbase bolded):

fpc0:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Information for snapshot on       internal (/dev/da0s1a) (primary)
Creation date: Sep 4 13:30:42 2015
JUNOS version on snapshot:  jbase  : ex-12.2R10.2  jkernel-ex-2200: 12.3R10.2  jcrypto-ex: 12.3R10.2  jdocs-ex: 12.3R10.2  jswitch-ex: 12.3R10.2  jpfe-ex22x: 12.3R10.2  jroute-ex: 12.3R10.2  jweb-ex: 12.3R10.2  fips-mode-arm: 12.3R10.2
 Information for snapshot on       internal (/dev/da0s2a) (backup)
Creation date: Sep 4 14:59:50 2015
JUNOS version on snapshot:  jbase  : ex-12.3R10.2  jkernel-ex-2200: 12.3R10.2  jcrypto-ex: 12.3R10.2  jdocs-ex: 12.3R10.2  jswitch-ex: 12.3R10.2  jpfe-ex22x: 12.3R10.2  jroute-ex: 12.3R10.2  jweb-ex: 12.3R10.2  fips-mode-arm: 12.3R10.2

Next, copy this rule and change the word primary in the config block start regex to search the primary config.  Ideally when you're searching for a version this rule should never trigger but it's nice to have, and if you apply the policy to every juniper device could help you find whether a device is not running the version of code you think it is.

The SRX rules vary a bit because again the output of the show command is different.  Use these settings for an SRX backup partition:

Copy and replace backup with primary for the primary partition.  Adjust version numbers as desired.

Now you just need to create policies and add in your rules as desired.  In my case I created different policies based on the version I wanted to look at, and then added the backup and primary rule for that given version to it.  I filtered my devices based on OS version because I specifically wanted to just check that the backup version was the same as the primary for a given JunOS version, but you can do whatever you'd like there.  Make sure your policies run against the Junipersnapshot config type only.

After you have your policies, create a report and add all of them in.  Almost done!

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Step three is testing.  Download a Junipersnapshot config for all devices you assigned that config and device type to.  Then, in compliance reports, highlight your report and run "Update selected".  Run it and you should get results:

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Step four: Profit!  Let me know what you think!

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When built reports with Solarwinds report builder we only have plain data tables. It would be very informative if we could add some customised charts, such pie charts in the reports. It is possible to use MSSQL report builder to create more richly reports but this involves installing additional components on MSSQL server and you need access the Solarwinds Database directly.

I start to use Google Chart recently for my “Raspberry  Pi “ projects and suddenly realize I could Integrating the Google Chart into the Solarwinds reports/views. Here is an example:

Prerequisite: 
You need an IIS web server supporting ASP and can access both your Solarwinds Website and Internet. You can use Solarwinds web server if it can access Internet.

Step 1: Build a report using Solarwinds Report Builder

Report Title:  “Solarwinds Statistic - Node Polling Method”
In my example I am using “Advanced SQL”, the query is:

SELECT
(SELECT COUNT(Nodes.NodeID) FROM Nodes)  AS Total_Nodes,
(SELECT COUNT(Nodes.NodeID) FROM Nodes where ObjectSubType = 'ICMP')  AS ICMP,
(SELECT COUNT(Nodes.NodeID) FROM Nodes where ObjectSubType = 'SNMP' and SNMPVersion = 1)  AS SNMPv1,
(SELECT COUNT(Nodes.NodeID) FROM Nodes where ObjectSubType = 'SNMP' and SNMPVersion = 2)  AS SNMPv2,
(SELECT COUNT(Nodes.NodeID) FROM Nodes where ObjectSubType = 'SNMP' and SNMPVersion = 3)  AS SNMPv3,
(SELECT COUNT(Nodes.NodeID) FROM Nodes where ObjectSubType = 'WMI' )  AS WMI

In the “Field Formatting” you need add “Web URL” for each data you want to send to Google chart.  This is for parsing data out from the report later in the asp page. Here I am using dummy URL, you can using real links to link your table/chart to another Solarwinds page.

Step 2: open your report from Solarwinds web console:

The URL should looks like: "http://solarwinds-web-server-IP-or-FQDN/Orion/Report.aspx?Report=Solarwinds_Statistic_-_Node_Polling_Method&Printable=TRUE&accountid=userID&password=userPwd"

Added the following parameter to the end of the URL link:
&Printable=TRUE&accountid=userID&password=userPwd
userID is Solarwinds user account ID, userPwd is the account password. The account should be read only.

From your browser: open view page source, you should find the dummy links you created in the report, we will use these information to parse the data in the ASP page below.

Step 3:  Create an ASP page

Create an asp page and save it to a web server which can assess Solarwinds web pages and Internet. The asp page has three parts: VBscript, JavaScript and HTML codes.

The VBScript will get the report page and save the return to a string. I use the regular expression to  parse the data from the string and pass them to JavaScript. The JavaScript will call Google Chart API to draw the Pie chart in the HTML <div></div>

The asp code is:

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<html><head><%
' URL link to the Solarwinds Report
' http://solarwinds-web-server-IP-or-FQDN/Orion/Report.aspx?Report=Solarwinds_Statistic_-_Node_Polling_Method
' add the following parameter to the end of the URL link: &Printable=TRUE&accountid=userID&password=userPwd"
' userID is Solarwinds user account ID, userPwd is the account password. The account should be read only.
strURL = "http://your-url/Orion/Report.aspx?Report=Solarwinds_Statistic_-_Node_Polling_Method&Printable=TRUE&accountid=user&password=userpwd"

' get the URL return text
strHttpText = GetTextFromUrl(strURL)

' using vbs regular expression to parse the data

' get total number of nodes polling by Ping
Set rexp01 = New RegExp
With rexp01
      .Pattern    = "polling-ping" & Chr(34) & ">\d+</a"      .IgnoreCase = False      .Global    = False
End With
set matchs01 = rexp01.Execute(strHttpText)
If matchs01.Count > 0 Then    set match01 = matchs01(0)    match01 = Replace(match01, "polling-ping" & Chr(34) & ">", "")    match01 = Replace(match01, "</a", "")    match01 = cInt(match01)    'response.write match01 - debug
Else    match01 = 0
End If

' get total number of nodes polling by SNMP1
Set rexp02 = New RegExp
With rexp02
      .Pattern    = "polling-snmp1" & Chr(34) & ">\d+</a"      .IgnoreCase = False      .Global    = False
End With
set matchs02 = rexp02.Execute(strHttpText)
If matchs02.Count > 0 Then    set match02 = matchs02(0)    match02 = Replace(match02, "polling-snmp1" & Chr(34) & ">", "")    match02 = Replace(match02, "</a", "")    match02 = cInt(match02)    'response.write match02 - debug
Else    match02 = 0
End If

' get total number of nodes polling by SNMP2
Set rexp03 = New RegExp
With rexp03
      .Pattern    = "polling-snmp2" & Chr(34) & ">\d+</a"      .IgnoreCase = False      .Global    = False
End With
set matchs03 = rexp03.Execute(strHttpText)
If matchs03.Count > 0 Then    set match03 = matchs03(0)    match03 = Replace(match03, "polling-snmp2" & Chr(34) & ">", "")    match03 = Replace(match03, "</a", "")    match03 = cInt(match03)    'response.write match03 - debug
Else    match03 = 0
End If

' get total number of nodes polling by SNMP3
Set rexp04 = New RegExp
With rexp04
      .Pattern    = "polling-snmp3" & Chr(34) & ">\d+</a"      .IgnoreCase = False      .Global    = False
End With
set matchs04 = rexp04.Execute(strHttpText)
If matchs04.Count > 0 Then    set match04 = matchs04(0)    match04 = Replace(match04, "polling-snmp3" & Chr(34) & ">", "")    match04 = Replace(match04, "</a", "")    match04 = cInt(match04)    'response.write match04 - debug
Else    match04 = 0
End If

' get total number of nodes polling by WMI
Set rexp05 = New RegExp
With rexp05
      .Pattern    = "polling-wmi" & Chr(34) & ">\d+</a"      .IgnoreCase = False      .Global    = False
End With
set matchs05 = rexp05.Execute(strHttpText)
If matchs05.Count > 0 Then    set match05 = matchs05(0)    match05 = Replace(match05, "polling-wmi" & Chr(34) & ">", "")    match05 = Replace(match05, "</a", "")    match05 = cInt(match05)    'response.write match05 - debug
Else    match05 = 0
End If

iTotalNodesCount = match01 + match02 + match03 + match04 + match05

' Sub Function: get a URL return text
Function GetTextFromUrl(url)
  Set oXMLHTTP = CreateObject("MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP.3.0")  oXMLHTTP.Open "GET", url, False  oXMLHTTP.Send  If oXMLHTTP.Status = 200 Then    GetTextFromUrl = oXMLHTTP.responseText  End If
End Function


%><!--Google Chart: Load the AJAX API--><script type="text/javascript" src="https://www.google.com/jsapi"></script><script type="text/javascript">

// Load the Visualization API and the piechart package.
google.load('visualization', '1.0', {'packages':['corechart']});

// Set a callback to run when the Google Visualization API is loaded.
google.setOnLoadCallback(drawChart);

// Callback that creates and populates a data table,
// instantiates the pie chart, passes in the data and
// draws it.
function drawChart() {
    // Create the data table.    var data = new google.visualization.DataTable();    data.addColumn('string', 'NodeStatus');    data.addColumn('number', 'Slices');    data.addRows([        ['PING <%= match01 %>', <%= match01 %>],        ['SNMP1 <%= match02 %>', <%= match02 %>],        ['SNMP2 <%= match03 %>', <%= match03 %>],        ['SNMP3 <%= match04 %>', <%= match04 %>],        ['WMI <%= match05 %>', <%= match05 %>]    ]);    // Set chart options    var options = {title: 'Total Nodes: <%= iTotalNodesCount %>',                width: 550,                height: 250,                is3D: true,                pieSliceText: 'percentage',                  sliceVisibilityThreshold: 0,                pieStartAngle: -100,                slices: {0:{offset: 0.2, color: 'Magenta'},                        1: {offset: 0.1, color: 'orange'},                        2: {color: '#0099C6'},                        3: {offset: 0.1, color: 'yellow'},                        4: {offset: 0.2, color: 'blue'},                        },    };    // Instantiate and draw our chart, passing in some options.    var chart = new google.visualization.PieChart(document.getElementById('chart_div'));    chart.draw(data, options);
}</script></head><body>  <!--Div that will hold the pie chart-->  <div id="chart_div"></div></body></html>

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Step 4: In Solarwinds, create a view page and add two resources: “Report from Orion Report Writer” and “Custom HTML”

Edit “Report from Orion Report Writer”, Link the report to the report you just created
Edit “Custon HTML”, add the following code:  (replace with your asp page link)

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<iframe src="http://link-to-your-asp-page/solarsta.asp" width=550 height=250 frameborder=0 scrolling="no"></iframe>

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View your chart in the view page. Done!

You can use the similar method to create different chats, such as  Node status pie chart. Also you can make the chart click-able to link to other pages.  Just add the following code in asp page after JavaScript function “chart.draw(data, options);”  An example for Node status pie chart:

* Below is an image, not text. Cannot paste as text

Hope this is helpful. Thanks

Update: 01

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As designerfx suggested, the code is  attached as a text file

DESCRIPTION

This custom report will list the Top N SQL statements in your instance for a specified O/S user name. To use this report, run it from SQL*Plus while connected to the Ignite repository database.

SQL*PLUS SCRIPT

select id, name from cond order by name;

prompt Which Database ID

accept DBID

prompt Enter Start Date (mm/dd/yy hh24:mi)

accept BeginDate

prompt Enter End Date (mm/dd/yy hh24:mi)

accept EndDate

prompt How many SQLs should be displayed

accept HowMany

prompt Enter the OS username

accept OSUser

set pagesize 999

set linesize 132

column hash_or_name format a22

select hash_or_name, timesecs from (

  select nvl(n.name, sw.izho) hash_or_name, sum(sw.qp/100) timesecs

  FROM consw_&DBID sw, cono_&DBID o, con_sql_name n

  where sw.d between to_date('&BeginDate','mm/dd/yy hh24:mi') and to_date('&EndDate','mm/dd/yy hh24:mi')

  and sw.ixoy = o.id

  and sw.izho = n.hash

  and upper(o.name) = upper('&OSUser')

  group by nvl(n.name, sw.izho)

  order by sum(sw.qp/100) desc)

where rownum <= &HowMany

order by timesecs desc

/