Another trilogy from Peter Jackson: What are your feelings on 'The Hobbit'?
The release of the first movie of The Hobbit trilogy is fast approaching on December 14th, almost 9 years to the day of the release of the final Lord of the Rings films. Are you filled with shear...
View Articlehost for android
I write to You since I saw in Your forum that You are asking for ideas for Your next release after 9.I work for an Italian software house.A customer of ours is looking for a software that can be used...
View ArticleServer & Application Monitor 6.1 - New Feature Overview and Beta Sign-Up
So here we go again! Time to kick off the next release of SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor with the first official beta, and grab a quick first glimpse into several of the cool new features...
View ArticleMicrosoft Failover Clustering
We are looking at using LEM to capture Microsoft Failover Clustering events from the Windows Application Event log. Are these logs that LEM will be able to capture?
View Articlethwack Monthly Mission - November Edition
For this month's mission you're going to need to fine tune your deductive reasoning skills. Do not underrate your own abilities. Propel yourself on this errand and apply only the obvious conclusions...
View Articlethwack Monthly Mission - December Edition
Well, December is here and you know what that means... 'tis the holiday season! December is also a huge milestone in our world as it marks a full year of the ever-so-popular monthly missions here on...
View ArticleWhere's your Single-Pain-Of-Glass?
Today I was at the Nordics VMUG in Copenhagen (Denmark) and in a few session we kept seeing that management layers shift or at least are shifting. About 10 years ago we were all, with a few exceptions...
View ArticleWHD - Action Rule: Time Hacks
Trying to capture the date/time a ticket enters a specific Status. My choices are:1. Manual entry by the tech (like to avoid due to accuracy, work load, etc.),2. Retrieve from History (don't know how...
View ArticleAdd "Unassigned Tickets" to Menu Bar
We'd like to be able to view all unassigned tickets at one time via the menu bar where "My Tickets", "Group Tickets", etc are located.
View ArticleManage Nodes Group By should follow Show Settings
Under manage nodes if you Show: Interfaces the Group by is still grouping by Node properties instead of interface properties (case#512051) For example, an engineer pulls a card from one router and a...
View ArticleWhy does the Application pool timeout?
It seems that when running the Config Wizard that it fails more often than not with the following error: Of course i can go restart the Application Pool and the SolarWinds website, but why does this...
View ArticleEmail Templates
Hi guys, It would be really cool to have a possibility to create email templates (or kind of predefined parts of emails) in Alert Manager. Here is my challenge: I am using a lot of alerts, many of...
View ArticleIf you could add an item to the Thwack Store what would it be
If you could see a new item in the Thwack store what would it be?
View ArticleWhat does "Please enter a valid domain" mean?
I am using the Flow Navigator tool to creat a Summary view and search for traffic to/from certain domains. Domains such as "pandora.com" work fine and yield results, but when I search for domains such...
View ArticleRBLalerts
I have been a DNSSTUFF user for years... how do I turn on / activate RBLalerts?
View ArticleHow can I configure Serv-U to redirect HTTP to HTTPS
Is there a way to configure Serv-U to redirect http requests to https?It would be ideal if I could just select this option in the http listener
View ArticleBulk Interface manipulation
Is there a way to delete "in mass" interfaces from Nodes. I am looking to delete all Null0 and Loopback interfaces from a major chunk of my nodes and would like to figure out how to do this with SQL...
View ArticleNewbie question: Upgrading to SAM 6.0.0
I want to upgrade our SAM environment to 6.0.0, while not upgrading any other environments. I am taking over this responsibility from another team. My questions: 1) Does the SAM upgrade require a...
View ArticleDo You Trust Vendor Patches?
Microsoft had a bit of an issue with the latest round of patches last week. Nothing major blew up other than an Outlook folder pane view, but the implications were legion. Do you actually test these...
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