Is your Puppet a Chef?
Two weeks ago I wrote about the Single-Pain-Of-Glass and last week we talked about Herding Chicken instead of Managing Cats. What keeps coming back is that we as people and customers are just not ready...
View ArticleWhat Real-Time Traffic Based Automation *Would* You Trust?
Last week, I asked in an ambassador post, “Would you automate QoS policy based on real-time flow data?” The resulting comments were a good discussion about the benefits of automating changes to a QoS...
View ArticleVirtulization Alert Query
Hello, We have a couple of different departments that would be independently interested in SolarWinds alerts coming from certain machines. I would like the ability to send alerts to different email...
View ArticleFavorite Sketch Comedy show
There have been too many to list but what Sketch Comedy show do/did was MUST watch TV for you?
View ArticleNexus interface transmit discards
Orion NPM 10.3 is reporting transmit discards on a lightly used10G ethernet interface ~ 1 million/hr on a Nexus 5596 switch - System version: 5.2(1)N1(3).The discards are not continuous, rather they...
View ArticleAbility to add Groups of transactions when using Unmanage Schedule Utility
_Schedule_UtilityIt would be nice to have the ability to add groups of transactions when using the Unmanage Schedule Utility. We (will) have hundreds of transactions and it would help to be able to...
View ArticleNeed Report of Threshold Set for Volumes alerts
hi, i have Disk threshold Alerts configured for various machines.Like i have alert configured with name 2GB and lots of machines added in that alert, and when space occupied become less than 2 GB is...
View ArticleMissing data in Orion Database
Many Hyper-V Clusters exists in our environment. All Hyper-V nodes are imported into and displayed in for the Orion Console, and data is reflective of such when looking at the FROM Orion.VIM.Hosts...
View ArticleNetwork Topology Horror Stories
Rolling with the Halloween theme of spooks, ghosts, and skeletons in the closet; let’s have some fun and talk about Network Topology Horror Stories! I have had some interesting nightmares in my...
View ArticleLink on a Custom Query resource (SWQL) ?
IS there any way to add a clickable link on a custom resource like we can embed into reports?this is a major hurdle for me switching and adopting custom resources and swis more fully.
View Articlecritical IP SLA functionailty is missing
VNQM IP SLA functionality that is missing Can these ip SLA commands please be supported?ICMP path EchoICMP jitterICMP path jitterThey are very important for my networks. These are key health...
View ArticleNS Addresses do not match list from parent zone
I'm troubleshooting an issue with a site loading slow. I ran a DNS report at dnsstuff and received: NS addresses do not match list from parent zone. This should be addressed because queries for this...
View Articlemigrate broswer to modern methods
oole maps, html5ever visit google maps? see how easy it is to pan and zoom on the map. no annoying screen flashes like "the old days" in VNQM, i am very annoyed at how the screen keeps on being re...
View ArticleLoving Appsite for Exchange
I would like to say that the only problem with this new feature is that i will need to buy more licensing for SAM. Other than that it's a much need addition to SAM and hope for more to come.
View ArticleMultiple Users - How do we affect each other
Good day all. I just started working for a company that uses Solarwinds. I wanted to ask a question about what effect making changes on one user account has to other user accounts. We have our main...
View ArticleEnd User Monitoring
While we have deployed NPM and Netflow, I'm looking for a good end-user monitoring solution. Something that actively monitors the user's computer, processes, memory, bandwidth, performance, etc, etc....
View Articlelayered maps with live links and zoomable pages
a very useful feature would be layered charts, each of the layers should produce distinct layers with links to the layer below/abovein the main map , users should be able to drill down through layers...
View ArticleNetwork Discovery enhancements
I like the new discovery filtering but the enhancement IMO was implemented in the wrong place. The Network Sonar Result Wizard should be moved to the front-end when creating a new discovery rather than...
View ArticleEdit machine type in NCM node details
I ran network discovery on our IP range and it pulled all our devices. However, we have several Red Hat servers and NCM did not pull up the node name and machine type and listed it as "unknown". I...
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