NPM 10.7 RC1 Now Available
It is our pleasure to announce NPM 10.7 has reached Release Candidate status. Since just recently announcing the 10.6 release, the SolarWinds development team has been hard at work delivering great new...
View ArticleFEATURE REQUEST - Remove passwords from NCM log files
We were asked recently to enable the check mark in the NCM Settings -> Advanced Settings -> Enable Session Tracing. When I was preparing the files for despatch to SolarWinds I found that the NCM...
View ArticleWould like to see more options to chart SLA operations
Currently, if you want to use the charts that are available for switches or interfaces applied to the actual SLA operation the system wants to default to the SLA switch object instead. Our management...
View ArticleDoes my cisco switch support NetFlow ?
Hello Dears i want a help in configuring my switch to able to use the netflow analyzer I have a cisco 4510R switch which supports by Cisco's documenation the NetFlow, but when i tried enabling the...
View ArticleHelpdesk War Story
Since the HelpDesk is the front line to the user community, they get to deal with a lot of people who are not very technical. We have all heard the stories about users using the CDROM tray as a cup...
View ArticleDrag and Drop Dependency Mapping
Like many others the need for proper event management and root cause analysis can be mitigated using groups and dependency correctlyHowever creating embedded groups nested within groups across multiple...
View Articlethe server disk monitors problems
Hi All I have monitor problems for server disks .The disk monitors stopped at 1/14 and then the servers admin told me the monitors didn't worked. I re-added these servers disks from SAM node resource...
View ArticleWinning The Loser's Game of Information Security
"In a winner's game, the outcome is determined by the correct actions of the winner. In a loser's game, the outcome is determined by mistakes made by the loser". -- Charles D. Ellis In 2013, New York...
View ArticleSLX Version
Team, Need suggestion on the licensing part for NPM.I have a campus network with almost 2300 Alcatel 48 port Switches (Edge) and some 40 Cisco 6500 Chassis. ( DS, Core, Border, Server farm)Thus if i...
View ArticleSilence Alerts While Still Monitoring
Posting this in NPM but the same would go for SAM applications. There should be a way from the web UI to put an element in a "maintenance mode" in which the node is monitored but no alerts would go...
View ArticleGranular Node Management Rights.
There needs to be a simple way to assign users specific node management rights. For example, i have a group of users that i only want to be able to unmanage nodes, nothing more. There may be...
View ArticleDRS Remote Service Install Schedule
I know I am able to use DRS to install the DWRCS service on remote computers in a batch job, however is there any way that this job can be scheduled to periodically install the service on all computers...
View ArticleSolarWinds to Service-Now Integration
SolarWinds & Service-Now=====================We’re trying to do the following (option 1 is our preferred while option 2 is a fallback):1)A) SolarWinds generates alertB) SolarWinds uses a...
View ArticleAbility to set custom views by device type *and* user...
Along with granular node management rights: http://thwack.solarwinds.com/ideas/1246, I am suggesting that it's absolutely *critical* to be able to set custom views and product pages for a user, that...
View ArticleNPM 10.7 RC1 Now Available
It is our pleasure to announce NPM 10.7 has reached Release Candidate status. Since just recently announcing the 10.6 release, the SolarWinds development team has been hard at work delivering great new...
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