Whose Fault Is It Anyway?
Hi there! I’m michael stump, a technology consultant with a keen focus on virtualization and a strong background in systems and application monitoring. I hope to spark some discussion this month on...
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Virtual Classroom Training Program for Current Customers - It's Here!
We heard you wanted more deep dive, technical training on your SolarWinds products, and we listened! We're pleased to announce the brand-spanking new Customer Training Program for current (in...
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look below for an early look at new content hovers!
Across SolarWinds products, hovers are used to get high-level feedback about a node, application, component monitor, etc. without having to click into a details page. It’s been a while since the User...
View Article[VIDEO] Getting Started With NPM and SAM
This video will show you the basics of monitoring technologies using SolarWinds NPM and SAM.
View ArticleThe network is fine.. or is it?
It's amazing,I used to think, my network was running pretty well, a few hiccups now and then, but by and large, I got by and thought everything was business as usual, the boss would ask me: "Craig how...
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UDP Alarm on two values in table result
I'm needing a little help alarming on a UDP. I've got a OID that returns a table of data. I need to be able to alarm on value #6 and #7 when the fall below a certain value (say -45000). How can I pick...
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Spring Cleaning: Unnecessary Custom Pollers
Today's event started innocently enough with a poller server requiring a restart. This is not unusual. My inherited environment is missing a lot of care a feeding and the best place to start is in...
View ArticleNETCONF support in UDT (disable port)
Some devices (Juniper in my case) only support configuration from the commandline, or NETCONF, and not SNMP I'd like port disable to work on junipers, so the only NETCONF support I'm really looking for...
View ArticleUDT Hostnames and IP Address stopped working
Good Day All, My situation is a bit different to the usual IP address and hostnames not displaying. I had UDT working properly, hostnames, IP addresses, MAC addresses and VLANs were displayed. Several...
View ArticleWebinar: IO, IO! Why is my SQL so slow?
Disk I/O can be a significant performance bottleneck for SQL Server. And when physical I/O is the suspected culprit, the first thought is to purchase more storage. But expensive hardware upgrades don’t...
View ArticleUnManage Component Monitors within an Assigned Application Template
Sometimes it's necessary to unmanage an individual component within an Application Template but it's not desirable to unmanage the entire application template because you lose visibility into the...
View ArticleIP Address & Hostname is not showing in UDT
The IP Address & Hostname are not showing in the UDT V 3.0 from Core switch (Cisco Model : WS-6509-V-E, IOS Version: V12.2(50r) Sys3). Please help me to figure out the issue. Thanks in advance.
View ArticleCan Patch Manager create a software inventory of the supported computers?
I want to get a list of software that computers on our network are using. Can I use Patch Mgr to do that? Also can we use Patch Mgr to prevent users from installing software that is not on a safe...
View ArticleCTRL-ALT-DELETE doesn't work when I'm attached to a client's machine
When I'm using Dameware V10 to remote into a client's machine, it always starts with the following message "Configuring the remote system for first time use. This may take as much as two minutes....
View ArticleLimit "Top XX" Resources Specific Interface or Interfaces
I would like the ability to apply a limitation to any NTA Top XX resource. The specific use case I have is so that I can use the top XX Applications resource on on my Overall SolarWinds Summary page....
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Custom monitor
Is the custom monitor implemented yet? I'm not able to browse to the directory I would like to monitor, or they don't appear in the window. This is what shows in the log: (Sat Apr 05 09:47:59 PDT...
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Problem connecting agent to Beta8.0
I have the Beta 8.0 appliance up and running and I have another Windows system on the same network where I have installed an agent but it isn't showing up in the appliance. In the spoplog I see the...
View ArticleAlert based on group and node?
Hi there, I am trying to create a new alert which i think should be pretty straight forward, and maybe i am being slightly dumb! I have a group, which contains 8 servers, all running IIS. These web...
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thwack Monthly Mission - April 2014
First off, I'd like to thank April Fools for happening when it did. As you'll notice in the comments, we had a bit of a hang up getting this mission ready to go on the 1st of the month like normal....
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