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5% of time spent above 75% utilization on routers
Hello, One of our directors has asked if I can create a report that shows which sites spent more than 5% of their time above the 75% of their circuit utilization mark between 7am CST and 7pm CST M-F on...
View ArticleAdd SWIS features to IPAM
The ability to script create, read, update, delete items in Solarwinds to include kicking off discovery of subnets would be very benefitial...
View ArticleSetting up AD Group permissions
Hi All, We have an AD group for our Data Center that we want to give permissions to in Orion. I've gone in to 'Manage Accounts' and chose to create a new 'Windows Group Account'. I was able to search...
View ArticleNAT to Private Ranges Mapping
Hello, Currently we have two different ranges that handle our internal and external addresses. It would be nice if we could some way link a private address range to a public and vice versa rather than...
View ArticleAdminister NPM & SAM via Command Line
I am somewhat new to SolarWinds (1 year in November 2013) and I come from the treacherous land of Tivoli (ITM) and I am quickly becoming quite fond of SolarWinds, however one feature i miss about using...
View ArticleHTTP/HTTPS User Experience Monitor - REGEX Content Validation
SAM's HTTP/HTTPS User Experience Monitor content validation uses a simple string search mechanism. SAM searches for the existence of a user defined string value on a web page, or the absence of that...
View ArticleIP request form
It would be nice to have a link that I can give to my users/customers that would give them the possibility the fill a form to request an IP address. They would have the possibility to fill several...
View ArticleFeature Request: Scheduled Job Report save as other than HTML
When I run a report in the client, I get all sorts of export options - CSV, TXT, HTML, MHTML, XLS, PDF, or any number of image types. Even when I run a report in the web client, I get export options...
View ArticleHow do I disable my HTTPS monitor alert when a given Search String is found?
We have a need to mute component DOWN alerts for our HTTPS monitor when a particular search string is found. Basically, we put sites in MAINTENANCE mode from time to time, and since site outages...
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Are You an Early Bird or a Night Owl?
Identify your personality: Are You an Early Bird or a Night Owl?
View ArticleAsset Discovery Connections
I would like to see the Asset Discovery Connections, using the WHD discovery engine (WMI), have the option of scanning by windows AD names. Our current system that has been end of lifed,...
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thwack Monthly Mission - May 2014
Is this year going by fast or what? It feels like I was putting together the January mission just last week. We're already into May and if you're anything like me, you've been planning your summer...
View ArticleHow do you handle alerts?
In our environment, we tend to rarely if ever acknowledge alerts, and instead unmanage the offending object until it is fixed. Unfortunately, this skews downtime reports (admittedly in our favor, but...
View ArticleHow Much Time Do You Waste On Facebook?
... that's it... simple as that... just curious how much time IT geeks waste in social media nowadays
View ArticleMonitor Service Ports (Socket Checks)
Is there a way in NPM to monitor services on a node? We often need to check that a port on a remote host is accepting connections. We do this primarily with vendors that we have VPN connections too....
View ArticleWhat Are We Working on for NTM? in 2014
To receive updates on the NTM roadmap, JOIN thwack and BOOKMARK this page.While the release of NTM 2.0 was significant. We are now working on our next releases for the year 2014, which has been guided...
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NPM Alert Triggering
Hi All, I'm new to Solarwinds NPM, i was trying to create a trigger if a nodes is consider down after 3 polling time only start trigger emails. My setting of alert is as below but i not sure is this...
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Ending Support for SQL 2005- Thoughts?
With the end of Microsoft's extended support for SQL 2005 rapidly approaching (Microsoft Product Lifecycle Search) we are investigating the possibility of announcing a future end-of-support for SQL...
View ArticleHave Advanced Alert Manager use a custom schedule it pulls from a website
As a company that focuses on auctions, it would be great to have the ability for the Advanced Alert Manager pull the schedule for certain alerts from a website. Our auctions are not always on the same...
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