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  • Virtualization Manager 5.0 Beta With Hyper-V Support–Sign up now

    As indicated in the “what we’re working on” post , we have been hard at work with Virtualization Manager to support Microsoft Hyper-V environments. This includes discovery of your Hyper-V hosts, performance monitoring, and many of the other features offered by Virtualization Manager. If you have Hyper-V in your environment and you would like to try the beta, please register here .
    Posted to Orion Product Team blog by jonathan.reeve on Wed, Feb 15 2012

  • Introducing Newest Free Tool–SolarWinds Event Log Consolidator

    I am pleased to announce the General Availability of our latest free tool, the SolarWinds Event Log Consolidator. This latest free tool allows folks to centralize Windows Event Logs from up to 5 servers into one centralized console instead of having to...
    Posted to Orion Product Team blog by bshopp on Wed, Feb 15 2012

  • Webinar - The Evolution of Application and Systems Management - Register Now

    Application and systems are changing at a break-neck pace. While the legacy management technologies are still valuable, there are entirely new ways to manage apps and systems as well. Join Brandon Shopp, Director Product Management to discuss The Evolution of Application and Systems Management .  We will cover: Top-to-Bottom Monitoring Understanding Application Components Machine Level Systems Monitoring Process and Service Monitoring End-to-End Monitoring Transaction Monitoring Leveraging new technologies to monitor global application monitoring Join us for this educational webcast and walk...
    Posted to Orion Product Team blog by bshopp on Tue, Feb 14 2012

  • Scripting Gurus, Lawyer Speak, a New Ambassador, and So Much More…

    Hey everyone, I hope you are looking forward to a productive week. I'm not going to wax poetic over Valentines or anything else this week. I just don't see the point. What I do want to point out is that we have a new badge and a new reason to...
    Posted to Community Vibe by MTorok on Mon, Feb 13 2012

  • Synthetic End User Monitor 1.5 – Ushering in a Cloud Revolution

    The recently released SeUM 1.5 is so chock-full of great new features that it would be nearly impossible to cover them all in a single blog posting. so over the course of the next few months I’ll be highlighting many of these new features in a series of blog postings. Today I’ll take you on a tour of SeUMs new Integrated Cloud Player Provisioning Portal One of the most common questions we receive when discussing SeUM with customers is, “Does SolarWinds offer a Software as-a Service (SaaS) solution for monitoring websites and internet accessible web apps”? Many of the customers...
    Posted to Orion Product Team blog by aLTeReGo on Sun, Feb 12 2012

  • SolarWinds NTA 3.9 Release Candidate is now available!

      We have officially reached Release Candidate (RC) status for NTA 3.9. RC is the last step before general availability and is a chance for existing customers to get the newest functionality before it is available to everyone else. NTA 3.9 includes...
    Posted to Orion Product Team blog by mavturner on Thu, Feb 9 2012

  • Introducing Server & Application Monitor 5.0 – Release Candidate Now Available

    Riding on the heels of todays announcement I’m excited to announce the Release Candidate availability of Server & Application Monitor v5.0. For those of you who may not as yet heard, Application Performance Monitor (APM) has been officially renamed Server & Application Monitor (SAM) to reflect new product features and enhancements centered around server health monitoring. SAM 5.0 retains all the great application performance and availability monitoring you already know and love but has now grown to include server hardware health and real-time performance monitoring. All existing APM...
    Posted to Orion Product Team blog by aLTeReGo on Wed, Feb 1 2012

  • Love notes and marketing...

    Initiatives for the community get me jazzed. Let me share a little eye-opener. I sent an automated email out to all the DameWare and DNSstuff users, after we purchased the companies. I'm not apologizing for inviting these folks to check out the community...
    Posted to Community Vibe by MTorok on Tue, Jan 31 2012

  • Want to see some cool charts?

    Alright, so NPM 10.2 has just gone out the door and our developers already have some fun stuff to play with! We have just created the first Beta for our next release of NPM. One of the biggest changes you will notice is the new shiny charts! I know you'll want to start using these in your production environment today, but remember that betas are specficially for testing in lab environments and not for using in production (they aren't supported). If you are an existing NPM customer and interested in taking the beta for a spin, fill out this survey and I'll send you the download information...
    Posted to Orion Product Team blog by mavturner on Mon, Jan 30 2012

  • Reporting in Virtualization Manager

    SolarWinds Virtualization Manager is a very rich reporting product, with a number of different styles of reports for getting information.  There’s more than one way to “skin a cat” as it were when it comes to reporting with Virtualization Manager...
    Posted to Orion Product Team blog by jonathan.reeve on Fri, Jan 27 2012

  • The Journey to the Cloud: Practical Steps and Recommendations for Cloud Adoption

    https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/933038544 DATE OF WEBCAST: Wednesday, January 18, 2012, 11:00 US CST TITLE: The Journey to the Cloud: Practical Steps and Recommendations for Cloud Adoption LENGTH: 60 minutes FORMAT: Webcast – slides and product demonstration. PRESENTER(s): Jonathan Reeve and Robbie Wright DESCRIPTION: Please join us for a FREE webinar with SolarWinds’ virtualization management experts, Jon Reeve and Robbie Wright who will be discussing “The Journey to the Cloud: Practical Steps and Recommendations for Cloud Adoption.” In this webinar, we will discuss...
    Posted to Orion Product Team blog by jonathan.reeve on Mon, Jan 16 2012

  • Ambassadors

    Hey everyone, I just wanted to take a brief moment and let you know that we are starting a new program here in the community. We are going to host revolving thwack Ambassadors. These folks are recognized industry minds in virtualization, application and...
    Posted to Community Vibe by MTorok on Sun, Jan 15 2012

  • IP Address Manager tips & tricks

    It's been a while since we talked about IPAM so I decided I show you some "backdoor" tips&tricks that can help you fix some minor issues you may run into when using IPAM. Customizable Payload for ICMP ping request (available in IPAM 2.0.1 and higher) You may run into a situation where the IPAM scanning seems to work fine and you can see the ICMP traffic but only some of the IP Addresses/devices are monitored in IPAM even if you are expecting that rest of the IP addresses are also in use. One of the frequent cases is typically caused by your firewall which filters ICMP packets...
    Posted to Orion Product Team blog by michal.hrncirik on Fri, Jan 13 2012
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  • NCM 7 Architecture and Deployment

    This blog is a sequel of the previous Orion Architecture blog and focuses on the recently released NCM 7 architecture and deployment. NCM 7 architecture is different from the previous versions, mostly because it leverages several components from Orion...
    Posted to Orion Product Team blog by fcaron on Fri, Jan 13 2012

  • Upcoming Geek Speak: Back to the Basics of Compliance Management

    You're Invited to a Free Webcast We're Taking You Back to the Basics of Compliance Management While almost every organization falls under some industry compliance standard, even if yours doesn't, you need to be concerned. In a recent survey, 90% of the respondents detected computer security breaches within the previous 12 months. Those that were willing or able to quantify their losses (44%) reported that figure exceeded $455 million dollars! Join Head Geek, Josh Stephens and Sales Engineer Rob Johnson as they discuss and demonstrate how SolarWinds' Log & Event Manager (LEM...
    Posted to Orion Product Team blog by mavturner on Wed, Jan 11 2012
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