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Re: How can I get the complete disk size of a VM on Hyper-V that has checkpoints/snapshots?
What you are seeing is a known behavior in **SolarWinds Virtualization Manager / VMAN polling of **Microsoft Hyper-V environments. When checkpoints exist, the standard VM disk fields often return the…1 -
Re: Tired of the SQL tuning race? Let’s talk query optimization on March 10.
Thanks Tom, never heard of SolarWinds Plan Explorer before so I have learnt something new already!1 -
Re: How to get the latest ticket created by a user using the Ticket endpoint
(assuming API auth via API key or basic auth; adjust headers as needed): $baseUrl = "https://your-whd-server:port/helpdesk/WebObjects/Helpdesk.woa/ra/Tickets.json" $apiKey = "YOUR_API_…1 -
Re: How to get the latest ticket created by a user using the Ticket endpoint
The SolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD) REST API is notoriously under-documented for advanced querying, and sorting is one of the pain points many users hit (including in THWACK threads from 2025 with the…1 -
Finding unmanage reason
Orion 2026.1 now features a dialog to provide a reason when unmanaging nodes: After a little exploration, I created this SWQL for use in a widget that shows when nodes were unmanaged with the name, I…1 -
Re: How to remove runbook via automation
Hi @BarnDarn This request makes perfect sense and something we will look to adding in the future when we continue our work on expanding our automation functionality. Speaking of expanding our automat…1 -
Re: Cannot Update MIBs on 2025.2.1
Can be that the mib db file is locked by other applications. Check this article: MIBs database installer fails to complete successfully in SolarWinds Platform 2025.2, 2025.4 and 2026.12 -
Re: THWACK January Mission – Status Report
As long as we keep getting 3K points per month, I say it works for me for now.3 -
Re: Azure Licensing Question
Yes — your initial thinking is correct. Adding one Azure cloud account in SolarWinds (Settings → All Settings → Manage Cloud Accounts) consumes zero SAM node licenses and gives you monitoring of all …1 -
Re: Service account permission required for the SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA)
That's great, thank you, @naveensingh43 for the clarification.1





