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Orion Customer Training Part 2, Session
We had a lot of folks click through the last training announcement, so we thought we’d use the blog to make sure folks know about Part 2. If you missed Part 1, we recorded it, so watch whenever you have time. We’re going to do Part 2 on Thursday, August 19 at 11:00 A.M., CDT. Register Now. What are we going to cover? *…
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We Want Your Opinions: Managing Call Quality, Tracking Ports/Devices
As I mentioned in an earlier post, we’ve been thinking about new product areas, and we want your input. We have two surveys today. You can take both, one, or (obviously) neither. If you give us your contact info, we’ll follow up with some of you for in-person calls, which will earn you a SolarWinds shirt or other goodies.…
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What we're working on... the live edition: NCM Improved Policy Reports
You all are probably familiar with our What We're Working On posts... Well, we're going to expand on that from time to time and not only *tell* you what we're working on... we're actually going to *show* you. And in NCM-land - one thing we're working on is enhanced policy reports. I hope you'll take some time to check out…
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Sneak Peek at Orion IP SLA Manager 3.5
The next release of Orion IP SLA Manager is right around the corner. If your maintenance is current, you should already have the Release Candidate waiting for you in your SolarWinds customer portal. This release includes a couple of really cool features for which we’d love to hear your early feedback. First, we’ve added…
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Look Mom, I’m Virtual!
With Orion NPM 10.0 (currently in Release Candidate phase), we’ve extended NPM’s virtualization monitoring support to VMware ESXi and vSphere 4.0 (a.k.a., ESX 4.0). This is in addition to NPM’s existing support for VMware ESX 3.5. We’ve heard from a lot of customers that are excited that they’re now able to monitor their…
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Hidden Treasures: The Report Resource
When you first install Orion NPM, it includes a number of views accessible from the built-in menus, and each of these views includes a large number of resources. Our goal is to create an out-of-the-box experience that proves useful to most network engineers without requiring any customization. We know, however, that one…
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What's in Orion IPAM 1.7?
Orion IPAM 1.7 is right around the corner, which has a couple of really cool features we want to tell you about. First, as usual, you asked for it, so you shall receive: Cisco DHCP. Yes, now you can add Cisco DHCP servers and their corresponding scopes to IPAM. Let’s take a look. You’ll add a Cisco DHCP server in the same…
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When I Upgraded to NPM SP1 - IE 8 Started Complaining & How to Get Rid of Other IE 8 Errors
Here's the scenario: you use IE8 with https. You use NPM 10 and upgrade to SP1. Then, IE starts complaining in a message like the one below: We have heard reports that some customers are seeing this alert on every single page as they navigate through the Orion website. Ugh, we're sorry. So there's good news and bad news.…
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From EOC to Orion Server Non-Stop
Gaining Direct Access to the Orion Console from EOC without a Login Screen Orion Enterprise Operations Console provides a console for aggregating data from multiple Orion servers. For instance, an EOC Top 10 lists includes nodes from different Orion servers into a single list. When the user clicks on one of those nodes,…
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Announcing General Availability of Engineers Toolset 10.9
I am pleased to announce the General Availability of Engineers Toolset 10.9. LAUNCH PAD – THE NEXT GENERATION With this release, we have expanded on a concept we introduced a while back called the Launch Pad, but this one is on steroids. Some things you will notice right off the bat are a Google-like search to help guide…