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Hey Chart, get in my Report! (Part 2)
I’ve gotten a lot of requests for part 2 of my original post, so this follow-up is certainly long past due. Just as a recap for new readers, we were discussing two highly-requested use-cases: * Getting the pretty charts in the Orion website into a report that you can send to your boss on a regular basis * Getting the…
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Solarwinds Application Performance Monitor - What We're Working On
Several weeks ago I posted here with a list of some of things we’re working for APM. I’d like to provide a little more detail on some of these features because we’re working on some pretty cool stuff! Java Monitoring * For those of you interested in JMX, this is your huckleberry. APM will support JMX, and we plan on giving…
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Hey Chart, get in my Report! (Part 1)
That was an old Austin Powers reference for those who missed it ;-) So, what do I mean by this? Well, a question we get asked all the time by customers is “How do I get the pretty charts I see on my Orion website into a report that I can send to my boss on a regular basis to make him/her happy?”. Seems like a reasonable…
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It's Showtime! Orion NPM 10.1 is officially GA!
Technorati Tags: SolarWinds,SolarWinds Orion NPM,SolarWinds Orion,10.1,Cisco,Active Directory,UCS,Meru It’s been a long time coming (for us and well as you), but it’s finally here! Orion NPM 10.1 is officially GA! Hats off to all the customers who participated in the prototype reviews, betas, and release candidates. We…
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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. We will cover the primary types of reports, as well as scheduling of those…
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Using Virtualization Manager to Manage and Optimize your environment
Using Virtualization Manager to Manage and Optimize your environmentPresented: November 3, 2011 Virtual environments are complex, dynamic and built upon shared pools of resources, creating new challenges that leave traditional management methods and tools in the dust. Virtualization Manager addresses these challenges with…
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Customer Training: NPM Level 2 - Reporting
Description: If you are new to SolarWinds or just wondering if you are getting all you can out of the Orion Reporting Engine, join Andy McBride and Ashley Harmon for this level 2 training where we will focus on:* How to make the most of out-of-the-box reports. * Building a new report. * Report distribution options. * An…
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Server Change Auditing
Here in the SolarWinds labs, we’ve been thinking about new product areas. We are already building new products and plan to build even more. As part of that larger effort, we’re trying to get some input from Orion customers about existing IT Management problems. One of the areas we’re considering is server change…
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Need to enable SNMP on a bunch of machines? We have a great, *free* tool for you!
Last week, SolarWinds launched another great free tool: SNMP Enabler for Windows. If you haven't gotten a chance to check it out, you can read about it, watch a video to see it in action, and download it here. Here is a short overview of what the tool does: * Remotely install, enable, and configure SNMP on any Windows…
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A Closer Look At “Time Travel”
One of the exciting new features of the recent 4.0 release of Virtualization Manager is “Time Travel”. The goal of Time Travel is to allow administrators to understand how the virtual environment configuration, relationships and performance has changed over time. The reality of virtual environments is that they are dynamic…