Hello! We were contacted by our network team regarding ping sweeps they were seeing on their logs. After digging into this. We found that this article described the problem and resolution.
https://support.solarwinds.com/SuccessCenter/s/article/Totally-Disable-Subnet-scanning-on-IPAM?language=en_US
Requesting SW's developers seriously take a look at allowing this option to be done within the GUI/UI, instead of using a query on the SW's DB.
