THWACK Monthly Mission - July 2018

Your mission: achieve the highest levels of performance for your systems (and make sure your SysAdmin is celebrated this SysAdmin Day).

THWACKsters, before we can launch this mission, we need to go through a launch status check. We’ve never lost a THWACKster on a mission, and we’re sure not going to lose one on my watch! Failure is not an option.

When I call out the system you give me a go/no go, got it?

Applications? Go! Everything has been checked with cross-stack data correlation.

Servers? Go! We’re seeing all green on our AppStack Dashboard!

Virtual machines? Go! VMAN shows that we resolved the sprawl issues we were seeing during testing.

Storage? Go! Storage Resource Monitor shows we have plenty of capacity for this mission.

All systems go!

Catch you on the flip side.

JULY MONTHLY MISSION

Use the mission’s resources to complete the tasks and answer the questions for a chance to win!

Correctly answer each question during the week and you'll be entered for a chance to win the weekly prize.

Correctly answer all 20 questions over the course of the month and you'll be entered for a chance to win the grand prize:

Want to join the mission, but not a member? Sign up FREE now!

PRIZES

Weekly Prizes & Drawing Dates:

July 9: Beats Solo3 Wireless Headphones

July 16: Vankyo LEISURE 3 LED Portable Projector

July 23: Ultimate Ears MEGABOOM Charcoal Wireless Mobile Bluetooth Speaker

July 30: 6 month gaming loot crate subscription

Grand Prize

July 30: sysadMANIA, SolarWinds' Original Board Game!

150 points are being awarded for each correctly answered question. There are 20 questions, which means you can earn a maximum of 3,000 points for this mission.

MISSION SHORTCUT

Complete the mission shortcut to earn an additional 1,000 THWACK

points & enter to win a sysadMANIA Board Game!

The shortcut is simple:

Download Server & Application Monitor
Take a screenshot of the Orion Maps feature showing 2+ nodes mapped with ADM data (example)
Submit your screenshot below

MISSION RULES

A new question will open every day (Monday - Friday) starting on July 2, 2018. Once a question has opened, it will remain open until July 29, 2018 at 11:59 p.m. CDT. Check the schedule below for exact open/close times.

Weekly Prizes	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Winners
Week 1: Complete questions 1-5 by July 8 to be entered to win: Beats Solo3 Wireless Headphones
Week 2: Complete questions 6-10 by July 15 to be entered to win: Vankyo LEISURE 3 LED Portable Projector
Week 3: Complete questions 11-15 by July 22 to be entered to win: Ultimate Ears MEGABOOM Charcoal Wireless Mobile Bluetooth Speaker
Week 4: Complete questions 16-20 by July 29 to be entered to win: 6 month gaming loot crate subscription
Correctly answer all 20 questions by July 29 and get entered to win the Grand Prize! A sysadMANIA Board Game!

Monthly Mission Terms and Conditions: US, UK, and Canada | Germany | Australia

Mission Shortcut Terms and Conditions: US, UK, and Canada | Germany | Australia

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Comments

tinmann0715

FIRST!!

hansons

And it's go time again ! great run of prizes to

poekbradley

Probably some of the best prizes to date. Looking forward to this mission. A Fire Stick compatible projector would be sweet.

asheppard970

Two songs came to mind with this month's mission:

David Bowie – Space Oddity - YouTube

And...

Def Leppard - Rocket - YouTube

We are GO for TLI!!!

mcam

Awesome prizes this month as well - maybe I won't have to keep saving for those Beats headphones......

lag

Some really great prizes this month! Daddy needs a new pair of HEADPHONES!

viper0404

Some cool prizes this month, would love to win the headphones for my son, the bluetooth speaker for my wife and the loot crate subscription for me

Not too much to ask for is it???

Good luck everyone

rschroeder

I'm interested in the prizes, but more so in the actual challenges. Hopefully we'll be forced to learn & think & use the demo environment (instead of simply clicking a link & hitting Ctrl+F to search for a term).

wabbott

Don't you worry! There are plenty of demo based questions coming up.

tk1271

Stoked for a new mission! Happy July everybody!

shawndiaz

This is a great month! Not only is my birthday during this month, but I have found the perfect beverage to have at my party! Why does this NOT exist in the Thwack store yet?

ecklerwr1

That looks like a good Sour DIPA there!

phil0569

I tried to download and install the server and application monitor software but was unable to install it. We use '_' characters in most of our computer names and the software can't cope with it. I get the following error. I cant realy rename all of our machines to suit the software. IS there any way around this?

stevenastem

For our DoD friends:

ecklerwr1

Ask and ye' shall receive!

vcaldwell

The Beasts headphones are the item I'm saving points for also. I have less that 5000 pints to go, I should be there by the middle of next month if the "creek don't rise".

network_defender

Thank you! I thought I was going to have to wait until I got home to answer this.

stevenastem

Happy to help. Just nice I happened to remember ... although I'm sure someone else would have got it if I forgot.

betafish

phil0569 I'm pretty sure the answer officially is no (see solarwinds installer has detected invalid characters.) But this work-around might work?

You'll have better luck getting answers if you post in the SAM forum.

zhymmer

This month looks really nice

cisherwood

What is an Exhcange? Trying to pronounce but a mist is forming on my monitor

phil0569

I think Question 3 this week is wrong. I looked at the demo and selected all of the ports for Microsoft.Exchange.Store.Worker.exe and it told me I was wrong. Trying not to give too much away but I selected 3 ports, the other two were not for that process name. Very Very Very Strange.

nml_shft

Seems to be an issue with Q3 - selected Ports as per demo and got a wrong???

hansons

think you selected one to many ?

phil0569

I think your right, the name of the process is slightly different is it not. Oooopppppsss my mistake.

hansons

unfortunately so ... I almost did the same thing, more coffee required I think

uniswtc

I also have selected the 3 ports for the exe mentioned in the question and it was marked as wrong. Seems the answers provided by us considering as wrong. Please consider or reset my question. Thank you.

dodo123

Read the question carefully, then read the options you got the answer wrong

but reading the comments made me slightly cautious before clicking the button

-_-

if you selected 3 ports for your answer, you are wrong.

please have closer attention to detail next time.

-_-

there seems to be no problem with the question.