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THWACK Monthly Mission - January 2018

wabbott

Zoinks! Someone is using up all the bandwidth and causing major slowdowns throughout the whole organization. For this mission, we’re going to need to hop into the whodunit wagon and use Network Performance Monitor (NPM), Network Traffic Analyzer (NTA), and User Device Tracker (UDT) to unmask the inconsiderate bandwidth hog. NPM and NTA combine to form Bandwidth Analyzer Pack, which can detect, diagnose, and resolve network performance issues. UDT allows you to locate users and devices on your network. This groovy trio of network tools will make it easier than ever to stop bandwidth hogs in their tracks.

And they would have gotten away with it, if it weren’t for you meddling THWACKsters!

JANUARY 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: Nest Cam Indoor Security Camera

PRIZES

Weekly Prizes & Drawing Dates:

January 15: Phillips Smart Bulb Kit

January 22: CORSAIR Gaming Keyboard & Mouse

January 29: Hyper X Gaming Head Set

February 5: Action Back Pack for GoPro

Grand Prize

February 5: Nest Cam Indoor Security Camera

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 LEGO Scooby-Doo the Mystery Machine Building Kit!

The shortcut is simple:

1. Download Bandwidth Analyzer Pack.
2. Take a screenshot of the Application Summary Page. (My dashboards> Netflow> Apps)
3. Submit your screenshot below.

*Bonus round* Earn up to an additional 500 THWACK points for screenshots showing all UDT Nodes - Submit bonus screenshots here

MISSION RULES

A new question will open every day (Monday - Friday) starting on January 8, 2018. Once a question has opened, it will remain open until February 4, 2018 at 11:59 p.m. CST. Check the schedule below for exact open/close times.

Weekly Prizes	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Winners
Week 1: Complete questions 1-5 by January 14 to be entered to win: Phillips Smart Bulb Kit
Week 2: Complete questions 6-10 by January 21 to be entered to win: CORSAIR Gaming Keyboard & Mouse
Week 3: Complete questions 11-15 by January 28 to be entered to win: Hyper X Gaming Head Set
Week 4: Complete questions 16-20 by February 4 to be entered to win: Action Back Pack for GoPro
Correctly answer all 20 questions by February 4 and get entered to win the Grand Prize! Nest Cam Indoor Security Camera

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

mcam

at least the super nice installer makes that dramatically simpler than before

viguy

Who would have thought January would have been a green month in the Great White North...

Bonus points to be awarded after January 7th? 2019? It's ok I found myself signing the date as Feb 1 2008 What the heck?

jokerfest

Congrats! That was a great day here, we went all the way up to SQL 2016

Jfrazier

Yep...it's the bandwidth hog pushing back the award date due to poor throughput.

tinmann0715

ARGH! For the 5th straight month I got the last question of the month WRONG!

brett.holzhauer

fixed!

superfly

I did this a few months ago but I went from 11.0.1 Was a long process to get to 12.1 but got there in the end.

nickzourdos

That terrible, terrible sinking feeling when you miss the last week of questions because you were traveling... curses!

ecklerwr1

It was long alright... it took 44 hours to complete the upgrades. It took 11 hours alone to copy the netflow data from old to new noSQL server.

tallyrich

I was out of town on Friday and almost missed out. I've done that in the past and it feels awful. (One time I logged in from my phone - it was painful, but I didn't miss the questions or points - and of course that feeling of accomplishment when you finish the entire mission)

viper0404

Noooooooo!

I was away last week and just logged in

Gutted!

zennifer

Bummer!!!! I hate it when that happens, absolutely hate it!!!! Get to cracking today!!!

tallyrich

Congrats kip1979 and mattpearce

gundamunit1

Congrats to the winners.

wfordham

When should we expect to see the Thwack points for the mission shortcut?

brett.holzhauer

I will have that done by tomorrow!

donrobert5

Wild

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