We are just one week away from the vSWUG on Tuesday, November 10! To help you get ready, here is a quick first look at an exciting session from SolarWinds MVP Cedric Reed (@ @cereed). It will take place right after the Avior roundtable.
If your team still spends time building reports by copying and pasting data, cleaning up CSVs, and gathering screenshots, this session is for you. Cedric will show how to use SWIS, SWQL, PowerShell, and the API to turn SolarWinds data into repeatable workflows. The goal is simple: make the report a natural product of your work, not extra manual effort.
What Cedric Will Cover
- Alert History Patterns: Pull recurring alert patterns to help you tune, route, or suppress alerts with confidence.
- Clear Ownership: Use custom properties that answer “who owns this, and what happens next?”
- Exception Queues: Turn NCM config-transfer failures into a classified, retestable exception queue.
- Actionable Plans: Follow a read-only-first safety model and a practical one-week buildout plan to take home.
An Interactive Session
This session will be interactive. Attendees get to pick which workflow Cedric opens first, so come ready with the reporting problem that costs your team the most time.
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Over to You
Where does manual work pile up the most for your team? Is it report building, alert noise, tracking ownership, or handling config exceptions? Let us know in the comments below!
