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THWACK January Mission – Status Report
As we ignite the engines for a new year of exploration, we’re taking a strategic pause to ensure our trajectory is perfect. While our standard mission modules are being recalibrated for the next stage of our journey, we’re handing the controls over to you. Before we launch our full 2026 mission schedule, we need a Status…
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Happy Holidays from Your THWACK Community!
Can you believe we are at the finish line of 2025? It feels like just yesterday we were ringing in the New Year, and now here we are, looking back at a year that was quite literally transformative. Before we all head off to enjoy some well-deserved downtime, we wanted to take a moment to celebrate the wins, the laughs, and…
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Meet the AI Agent in SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted 2026.1 (Preview)
If you live in dashboards all day, you know the feeling: there’s a question in your head but getting to the answer means clicking through five views, wrangling filters, or building a report. The SolarWinds AI Agent (Preview) in SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted is here to make that a little easier. It lets you ask…
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36. Top 5 Hacker Movies
Garrett Gross and I rank the top 5 best hacker movies of all time. There can be only one! https://youtu.be/n9cHy3NkcPU
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Smarter, Faster, Secure: The 2025 SolarWinds Service Desk Feature Release Roundup
As we close out the year, we wanted to take a minute and look back at what has been a great year of progress for SolarWinds® Service Desk. If we had to summarize 2025 in two themes, they would be: driving operational efficiency and making AI actually useful for IT pros. From the expansion of SolarWinds AI to the UI…
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Welcome to the Kiwi Syslog Server New Generation Forum
Welcome you to the new forum for SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server NG. Kiwi Syslog Server NG is a new generation of the product based on different (.NET) technology, equipped with a completely new UI, improved performance and security. This is the space where you can ask any and all questions about the new generation. If you…
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Recollections From Microsoft Ignite 2025
As we wrap up the IT event season, I thought I’d take a moment to reflect on my first time attending Microsoft Ignite. Where should I begin? First, thank you to everyone who stopped by our booth, asked questions, received a demo, or simply chatted with us. We had a great crew at the booth, balancing each other’s skill…
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Holiday Tech Survival Kit — SolarWinds TechPod 104
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywc3C8FFyv4 Get ready for a festive, tech-filled ride! 🎄✨In this special holiday episode of SolarWinds TechPod, hosts Sean Sebring and Chrystal Taylor are joined by Movies and Mainframes host Andy Garibay to unpack the perfect Holiday Tech Survival Kit — from must-have travel gadgets to…
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SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted and modules — Release Candidate Version 2026.1 is Now Available
We’re excited to announce a release candidate (RC) for version 2026.1 of the SolarWinds® Platform, SolarWinds® Observability Self-Hosted, and the Network and Systems modules. Version 2026.1 RC is now available for all customers under maintenance, so log in to your customer portal to download it. Want to see everything new?…
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35. Ben Mangrum - The Comedy of Computation
https://youtu.be/L2XoB6ybwXo Movies and Mainframes talks with associate professor of literature at MIT, Ben Mangrum, about his new book, The Comedy of Computation Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Obsolescence. You can find out more about The Comedy of Computation here:…
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ESM - Site name on page
Would like to see site name appear on the page so we don't have to click on "Switch provider" every time to see if you are in the correct site (example: Facilities, IT and etc.).
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Adding Custom property automatically when node added to group
In SolarWinds I have create a custom property for address, latitude and longitude, How do I add the custom property for latitude, longitude and address to a group In solarwinds so that it automatically populates those values when you add a node to the group.
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Account Limitations in Modern Dashboards
Hi folks, Version 2024.3, update to 2025.2 pending. Our users are split into two teams with each team being able to see just their own nodes based on a custom property account limitation. This works well in all respects and appears to be applied on modern dashboards APART FROM the Security → Vulnerability and Risk…
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Orion Intelligent map is not showing the automatic connections
Hello All, We are trying to create intelligent maps for all the sites in our environment. While creating we were able to see automatic connections for some switches and firewalls and for some, the connections are not even showing up. We have tried raising the case with Solarwinds but everytime we get different answers.…
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What SWQL table is the Maintenance mode "Reason" saved?
I just noticed where I can fill in a "Reason" field for when putting a node Maintenance mode to mute alerts or stop managing the node. I'd like to include that field value in some of my custom SWQL queries. Where is it exposed via SWQL so I can find it using SWQL Studio?
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Why do I need udp/161 service to be running on the SolarWinds NPM/NTA server?
I had an argument with SolarWinds TAC support, and I am hoping experts in this forum can clarify it for me. Scenario: I installed SolarWinds Orion Network Performing Monitor (NPM) & NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) on a Windows 2022 server, and I am going through the documentation on the port(s) requirements to be allowed on…
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Additional Contact Category (Not-CC)
When a ticket requires a 3rd party to interact with the ticket for purposes of dealing with their input, or getting them to action a specific element of a ticket, right now, the only method is to mark the ticket visible to client, then uncheck the client from the recipients selection, and then check the CC field and add…
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Default Tax Value for Autopopulate
It would be valuable to have a pre-populatable tax field where the default tax rate is automatically calculated for POs. Having the tax rate as a field in the Options»Assets section would make this useful.
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Monitoring Synology NAS Disk Status
Has anyone found a way to monitor the disk status of a Synology NAS? SNMP seems to only report on volume utilization. I've had a couple NAS devices have failed drives that are not picked up by SolarWinds. Any advice on this?
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Assistance Required for Configuring Network Alert
Hi , Could anyone please advise on how to configure the below-mentioned alert for the network? Port Flapping High Interface Utilization Interface Errors Power Supply Failure STP Root Change Power Over Ethernet (PoE) Overload LACP Link Aggregation Failure NTP Sync Failure DNS Resolution Failure Port Loop detected SNMP…