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First, thanks for indulging the clickbait title joke. Serialization is the unsung hero of harmonizing network and application relations and deserves the occasional, snarky callout. Moreover, identifying how the unique mix of network clients in your environment consume your carefully manicured infrastructure is critical for…
As an IT pro, you are your most valuable asset. Obviously, if you aren’t taking care of yourself, how can you be expected to perform with typical sustained, easy awesomeness? Are you able to extricate your IT self from the myriad reactive activities central to IT roles? It’s easy to proclaim taking care of yourself should…
Developers are the kingmakers. Millions of decisions made by tens of thousands of developers are ultimately responsible for the triumph or tragedy of IT. Developers for commercial vendors, open-source projects, cloud and software as a service (SaaS) solutions, managed service providers (MSPs), and internal teams make most…
If you’re a SolarWinds customer, there’s a good chance you’ve seen a video of a Head Geek, passionately urging you to upgrade to the latest and greatest version Right Now. And that Head Geek is likely me. If the speaker has TV anchor hair and boundless upgrade enthusiasm, it’s almost certainly me. In dozens of videos,…
Have you registered for THWACKcamp 2018? What are you waiting for? This year’s event offers multiple sessions from both industry experts and SolarWinds Head Geeks on topics important to you, including mapping, logging, security, and more. I’ll be joining SolarWinds director of engineering Dan Kuebrich in a session titled…
My company is looking into doing a better job at parts inventory, asset, and contract management, and since we are already using WHD for support, we want to keep everything centralized. Since I've been the lead (and pretty much only) WHD admin, I've been tasked with figuring out the best way(s) to do this. I'm new to this…
The other day, as is often the case when an engineer is deep in a troubleshooting task that requires a restart if interrupted, I got a request for advice. “Hey, if you have a second I wanted to ask a question about standardizing DevOps tools. Should my friend use Chef, Puppet, or something else to get DevOps going?” He…
Description This procedure will return the top index advice for the number of days back specified. It ranks the list by the amount of wait time saved. See comments inside the procedure for more details on the parameters and methods for calling. Install the stored procedure into the Ignite repository database. Stored…
I’ve come to a crossroads. Regular SolarWinds Lab viewers and new THWACKcamp attendees might have noticed my fondness for all things programmable. I can’t help smiling when I talk about it; I came to enterprise IT after a decade as a developer. But if you run across my spoor outside of SolarWinds, you may notice a…
So, We're finally planning on buying NTM and i'm a bit torn on how I should deploy it. I've looked around and saw a lot of people would install it on one of the servers and use it on that. Would it be better to just install it on the server and remote in and use it when we need to, or install it on a workstation and just…
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