The most recent content from our members.
As of 2025.2, we can now create recurring maintenance schedules for our nodes and alerts on daily, weekly, or monthly frequencies and assign them accordingly. However, there is no easy way for a user to view which nodes have upcoming maintenance or even just the assigned schedule definition. Through my own efforts in SWQL,…
After much deliberation, we’re excited to announce that we’ve selected the next THWACK® MVPs to represent our 195k+ strong community. Spanning across the globe from many different backgrounds, these community users have set themselves apart as outstanding contributors in the day-to-day of THWACK. You’ve seen them in the…
Some wear lab coats. Some wear hoodies. A few might just become one with the command line. But each year, a select crew rises above the rest to earn the sacred badge of THWACK MVP: a title reserved for those who know their stuff and share it generously across the SolarWinds galaxy. Today, we’re rolling out the (digital)…
All, I have a need to generate a report that I'm fairly positive can't be accomplished in the current versions of NPM and SAM. If this can be done today, please offer up a solution...all ideas are good ideas. Report requirements: * shows the uptime of an element in time (hhmmss) and percentage (compared to 5 9s) * shows…
Please provide the option to switch the website into a "Dark Theme" Not only is this an often preferred experience for users, but it is a very standard practice in most NOC environments where the overhead lights are generally dim (think Mission Control) Ideas:
In the ever-evolving world of tech, everything changes. But one thing that will always remain the same is how much we value YOU, our users. We are a 200,000-strong community, and while we value all THWACKsters, some distinguish themselves time and time again. It is with great excitement and pride that we announce the…
Calendar’s for maintenance windows, SLA’s, and production monitoring windows I know this has been beatup before but I am attempting to introduce this at the product core level to be available to all components in order to increase product capacility, flexibility, and scalability. Many shops these days varied production…
Recently, a client of mine was upgrading their SolarWinds servers and they were still using the old Scheduled Unmanage utility. You remember the one, right? It produced XML files and .cmd files that were run via scheduled tasks. We wanted to move them to using the SDK and the Invoke-SwisVerb command that is part of the…
Any information on when the 2020 Thwack MVP roster will be released?
Back in April of 2015, NPM 11.5 was released and with it came a brand new Web-based Alert Engine in the Orion Platform. At the time, and ever since, one of the most valuable capabilities of this new engine was the ability to dynamically alert on multiple objects based on their own individually assigned thresholds. Setting…
It looks like you're new here. Sign in or register to get started.