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One of the benefits of Hybrid Cloud Observability was the ability to deploy it in a high availability environment with more flexibility. They won’t go through massive procurement and change management processes to allow them to determine the architecture and functionality. The maturity of the deployment now keeps up with…
If you are one of the ones that is using the WorldWide map feature in SolarWinds, I’m sure it feels bittersweet for you. Sweet because it is a cool feature that allows you to see geographically where your devices are, but also bitter because it is not so easy to place the devices in the map, and it is still a manual…
It is not a secret that SNMP is a little bit of a mess when we need to know whether a device is compatible with a particular OID. The only way to be sure about it is by testing the OID against the device, and the result of this test will depend on several variables such as device model, firmware version, firmware package…
Last week my good friend Dan asked me if he could get a report in SolarWinds that displays the last time the Windows servers were patched, and, if possible, which the patches were deployed at that time. Now I must point out that Dan does not have the SolarWinds Patch Manager solution, which provides this information…
When we think about the main features that SolarWinds users get with their Orion platform, capacity planning is not one of the first of the features that come up to mind, however, I personally consider capacity planning one of the best features available in SolarWinds. SolarWinds Orion comes with out-of-the-box resources…
Continuing our series of Capacity Planning blog bites started with the previous blog ‘Port Capacity Planning Report’, today I wanted to talk about the builtin Capacity Forecast feature. Capacity Forecast is one of the features available in the SolarWinds Orion platform, that allows you to monitor the trends of some of the…
Do you guys remember the movie Minority Report? In this movie, there are three psychics called precogs that are part of “Precrime”, a specialist police department that could apprehend criminals based on foreknowledge provided by the precogs. I have to admit that I like the movie because it makes me think whether this is…
SAM has had a default alert for high CPU load which will collect details from a server showing the top 10 processes by CPU utilisation. Therefore, when a high CPU load is detected by Orion an action within the alert will collect this information and then allow this to be displayed in the alert action output i.e. email.…
This template calculates the number of established connections on a server from a specific IP address and port. This will automate the process of checking if there is an establised connection from a specific IP address and port on the selected server. Modifying the thresholds, this template can also be useful when checking…
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