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As network environments become more complex, the "wait and see" approach to troubleshooting is no longer viable. The Engineer's Toolset (ETS) has always been a staple for manual diagnostics, but the industry is shifting towards proactive, autonomous management. In my recent workflows, I’ve been exploring how we can bridge…
Hi, I'm new to windows DC server environment. I don't know how to setup read/write access. In Active Directory Users and Computers, it has builtin folder, that's where I add domain service account as a member in the security groups (e.g. event log readers, performance log users and etc), but I don't see how I setup…
We poll Drac (DELL) & ILO (HPE) along the OS ( Linux, Windows or VMware) of the server hosted on the box. These come out as two separate nodes in Orion. I would looooove to have a way to gather all metrics in one single view, by either combining data from the two "nodes", or by having a "virtual node" concept where It…
Hey all, I wanted to raise a feature request around reporting and forecasting. SolarWinds does a strong job of collecting and presenting current-state monitoring data, but I think there is a gap around native risk, forecasting, and runway reporting for capacity-driven platforms. At the moment, if you want to build a useful…
Hey all, it has been a while since I last posted here, but I wanted to raise a feature request. I’d really like to see a built-in posture / observability summary for node details pages. SolarWinds already has the underlying telemetry, but there is no native summary layer that brings key signals together into a clear…
Hey Everyone, I am looking for the list of nodes or interfaces or volumes that are suppressed or unmanaged. In the latest v2026.1 SolarWinds has introduced an option of recurring maintenance windows. So I would like to see the list all the entities that are enabled for maintenance (Recurring or one-time) both. Can anyone…
Hi Anyone have ideas, share thoughts for SolarWinds hardware specification dashboard
Problem Statement (using the SDWAN polling example) SolarWinds API Poller is a powerful feature for collecting custom metrics from external APIs. However, it currently has two major limitations that make it challenging for dynamic environments like SD-WAN: Static JSONPath Indexing API Poller requires selecting individual…
I recently added some bind servers to my Solarwinds Orion Monitoring and here are some notes to make it work. Bind server running: RHEL 9 Bind 9.16.23-RH Agent Install Install the agent for RHEL (ignore this if you already have the agent) Configure the agent service swiagentd init set option 2: orion poller set option 5:…
Hi Everyone 👋 I am planning to take the SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted Network Monitoring certification exam and currently preparing for it. I would appreciate guidance from those who have already taken this exam: • What topics should I focus on the most? • Is hands-on lab experience required to pass? • Any…
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