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IT Leadership Best Practices: Why People Matter More Than Tools — SolarWinds TechPod 106
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9vf4IttBzs IT leadership best practices fail when organizations focus on tools instead of people. In this episode of SolarWinds TechPod, hosts Chrystal Taylor and Sean Sebring speak with Jon Collins, Field CTO and VP of Engagement at GigaOm, about what truly drives success in IT…
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Crash course on how to add tabs to a modern dashboard
First off I have to say I love modern dashboards and I'm pushing more and more stuff to them everyday. But the chef's kiss to the modern dashboard view are the tabs. I'll be honest I think there's room for improvement but I absolutely love what we have right now. This discussion is aimed toward users who haven't taken the…
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Planning to Upgrade from Solarwinds 2025.2 to SOSH (Observability)
Hello Everyone. I am starting the planning phase, and would appreciate all the advice I can get. Currently on Solarwinds 2025.2, and planning to upgrade to Solarwinds Observability Self Hosted. Any advice or things to look out for, specifically from those thwackers that have already gone through it. thank you.
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An IT Journey to Monitoring Glory: Session Two
Welcoming Scope Creep Now that your Network Management System is up and running, where do you go from here? “Scope creep” doesn’t (necessarily) have to be a bad phrase. Extending your monitoring out beyond the initial intention isn’t just encouraged, it’s commendable. Having all your business-critical information in one…
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An IT Journey to Monitoring Glory: Session One
Back to the (Monitoring) Basics Let’s start by going back to the basics of monitoring. Whether you’re new to monitoring or looking for a refresher, there’ll be something for everyone. The presenters will bring their experience monitoring small, to large, to hybrid, and beyond environments. Join the live chat to ask…
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Thwack peer review for HA for our primary polling engine.
Hey fellow THWACK brothers & sisters. I've got a quick question/peer review thing for you all. I have 3 separate that on the surface would cause a service outage but I'm thinking I can potentially navigate around if I implement HA on our primary polling engine. The 3 separate issues are: * Upgrade our SolarWinds primary…
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Crafting Alerts that Get Noticed
We all know alerts tell people what to look at and when to look at it. But the truth is, plain-text alerts get ignored and good-looking alerts get read. Fortunately, all it takes to set up engaging alerts is a little HTML and CSS know-how. Kevin M. Sparenberg shows you the basics of using HTML and CSS in your alerts,…
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Setting up winrm
Hey guys I'm trying to move off of snmp v2 and onto winrm for polling but I'm having a hell of a time finding an accurate guide. Should I use gpo or powershell? do I need to set up a user? if I use https how do I set up my certificates? If anyone has gone through this and can create a quick guide, I would be eternally…
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Need some tips and guidance while choosing SW modules
Hi Team, Greetings! I hope you all are doing well. Thank you for your support and guidance, which I greatly appreciate. I have some questions regarding our SW license and modules in our environment. We currently have NTA, NPM, MPE & APE, and our company is planning to purchase a HA. I have a few doubts as mentioned below:…
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Always showing Nodes memories are critical
Hello Team, Greetings! I have observed a message on several nodes stating "Node status is Critical, Physical Memory Critical," as illustrated in the snapshot below. I have already overridden the node platform's general thresholds as per company requirements, but I am still encountering the same error. Could anyone assist…
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Little bit confused while making an alerts
Hi Team, Greetings! I'm trying to make an alert based on the criteria below on those 11 nodes, we monitor with SW agents. 1. RAM Utilization =>96 Warning 2. RAM Utilization =>98 Critical 3. CPU Utilization => 80 Warning 4. CPU Utilization => 90 Critical 5. Disk Utilization => 75 Warning 6. Disk Utilization => 85 Critical…