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Has anyone experienced the agent service stopping on the monitored machines? The only entry in the event log is the agent has been stopped. This is starting to affect more of our servers. I have checked the agent log and I cannot workout what the issue is. I notice that the log indicates it cannot resolve the names of some…

Congratulations to you all.

Root cause analysis is very important at our firm so we can learn and build better processes. The most important thing is detecting the issues before the end users. 

Like all new and emerging technology the slogan is 'we will reap the benefits.' In general it means technology replaces humans in certain jobs. This is not always a bad situation if the job is dangerous. The problem arises when too many jobs are taken by technology, what do the people who previously did those jobs do now?…

Re: Survey Answer E I can and do deal with change quite easily, after all technology changes everyday However I take a bit longer to deal with increased complexity if it is out of my skill set.

The other thing is the power consumption, to generate a single image can use as much power has half a phone battery charge. Here are some stats from last year This many queries can cost around 1 GWh each day, which is the equivalent of the daily energy consumption for about 33,000 U.S. households. REF: Q&A: UW researcher…

This year is going to be a good year. I have also found the best possible use for AI, and that is to recreated a couple of classic BBC Radio Comedies Just a minute I am sorry I haven't a Clue. Both were unsurpassable in the 70's & 80'sbut unfortunately many of the regular guests grew old and died and the younger ones that…

Is that your servers are not using UTC? If this is an Azure database then it will be using UTC. The recommendation for all your SolarWinds servers (MPE, APE & Web) if using an Azure database they should be set to the same time zone as the DB which in an Azure hosted instance is UTC

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Just found this (2) Hi Everyone, Are there any article or posts available which explains how we can change login banner in Kiwi Syslog Server NG? I tried but couldn't find any official documentation. - New Generation Forum - Kiwi Syslog - THWACK

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Hello, I might be missing the point here, but can't you look at the headers of the e-mail for sender IP? Or use a mail trace to identify the source?

Thanks for replying, I will implement your suggestions. Nick

Thanks for the reply. I was already using the scoped option. The issue turned out to be that I was using volume which includes memory, I should use FixedDisk which does not include memory.

Sorry folks, I decided to try adding the exclusions to the trigger actions and that reduced the number of matches from 43 to 22 which I think has sorted my problem. To clarify if I want to exclude something from an alert it is best to put the exclude in the trigger actions and not in the following objects section? And…

Thanks mesverrum & HerrDoktor or the pointer gents, there is a section lower down and it has now given me a selection of templates to use. 

Thanks for the response, here are my account permissions. Do you need anything more?