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Polling Engines Queries: * Polling engines to Database are prone to performance related issues, specially when the Polling engine is not locally present in the same geography. The < 200 ms latency requirement is at times difficult to meet. It looks like there is a query SELECT * FROM [dbo].[ServiceDirectoryEntries] that…

Thank you for these @"defieguy" @"gangadhar.k" @"devendrab" @"sagar.b" 

Stacking of Pollers is not a good idea. I think the only thing it does for you is to save you an OS license count. When using Pollers specially for SAM - you need to also worry about Solarwinds agents reporting to Pollers. They can be in 2 modes - client initiated or server initiated mode. This surely impacts the…

Gift cards would be nice .. as they could easily be sent to other locations not covered by the Thwack Store. Expand the horizon of Thwack Store .. make it inclusive for all

Is Mobile Admin now an ORPHANED child?

Anyone facing issues with SAM agents ? It looks like the SAM agents can be auto-updated but these will cause the .Net Framework to also update to 4.8. This will be a risk as some applications may have an older version of .Net dependency. Disabling Auto-update may have a compatibility issue of an older version of agent…

NetFlow Granular Alerts Alerting on multicast source endpoints

NCM 8.0 has a Scheduled Compliance report in PDF format broken. This was working before the upgrade to 2019.2 HF3 platform. A case has been opened with Support # 00438912. Support has recommended a 3rd party component to be installed from http://wkhtmltopdf.org/ We cannot have 3rd party software's running on the Orion…

SDWAN is now available as a standard - https://www.mef.net/mef-3-0-sd-wan It might be a big plus is the Orion platform started monitoring the SDWAN components - SDWAN Edge, SDWAN Controllers, SDWAN Orchestrator

Scalability Engine Guidelines for SolarWinds products Check for Remote office pollers. They exist for fewer elements 250 or 1000. Mini APE.

It's time Solarwinds woke up to the WHD feature requests .. It is way too behind the industry. Be it Dashboards, Reports, SLA tracking, Ticket auto-resolve / close, Change Management .. peter.kruty

Thanks Peter I did mark your reply as helpful .. but I still do not know Thwack . The white bars refuse to turn blue .. I am sure I completed the un-bookmark and re-bookmark task .. Thanks anyway !!

No progress .. I really do not know Thwack

Am stuck @ 75% - 2 bars of 8 still showing pending .. Have done all the tasks but no progress .. maria.bungau​ Can you help?

I think this would be extremely useful See and

Granular NetFlow Alerts is something that will bring value to SW users. The ability to trigger an alert on maybe a bandwidth hogging host or some host that actually is expected to continuously stream data and suddenly stops will help the NTA cause

A similar requirement has been put up by one of our customers - asking for East West traffic monitoring. The customer is a Finance institution where their DC App servers could be initiating requests and queries from other App, Middleware and DB servers. This makes the EW traffic monitoring a challenge They are already a…

Excellent input Sameer. I think this will be very useful for folks who are bogged down with stability issues of the platform. Pre and post refresh outputs clearly indicate how you could get the platform to be more robust. gangadhar.k​ abdhijasharma​ nikhil.n​ rucha.v​ sagar.b​ devendrab​ sagard​ Vivek Gupta​

DanielleH​ KMSigma​ I think this has been long pending. For beginners, can the Thwack store be atleast opened up to redeem the Thwack points for the certifications. This probably will be the best goodie that points can buy

Hi Krishna, I think the best way to audit the logs of a TACACS server would be the use of Security Event Manager (SEM). Success Center - Integrate Cisco ACS Syslog reports with SolarWinds SEM You should be able to get quite a few audit reports Passed Authentication RADIUS Accounting TACACS+ Accounting TACACS+…

Hi, The link below should provide you details on server requirements SolarWinds Support Documentation‌ Click on each product to identify your specific application requirements. The actual stuff that you will need to keep in mind when finalizing server sizing - 1. Number of nodes / interfaces / servers / elements / services…

Hi Praveen, Try out a different source (not your NPM server) - a different PC maybe with the Solarwinds agent installed. Make sure you are able to access the internet from this PC. This will help you troubleshoot. cheers

Hi Chris, Thank you for your initiative on Arista. Am marking a few others who can help with the SNMP walk inputs .. chinmaychavan​ gangadhar.k​ c_sameer​ naina.jino​ midhunmathew​ Will get these inputs .. Cheers

You can create a NetPath service to the web services port number. It will give you the web services status and also the path analysis. Only NPM will suffice for this purpose. SAM gives you much more.

You can have as many clients as you want. The 5 Techie licenses that you own, allow 5 Techies or Admins who mange tickets and the WHD platform. For example, an organization with 500 employees and 3 helpdesk engineers and 2 IT administrators, you can have 5 WHD licenses for the 3 Helpdesk engineers and the 2 administrators.

ThwackCamps are all about inclusiveness of the entire community!! The idea of distributing the giveaways to a chosen few geographies does not align well with the above. I do understand the challenges that the Camp organizers face when opening this out to the rest, but there must be a way Can someone explore e-Vouchers,…

Emailed. We do use Network Atlas extensively, but as has been pointed out - Network Atlas needs an overhaul. Graphical capabilities, new icons, sizing of multiple icons at a time, selection of icons for multiple objects, align with grid and a lot more.

NTM Trial version only support Visio export. All other options are only in the Licensed version - Network Atlas, png, pdf etc:)

Hi Serena, An upgrade to 2018.2 failed (12.0.1 to 12.3). The error encountered was a Database configuration failure. Due to paucity of downtime we had to roll back the upgrade and fall back on 12.0.1. We did open a Support ticket #00156141. Has it something to do with the Orion DB Size, we have over 50GB. Are there any…

Hi, You may also refer to this Thwack article for some great points regarding Additional Web Server provided by bogdan.stan@xpo.com​ bourlis​ m_roberts​ Orion Web Server Scaling Some key points - * Orion AWS is a 32 bit application * Each Web Server (as per recommendations) can handle about 20 concurrent users (but it…