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My first car was a rust-brown '75 dodge dart. I did NOT make good choices while driving it, which is why I only had it for about 6 months. Mistakes were made. Lessons learned. Nobody was hurt (thank God).

Even WITHOUT the shiny new cachet of my SolarWinds employee badge, I can confirm that the thing that matters is the template ID, not the name. However, the other thing to note is that there's the TEMPLATE id, and the MONITOR id (the thing that comes after "AM=" in the URL). When you apply a template, it becomes a MONITOR.…

Of course, that's not MY -ism. That's pure Arthur Weasley there (or J.K. Rowling, if we want to be more realistic/specific) But thank you for the compliments either way.

Good catch. Links have been corrected as of 10:09am EST 2/27

I've worked at two companies that sold monitoring as a service. It can be very lucrative IF you have the internal infrastructure (both technical and procedural) in place.

I will take photoshopped/faked entries. Seriously, guys. WE just want some of our "family" to get these tickets.

For those people who want to try out GNS3 but don't feel comfortable with their own networking skills (YET! Always YET, people! Never stop learning.) I've created a simple 3-router network in GNS3 that you can download and plug in. You need to have the IOS images yourself, but this can get you started in your GNS3 journey:…

In the Advanced Alert manager, look for "Alert me when a polling engine has not updated the database in 10 minutes".

Dude! Join as much as you can. We'll miss you. But you know we'll take class notes and share with you afterward.

We just installed SAM 5.5 RC1 into our dev environment (which also has NPM 10.4.1). How do you add Volume mount points to an existing (ICMP/SNMP) node? Do you have to convert it to poll using ICMP/WMI? Thanks!

What's that movie rated? PG-13 for extreme horror? ;-)

Oh, *I'LL* take that bet. Because I know how hard DanielleH​ and team are working on the latter.

OK, folks, sorry for the delay. We got out our fleet of roombas, cleaned off the dust, and the page is now live for all. Go check it out and make sure you hit the "follow" button in the upper right corner: December Writing Challenge 2018 Nothing will be posted until December 1, but until then you can keep hitting refresh…

That's great, and from the other side of the teacher's desk, it's always nice to have a grad student in the room to keep the professor on their toes. If you see anything that can get tweaked let me know.

You are right, that was NOT meant as "those darn kids and their interwebs!" type of statement. My point was that even when we choose a "specialty" (whether that's ancient DECNet and CICS of the last ice age; Token Ring and Novell of yesteryear; or containers and hybrid-cloud) we should still be open and curious to things…

" I watched you very carefully. Red light stop, green light go, yellow light.... go very fast." Starman (3/8) Movie CLIP - Yellow Light, Go Very Fast (1984) HD - YouTube

By itself, arak (also known as "raki") is not most people's cup of tea. Or scotch. Or even beer. Unless you or a close family member hails from that region of the world (looking at you, @"yumdarling") it's an acquired taste that most of us don't choose to acquire.It's a licorice-flavored drink similar to sambuca, ouzo, or…

Just posted this as a solution:

You bring up some interesting points - ones which I've encountered before. However, I have a couple of thoughts about being in a blind spot: 1) "Total loaded cost" - this phrase means the total cost of an employee when you include the obvious, like benefits; and the less obvious, like rent, utilities, etc. Many (not all)…

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Back to layers 8-10 of the OSI model.

yes and no. Yes, there is often a "theme" to the visitors to the booth at each show. In fact, at the end of the day everyone who worked in the booth does a roundup of what the major areas of interest were. No, in that the theme is not the same show-to-show, or even day-to-day. One day may see a huge run of people…

This makes me think about whether our clothing choices are other-centric, or self-centric. Other-centric dress means we want to make a statement of some kind, to alert those around us to something - something we are, or want to be, or are experiencing, or intend to experience. This is everything from uniforms to party…

Yes yes please yes. I use custom properties extensively. One use is for account limitations. I have the situation where the Network team (limited to seeing devices where "Ownergroup = Network" can discover their devices, but as soon as they are discovered, they can't SEE them because ownergroup is blank.

We're migrating off IBM's "snmp trap probe" utility, which is built into Tivoli (Omnibus, I think, but it could be ITNM). It's more convoluted than just using plain old net-snmp on a linux box, and THAT is not exactly intuitive. So I'm grateful for what it is - requests that took WEEKS now take minutes - but as others have…

Agreed. I was just replying to Hari Pala's comment about the 90 day trial. But I continue to say that - at 50% of list - purchasing a small dev license is not out of anyone's reasonable grasp. An NPM 100 license is about $2,600 list. So a dev license is $1300, and your maintenance in year 2 is $500. Most people's travel…

Trap and syslog handling in Orion is something that we think about A LOT. Many ideas fly around about how to improve (as with all features). Stay tuned, as always, for future updates in that regard.

As an extrovert, you'd think the opposite of me - "how are you dealing without the interaction that <you people> thrive on?" First, interaction can be found in many places. As @"sqlrockstar", @"ChrystalT" @"saschg" @"lbeavs" @"jennebarbour" and @"patrick.hubbard" can attest, my conversations on Teams are many, varied, and…

If I understand what you want, I think you have the relationship wrong. Groups are used IN dependencies, not the other way around. So let's say you have a router connected to 2 load-balanced switches, which is connected to 10 servers. Ignoring - for the moment - SolarWinds ability to automatically determine topology, you…

It will be one of those things that really tests my ability to adhere to the employee NDA.