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Thank you. (No matter how much I try - can't get it to not use the m-dashes… 🤣 It's a hill I will die on…)

Thank you. Looks like a direct copy-paste ChatGPT, Copilot or a similar tool?

the struggle is real!!! no pasaran!

It's really going to depend on what it is that you're polling and how you want to view it, but take a look at the Custom Universal Device Poller resources that you can add into a Node Details view. See scenario above with an environmental monitoring device. If I wanted to leave the standard poller values alone (interfaces,…

Try 'Application/Json' instead of 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' in 'ContentType' in the action settings. Worked for me - had the same issue.

What do I do? (scratching head...)

Everyone on board with how SolarWinds sees the difference between monitoring and observability?

I guess the confusing part for me is that the question's premise is using VMAN (not Azure's own tools): Using SolarWinds® Virtualization Manager, which of the following is the correct step to create a clone of a snapshot in Microsoft Azure? This functionality is also available with SolarWinds® Hybrid Cloud Observability.…

Is the answer available anywhere outside of the 1-hour video? (Not a fan of videos - especially uncaptioned ones - due to a hearing impairment - and then unlikely to have an hour available this week.) Thanks!

did not use HCO or any other SIEMs but really enjoyed Splunk while I was working with it - not sure anything else could do the job of turning heaps of unstructured disorganized logs (we had loads of those) into something that tells us exactly which API calls to the application are generating multi-second latencies...…

same here

This got me hesitating a bit (what's larger: the packets or the bytes?) - but the percentage was the answer.

"What they really want is some easy button for all their stuff" Do they know what that button is supposed to do? (For us, we had a clear use case: log aggregation, and it was a huge productivity boost all in itself, for incident response and lower MTTR numbers. Then came the even more serious productivity boosts from…

reduction of technical debt: virtualization, upgrades, patching, establishing a KB with SOPs, etc. (I am about 7 months into a new job) next steps: DR improvements, automation (of deployments, patching and other maintenance tasks)

same here, and I think there's more: "audit" is nowhere in the text (only "compliance") and I am pretty sure they're expecting it to be checked. (Could be wrong.)

Re: Week 1 Day 4 (Feb 8) question: is "better branding" roughly equivalent to "better customization"? ("branding" is a higher altitude term, yet generally does include "customization".) Or should I take things more literally and not search for a deeper meaning? 

I still think they should have phrased it like this: [SWSD-integrated] Alerts that arise in SolarWinds Platform are NOT automatically converted into Incidents in SWSD. Else the sentence implies that any and all alerts SolarWinds Platform alerts generate SWSD incidents, not just those that have been SWSD-integrated - which…

Second this: never stop learning no matter how busy it gets. mudassir wrote: My advice to my past System Admin is to get trained! Spend time in reading blogs, watching videos and taking up courses. It definitely helps, you recall/remember what you learned years later when you least expect it. Also, don't just confine…

"Actionable insights" vs. "state of things" or "reactionary" vs. "proactive": sorry, I don't buy that. The very presence of trend lines in charts means insights (vs. "state of things") - yet these trend lines aren't "observability". A well designed alert will proactively prevent a critical failure (rather than just tell us…

Could use a bit of help with the article linked in Day 18 (Feb 28): Integrate SolarWinds Platform with SWSD The integration between SolarWinds Platform and SWSD is composed of two tasks. Each task is mutually exclusive of the other. Although they can co-exist without one other, using both together helps achieve their full…

I don't believe anything like that is available through the standard monitoring protocol (SNMP). Can you run a script to obtain these numbers?

Same here: I answered 0-500kB/s based on the current chart, was told I was wrong, "come back tomorrow". Just like one of my "favorite" teachers in middle school. Ugh.... the memories... I'll hold no grudges though.

smttysmth02gt wrote: I am surprised more people aren't getting today's question wrong. Scalability is also listed in the link - "In an ideal world, that tool would scale affordably as your needs evolve and grow." Word. I still don't know what / how to answer. The question is: What aspects of SolarWinds Service Desk made…

I tried that (coffee) - didn't help, still je ne comprends pas. Should I try more coffee? 

Same as yesterday - I don't understand what is being asked. Is the question, what other tools that are not part of SAM or HCO, could I run to monitor servers remotely? The question likely presumes Windows OS, and the obvious answer, Task Manager - can't be right: it's a local monitoring tool, not a remote one. (Running…

Funny how one is supposed to deduce the answer based on what's missing (in the linked article), not on what's in it. (Riddle, riddle, riddle ree...) (Approach befitting the actual product? )

Perhaps I should have qualified my question: need values I could use in alerts - ideally w/o requiring a license for each of these (range of) values. Reports aren't a substitute for realtime alerts, correct? For instance an environmental monitoring device provides 10 temperature, and 10 additional (humidity, airflow,…

Sounds like you got it right... Is it OK to ask how many bullet points need to be selected for the (right) answer? (Looks like it's two - but am far from sure.)

Is it even a remote possibility for anyone in IT to not use observability (task manager, uptime, top, log file grepping or tailing) or service management (handling and troubleshooting incidents, taking and following up on support calls, etc.)? Saying "I'm familiar with them but don't use them" is like saying "I am familiar…

Chrome worked in incognito for me. The standard profile is overriding pre-filled credentials with its own stored ones.