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My favorite stems from supporting an End User while I was working for a Web Dev Company. The End User in question needed to send us over some very large discovery information and proof content so we could begin populating their web design with data (so the site could start to actually look like a site). The user did not…

Why not rely on DNS PTR Records (which should be generated in your Domain's DNS when a machine is joined to the domain). You can then track in AD what user is logged in to what machine. (or if you are like my company, each user has their own dedicated computer, thus the machine name contains their username and makes it…

The Mission's End is Almost Near! Has everyone guessed the Grand Prize? 

Its in the post that says it was posted 2 days ago. 

Can we get a fill-able PDF version of the Cryptogram?

Awesome! Scored another 150 points! Now I just need to win the GC! And I have figured out the 2nd prize word but i'm stumped on the first at the moment.

Here you go Leon! Just finished an upgrade on one of our Solarwinds platforms to upgrade NTA from 3.11 to 4.1.1. (BTW, the bottom two screens are my linux box Linux G33KS RU|3!)

I am at a loss on the first word of this thing, I don't know how so many people have already solved it!

We have a server still in use in our environment that is actively running Windows Server 2000 and has a Legacy version of Cisco Call Manager (3.x) running on it. It's the oldest piece of hardware in our data center and it scares the *** out of me every day, but despite its age, it just keeps chugging along. Past that, we…

<3 the Old school Apple mousepad!

When is last week's winner going to be announced?

dang, I was hoping i'd take it Congrats dkeyser

Exactly right <3'ing some RaspberryPI NTP Servers

When will the grand prize winner be announced?

Congratulations to all the winners, and go goofykc‌! I wanted that Omni so bad! lol.

I have no idea what the grand prize is. I figured out the puzzle, but still, no clue. Can't find any info when searching for it on line. Ah well. 

AWESOME! Thank you!

Since I unfortunately cannot share a picture of our data center, here is a picture of the three new NTP servers i'm building. +1 to anyone who guesses what they are . As for our data center its 8k SqFt on raised sub-floor with 6 20Ton CRACs and 3 DC Spaces, 2 Corporate DCs and 1 Colo DC, also has a 200 Sq Ft Lab room that…

Congrats to mimcginnis‌ for the Laptop win! and Congrats to esecola‌ for the PS4 bundle, I wanted that Special Edition PS4! lol.

w00t. looking forward to my Raspberry PI maria.bungau​!

I figured it out! I had Day 7 wrong This is awesome!

Never too late to jump in on the party

How about a Quad Stand & Sunlight? : )

janene16, this works until we do an upgrade or have to do some other reconfiguration of Solarwinds as the Configuration Wizard seems to revert these changes automatically.

So the setup we have is like this: Application Template: Cisco HCS CUCM Server * Component Monitors* TFTP Server: Set to "Not Running" when service is not found * Cisco Call Manager: Set to "Down" when service is not found * Cisco Directory Services: Set to "Down" when service is not found We want to be able to use a…

Does Database Maintenance cause downtime? If I run this during the production day, will it impede monitoring performance?

love the tv with Robert Irvine lol

No, event collectors do not stop unless you manually stop the services as you indicated that you do. 

It doesn't "Auto pause" anything, when you click that checkmark it will pause all actions for all alerts that exist in the system. This means any trigger with any condition and any following action. None of them will run. This is the best way to silence the entire platform.

dnerdahl, good to know. Thank you for responding. I look forward to this becoming a feature!~