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I like the examples here. This whole series has been very enlightening.

As a vendor, coming from the other side, I primarily use GoToMeeting. The occasional client will provide me with VPN access. From there, I've had some lock it down so I can only get to the hosts needed (sometimes less) and then I've had some leave it wide open for me.

I agree that the collective knowledge held by the Thwack community is indeed impressive. Storage is probably my weakest area, so seeing all of the expertise here is extremely helpful.

On a slightly related note, I like having the ability to right-size virtualization assets. In the most extreme case of this, I once had a client whose application group insisted a new application VM required 24 GB of RAM to run properly and they built it as such. However, looking at the historical data, we saw that at no…

I work with a lot of clients that are using several different vendors' products with quite a bit of duplication and, in some cases, I am brought in for the sole purpose of helping them consolidate or migrate (to Solarwinds of course!). Having said that, as others have alluded to, there are instances where have some…

If you do a normal node discovery instead of an application discovery, it will show you which SQL servers it found by identifying them with the AppInsight for SQL application. You can just go through the normal import process up tot he import preview screen to see which server it found SQL. You don't actually need to do…

I think the compliance reporting feature of NCM is one of the most useful after, of course, the 'just in case' backups. Unfortunately, it is also one of the most underutilized features among the customers I have worked with.

Many good points being made in this thread. I agree with what most others have said: Having a good virtualization monitoring solution is a great benefit. But, it's a requirement to understand the underlying infrastructure and being able to correlate what the tool is telling you to actionable info.

The same exact thing happened to me. GRRRR!

Congratulations Zak Kahl

I agree 100% with the adage that "Broken concentration kills innovation". I would even go so far as to generalize it to say that broken concentration kills any type of productivity.

This is a very good topic. As others have mentioned, the two (hardware and software) have to work together. It is interesting to see it bounce back and forth in regards to which is the current bottleneck.

Nice summary maxmortillaro​. I'm really looking forward to checking out this new feature.

I always thoroughly enjoy the times I am able to call an end-user and let them know they have a problem before they even realize it. It saves the user some anxious moments, makes IT look good for once, and justifies why we are around.

I completely and unequivocally do not trust my daughter's boyfriend because he routinely proves himself to be untrustworthy in every aspect.

ciscovoicedude This series has been very insightful and thought provoking. Thanks!

This is very good info. Especially the encryption part.

I agree with what others have said, NCM is a natural extension of NPM and, in most cases, should be purchased together.

I think it is great that you are pointing out some of the possible uses for Netflow. So many of the people I work with only use it for reactionary troubleshooting of network congestion.

This has been a great series.

I know in most of the environments I work in, I don't assign AppInsight for SQL to every single instance of SQL that is running, especially some of smaller SQL Express instances. An alternative might be to create a SAM template that looks for the sqlservr.exe process, assign it to all Windows servers, and then create an…

You would use the "is equal to" option and then use wildcards in your field (i.e. ICMPTrafficAudit.ExtraneousInfo is equal to *Block Malicious IP - OUT*)

One way to get last month would be to replace: DAYDIFF(DateTime, GETUTCDATE()) < 30 with: (MONTH(GETUTCDATE()) - MONTH(DateTime)) = 1 So, the entire query would be: SELECT n.Caption, SUM(CASE WHEN c.AvgLoad > 75 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) * 100.0 / COUNT(c.AvgLoad) AS [Percentage over 75] FROM Orion.CPULoad c JOIN Orion.Nodes n ON…

Yes, that is correct.

No, if you look at the downloads for NPM 12.2, it's an all in one installer. They have both an online one, which is real small (~11 MB), and an offline one which is over 2 GB. This installer will install/upgrade all Orion modules at once, which means only one run through of the Configuration Wizard. I looked at the…

Just a quick question. Are you doing this as double value comparison in your trigger condition or are you just typing the custom property variable in the value field in a single value comparison? Just asking because, on the alert summary page, if you are doing a double value comparison, it would look a little different…

I agree with you. I have never liked how that is displayed. You have to be very careful which tab you are on or you can accidentally blow away your whole template. I wish they would change the 'Delete' button on the Assigned Application Monitors tab to something more along the line of 'Unmonitor' or something similar as…

War Eagle!!! I can't wait for football season to start! Below is a SQL query that should work for what you are looking for. It will give you the average availability of all of your nodes over the last 30 days between 8:00 AM and 5:00 PM, taking into account the row weights in the ResponseTime view. You would use this in a…

My client has already opened a support case for this - case 618408.

You can get it by simply adding a second JOIN statement such as the following: SELECT n.Caption AS [Local Device], cps.Status AS [Local Interface], cdp.IPAddress AS [IP Address], cdp.DeviceId AS Device, cdp.DevicePort AS [Remote Interface] FROM Orion.NodeCdpEntry cdp INNER JOIN Orion.NPM.CustomPollerStatusOnNodeTabular cps…