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I interpret it as what's on my list to improve or monitor next. There's always such great work being done by Solarwinds Geeks or a thwack member that collating some of those tips,tricks, and best practices is great. Even if I can't use it as is - it might inform what direction I need to go.

small conference room has a whiteboard wall - at home I have Ikea glass sections across all the walls around the home office desk - great for diagram and process maps

Is the interface negotiation status available through SNMP?

At first I would be happy being able to copy an alert trigger line, such as node custom property xyz starts with abc, as the modal property/field selection window is slow and repetitive. After that enhancement yes I would like to have the alert email action to and cc fields properly take custom property values, emails of…

the way I would accomplish this now on NPM 11.5 or SAM 6.2 is * Setup several (informational level) web-based alerts which would search the same criteria you would have used in a dynamic query. * Now add an alert action to set the custom property to something descriptive for that group of nodes (we added a "system" field)…

You shared a cube with Nina also - small world!

We use Altiris and Acronis for server images and backups- those include snmp feature but we use a GPO script to push the settings. <50 unix servers so while I learned Puppet it has not proven a time saver - I'm waiting around for a better cross-platform conf manager or might abstract it all behind vcac. Add to monitor is…

We just had an instance where a regional org was seeing slow or timed out network transfers while their network and datacenter is underutilized. Turns out the traffic is coming from another segment over a 1Gb link shared with all other northbound traffic. Netflow and NTA provided the data confirming the client IP's were…

Personally I would like to see HP virtual connect switches and Qlogic fibre channel switches

Default value now in Core2015.1 db - just seems to be unused by the Web console GUI as it picks first alphabetical choice.

I can't wait for fixes - I have this SQL script running as a SQL agent job every 5min - no more concern when running the config wizard. UPDATE [dbo].[NodeChildStatusParticipation] SET [Enabled] = 0 WHERE (EntityType = 'Orion.APM.SqlServerApplication' OR EntityType = 'Orion.UDT.Port') ;

#1 agree 100% #2 agree but you can delete volumes from the manage nodes location - just seen as a grey icon volume under the node. That's the issue though - why not show it as unknown status on the node page and as you suggest allow unchecking it from the list resources. Just add a section to list resources for orphan…

‌anyone have a powershell script for this in the meantime?

Already in use for say 6months as a live report joining IPAM and NPM by IPAddress. This is v2 where we have a method for noting either the nodeid or that it's to be ignored. Another level of reporting has been around for years and provides a view of what is (nms) vs what should be (cmdb)

We should allow ballot stuffing for things this important!

I have been enjoying the SAM Orion template but to add some extra level of comfort plan to start monitoring each of our Solarwinds instances from each other or all them from a single smaller SAM instance. Haven't been able to get EOC to do this but it seems like a no-brainer to include it in that module since it's already…

If you use my custom SWQL sql job resource it shows both.

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I use a separate CMDB which allows me to join and reference other values but if I didn't - I would most likely declare those statics in the beginning of the report- then ask everyone to copy that primary report to get it each time. If I wanted people to be able to use any report with out advanced SQL- I would create an…

ah ok then - you are likely seeing the same issue I am with top xx clause not working in custom query resource. Support case in and working with devs on that one - Use this instead: SELECT GetDate() AS [Now], ToLocal(GetDATE()) AS [Local] FROM Orion.Nodes where nodeid < 100

Do web alert custom properties help with this?

Group By dependency origin is great- in this case the search would be for finding nodes by caption so I can manage and/or ignore them.

‌not that I can see. Just a table field unused as of 11.5 petition for it as this would be great to have.

This would be helpful now that he unmanage node rights is broken out. Non node-admins could go to manage nodes page to unmanage multiple nodes.

mileage may vary as SWQL custom queries are acting strange for me in core 2015.1 three resources and a forthcoming alert once I get it re-written. UCS PSU or Fans Problems Resource SELECT n.caption as Node , '/Orion/NetPerfMon/NodeDetails.aspx?NetObject=N%3a' + ToString(n.nodeid) AS [_LinkFor_Node] ,…

Not available that I've seen - it would look like this idea is to improve on the existing Network Sonar Discovery feature so we could capture our poller, interfaces, volumes, etc preferences then apply that logic continuously as the systems are periodically rediscovered (imagine an automated List Resources). aLTeReGo‌ can…

I'd like to track cable numbers and demarc information but find the use of custom fields cumbersome, besides having the information disappear when an IP becomes available would not work. So I have to keep that info elsewhere and use foreign keys to report between them.

Yeah I am out - too frustrating to spend an hour trying to to find the right answers, checking twice, three times... just to find out one is wrong and no grand prize after 1 day in. Going back to studying for certs...

Roy, Do you have a sample of how you are presenting this information to your application teams? I am creating Application Summary pages now and it's good to get others hard learned lessons in early.

The ability to provide non-admin uses unmanage nodes rights is now within Core 2015.1 (NPM 11.5/SAM6.2) which is great. My concern, maybe rob.hock can chime in, is how users are able to unmanage more then a single node if they don't have access to a node-manage page? Is there a page I am unaware of that would allow this…