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I am at a point where I need to retire an old product that has been doing traps since they were invented. (I bet everyone can guess what that is) I have a lot of power and environmental monitoring (HVAC) systems that only support SNMP traps. When a UPS goes into countdown - the minutes left before the batteries run out and…

Thanks for the write up! We just had a similar discussion yesterday about Office365. We were being asked what we would monitor and I was asking why? Traditional CPU/Memory/Disk space doesn't concern me in this scenario. I just need availability, response time and network usage now. Way easier.

Nice job Kevin and Howard!

Once the question was reset I got it correct by choosing exactly the opposite of my earlier choice.

Here is what I got back And then they went on to say... So basically they are saying that I can only get a single event per minute, per rule and if I want to go lower it will overload the Orion Alerting Engine. works way better. It triggers an alert for EVERY message.

Great work! Thank you!

No place like 127.0.0.1

@ rschroeder That's why we still have a few tools that should have been retired back when the date still had a 19 in the front (We have some tools that are older than some of my co-workers)

Bump.

Thanks for the write up

While we continue to get better at using less energy and making the physical data centers footprint smaller I'm not sure exactly how our technology gets recycled. Everything goes into an industrial shredder and comes out in little pieces. A recycle place then picks those up but I don't know what they use them for.

Adding a comment, please also add the ability to toggle on/off filling in the field is mandatory.

Looks like I will be planting barley next year

Thanks Steve! Pre-coffee this morning

This is sad to hear

Would like to see this implemented. We also need to rotate our passwords frequently and the config wizard has a couple flaws. 1. It fails to complete and errors out - with need to engage support frequently and 2. Even when successful takes a very long time to run and needs to be ran on every server which is an extended…

Repeated Giving Feels Good Bringing a box of doughnuts into work makes everyone feel good

And there is Thwack !

They should just do a very limited license for Test like 10 nodes, 10 SAM transactions, 10 netflow sources etc, that's all that's usually needed for test.

Up until the series of breaches that happened beginning with Target, a lot of IT Security departments focused a lot on the network aspect as well as ID management but did little on the rest. In my experience it was the auditors that were the first ones bringing to everyone's attention the need for encryption, secure…

Thanks for the write up

Muchas Gracias Solarwinds

Two more days away from a perfect month Keeping my fingers crossed!

I actually enjoy my position in monitoring quite well. I once was a Cisco engineer at a large retailer and it was a great gig for many years. Eventually it just became boring to me to do the same think over and over. Year 1, research and design a new network (fun). Year 2, a full (boring) year of project planning. Year 3,…

Wow rschroeder I really want to try this out I'll let you know how it goes.

Happy IT Pro Day to all

Welcome and congratulations Ben

Nice write up, thank you. Sometimes on servers (not on workstations) I use the built in evntwin tool which can be launched from the DOS prompt. It allows you to send a SNMP Trap for single events -vs- collecting the entire event log. This helps when you don't have a SIEM system or are using a small one. The traps that are…

Best of luck!

Thanks you, nice article.