bruce_jarrett

Why just Cisco products? Others love Solarwinds and I understand Cisco is beloved for Switches and Routers but why limit SD-WAN to the Cisco Viptela solution? I use SilverPeak and many others are going the same direction. Why not add SilverPeak?

A more direct way to generate alert statements.

Very good. I love these articles. To see what SD-WAN has done for me see Thermal technology innovator boosts global business productivity and efficiency | Silver Peak or listen to https://packetpushers.net/podcast/tech-bytes-how-silver-peaks-sd-wan-helped-gentherm-beat-global-mpls-hassles/

Also why no SilverPeak?

We are a global team and we see the times only in the local time of the browser we have open. We set all our devices to use only UTC, which if you really want to do this, will be mandatory or you will have to indicate the time zone of each device. It would be nice to see 3 or 4 time zones on the alerts or be able to chose…

Okay so yes you can do Cisco. Why not SilverPeak? Why not Talari? Why not Riverbed? Why not Fat Pipe? There is more than Cisco out there. I have been a huge supporter of Solarwinds since NPN 5. I implement it as a primary monitoring solution at every company I go to but this love for just Cisco is getting worse and worse.…

I would like to see something where there are a few "standards" by the software and then we can put add others like custom property.

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As for the networking part all public clouds are I feel aware of the multiple VPN / IPsec tunnel issue. That is why SD-WAN is so very important to a hybrid environment. With a proper SD-WAN solution putting resources in a public cloud becomes a lot easier, as long as the public cloud provider can provision your SD-WAN…

Thank you for this information. I know that SolarWinds is trying to be vendor agnostic and to balance that product development with what your base is asking for is a big request. I see that the API direction is going to be very big in networking. With the SD-WAN movement people are starting to see benefits for a full SDN…

I will be monitoring sites and devices in China, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Germany, Malta, Hungary, Macedonia, Ukraine, Canada, Mexico and the USA. I am in charge of managing all the network resources in those sites.

I am in for D town!! Chi is okay but that's 4 hours or so for me.

I have done a lot with UDP - I can get a lot of things going there I know. However, there is a lot of trial and error to get the data you want. It seems like Solarwinds is doing that for Cisco devices but not much for others.

Please, Please, Please I need to create a NOC view for our App support team and being able to have Netpathing on these dashboards is a requirement. I am not sure really how to do it right now!

Very good read as it sets the base line on what SDN is for and direction for the discussion.

Well remember a large part of the SD-WAN devices is to monitor the network and be able to either flag when you need to fix or change an under performing or or to dynamically alter traffic flow depending on link metrics. So I would say trying to get what Solarwinds offers for device monitoring and interface monitoring with…

Did you do any other pilots or look at any other vendors? Just asking to see how you felt Silverpeak compared.

Since SD WAN devices are on the rise adding their appflow engines here would also be very useful.

Thank you for this.

I really like the e-cards idea.

We will be doing a full roll out this coming year and are in the process to determine what SD-WAN vendor to go with.

Please, Please, Please ;-) With the new direction of WANs to SD-WAN this is a very important piece to see traffic end to end from what device to what device and how it was classified and routed.

I feel that there is one major point that is missing in the over all analysis. * Vendor Agnostic for your WAN circuit. * This means with SD-WAN, that is not vendor/ISP provided, we are now in control of who we chose. * This comes in the fact that I do not have to have a single vendor network to have sites on my WAN now. *…

Well that is why Cisco purchased Viptela. Now, since Viptela were previous Cisco engineers, they can just push a new firmware with the SD-WAN to your routers. Then purchase the licencing. How about the Orchestration? Why is this cheaper? Other SD-WAN solutions offer VM options to run the devices through your virtual…

What about for Dell switches? I know that they are not as popular as Cisco but we use them for our Layer 2 only closet switches and would like to see more added in NCM for them.

So with MPLS the vendor has you. If you go with a vendor who does SD-WAN in their "cloud" then the same thing - they got you. However, if you do your own SD-WAN implementation with provider agnostic devices then you can aggregate to your hearts content. Imagine being able to have a single MPLS connection that is redundant…

Yea for me. I am a winner for once . I rock :-)

What about a non-CM SIP monitor? There are a lot of us on Skype now.

Expand on this to add a Location name to the World Map with out the Unknown I have added a column called City to the dbo.City Table Then update the SQL with that to come out with the following: MERGE SolarWindsOrion.dbo.WorldMapPoints AS target USING ( SELECT n.NodeID ,n.EntityType ,s.Latitude ,s.Longitude ,s.City FROM…