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We use Orion (NPM & SAM) in a multi-tenant environment and for the most part it works very well. There is one significant security concern to be aware of when using custom maps for customers where the background image is a network topology or has any other private information, details regarding that can be found on an…

A hybrid solution is to have a Cloud Service Provider build a dedicated environment with a secure FTP or file transfer solution for the client's specific needs. This helps you avoid an on-prem solution if you are a company that doesn't have dedicated staff to manage the environment and avoids the problems associated with a…

We use a Phishing attack simulator regularly and we have had great success. When we first rolled it out we had nearly half of the company opening the emails and clicking on the links. Now we are down to almost nobody exhibiting that behavior. 

With the most recent updates by DanielleH​ I think this is a completely legitimate and easy to answer question. Can't vouch for it before as I just now looked at it.

I guess the question becomes is it worth it? While I love the idea of working with a highly successful team and company, I am not sure I want to go to work every day to deal with incredibly high levels of stress as there are some pretty significant long term physical and mental ramifications of that. 

I found THIS article from Microsoft on how to get the logs, from here all we would need is a LEM connector.

I have no idea how anybody that is actually paying attention could be dismissive of AI, the role that it's playing and the role that it's going to play in our industry. When you have giants like Microsoft, Google and Amazon pursuing these technologies in the way that they are you know that it's going to be big. Also, as a…

This has become such a neglected part of the product and still a very legacy part as well considering that it's still console based. SolarWinds also acquired Kiwi Syslog years ago which does a much better job at this. Why not just rip this part out of Orion and just include a copy of Kiwi with every polling engine?

We also require the ability to have a report scheduled on a regular basis to just product a list of actual tickets.

Before you have automation you need to have standardization. I see a lot of people immediately try to get on the automation train without taking the time to first standardize their environment.

I love this new Microsoft and how they are finally innovating again. Hopefully I will get a chance to work with CosmosDB soon and I can't wait to see what Microsoft releases next!

Your job as a network engineer is still fundamentally to create the conditions where the distance between the provider of information, usually a server, and the consumer of that information, usually a PC, is as near to a straight line as possible. If you get caught up in quality of service maps, and disaster recovery and…

I might be odd but I find the targeted ads to be a nice improvement. Before I was always being hit by ads for stuff I don't care about, at least now it's all stuff I am interested in at least at some level.

I haven't personally had a lot of experience on the video side of things. I am curious, for those of you that have worked with video have you used SolarWinds VNQM to help monitor that type of traffic and how has that worked for you?

I think that one of the contributing factors to the battle between the two is that it's not uncommon for the monitoring folks to just want "everything" opened up to them versus taking the time to identify and open up only the specific bits of access necessary. At the end of the day there should be a significant amount of…

It looks like somebody there is having a cell phone for an appetizer, can't imagine what he ordered for the main course!

Unless I haven't considered something the one thing we always have over them is that we don't require electricity to survive, they do. As long as electrical grids can be taken offline then the machines have an achilles heel. Our power systems and better technologies are nowhere near a point to be able to sustain such…

A disaster recover plan is exactly that, it's a plan but also needs to include the technology bit. It's also something you should be regularly testing to make sure it works and that changes haven't taken place over time that would negate it or compromise it in any way.

Well it seems I am amongst friends here. We also do not disable monitoring during patching because we (like others have said) want to know if something breaks as a result of patching. We have a NOC that is aware of our patching schedule so they know to watch for problematic behavior as a result of patching.

ecklerwr1​ this is definitely a problem and one we are dealing with more and more. Not only is the data getting more difficult to sift though but it's getting more and more difficult for people to maintain the alerts, dashboard, etc. definitions as what you need to be looking for is ever changing. I think this is a place…

"Serverless" feels to me like one of those "what was old is new again" things and not something that is in any way actually new to our industry. When I first started with the company I am at just a little less than 16 years ago we were offering shared web hosting and shared database hosting which really isn't that much…

I have worked with many of these hardware vendor monitoring tools that you mention and I am always impressed with how terrible they are. It makes me wonder why these vendors don't just partner with a company like SolarWinds to create a bundled solution.

Orion has always been a Windows based product. The Engineers Toolset (which I believe was the 1st SW product) has also always been Windows based.

Just to add on to this as I keep finding places where this could be better integrated: Make it so that the Search by IP in Orion is more comprehensive by making it also search for IP's associated with objects in SRM. I use the Search by IP to find where IP's exist in my environment and the fact that it can't see IP's…

That is certainly the balance; how much data to collect and store. I personally don't think DPI data is something that is necessary to have on all of the time. We already have ton's of other monitoring data from Orion and LEM; DPI can be busted out when troubleshooting is necessary. I try to avoid being a digital hoarder…

I had actually ran across that but totally forgot to point it out, thanks for this. Nothing wrong with some good ole' friendly competition and Azure integration is certainly what is needed.

I would agree that for a proper solution an overhaul of the syslog and traps would be necessary. Simply unifying things in the interface would definitely be less optimal; however, it would still be an improvement.

Asking Questions At A Conference: This one really blew me away, the thought that people actually do these things. I realize people will get up and try to make points which they probably shouldn't as it isn't the appropriate time; however, I didn't realize people would actually step up without really having a fully formed…

I absolutely love the idea and I think our company could buy into the idea so long as we had the necessary data to show that it was a secure solution including the storage of the logs. The one challenge we would likely have is that we support several different sets of compliance and anywhere we send logs would become…

Some very fun and interesting articles. I am especially interested to see what Microsoft might do with the technology they got with the Hexadite acquisition.