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I really hope this just works and is as easy as it looks! I sent a link to this to my network team and one of my engineers responded with "I would personally sacrifice a hobo for this product". I would like to thank SolarWinds for providing this as part of a product we already have, you just saved a hobo! P.S. I would like…

bsciencefiction.tv​ how do you not love Excel? Just about all documentation I do is in Excel, I think it's the best and most powerful tool in the MS Productivity Suite and I don't think I could live without it.

We work with a lot of clients to provide both public and hybrid cloud based solutions using Azure. After working with it and after getting past the initial concerns; control has not really been that big of an issue for me. I think the biggest two challenges I have seen are learning how all of the different pieces work and…

It's funny how noticeable it is when life slows down. Every year I go camping up at a place that feels untouched by time. The area is a bit like a very small village with a tiny gas station/store/post office, a small river with a bridge and the camp grounds. My dad has been going there since he was a kid and he says that…

familyofcrowes​ I couldn't agree with you more, LEM is not recognized nearly enough in the industry for what a great tool it is.

We could always go retro! 

I think all of us in the industry have had to deal with some constraint be it budget, time, or staff that has forced us into a situation where we had to build or implement something in a less than optimal way. Eventually you get to a point where you need to evolve the design to move past and resolve that old baggage that…

We do have Engineers Toolset and to be perfectly honest with you, I don't much care for it. The only value I really find in it is the SNMPWalk and MIB Browser tools.

Wow, this write up really hit home for me as I see so many of these on a pretty regular basis! I often get very frustrated when I see people engage a problem with an already informed opinion of what the problem is without even taking the time to look at any of the data. I have learned (I didn't always do this and sometimes…

When working with the UX team I have expressed the desire more than once to see more consistency across the product. In the years that we have had Orion they have made significant improvements on this.

Having a good monitoring solution that provides a single pane of glass at all levels of the application stack is crucial! I recently talked to a buddy that works at a different company and he told me that their company was trying to make a shift in their monitoring philosophy to be just focused on monitoring the client…

I had a similar feature request for NPM that would allow the status changes of nodes via alerts. You can check it out HERE.

I love reading posts such as these where I feel like "holy crap, I have totally been in that exact same situation just last week". When we do an RCA, we are expected to provide all of our data to our manager in advance of any meeting that we may have. I am on the Windows OS team and am responsible for providing the OS and…

I guess I don't understand how having hidden custom properties would affect grouping?

I absolutely love LEM, I don't think it gets nearly the recognition in the industry that it deserves.

Darn, unfortunately I am not a SeUM cusotmer. Just NPM, SAM, NCM, IPAM, LEM and Engineers Toolset.

The big thing I always worry about is people having their phones connected to their work email account and then loosing them. This could compromise any important information they have in their email as well as give social engineers a way in by being able to send and receive email as the employee and gain additional…

I don't think it's something that can be fixed. It's a form of risk that we have to learn to live with, manage and mitigate as much as possible in the most efficient ways possible.

I think part of the problem with the public cloud is that it's difficult to understand and work with and you really don't get any guidance from the companies providing them. We are a Hybrid Cloud service provider but our business has been built around people. We are people helping other people design new infrastructures or…

rharland2012​ we have also have a very positive experience with O365 and Azure. Our O365 is currently in a hybrid mode but we are also using cloud based SharePoint and it all works very well. We also manage a lot of resources in Azure and that all works very well.

I think they would significantly benefit from a standardization of tools as well; I am assuming that this isn't already true. By having standardized tool-sets and standardize ways of using those tools it would make it much easier for the different teams to work together as they would all be speaking the same language and…

Maybe you forgot to push the Turbo button on your DevOps?

I would also like for these Micro Pollers to include the communication model that I have suggested HERE for the Additional Pollers.

Elegant design is all about being as simple as possible while still accomplishing the task at hand. I agree it would be nice if there was more adherence to standards based protocols; however, vendors want to create their own proprietary ecosystems as to lock you into those ecosystems. If they went with standard protocols…

Yes, absolutely sarcastic! I used to manage all of the Windows patching here for both our and client servers, hundreds of them and I am still partially involved and responsible. Patching systems is a HUGE pain but it's something you need to do. One of the other challenges that I didn't mention before was staffing. I have…

I haven't yet seen the prices on the website like all of the other products, is this something that we should expect to see soon?

That article about cloud security on AWS only highlights one of the biggest myth's about moving to the public cloud; that you no longer need people that know what they are doing because it's all taken care of for you.

I am a big advocate of the idea that if a company wants to be secure then they need to listen to the needs of their employees and provide them with secure and controlled solutions; everything else needs to be blocked. It may be seem draconian but it's the only way to secure an environment. If you don't do this the…

Thanks for sharing! Closing 500 data centers since 2011 seems like a lot to me so I was surprised to see that is lower than what was expected. I am really glad to see that it's becoming more common for organizations to realize that dedicated monitoring experts are required for this versus the historical model of just…

I just look at it all as decisions each with some form of cost associated with it. If my Exec's/VP's say they want me (and my team) to provide some level of functionality, it's just another technical challenge for me. I let them know what the cost will be and then they need to decide if it's more expensive to have the new…