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I think the visualization component of any monitoring solution is important. In working with different clients to build a monitoring solution they all find a huge value in creating an at-a-glance visualization of their application including all of the different components that make that application possible (network,…

Jfrazier‌ what happens if you fall for it? Do you get a message saying "congratulations, you just compromised the company"?

What belongs to the tribe has to reside on tribal land Awesome quote! I hope you don't mind if I borrow that one for future conversations. 

Awesome, thanks wabbott​!

LOL, are you suggesting the MVP invite should come with a warning label? 

It seems that all of these articles written targeting federal agencies are just as appropriate for any other company or agency. 

I honestly have not been impressed with some of the newer backup products and backup capabilities designed for virtual environments. Most of them seem to cause more problems than they solve. I realize that some if this is due to poor configuration; however, some of it is due to the nature of how these products work. I…

While I certainly think Monitoring is a critical piece of managing an infrastructure and helps provide visibility into what is going on allowing you to stop potential issues before they begin, I stop just shy of calling it "Proactive". The reason for this is that when your monitoring system does detect a problem it's after…

I am not sure I fully understand how you have this configured? Do you have both a Custom Node Property and a Custom Interface Property called CustomID? If this is the case when you configure an account, how are you configuring the account limitations?

Ok, so I watched the "Why automation is different this time" video and I am thinking maybe I shouldn't have. Now I am depressed and it only makes it more clear to me how many people don't see this coming and how unprepared for it we are.

Thanks for the response, I think I will go ahead and hold off then. So when you launch the installer the first thing it will do is the database migration? Is there any reason why you wouldn't want to go with the default and migrate all of it? I personally would love to have it all in one database and be able to remove one…

This is so absolutely true. Years ago when we were using HP OpenView (I still have PTSD over that) I had a manager that when asked what we should be monitoring; his response was "everything". 

Congrats and welcome to all of the new folks!

Jfrazier​ I continue to agree with you on this. Maybe you and I need to get together and come up with a new cool name for sliced bread and get rich selling bread 2.0 to the world? 

Most of our retail clients have change blackouts that begin at the beginning of November and go through the end of the year. Many of those clients also increase resources on their system to handle any additional load.

Not unlike wanting to jump right into code, I find some folks want to jump right into automation without first taking the time to standardize. If you don't have good standards then you are really going to struggle with automation.

I would agree with both points as well. While it's less lying and more of keeping secrets, I still don't feel good about it. Knowing something and intentionally withholding the information puts me in an awkward situation. It has even made it worse when later on the information was made public and folks find out that I knew…

Yeah, I agree! The Virtualization Manager integration was very nicely done and I would love to see the same type of thing with LEM.

Here is my review: Link to the full review: Software Reviews - Gartner Peer Insights - IT Research

We currently have a majority of the Orion suite products as well as the SolarWinds SIEM solution Log & Event Manager. Our monitoring is pretty much 100% powered by SolarWinds! Having the SolarWinds Orion stack provides great visibility via one integrated toolset. The next step I would love to see SolarWinds take with the…

I just stated Altered Carbon and I am loving it.

We have had to fire several customers over the 15 years I have worked here. Generally speaking it gets to this point when despite all efforts a customer continues to think that because they pay you money for a service that also give them the right to call up and treat your employees like crap.

I guess in this case I would like the feature request to be collect in UTC, store in UTC and only manipulate at the reporting level letting people choose what time they want the reports/data in. That being said, at the very least having things consistent across the board would be good.

We not only face the challenge of having to optimize to give our clients top performance but we also struggle with clients with outdated ideas of how things work wanting to just throw more resources at their systems to try and solve problems. It's difficult to explain to them that adding more resources can actually make it…

We manage many different environments for customers so standardization in our deployments is incredibly important. When people occasionally deviate from our standards we end up with environments that are nearly unmanageable. Standards and scale go hand-in-hand.

ecklerwr1​ I have a tendency to want to agree with you on this; however, I am still left with the question of "compared to what?". I am completely comfortable to say that something doesn't scale well but I want to understand what the scale or comparison being made is? I am pretty familiar with many of the solutions in the…

ecklerwr1​ I would love to know as much as you can share about your RMF and the infrastructure you plan to use to achieve your logging requirements.

We really need this feature as well!

I find myself in this same situation all of the time; however, I never find it that easy to provide the facts. The problem I find is that there are so many different factors that can contribute to "slowness". While we use Orion (NPM, SAM, NCM, LEM, Toolset), there are so many different bits of data that one needs to…

Jfrazier​ well not everybody is a morning bump'er. Some people I work with can't even be bothered to show up before 10AM.