chaoslodge

Thanks for digging. Knowing for sure is what we really needed.

The military seems to like Oracle and MS SQL in my situation. I would imagine there are plenty of other locations that are the same way. I would also point out that SolarWinds is not the only vendor using NO SQL type databases and that seems to be the future of many of these sort of thing so I am sure the military will…

Just to be clear. We are using a 64 bit 2008 server. We want to avoid using the new NTA datastore since it is not cleared for use in our environment. Do we have options of using the same SQL instance that NPM etc are using? Do we have the option to use a dedicated SQL DB for NTA separate from the one being used by NPM et…

I am in a Fed facility so licensing is not an issue as much as just getting a handle on things. We are working on getting Splunk set up and the plan is to have it index from Orion as well as lots of other sources. SW is well liked for the most part and does what we need it too in that regard. As I am architecting the…

Thank you. I will look over that episode. We were under the impression it was not optional with a 64 bit operating system from our own reading of the install and other documents.

I mostly visit Thwack but find myself once a week in the solarwinds.com site too. Usually to retrieve manuals etc,... We just went through an upgrade across all of our SW platforms and I was in charge of coordinating the effort with several teams in addition to adhering to our ITIL type change management. I joined thwack…