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Yea, the question is worded a bit confusing. When you're in the demo, click on home. Then, in the "Instances with Highest Wait Time" choose one of the bars with the highest wait time, BUT look for the section of the bar that says "DB2", which is what this question is about. If you click on the SQL2K or SYBASE portion of…

I don't think Mr. Cleese has relinquished that title! Watch out, or you might find yourself visited by the spanish inquisition! Bet you didn't expect that, nobody does!!

At a previous job the power went out. Not a huge deal, the batteries and generator kicked in just fine, so everything is good, right? Well, it happens to be mid-summer and when the power was off for the extended time, we couldn't run both the cooling systems and the servers on the generator. The temperature quickly rose in…

I have to say, this feature is pretty bad right now, takes a ton of time to work with. First I should say that working with this on a "per-device" basis seems to be the totally wrong way to go. I would think it should work on a "per-model" basis. In your EOS Lookup page where you assign EOS dates, you have devices with "No…

Well, considering a good many people I know that become IT pro's started off in other professions, I honestly don't think it would matter if we all went away at once. A bit of chaos might reign until people got curious why something wasn't working and pretty soon you'd have a whole new batch. Now if people kept vanishing…

I'm not convinced either that "transactional configuration" or network-wide configuration is either a good idea, or necessary for the most part. In your example in the post you referred to with IPTV requiring configuring one router, two switches, two firewalls and a billing system, you wanted this all done with a single…

I believe the closest you can come right now is with UDT and maybe IPAM. With UDT you get the AD integration to see who's logged in where. From that you can get the IP address a person is logged in under. There is no direct link between the two, but you could take that IP address and plug it into NTA and see what they're…

Or for cheap organizations! ;-)

Users Fix Applications Issues 95% slower when... -Bacon is within reach -Starwars is playing nearby (unless Jar Jar Binks is on) -Its time for Solarwinds Lab! ???

Sorry, I know UDT pretty well, but you totally confused me as to what you're asking. Can you give examples or a more detailed explanation?

I think we should have a Thwack Challenge for all of us how here! 100 Thwack points to everyone who can find a new banned keyword!! I'll try for a few... Ipswitch, Whatsup, Intermapper, Manageengine, OpenNMS, Openview...

Nice article! I do find it rather funny that I've been working at a healthcare provider for nearly 3 years now and they have barely even talked about HIPAA standards since I've been here. But several years ago when I worked at a place that was thinking about getting into telemedicine we were all thoroughly schooled on…

Yea, the negative in the question "What feature is not included" makes the question not make sense. I'll wait a bit to answer myself...

Jealous for sure! I think they'd laugh at me here if I even asked to go to something like Cisco Live - pretty much zero training!!

Well, Solarwinds is our main monitoring tool for the networking side. Our server guys refuse to integrate their Solarwinds instance with ours, so I'm not sure if they use additional tools over there. Other tools we use are: Cisco Prime (manage wireless controllers) Aerohive Hivemanager (HMOL - manage Aerohive AP's)…

Was? Did you know he's publishing again? Mainly on Facebook, but a bit on Instagram. Good stuff! I was a bigger Opus fan than anything, or Rosebud. But I figure the "Ack" is a better response to those asking for new technologies. Although if I could manage what Opus did to the Hare Krishna that could work too, but I doubt…

I'd like to see enhancements to the Compliance part of the product. I think its falling behind a bit. For instance, one thing I'd like to see is the ability to select nodes more along the line of the Dynamic Query Builder in the new web-based report writer... So I could do things like this: select nodes where vendor…

You know, while I am a fan of documentation I see something mostly missing from this discussion. Standarization. The more standardized you can make your network, the less documentation you have to do! ie: If every site is configured the same way, your documentation for the site might be as simple as listing the carriers…

Ok, in general I agree, that running PoE lightbulbs seems a bit on the crazy side. But, maybe we should step back and think a bit on it rather than simply dismissing it. I mean, maybe this is a gateway to potentially solving other problems. I mean what else could it be used for? And I'm not necessarily advocating for these…

Not "fixed" yet, but there is a workaround. You can find details here: Configuration Archiving BROKEN! 

Agreed, when they finally did dependencies it made things much easier for us!

Nice, although I'd love to see some of the functionality we have in Network Atlas maps added. Such as, if there is a maps resource on a "Group Details" page. There is a "Map name format" where if I choose a format and have a map saved with naming scheme, such as "Group ${Caption}", it will substitute the name and load that…

I enjoyed it, although I admit I didn't learn a lot being a netflow user for quite some time. It's always interesting to see things from another perspective though. Definitely good for beginners though. Thought the class ran very long though, maybe cut out the intro's and save half an hour?

Did mine quite a while ago also, but no points?

Yea, I don't think I've ever seen this mission complete in my profile! No idea on how to get there either. Of course it says EMEA now, so not even sure if a US person is eligible anymore!

Similar to an idea I had a few years ago...

Yea, I usually like to wait until most people have stopped complaining about it first!! Might like to play on the bleeding edge, but not operate on it.

I was just about to post this, can't figure out why it doesn't exist yet honestly!! Lets vote this up folks!!!

Ideally I would like to be able to place Network Atlas maps on this map as a "group". 

Pretty much any alert can be done by doing a custom SWQL alert, but you need to define what you're doing a bit better. I haven't been working with IPAM much for awhile, but I'm not familiar with anything that flags a subnet as a "PCI Subnet". Are you using IP Groups alone, or IP groups with a Custom Property attached to…