dmbeckemeyer

Thanks for putting this together! Definitely some things to take into consideration for internal security.

Today's quiz appears to be broken. I entered the answer in the text space and clicked, next: nothing happened. Tried in IE and Chrome. Is it just me?

Yay, I got it! Boy, sometimes the simple answer is the least obvious...

Do you have any plans to support multiple browser monitoring? It would be very helpful to compare issues in IE. vs. Chrome, v.s Firefox...

Oh boy... As a consultant, I have seen some horrific things. One of my clients had retail stores across the U.S. that specialized in jewelry making. I traveled to many of their stores to clean up their server rooms and replace antiquated hardware. Many of their servers will still running Server 2003 (this was in 2011) and…

Received the Amazon Echo yesterday and got it set up. One of the first questions I asked: "Alexa, what is the meaning of life?" Alexa: "..." Alexa: "A traditional response to this question is "42"." Amazon: You're doing it right.

I had a DBA tell me once that they don't like to automate tasks, because they don't "Trust the automation to work." ...Wut? Only if you use broken scripts? Just test the hell out of everything before using in a prod scenario... some people, man.

Today's video would not load for me (in Chrome) from the SolarWinds Lab page [VIDEO] SolarWinds Lab #34: Amp Up Your Network Configuration and Compliance with SolarWinds NCM Had to find the video on the SolarWinds Official YouTube channel.

Frankie says RELAX! There's some metrics related to Users specifically in the Whitepaper hint you that should take a look at.

On the NOC side, We use: SolarWinds: SAM NPM IPAM NTA NCM WPM SRM VMAN Others: Nagios RRDTool Nagios is used primarily for the Unix side of the house, which is like a good chunk of our systems. We monitor these in SolarWinds as well, but Nagios gets used more due to the easier/better availability to monitor various Java…

Thanks!

That's a cruel, sick thing to do to someone on a Tuesday, Thwack.

Almost everything I monitor is virtualized, so I'll just show you a shot of part of my desk instead.

Same here! >_< No sparkly new tv for me I guess. I call shenanigans.

Hi Everyone, Since this thread was opened nearly three years ago -- I added a new Feature Request under WPM to help it gain some new visibility again. I don't want to steal ">dkandola's thunder, but I just ran into this last week after a scenario with compatibility and slowness complaints on a transaction, and found myself…

I am not too great with scripting, but I can usually phrase a question well enough in "The Google's" to get a script that I can alter to suit my needs, especially when it comes to Powershell. I learned very early on while on the SysAdmin path that if you can't get comfortable with the idea of occasionally needing to use…

Frisky Dingo - You signed off on the proofs... - YouTube

Honestly this is terribly worded. The question is "Which of the following is NOT one of the key memory-type metrics you can monitor:" "Cache Hit Ratio" - is in the document, verbatim "Lock" - is in the document, but is listed as "Lock Memory" "Workfiles Created" - is in the document, but is listed as "Workfiles…

I would like the GoPro so I can strap it to my Corgi for maximum entertainment.

Sometimes people use quotes "Ironically".

Today's recording for the question hint sounds like it was recorded with a rotten potato.

This absolutely needs visibility. Just like any other asset, network devices need to have a history if there is ever a question of licensing discrepancy, old hardware/configs in production, etc.

**Sees a new monthly thwack contest up** **Doesn't have enough coffee this morning before attempting to answer** **Reading comprehension skills suffer, fail to enter first question of the month correctly** **Silently cries at desk**

No, today you can't get this granular with SolarWinds unless you want to murder your polling engine. Even then, the data isn't going to be truly "real-time", and some embellishments are made to round up or down to a nice, pretty flat number. This is why we are using RRDTool in our environment today to fill in the gaps…

Oh wow. Ok... Morning pre-coffee dyslexics unite.

Thank you! Excited to mess around with the Echo

I agree 100%

So FWIW, I actually figured this out. Feel free to use and share: select n.Caption, cp.<YOURCUSTOMPROPERTY> from orion.nodes n join orion.nodescustomproperties cp on cp.nodeid=n.nodeid join Orion.ContainerMembers c on c.memberprimaryid=n.nodeid where MemberEntityType like 'orion.nodes' and cp.<YOURCUSTOMPROPERTY> =…

Ok, thanks. I was able to login to the SWQL Studio via the app server. I think the reason your example statement doesn't work is because "n.Caption" and "cp.PhysicalLocation" do not live in the same table. ( I get this is why you have the JOIN statement, but they are not joining.) "n.Caption" is in Orion.Nodes, and…

The pdf links work fine now, but the video does not... I get a 500 internal server error. here is the url I get: https://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1161665466001?bckey=AQ~~,AAAAo6yHyCk~,Sxq_urni6y7kV1uEF8oV8eODDask6rD7&… I have cleaned out and factory reset both browsers (ie and chrome) and deleted…