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Swarm pollers would be awesome! Distributed, small-scale polling engines for a multi-tenant service. Oh, my previous self working for an MSP would be so excited right now.

There are some nice SAM templates for the Netscalers if you have SAM, of course.

I once heard that $50K in 'consulting' services was enough to get you on the MQ, but I'm not wearing my tinfoil hat today so I won't delve too far into the Gartner conspiracy theories

This might have been asked/answered already, but are there any details around 4x performance in a single poller environment? I assume that those improvements are maintained as more APE's are added?

To me, HA means redundancy (prevent failures) and DR means faster recovery time when a failure occurs, so I would think that we can expect to see some redundancy at some point. I noticed those little tidbits in the beta as well. Exciting times!

You mean our joyful exuberance in the forums and social media wasn't enough to convince everyone to buy in early?

Amen!

I 99% agree with your assessment of Solarwinds. In fact, I've rarely worked with anyone, let alone an entire company, that proactively polls their customer base looking for guidance and feedback on their development cycle. However, custom SQL queries are a mainstay of our organization. (And migrating to SWQL). We use them…

I know that rhether‌ and neoceasar‌ would be interested in more FortiNet support for sure.

Any chance of finding out when we might see 250K elements per instance any time soon? I just had one of those 'near-death' experiences where someone asked "What if I needed to monitor every switch port that was connected to a server, access point, storage devices, etc.? Could we do that?" Seriously, I almost died. We're at…

Mike, we leverage custom properties on the interfaces for just such a thing. When we add a new network device we also edit the interfaces (just switch the view from Nodes to Interfaces in the Manage Nodes view). We call our Custom Property InterfaceCategory and use it for WAN, TRUNK, and WIRELESS interfaces. Hope this…

Super interested in those footnote items! Ongoing Initiatives: * Increased scalability per SolarWinds instance (target of 250k elements / instance) * Improved performance and decreased resource load times via analysis with SolarWinds DPA * Increased number of pollers possible per instance

XIV support is the big for afox‌ and the rest of the Cardinal Health crew.

Mike: Did you ever get an answer to this question? I'd be interested in this as I am about to recommend that a client move their syslog management from Orion to Kiwi because of their capture and retention policies. Thanks, Josh

Saurion: Are you using sub-interfaces on the ASA for each customer or does all of the bandwidth come in on a single interface? We use sub-interfaces for the majority of our customer base and I simply need to run a report on that sub-interface to get the relevant statistics. I assume by bandwidth you mean bytes transferred…

Alexander -- unfortunately we discontinued the ServiceNow project, although we had gotten to the point where we were able to directly send alerts from SolarWinds to ServiceNow. I'll have to dig up my notes to remember where we left off last year, but there was kind of a 'Eureka' moment. It is one of the pre-sales engineers…

We are actively exploring the idea of using SOAP to connect our SolarWinds Orion and ServiceNow instances together. We had explored using emails, but decided that this was a fall-back approach if the SOAP puts were too complex. The question we are currently exploring is whether we need to have any sort of middleware (I've…

HolyGuacamole is correct, if you want to do realtime views you are going to need Engineer's Toolset, specifically this tool Interface Monitor Tool | SolarWinds. The Engineer's Toolset is a collection of tools and, most recently, was changed so that you could integrate the toolset with your NPM instance. There is a great…

remi f I couldn't figure out a way to do it other than mashing up the list in Excel using the concatenate function and then doing a discover for specific IP addresses. Hope that helps.

We do not. Sorry.

Mind. Blown. When DanielleH‌ asked what items we wanted in the Thwack store I totally said "Shoes -- then I could wear Solarwinds swag from head to toe." Your team read my mind! (I would totally wear those with pride -- #geekpride)

We use something very similar in our environment for things like new alerts, etc. They key is avoiding the use of common accounts. Every member of the team has to have a unique username or else the alerts become useless when enabled. As for waiting for NPM 12 -- I wouldn't hold my breath since NPM 11 was just released. I'd…

This one makes me happy, it's the little things. * Poll duplex settings and alert on possible mismatches I know, I know -- one would think that in Q3 2014 there would be very few links in an enterprise (of any size!) that weren't using auto-negotiate, but I have some customers from a previous life that insisted on…

adatole‌ is 100% correct. Unless you have no other option then configure the DAS or LUNs you present to your DB server (whether physical or virtual) for RAID10. The performance increase is substantial. I have promised Leon that I will write up a post on our experience in the next few weeks but the summary is this: We have…

Shamefully, I work from home and have no excuse for desk disarray. Or maybe I have *more* reasons

Is your daily maintenance running? Are the MSMQ queues on the polling engine backing up? Is the data current in the UI or DB? 

After working with support, we found a neat solution. Removing UnDP Pollers on an Agent Polled Node

Gah! Foiled by the Advanced > Preferred Polling Method ... AGAIN! I changed the preferred polling method to Agentless after writing out the $downloadstring in the error message and discovering that the $downloadstring (the URL:port combo) was returning http://127.0.0.1:7181 instead of the target IP address. That change,…

Fiddling with Re: Powershell Monitor / Basic Authentications / Credentials now to see if this works. Apparently you can break ${CREDENTIAL} into the username/password variables for use in PoSH cmdlets where you can't pass the -Credentials. EDIT: I've figured out how to get it to work from PowerShell ISE on the polling…

I'd also recommend that you upgrade to Orion 2015.1 and the latest/greatest version of any modules that you have installed. We noticed better performance post-upgrade without any sort of specific tuning.