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There is some crazy bump action going on here. Thwack MVPs doing it again! Jfrazier​ njoylif​ bluefunelemental​ familyofcrowes​ rschroeder​ shuth​ and the always awesome (but not yet MVP) jm_sysadmin

That's what I expected and feared. Until Orion can scale beyond 100K elements then EOC is the way forward meaning automation with external systems that required unique nodeIDs will require some finesse to work.

I like that idea as well, but it would have to come with a response time threshold of some sort that would allow would be the trigger for the secondary polling path. You would also need to have some sort of mechanism to stop the polling IPs from flopping back and forth. It's not full-on route flapping, but would sure be…

See my comment below. I echo the concerns about DB performance as well as the web-tier for Orion. PerfStack is so awesome that it could be a victim of its own success!

Day 7 of the Network Admin track makes my head hurt. I think I might be skipping a question this week.

Does anyone else have blender lust when looking at that Vitamix 5200? I mean that's one serious blender! (Unfortunately, I am being quite serious in my blender lust -- I probably need help )

I've heard Leon Adato say that "slow is the new down" at least a thousand times. Definitely agree.

Man that aLTeReGo​, always one stop ahead of me!

Wow. That is creepy. I like it

I like it! I think sqlrockstar​ recently posted an article about data being a commodity. I love that "never trust your input". How many times we do we see exploits that happen because someone didn't validate the values that we expected on an input? Now imagine running a script with thousands, maybe 10s of thouands, of…

We had a very similar instance for an SMB client in my last job. The client had a bunch of small business circuits to offices stretching across 4 provinces and users would periodically call about performance issues. Of course, the NOC saw the device as up via ICMP. When we dug into the problem we came up with a neat little…

As I stare at my dev environment which is a bloody mess of a sandbox and try to figure out a way to make it like like my prod environment (dashboards only, not node count) I desperately wish I had this implemented.

Now all we need is some adatole​, maria.bungau​ and DanielleH​ love and we'll have critical mass!

I should point out that at least I was cool enough (or wanted to be cool enough!) to wear a Skinny Puppy t-shirt for picture day.

For those playing along at home my spreadsheet might have been a bit over the top. Would *really* have liked to have seen different messages for each track this month. I'm still going to do all 3 tracks for the (*ahem*) knowledge (points, what points!?!) but it does reduce the sense of excitement. Not having unique mystery…

Done and done.

I can see lunch breaks and "weekend work" becoming very interesting at blsanner's office.

Every admin of any decent size Solarwinds environment should be voting up your suggestion -- just saying. While they are at it, they could vote up the publish DB schema as well. https://thwack.solarwinds.com/ideas/4687 (Thread hijacking complete!)

This is the most awesome Feature Request I've ever seen. Sometimes you feel pretty alone when you are facing a problem and you can't figure out if it is you or the code. Finding and squashing bugs makes everyone happier and should help reduce the overall load of support as the platform will have fewer bugs overall.

I think today's question was written by a former Microsoft test architect. "Select the best design given the following requirements from a customer for..."-type questions make me want to run and hide. And yes, I did get it wrong

Only if they have palm trees and no snow at my destination

I like the new layout of questions blocking by day instead of week. I don't like the light blue on dark blue for Thursday though - so hard to read!

No, unfortunately not. After pondering on it a bit, I realized that the variable ${USE_BASELINE} was built specifically for this purpose. Perhaps if tdanner​ and team worked with aLTeReGo​ and team to allow a variable other the ${USE_BASELINE} then we could get the SWIS folks to give us a new SWIS variable that would allow…

I wish Solarwinds would do an on-campus event in Austin. I've been dying to get down there since I started using the product 5+ years ago. Going to Vegas would be nice, but getting a chance to be in the heart of everything would be amazing. I think I'd like that more than visiting Redmon or the Googleplex. (OK, maybe not…

Thanks for the clarification. Now all I have to do is purchase Storage Manager so that I can get into the SRM beta

gerardodada​ I had the unique experience of demoing this for all of the directors under my VP yesterday -- on a couple of hours notice. Here's how the story unfolded. My previous director knew about dynamic thresholds and asked my current director if there was a way to expose that data inside of dashboards so that teams…

Maybe I am a weird IT professional, but I *want* to be able to prove those numbers are legitimate and that they have real value to the business. And I agree with adatole​ ... you can pretty much make up whatever numbers you want and they will either be accepted by management as truth (you are, after all, the monitoring…

Strange. I would have expected a "here is what we updated" doc for the DB schema.

How very Mad Max of you. I like it!

With SNMP being deprecated in Server 2012 I can see this functionality being phased out in the next 5 years in favour of PowerShell queries. Of course, if you happen to still be running Windows 2000 servers in 2014 then you might need a little longer