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You had me at standardization!

Do you still have the bruises?

There is nothing like busting your butt in a role only to find out that your co-workers are making 20% more than you to perform the same job. It really stings when you are performing at an elite level and you find out that your co-workers are making more than you I've had situations where I've had co-workers reveal the…

Back when I was in my consulting life I used to tell potential customers that I didn't want to sell them only NPM. I always wanted to sell them NPM and NCM. It wasn't that I wanted the deals to be larger but that I *rarely* ran across an enterprise (of any size) that was doing an adequate job of backing up their device…

Standards are only as good as the measurement and enforcement of them. My email signature at work contains the quote below. You can have the beautifully written standards, the most well thought out processes and procedures but if there is no way to determine compliance with those standards then you are only marginally…

Without this ability, I designed a quick work-around. 1) I created a custom property called 'Unmanage Reason' and defined a set of reason codes 2) I created a report that checks for both currently unmanaged nodes as well as nodes that will be unmanaged today. (Custom SQL reports) 3) I created an alert that checks for nodes…

We do daily data extractions and store them in a Big Data platform. We actually use that platform for user-generated, ad-hoc reporting as well as some structured reports. We basically worked with our performance teams and asked them what stats they wanted. We made sure we identified those stats and what tables they were…

Sorry, that was what I was thinking in my head but didn't quite get out into that post. Of course, that brings up another idea -- additional micro-pollers. I know there is an issue with selling a primary polling engine than is less than 100 elements but it really kills the options for the SMB market to be monitored…

Apparently I am not the only one who things that a micro-poller is a good idea. (A community of crazy!) https://thwack.solarwinds.com/ideas/3061-- and it's even been moved to 'What we're working on' too! W00t! (Take note Richard Hetherington)

I did! It is a custom SQL alert for interfaces that will look something like this. If you don't intend on filtering your nodes via custom properties on this alert then you can remove the JOIN NodesCustomProperties line as well as the ncp.OwnerGroup = 'NETWORK' line. Also note that the DATEADD(ss,-420,GETDATE()) matches our…

For those of you playing along at home the final phrase is: A good security professional never forgets to renew their Solarwinds maintenance. jk

Hey bshopp‌, how does EOC handle node IDs? Here's the source of my question. I have 85K elements and I am considering split my environment between our major DCs but we do an awful lot of data sharing with other applications (performance/capacity and CMDB) that is all tied in via the NodeID in Orion. If I have two separate…

+1 for brain stalking.

Of course! At least that's the way it would work in my head. It would be MVPs, just in a more concentrated dose.

I wouldn't mind seeing the MIB broken into multiple files too. Current MIB is just over 1GB. Yikes -- especially since it has been stored on C:

I guess the idea of an all flash storage array is cost prohibitive especially if you aren't leveraging some sort of storage tiering technology. I am sure kong.yang​ can wax eloquent on the value of VSAN and other virtual array technologies that help to reduce the cost of entry for flash storage arrays-not-arrays I…

Just going to leap in here and point out the obvious -- I haven't found a monitoring platform yet that takes as much time and effort to incorporate the feedback of their customers as SolarWinds. Is it a perfect system? Heck no! But it is awesome enough that I consistently recommend them and their products to customers --…

I think that is the missing piece of puzzle here -- do you understand your workloads? If the answer is No then spend some time figuring that out first. Archived data on SSD is insane. Heck, even low IOPS workloads on SSD is insane. You wouldn't by a truck if all you needed was a compact car. Oh wait -- maybe that's a bad…

Radioteacher, crwchief6 justinm mharvey. I didn't have them either until a former colleague pointed out that the hint link goes to the wrong document. Check out the other documents for the other tracks for clues.

I can't tell you how many times I come back to this post hoping that it has been picked up as a feature in the latest release. Come on people -- there can't be only 9 of us in the world who want this feature!

Had this issue come up again last week bump. Seriously though, there are a couple of things I think the alerting engine could really use to reduce the number of alerts in large environments: 1) Alert delay via custom property. This would be a "If node_alertdelay IS NOT NULL then AlertDelay = node_AlertDelay ELSE alertdelay…

I second ecklerwr1‌'s thoughts -- go with it. Really, if you *aren't* asking yourself that question every day are you really in the right line of work?

uncle.rico We are doing exactly that with a Gigamon appliance. We aggregate a bunch of 10Gb links and then peel off the interesting traffic to a 1Gb SPAN port for only the traffic that we want to see at the NPAS. I think that this exact setup is discussed in this FAQ ... Gigamon to NPAS. Just a point of clarification on…

It is. I don’t remember what the question is (I think it the 3 word answer) but it is definitely in one of the 3 hint documents.

Amazing article on today's MM question. I was just talking with a friend about businesses that did customer engagement and satisfaction so well that we brought them repeat business. I believe there is a trifecta required to make your customers happy. 1. Have a product that exceeds their expectations and comes in at or…

Is it just me or is the day 8 code the same as the day 7 code? maria.bungau

The ITIL model helps here. Those non-technical, non-traditional IT people probably don't care the server Exchange07 is down or that DBserv03 is having CPU contention issues, they only care that they can't get their email or that customers are complaining that orders are being processed slowly. In ITIL parlance there is a…

This story exposes the two-edge sword that is wielded by those opposed to additional network monitoring tools. One side is the "prove that I have a problem with my existing processes" which is nearly impossible to do without investing at least some time into a trial. The other side is the "everything looks good to me"…

I think the best part of this winners list is that I don't recognize a bunch of the names. That certainly speaks to the participation and reach of these contents. Well done maria.bungau and the rest of the thwack staff. Merry Christmas!

To my understanding, this is the secret sauce of the Orion platform. Obviously Orion (as if it is some sentient being!) knows this already and could provide the data or at least data in such a way that we might be able to reverse engineer it. We'd definitely need to get someone from SolarWinds to weigh in on this one. To…