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It was really nice to see this up close in the World Tour in Atlanta recently.

I will be honest. I do and don't. I loved attending them from 2012 - 2018, but now the old team is gone that used to attend, Covid saw a lot of the old Thwacksters move on from SolarWinds. Not that the ones here now are not great, but I mean Patrick, Leon, DanielleH (Not a Headgeek but awesome all the same), Yang, LaRock,…

OK Using Claude.ai (enter at your own risk…) Native OOO Behavior: What It Does (and Does Not) Do. When an agent activates their OOO status, work items assigned to them including incidents, tasks, and approvals are automatically reassigned to a specified backup agent. SolarWinds This is the extent of the native OOO…

@John.Summers Come on. Where is SSO for this? LOL

The capability is partially achievable natively within SWSD, but with a critical limitation the native OOO feature does not expose "assignee OOO status" as a condition field within the Automation Rules engine. A workaround can be achieved but you will need to google or AI your way into that one. I am sure you can find…

For us it was an easy decision. The business really can dictate the structure. I happen to work for an organization where 100% SaaS works and works well. We have NetSuite as an ERP, M365 for productivity and tools like Smartsheet. Although we were hit by the CrowdStrike outage, we were not hit with Salesforce. We do not…

try from incognito and see if its the same result. Happens to me too until I cleared Browser Cache.

That is Awesome.

You bet.

The department and site fields in SWSD assets are relational fields meaning they do not accept free-text strings directly. They must reference pre-existing department and site records within SWSD. This is the most common failure point when attempting automated asset updates and requires a lookup step before the update…

The ${N=OLM.AlertingMacros;M=OLMAlertMessage.EventMessage} macro failing to populate in Log Analyzer-triggered alerts is a documented limitation in how SolarWinds passes Log Analyzer event context into the Orion alerting engine. The alert fires correctly but the event message payload is not being forwarded into the macro…

SELECT name AS DatabaseName, state AS StateCode, state_desc AS StateDescription, CASE state WHEN 4 THEN 'CRITICAL' -- SUSPECT WHEN 5 THEN 'CRITICAL' -- EMERGENCY WHEN 3 THEN 'HIGH' -- RECOVERY_PENDING WHEN 2 THEN 'HIGH' -- RECOVERING WHEN 1 THEN 'MEDIUM' -- RESTORING WHEN 6 THEN 'MEDIUM' -- OFFLINE ELSE 'LOW' END AS…

It is functional but no longer the best available approach. More capable, maintainable, and supportable options exist today. Posh-SSH is a mature, actively maintained PowerShell module that provides native SFTP/SSH capabilities without any external binary dependency. Another option is SAM Component Monitor Using WPM (If…

Do you have E5 licenses? M365 E5 licensing includes the full Microsoft Graph API surface and Power Automate. Power Automate is the lowest-friction path to accomplish this without deep API coding experience.

The "read/write access" language in the SAM AppInsight for Active Directory requirements does not mean you need to grant broad AD write permissions to the monitoring account. It refers specifically to the account having sufficient read access to AD objects, services, and event logs for data collection, with write access…

The Parent entity VMVC:x is missing for entity VMAL:x messages are orphaned VM alarm relationship errors generated when VMAN's internal topology cache cannot resolve the parent vCenter entity for a discovered alarm object. While the vCenter nodes themselves are healthy and monitored, the alarm relationship table is out of…

This is a well-documented SSL/TLS certificate validation issue specific to the SolarWinds Agent communication channel. Here is a structured analysis. The ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID error on port 17778 is directly preventing agent-initiated registration. The root cause is that modern browsers and the SolarWinds Agent…

The 0ms average response time alongside 100% availability is not necessarily an error it is typically a display and data aggregation artifact rooted in how SolarWinds polls and stores response time data, particularly for nodes responding sub-millisecond or at exactly 1ms. However, it warrants validation to rule out a…

I like the idea. I would love it if we could do even more with contracts as well. The comments could be nice…

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95% of my concerts in my life have been in St. Louis. Shake in Indianapolis, random places in Montana, Las Vegas, LA, Orlando, and Atlanta.

I only see the Dead when I am really tired and a few adult beverages in. Then, all bets are off. Wait are we talking about the same Dead…

I was in the store yesterday and today its back to being not available for me. Boo.

Just saying Keepit dropped by today and dropped me off a Yeti Day pack cooler out of the kindness of their hearts. No Thwack points needed… fills the swag need for today, but it's not a 1/2 zip pullover…. Intel, and Arctic Wolf only do 1/4 zip…

So @John.Summers what was the outcome? And will there be other new items soon? I know, get the store working first… But really, I need some new swag…

I have been testing and comparing Claude (tools), ChatGPT (Chatty Cathy), CoPilot, GROK, Gemini, and maybe my favorite, Devs.ai. Mostly because you can play with it all in one place. I try not to PowerShell and any workday ending in day… I am trying to build a conditional access policy for ABA and routing number for only…

I still think about you everyday Zen, well, when I am Thwacking anyway. Wow, that sounds wrong. Anyway…. I agree wholeheartedly. The banter, fun etc. seems missing. I know the missions are to aid in the learning but there was so much more there and so much fun. But it is getting close, just having the ability to see into…

Yeah but now, we know what we can buy at least.

Where to use: Go to the Accounts or Resources view, then Right-click on a specific User or Object. Look for "Open Order" or the specific name of your template in the context menu. If it is correctly assigned to the "Open Order" type, it should appear as an actionable item for that specific user. If you are in the Web…

I like where your head is. Maybe a 100K point bump for the store use and life time points total…. 😁