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Your industry in particular is one that would not be able to handle the idea of complete removal of stable energy generation currently. Can you imagine hospitals depending on the weather for energy? I'm sorry, there isn't enough stable power for the ICU or Emergency rooms tonight as there is no wind or sun.

I had hoped our network team would be interested in that report, but it is not sufficient to what they were asking me for (see my previous post), and they really want an alert that would trigger a ticket in Remedy, not a report. We had a case open asking about this (1114092) but were told what we wanted would require some…

I am just not sure I like the idea of something like this basically encouraging people to cross private or secured property boundaries. It is almost encouraging breaking the law and causing risk. Is this a lack of quality control on the game maker's part? Are they going to see lawsuits heading there way over some of these…

Is that a little like Monday, Part 2? I made it to Monday, Part 9 once. It was a bad couple of weeks.

Same. Expired certification.

Exactly where we find ourselves now after adding more polling engines, more WPM players, and suddenly website response times nose dived.

I wish our upgrade was that easy, but we are building out a whole new instance from scratch because of the large number of changes we are being required to go through. These are internal company things mostly, not SolarWinds specific other than a new Windows OS. We have been building the new instance since December and it…

But the biggest, best ones have to be behind those fences, guarded gates and locked vaults like at Fort Knox and all those protected spaces.

My need is a bit more complicated, but it does involve delta calculations and turning it into a percentage.

Wait... You mean I am not getting a donut with my loaner PC? What the heck!

I see a lot of new, mostly from end users that want to try new stuff. Not much of "out with the old" until it becomes a security risk. The unfortunate thing about our end users and "in with the new" is they buy it, hand it to us, and say make it work. We have no training on the product installation and support, often the…

And in some cases, licensing. If your home lab experiments involve something like Windows, desktop or server, there is a cost there. The primary reason I have not brought up a virtual GS3/SolarWinds environment at home to learn SWQL/API/SDK on is the Microsoft Windows licensing required to install it on. My workplace isn't…

I ran into that scenario as well. It was actually fairly common for a department to get a grant for some new toy a vendor exposed them to, but no ongoing budget for training, maintenance, or support. "Oh, that is IT's problem."

I kind of wish I had this added security in any phone I owned or bought. 

Still in the process of replacing HP OpenView here. We are stuck on a couple of complex alerts they are somehow doing, but most of the conversion is done now.

Odd, I have 2 of the controller based 2602 type APs in my heatmaps. Specifically: AIR-CAP2602E. Are the autonomous versions not supported?

Or, like my experience on Friday, waiting to get seated at a restaurant, all my friends/coworkers were heads down in their phones chasing Pokemon and only half ways paying attention to the attempted conversation. Pokemon was after my childhood, so I don't have the game.

I could add that I have almost the same request for buffer errors. Their exact statement: "Taking the delta between the last and previous values over the polling interval will give the average rate. If sustained over time, can trigger an event."

Speaking of water mains, the local fire marshal REQUIRED water sprinklers in our data center. Umm.. Electricity and water don't mix. At least that marshal agreed to a higher temp failing sensor than the real data center fire protection.

Our security team is questioning this tool and whether or not they should allow it due to possible risks of the outside company i.e. MapQuest, having "access to our internal IP addressing, hostnames and street addresses." Does anyone have any ideas on how to respond to this security concern? I don't believe there would be…

I agree. I don't need most of the IoT functionality out there, certainly not the refrigerator. But something maybe that can attach to my alarm system and sent me an alert? That would be good.

While not exactly a full IDE, Notepad++ has been my go-to for editing scripts, config files for various programs and Cisco IOS snippets for years.

In my technical writing class long ago, one assignment was to write a procedure to sharpen a pencil in one of those old wall mounted pencil sharpeners that used to be in classrooms. The one with the rotary dial for pencil diameter. The instructor went through every procedure the people in the class wrote and was able to…

It worked for me and a couple of coworkers.

That could be helpful. We are struggling with .NET and Windows updates and some strange incompatibility while trying to bring up brand new additional web servers. This dependency is killing this project right now, and getting us in hot water with management. I would love to see those dependencies go away also, so an…

Microsoft might get around to fixing there stuff in another 10 years or so. Either that or break it worse.

Ok, that looks good!

I realize in a model or vendor change that these are big changes and almost need to be deleted/re-added because they are so different. But that also means we lose historical information at the site. Did the hardware upgrade help with CPU/Memory/Interface utilization? Was there an improvement for the site/users? Maybe not…

There is a problem with today's question. Exactly the same problem i had with the question on March 18. I have a screen shot of the message that notes the answers after marking me wrong, and a screenshot showing I picked those exact answers.

I have been trying to get our organization away from spreadsheets for some time. I can't convince the bean counters to let me buy an IPAM solution. I have been trying to get the SolarWinds solution, but in the process I also evaluated Infoblox. Due to how our licensing agreements work with Microsoft, theirs is the obvious…