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Many of the successful ones at least. The ones that aren't full stack and successful must have very cooperative teams.

I have hit recording for the past few years to brush up from time to time, but I also ask co-workers to watch specific ones from time to time. Its a great resource.

I like the mindset of problem solving in the hacker community. Time and time again, they find new ways to leverage the "stuff" of modern life to fit their purpose, even if its not the intent of those who made it.

I don't give up that easily. Lets see if we can cheat like they did. I don't have 12 running yet, but I will soon, so lets think this through. 1. We need to capture the page into a screenshot, my goolge-fu says that there are powershell and python examples out there. Make web (or sharepoint) pages screenshots with…

We still lean on their databases for some important things. While they do what they do well, I am always amazed where we run into rough edges. We just stood up some Oracle Exadata hardware, and you would swear we were the first people to do it, and that they had never heard of a customer running active directory.

I was a lifeguard and taught swim lessons in high school. Teaching kids forces you to think out steps with great detail, because if you can't break it down to simple steps they will do something completely else. Being a lifeguard teaches you to watch for the things that lead to problems, because you have to work so much…

We haven't been able to pull the plug on the primary data center, but systems do get tested in silos of related functions. When the apps fail out we watch for what comes back over the wire in the primary DC to see what might have been missed. So things don't have an HA component, and their test truly are restores, in the…

I love this idea! Maybe polling frequency be included in the weight too

I am actively figuring this out right now too. If I get past the authorization into the API I will likely have a PowerShell based SAM template to share.

I do want a small army of bots at my control but these aren't quite ready for my plans. Apple devices are at an odd crossroads. I don't know who they are anymore, and their name will only carry them for so long.

I am ready! Let the presentations begin.

It would be nice, I have seen alot of useful features uncovered using formats like the ones listed. A number of products I use just bolt on Swagger UI. It might be that the Orion API doesn't quite fit that mold though, there may be some things not exposed via REST. 

Absolutely. We have plans per system, and those systems get ranked for importance. From there we review which have built in HA by application design, and what needs some level of assistance (automation) to meet the business needs for recovery.

I think I did as well and cheated by running it on the Orion polling engine as a remote session to the server I needed data from, something like: Invoke-Command -ComputerName Server01 -ScriptBlock {<Your data>} I think I had it return an array with the results and then I took the block output and mapped it to desired Orion…

I think avoiding these phrases will help almost anyone communicate better. When you stop saying stuff like this list, there is a good chance that what you do say will be more useful.

Getting the business to understand your support limits when you adopt anything hosted is a big challenge. There have been a few times where the accountability of the service we purchased didn't live up to expectations, but recently its gotten better. People are more used to failures in the cloud, but when work stops users…

@"lukas.cerny" This is a great write up. We are just about to add LA to our install, and this is a very helpful write up that clarified a few things from the admin guide. Thanks! 

I agree. I don't see what they want me to figure out. I see 1 node, 1 application, and 1 component in a Warning state. 1 is not an option.

It did take a decade

Play the long game, day to day the people around you will go up and down. Go take some live training, do some beta/RCs. Volunteer for UX sessions. The On boarding mission shouldn't be skipped ( https://thwack.solarwinds.com/community/solarwinds-community/announcements/blog/2017/10/06/you-dont-know-thwack--the-onb… ) and…

We have not yet, but we are also reviewing it

I assume meat.

I have also had to differentiate High Availability from Disaster Recovery, HA should prevent service interruptions, but it may or may not allow you to replace what fails during an unplanned failure. My mirrored databases are great until bad data gets into both. Understanding Recovery time and Recovery Point objectives when…

It's an honor, thank you!

Go for it, if its interesting to you, its likely some of us will be interested too. Your linear regression link was the first one I read

I am working on finding remote devices to run some of the UX checks that interest me as well. We need carnaries out in the field to give us the unbiased version of issues as they occur. Too often we get incorrect scope or impact.

Computers have been part of my life since I was in grade school, but I didn't consider IT as a career until I couldn't get a job. Then a few small opportunities showed me that its always best to to help when you can, and never be afraid of responsibility offered. Whether it was agreeing to answer phones for tech support,…

ITSM always seems to be sucessful or not based on the culture of the organization, rules and procedures get you only so far without changing the mindsets of the people using ITSM.

Worth the upgrade to use it.

I want to retire my Orion infrastructure on Windows 2012 r2 and get moved to all new servers.