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We had one of these to kill hard drives. Just put a drive in slowly crank it until the drive made it through, then hand it off the the vendor for complete destruction

Fixed for me, thanks

That is the exception not the rule, and the parties involved now know better, but we still own it. This CIO has improved that culture significantly, but I agree, that problem is not a tech problem.

We do this, its just a few SQL queries (I wanted a SWQL call in a script, but got a bunch of blank stares) that I gave to our service now admins which that they added to their discovery. They take the data and map it to the fields they select and decide how to match devices. There is a "native" integration into Service Now…

We are not using them yet, though I tried to convince my SQL DBA to set up the first SQL 2017 instance in docker. He didn't think I was funny, and I wasn't joking.

@"edwardconde" Its still in the thwack store, https://thwack.solarwinds.com/t5/custom/page/page-id/Store 

So when I am editing a map, I can click on a node, and its shown in the left hand column, then I can click show connected entities. Is that what you want? Or do you want it to pop by default, and not have to pick the menu item?

I don't think anyone prevents it completely. Which means your first line of defense is good back ups. That said, all the traditional security things work well if they are in place. Users don't have admin access to their device, admins have an account for admin work, and an account for normal tasks like email and using the…

It never stops, but no matter what performance you need, whatever you buy will always be expected to be reliable. No one ever cares what a good deal you got per GB when its not online.

I understand what Amazon is saying, but truthfully the location has no meaning to anyone, which is why they have a successful business model. People only care about the service delivery.

I agree, this is a significantly better way to correlate data

Thanks!

And after you have been there 6 months, look at all of this again, and repeat. And maybe automate as much as you can.

Twins huh? Must be all that bacon.

I saw those and almost bought them to try it

I don't have an example for Avg CPU over 2 hours, but since SWQL can handle dates and time you could just write it into the query. I not taking an average below, but you easily could. I am however limiting the records to the last 24 with "HourDiff(ToLocal(AlertHistory.TimeStamp), GETDATE()) < 24"…

I understand, we are thinking about moving to the agent for that very reason.(and others)

We just decided to fill our new data center with Arista, and a number of companies near me have done the same. I'd love to see more details.

I love that the smart car is "seen more as a scooter"

It just makes me think about how much can be achieved when you build a service from the ground up, and there is plenty I can learn from them, but all too often I have apply those lessons to software that considered none of my concerns in its design.

Applications Nodes and Applications List of applications from our CMDB to allow imports to match on this value AppUsedFor, NodeUsedFor Nodes and Applications Dev, Test, Prod, staging, etc, this is typically called environment in other systems, but we have more values than systemslike our CMDB, so this avoids confusion when…

My unix admins decided to get most of what they want using perl scrpts run by SAM. I agree, it could be alot better.

I can't help but think the same thing, I know exactly what they mean, but deep down it drives me a little nuts when they say serverless.

Yes, it was https://phishme.com/

If you are already using PowerShell, use the API to set a custom property on the application. It has sample code to do it. GitHub - solarwinds/OrionSDK: SDK for the SolarWinds Orion platform, including tools, documentation, and samples in Powe…

Lets do this! 

I like that you mentioned power, I just had a talk with our Network architect where power came up. We are growing our facilities again, and the design teams are getting closer and closer to having things like lights and doors get controlled by Power over Ethernet systems. When they finally do that, the devices we put into…

Facebook is going to be the tip of the iceberg once people really understand what these apps can tell about you. People will want laws, laws will be poorly written and miss the point. I do want some guardrails up, bat I am scared of what it will look like.

Excellent! And are right, if you don't understand what's normal, you won't really know what shape you are in right now.