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For me personally I do everything in SWQL with the custom query resource simply because it is MUCH faster for me to copy/paste the query into my client environments from my lab. On the other hand, you get much more control over how things look if you are using the custom table resource. You can get fancy with stuff like…

In a past life, before I became a consultant, I had a boss who basically would not ever take me up on any kind of recommendation I made unless we had called in a consultant. Super frustrating at the time but I know he was just trying to do some CYA for both of us. He was willing to pay to have someone to blame in case…

If I recall correctly DanielleH sent those out, I got the invite along with my initial notice that I was going get the mvp. You should define chase that down because there's a ton of good banter going on there.

I really do need to sit down and try out all the tools in the kit some time

Did you see the upcoming changes to Orion Maps in the current RC? They added a LOT of functionality in this release that may address much of what you've been struggling with. https://thwack.solarwinds.com/t5/The-Orion-Platform-Documents/Orion-Platform-2020-2-Release-Candidate-An-Orion-Map-to-Success/ta-p/587146 It's…

Annoyingly that behavior is just written into the gui, when I've just inserted what I want into the db they all function the way you would hope.

I agree with @"cnorborg" , I have set up solarwinds at companies with tens of thousands of servers but if the only method you have of tracking your hardware is blindly scanning entire /16's then you really have more of an operational problem than a tools problem. The sheer amount of time it takes to touch on that many…

It's not a report, in the message center on Orion you can search through audit actions.

Yeah, having a full if...then logic in the alert builder would probably make things easier for people to jump into the tool, since your ask boils down to being able to use the group/vendor/whatever as your "if"

One of the things I've found that helps with automation is to start training yourself to break tasks apart into discrete chunks so you can identify which part of the daily work is something that is repetitive and can be scripted away. Once you get used to that you can focus on the bits that aren't easy to automate and see…

Running through the job titles, bus boy, technical support (call center), food runner, waiter, diesel engine mechanic, farmer, back to waiting tables, customer service rep for a tradeshow network service provider, desktop support, network engineer, solarwinds admin, monitoring field consultant, cloud monitoring engineer.

You might try to contact your Solarwinds sales rep regarding Remote Office Pollers, They are basically additional pollers for NPM/SAM that either allow 250 elements or 1000. Rarely mentioned in the literature and I've never seen a client deploy one yet but a coworker of mine finally spotted one in the wild.…

I've not used any of those three NMS products in the magic quadrant but I am also curious what makes them so much more complete. As an NMS Solarwinds out of the box definitely hits a lot of what I expect, maybe having more variety of built in pollers instead of having to build UnDP or snag them from Thwack?

This is doable now with ncm if you happen to have that module. 

Are you getting your data from Cisco devices? ip flow-cache timeout would be the relevant command to make sure you get flow data even for ongoing transfers in closer to real time in Cisco land, not sure if there is a comparable setting on your hardware. This Cisco documentation explains it in their world right at the top…

This request has been made many times and is still a great idea that I'm hoping gets implemented, this looks to be the oldest/highest count thread i can find for it https://thwack.solarwinds.com/t5/NPM-Feature-Requests/Left-hand-navigation-shouldn-t-inherit-view-limitation/idi-p/555088 Also, if you don't want to wait until…

I do almost 100% of my charts in custom sql, and at various times have piped it through presentation tools like ssrs, powerbi, grafana, and as of late I find javascript is giving me the best results, but for me it has had a relatively steeper learning curve than the others. The common thread being that I rarely rely on the…

I'm getting a lot of pressure on the R part the last few weeks, looking forward to seeing what you discuss and how I can tie it back to SW software

If you can only get one right now then I think you are probably right with focusing on VMAN first. Even without SRM VMAN gives surprisingly good visibility into the datastores and their performance from the perspective of the virtual infrastructure. As long as you don't share those storage resources with a lot of…

Ugh I'm dying, i need 400 points for my backpack and as soon as the points from the March monthly mission get awarded I will have more than enough. Looking forward to using the checkout system

Have you looked at scheduling discoveries? 

I'm hoping Leela takes it all the way Futurama was a favorite show of mine

That's part of what I was trying to address in the post that Nick linked to. When I was still terribad at scripts and sql all I had was manually building maps. Once people get some sql under their belts they can get clever and convert tedious manual and error prone tasks like updating maps to a coded solution that…

In the mean time as a work around to help keep those properties neat and orderly you can just set up an alert to set those n/a custom properties based on the vendors or machinetypes. Something with trigger conditions like node vendor = Cisco and an action to set your custom property to "Not Applicable". Set it to check a…

I'm all for every feature request that gets us more granular user permissions in Orion. Way too much is set up as all or nothing. I pretty much consider vcenter to be the goal here. This user has this permission on this object. Can be broken down to cover essentially every action on every individual object.

I was working with a client a few months ago who has sent a request to the ISP who manages their site to site network gear and we were waiting on them to get SNMP enabled on the routers so we could add them into NPM. It took 4 days to get 60 or so devices done, and we could see them knocking them out practically one at a…

Yeah I would hope that a better ui would be something like combining the alert mgmt and action mgmt into the same tab. Like initially we just see the list of alerts and all their info, then have the option to expand out the alert and have it display a trimmed down version of whats on the edit alert - summary tab, with some…

For part 1 why don't you just set up a custom html resource on your home page like this scrolling marquee text for announcements Or you can go to Settings > Web Console Settings > Site Login Text and insert your message there to show up on the login page like this These options don't come with any scheduler but are pretty…

Just to let people know if they don't already, the way that caption resolution works is that when you add the node Orion will initially try to use whatever method you are polling with to capture the hostname value of the machine. If you put the fqdn as your hostname then that's what you will get in Orion. If SNMP/WMI/etc…

The system wouldn't 'know' to send the message to the different teams based on the device vendor on it's own. The idea is you would use your knowledge of those kind of rules to populate the custom property and the single alert will just end up going to whoever you have listed in the CP for any node that goes down. Go to…