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If you can get them on the same page you can do multi edits from the manage nodes page, but its still a bit clunky. I do most of this kind of stuff in SQL but it would be great if I didn't have to.

I bounced around the idea of rolling my own a home automation but I'm going to be renting out part of the house this year while I travel so I figured most tenants wouldn't really care for that sort of thing. I suspect my next big purchase is going to be a new sit/stand office desk setup for myself (that counts as a tech…

Would it be too much to ask for Orion to just have all the options and features I have in Postman? That would streamline my work flow considerably

Very true

Glad to see we share this technique, I only build NOC dashboards to show problems, if things are fine I simply do not need to know about it. I also move the node Notes resource to the top of the screen so it gets more attention, default has it at the bottom of the last column and half my customers don't know that…

Yeah, I'd be happy for them to increase the size of the icons a bit if it allowed for stacking more info into the space. I actually have a plan for how to create this effect on my own using custom tables/queries but ideally it would be nice for the product to do it without me having to invent stuff

They must not have had Star Trek The Next Generation on TV in Australia, it was kind of a big deal in the states

While Atlas could be better, I have done these kinds of datacenter and rack elevations dozens of times pretty easily between using Visio and paint.net It only takes a little practice to get the hang of importing those creations into Atlas and I don't know that the Solarwinds devs could accomplish anything better than other…

Agreed

Node and Interface Status possible field values

Looking forward to presenting then and BSing with other attendees all day.

I can appreciate that on the technical side there isn't a very clean automatic way to ensure snmp and wmi polled objects match up since they differ in the way they ID things, but it probably wouldn't be terribly difficult to develop a tool that the user can use to at least try to associate the interfaces/volumes/etc across…

In case any of you aren't familiar with the situation, the next major release of NTA is going to be moving from the Fastbit standalone DB back into MS SQL. Unfortunately there is no reliable method built yet to migrate the existing FSDB data into the new MSSQL structure. The proposed plan is just to install the upgrade and…

It's already being worked on.

I can relate to the feeling of being overwhelmed by vendors, big shows are nuts

Agreed on that human review, I am often sad how many clients don't really even want me to put together any Solarwinds reports for them because they just view it as more noise in their inbox. Well defined reports can point out impending problems or roll things up into neat summaries rather than just be 10 pages that you…

Not to mention this is already how node status polling works in NPM.

There are some pretty slick scripts floating around for setting up groups via the api, I almost never deal with them by hand if i can avoid it. If I need one group I'll probably need 50 more. OrionSDK/Groups.ps1 at master · solarwinds/OrionSDK · GitHub PowerShell Add Node to Group

It may seem relatively straightforward this week (a few of the popular votes definitely caught me by surprise), but next week will be more interesting match ups as the obviously less popular tools fall out of the tournament and you will see the more universally appreciated tools going head to head.

the list up there are all the ones you can get for a component monitor when you put them on the map, status is nice but statistic and message are also kind of critical for a lot of component monitors to be helpful

Lets say you want to do a node down alert that goes to the infrastructure support person for that node. Create a custom property for you to put those emails, in my case we will call it "Owner" Set the property for all the nodes so the distribution list for you linux nodes is the owner there, network stuff goes to…

It's not quite as dynamic as one might hope, but to make a dynamic link to a perfstack chart that changes based on the node you are viewing you can use a variation on the technique that wluther discussed in this post, Building Simple PerfStack Project Lists With SWQL For example, I use it with ${nodeid} as part of the…

I'll have to miss this one but I'm looking forward to my own trip to Vegas at the end of the month

What you did here is basically an inversion of the way I have been handling this, instead of searching all the random places you can find serial numbers I create a custom property called serialnumber and have a sql script that checks all the tables that I've seen in NPM, NCM, and SAM that hold serial numbers. I'll go ahead…

I voted this up, but I figured I would let you know that you can do both of those on your end without waiting for it to be taken up by the devs. For the reporting part just add in the columns that you need for the node and then change the orion object to an interface and select the ones you want from there. The only one…

I'll just go ahead and put it out there, nobody should feel concerned about untidy desks after my setup. When we moved into our house there were lots of vaulted ceilings, one day my wife joked that she thought it would be cool to have a loft to make use of some of that extra vertical space. That bounced around in my head…

Ran into that hard with some places I worked in the past. They preferred the flexibility of pro services so they had little to no support for staff training and once you took the initiative to skill yourself up there was not going to be anything outside the stand 1-3% annual raises come hell or high water. They know that…

My team uses a github to share our scripts and such but I definitely do not take as much advantage of it as i should. Only so many hours in the day and all that.

I've been thinking about decomming my tools server and replacing it with a cheaper cloud linux instance, but I think that would just piss off the 75% of my team who aren't feeling linux native yet. Maybe next year though.

SQL is a real pain about changing column names, it's doable if there was an abstraction layer where all custom properties just showed up in the DB tables as something generic like node_CP1, interface_CP1, etc and then you have to reference another table to get the DisplayName associated with CP1. Would definitely be a…