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Thanks all, for a moment today I thought I would bring these awards up to my manager at work, but then I remembered he already gets a feed of all my posts so there's no way he's not already aware of my prolific amount of thwacking When I first started the consulting life my boss told me to keep an eye on thwack and if…

So glad to see this topic getting touched on, it could just be my own experience but I feel like the technical capabilities of the Thwack community have really grown since I first started using the product several years ago and leveraging SWQL and the API have been great help in expanding the capabilities of the tools.

Thanks for posting this, I've definitely noticed various bugs getting fixed over the last few weeks. Can tell you guys have been hard at work. 

No idea, not my blog series. I am actually presenting on topics close to 4 and 5 today at the NY SWUG in a few hours though if you happen to be on Long Island haha. Not sure if they will be recording any of it or not, worst case I might be able to just post my slide deck somewhere afterward. New York, New York: July 10-11,…

Since this was posted Solarwinds changed their fail over architecture quite a bit, instead of the hot standby now they have the Failover Engine which is a tailored version of Neverfail

You can use ${id}

Always made me sad when I worked at places that were perpetually on fire and everyone know what they had to do to fix things but felt like they couldn't afford to spend the extra time. You can only keep up that kind of pace for so long before you burn out.

Not sure why you can't find it since that version of the query seem to work fine for my nodes. Like I suggested, install swql studio on your server and you will be able to dig into exactly what problems you are encountering with any specific search. Can you find the WLC when you search for any of the other available fields…

Congrats to all @"KMSigma.SWI" Any way you could maybe highlight any new for 2020 MVP's on the table?

It pains me to see that there are so few votes on this request

Hey now, don't disparage those of us looking to retire I look forward to it almost every day.

If you leave the snmp credentials in the discovery it does not bypass them at all. Before the discovery begins SW does not know what polling method it can use for all the nodes in your list so it walks through every available option one by one. If you are referring to the option where it asks if you would prefer servers to…

If you build a dynamic group then all groups get maps made automatically. 

At a previous job we hired a guy who knew one of our bosses from a previous job. He was supposed to have decades of relevant experience in our industry and I was really glad to have someone coming on who we weren't going to have to train from scratch. Unfortunately he turned out to be one of those guys who had turned off…

But then we would probably all know the winners as soon as round 1 began. I like it when there's a bit of a train wreck like this turned out

There's actually already provisions for this in the API and database, been there for a while, but the system just seems to ignore it last time I tried populating them. My workaround for this use case is just to use an alert action to find any case where my property is null or = '' and sets it to the correct value with the…

Old request but it happened to bubble up to the top today so I thought I would chime in. Alerts have had notes available for many years, and nodes themselves also have a notes section. Both features seem to be rarely used by most people I run into, but they are built in. This should probably be marked as implemented…

This is a great series, lots to digest in there

Great post. I expect you guys might be covering it in the later post, but just to put it out there because people inevitably ask. You can get around all the status 1 = up stuff by joining in the Orion.StatusInfo table like so: select OAA.Displayname, OAA.Status, s.StatusName, OAA.Node.Caption from Orion.APM.Application OAA…

As an interim solution I bet there's a way for you to edit the html or css of the login page to move the form down or remove it.

OLV is the replacement, all we can do is continue to hammer the product manager and sales people over it until they shape the product to reflect our needs.

I usually have some "placeholder" nodes that exist just as a place to attach scripts. If the script doesn't actually use the hostname or anything from the node its running from you can use local host execution option and just assign it to any node and really is just running on my Orion poller.

As you said, if someone is a SAM admin I assume they have admin access to the SW server. If they are not a person I could trust with the responsibility then they are not someone I can make a SAM admin. Over the years at big enterprises I have had to build many abstraction layers to isolate users from the loose RBAC built…

My first guess would be that the alerts that it doesn't work might be for a different entity type? The variables you can use are student depending on what type of alert object you are working with, variables for a node would be the most typical, but you'd need to tweak your template if the alert was from an interface or a…

In my last solarwinds environment I was on a team of people who owned all the contracts and internal policy around monitoring tools, but when it comes to actually using the tools we were mainly intended to be internal consultants who provided a framework and then the various users would self service what they needed. Lots…

pretty sure you can change the where condition from WHERE rt.NodeID = 3 to WHERE rt.node.Caption = 'MyNodeCaption'

You can probably get it with a custom swql variable whenever there isn't an OOTB variable for what you need.

I always encourage everyone i talk to to share as many useful script examples as we can get away with. I keep a bunch here but have no code related to ipam github.com/.../MyPublicWork

Are you maybe running an older version of orion?

The API is pretty strict, you can't just add tables or databases to it normally. The one workaround is there is a command in the API that will run raw SQL, but its kind of locked up because it doesn't provide any validation or permissions and if someone was feeling dangerous a malicious query could delete your db and it…