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I have the luxury of helping students start building their own "cookbook." I teach various intro level classes in the areas of client / server and networking. An important aspect of the learning is that they are taught in a certain order to allow them to build upon previous knowledge and gain additional insight into the…

Not all of the quetsions have videos. Most of them are just links to various webpages or documents. Q4 had a link to a youtube video. The rest so far have not.

So glad to have another mission. Just around the corner of 100K points, so this will help a lot.

Is today's answer misworded? The option that I think is the answer doesn't exactly match the graphic.

Enjoyed the article to the hilarious sayings. Got a good laugh for the day.

Possibly depending on how you set up logins. We use domain accounts and assign permissions based upon groups. So, each group gets their own category.

For those that have not used DPA before, here is a real world scenario that I'm currently using DPA for. I posted about some Solarwinds issues after my SAM 6.4 upgrade (SAM 6.4 Upgrade Problems). I have been using DPA to help diagnose the root of the problem of my Solarwinds server (yes, I'm using a Solarwinds product to…

The tool depends on the department. Those that I can think of / know about. HP Openview HP Insight Manager Lancope Virtual Configuration Manager SCOM Dynatrace The DBAs have their customized tools. Other groups have self created monitoring tools. We have monitoring tools to monitor our monitoring tools.

Any way to get a list of classes we have received credit for? I think I'm missing a couple.

lindsey.serrano Remember us in your future adventures. Good luck with what comes next.

Way to go Chewy. I mean Ahhhhhrrrrrr Ahhhhhrrrrrr Ahhhhhrrrrrr

I have the total nodes simply by doing a count(distinct caption), but I need to be able to trend it, which means I need more than just a point in time reference. Open to suggestions for anyone that can tell me how to do the trending.

Is the orion demo site down for everyone else or just a problem for me? 

Agreed. I will say that I have walked my fair share of miles the past couple of weeks as I take my kids out in the neighborhood and let them chase some pokemon.

Done and Done

So, if you are a Samsung employee and told someone that you were 'whatever title' on the battery advisory board, how many people would look at you and wonder if you have a real job?

I've got my iPhone configured with both thumbs. Partly because if one doesn't work I can try the other. But also, it doesn't matter which hand I happen to pick up the phone with. My son was able to successfully add one of his toes to my phone also. Makes it interesting watching him try to log in.

Anyone else having problems with the demo? The watch list is just spinning and never loads.

I think we just need to wait for the Thwack team to chime in. It's only 7am their time right now, so we need to be patient for them to get into the office.

I'm good. Thank you!!

A lot of good information here. Thanks.

Actually knew today's question before the hint (still clicked it to be sure though). Although I should. My dissertation was on federal, state, and local regulations.

Any luck with the SWQL query? What I'm looking at doing is pull two snmp values, i.e. throughput max and actual throughput. The actual throughput would then be turned into a percentage by dividing actual by max. The thresholds would then be configured at a percentage level (70% warning, 90% critical or whatever).

Apparently I don't understand Netpath. Got the answer wrong. I was confused about whether I was supposed to pick both ends of the broken connection. The question stated which router (singular) but it said pick all that apply, so I was confused. Oh well.

lindsey.serrano​ Can you help with this? I never got a reply back to figure out what (if) I'm missing.

Yes, I have less total points than you (34K), but it shows I'm ranked higher with 304 points.

Today's question was to outline the new AG feature of DPA 11.0. Historical charts were pre-existing.

I feel lucky that I don't have to worry about things from an ecommerce perspective. Our biggest threat comes from Cyber Monday when people decide to spend all day shopping. As far as management goes, we have various tools in place that block many sites. For those that are still available, it's just a matter of monitoring…

For clarification are you not seeing the Recommendations shortcut under Virtualization Summary or is it just not populating the recommenations? What version of Orion do you have? I believe you need NPM 12 or SAM 6.3. Also, you need to install the VIM integration on the Orion box.

Good article. The tricky thing about requirements is when you get too many people that have in input on what is needed. For example, you may have federal requirements and state requirements that don't always play nicely with each other. By abiding with one you may not be compliant with the other. Then you still have to…