mstraughan

We don't disabled monitoring during patching/maintenance in case something happens or doesn't come back correctly. Although the scheduled unmanage feature is pretty useful and I've been looking into the SDK as well, just not for maintenance windows atm

also done

email sent

oh wow thats awesome thank you very much!

worked that time thanks DanielleH

We use an internal wiki for documentation, which we can all go over at any time; though we still have a SPoF for many knowledge points. We are not given specific time to go through training but we can read our documentation and ask anyone questions at any time and update the current wiki. As far as certs, our company will…

very interesting, i haven't actually used filters with flags so ill make sure to put this one in the books. looking forward to what interesting trick comes next

We currently do not use NV or IPv6; although I could see NV in our roadmap in the coming year or so, currently its not that I am aware of, simply because of the versatility. IPv6 on the other hand we don't really have a need for currently but with virtualized network devices in addition to any virtual server clusters…

very nice and easy to ready article, tcpdump is definitely a great resource tool to have knowledge about and one that many people sadly look over

syldra i have this odd feeling your numbers got skewed somewhere in operations

some of our boxes are image based but alot of them now we use cobbler and chef to get them set up, as far as the monitoring though unfortunately its all manual but automation for that process wouldn't be too hard so I may start looking into that. Decommission process is all manual, I think noone at our company tries coding…

your second point is something I had not yet thought of...if all these config updates are automatically getting pushed, it could cause chaos trying to find and troubleshoot a single element in a config file and makes it look horrible although I guess to the same point using SDN engineers shouldnt have to look at configs

i just had the same issue

woot 10/10 so far...cant wait for friday

once again a very good article, thanks and as before looking forward to what you are planning on looking at in the http packets

the suspense is killing me right now!

not that i know of, but im not 100% positive

% and _ are SQL wildcards, % is used for match any number of characters while _ is used to match a single character

An alert is something you setup that reacts to whatever events you set it to and performs the action requested such as email,sms, etc. example: if nodeA status equals down email me@site.com. A report is a chart or table giving present/historical data, there is a large amount of information that can presented in a report…

Current_Events.OrionReport you can download that OrionReport file and place it into SolarWinds\Orion\Reports\ and then it will show up on the Reports page

actually looking in the source there is no content between the section tags where the normal reply goes so it much have been edited/deleted for some reason?

Out of the box NPM has a report for "Availability - Yeseterday" and "Availability - Last Month" and some more if you just login to NPM web interface and look at the Reports page. Process for getting there can vary depending on how your menus are set up, or if you have access to the windows box Start > All Programs >…

I had the same question which was answered by zackm in Custom report only current events and i currently use the report which works great, i can upload the OrionReport with his query if you need

thank you both very much and thanks for correcting me straight before also setting it to only show the last 5-10 minutes helped cutting down duplicates so i didn't get results every time a node was polled

we have a custom property for Department as well, seems like the most reliable solution.

looking further into it, apparently its a configuration issue on the boxes but thanks for the quick response

very helpful thanks

in our DB its setup as Nodes.[customerproperty] so our nodes have a property for "Department" and "City" so i can grab that by doing a SELECT Nodes.Department, Nodes.City FROM Nodes

have you tried using the keywords 'not like' instead of != ? so something along the lines of Comments NOT LIKE 'TGB%' LIKE (Transact-SQL)

Yann answered this in Memory usage charts do not match "The "Memory" Usage and the "Physical Memory" Utilization are calculated differently by Orion NPM. Memory: The Memory is the sum of the memory used by the processes listed in the HOST-RESOURCES-MIB:hrSWRunPerfTable (1.3.6.1.2.1.25.5.1). The OID used is the…