nathan.hejnicki · SolarWinds Engineer

This is an absolutely fantastic idea. Any time customization can be made easier using custom properties, I am all over it.

You can most likely use a SQL query/stored procedure- poll the UnDP values, and use those values to set the custom property/built-in location values that you have set up. If those geo-locations that you can poll are in latitude/longitude format, I can see that working. It would take some work on the front end but it would…

Anyone got any idea how long the points take to get awarded after the missions close? I never had a reason to pay attention before, but now that I am pretty sure I'll finally be able to get the backpack, I'm just wondering if anyone has a rough idea how long it takes them to be awarded so I can stop maniacally refreshing…

I'd personally love to see this, mainly because the reported sysnames of polled devices via SNMP aren't always what we have the captions set to, so any map I make, I basically end up exporting with no caption as a background then super-imposing some garbage map from network atlas over it. I'd like to be able to use the…

I started at age 10- the local community college did a "Kids' College" where you could learn different stuff like training dogs and a bunch of stuff- they did a basic A+ type course and taught us how to build a computer. I took another one where they taught us basic web design. I got hooked and ended up doing a tech-prep…

I think the Millenials vs. Country Clubs thing may be due to a change in what generations consider success/happy in the current economy. During the economic booms of previous decades/generations, it was a sign you were doing well to have a nice house, nice car, membership to a country club, that kind of thing. In the…

In my line of work, it's common to have the issue of too many alerts. All that gets you is that people will create an Outlook folder to send alerts (be they from SW or other) to a sub-inbox (or worse, the trash) to be perused later when we have time (which let's face it, that never happens in a lot of cases). I am careful…

I would say that there is no data sent back to Mapquest- SW only uses the map as a background and the points are all stored entirely in the SW database, and no data of that kind ever leaves SW or gets monitored by MapQuest or similar. Nathan Hejnicki Loop1 Systems

My biggest thing, mentioned above, is combining Network Atlas and NTM. You have 2 pieces of software that make maps. One of them makes gorgeous, professional looking maps, and the other, to me, serves no purpose other than being a vehicle with which to put the good maps onto my Web console. So, if we could somehow have NTM…

Sounds good to me. Not trying to rush poor maria.bungau​ or anything- I just wondered when to start looking at my account numbers

I believe there are pros and cons to IoT and things like our phones, Google Home, Amazon Alexa devices, Siri, you name it, any Big Data collector. On one hand, a lot of the fears that "they're always listening" 1984- or Big Brother-style are quite founded in truth. There are plenty of times that I have known darn well that…

Yep, came here to say this. Then you just add a custom query resource to a view if you want to display it in a more active/dashboard type scenario. I mean it'd be good to see it as a default resource you don't have to write yourself, but at least there's a workaround. Nathan Hejnicki Loop1 Systems

As a Bard in many of the campaigns I play in, I am a fan of the Project Manager title as part of it. I too tend to just break down doors when people won't make a decision already. Kind of cool to see that story told from someone else's point of view.

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I am currently working with a client for LEM who needs to be PCI compliant, so using the built-in FIM template for PCI for Windows connections is crucial. However, there are some events we would love to be able to ignore, like any event where the NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM account was who made the change, or to ignore files in,…

I truly considered myself a SW expert when i finally answered enough questions and posted enough on here to earn the coveted ThwackPack. I cherish it like I would a son, if I had one.

Adding to this as a "sub-request" - it would be nice to have some kind of notes field or nickname field where you can place notes about the user. My reason for wanting this, is that we have a bunch of AD accounts, and they're basically domain\###### where the numbers are the person's employee ID, so remembering everyone's…

Much agreed. This is the one feature I am still holding out on- at the job I most recently worked, we were really excited to learn about the newer versions of NPM allowing in-built maps like this, but as my position was essentially part of a NOC, we really liked having the weather show up so we could tell that some outages…

Literally had a client ask me about this today bump.

One of my favorites, while not technically incorrect, was one of the National Treasure movies where the password ended up being "valleyforge" which made me laugh. You couldn't manage V@ll3yF0rg3 or something? Security, people!

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I made a flash card set on quizlet for when I was studying for this exam. Please note that it references older scalability numbers (they've updated how many elements a single Polling Engine can handle, etc.) but the port numbers are all the same.…

If you run the script by itself from the command line, does it work then? Trying to determine if the issue lies with Orion/how you're calling the script, or the script itself. Nathan Hejnicki Loop1 Systems

From what I know, once you've upgraded the rest of SolarWinds, you can upgrade VMAN as its own thing with the iso file it comes with. You may need to re-run the virtualization integration wizard again but it should be fine. No licenses should need to be put in again. Nathan Hejnicki Loop1 Systems

You can try this, but the lab I'm working in only has the one poller so if you have multiples, it may or may not work, but should be a good starting point. SELECT ServerName ,IP ,Nodes ,Interfaces ,Volumes ,PollingCompletion ,MinutesSinceKeepAlive ,(Select propertyvalue from orion.engineproperties where…

I'm still working on it a bit, but I can tell you that the number you're looking for is in the Orion.EngineProperties namespace, the propertyname is "Orion.Standard.Polling" and the propertyvalue is the number you're after. Given that it's in a different table and i'm still working on the joins and such, it's proving a bit…

You included the variables in the actual email trigger action for it? Because it sounds like you put them in the alert message but the alert message isn't what controls the contents of the email, that is configured in the actual "Send an email" alert action message body. If you've done that and they're still not working,…

Further to this, you can create a custom property on Nodes that designates the Site that the Node is a member of, and then build the account limitation around that Custom Property. You can then allow specific people to see only nodes that are at this/that site/sites (you can even let them see multiple ones, for example if…

on Cisco it'd be show snmp community, but it varies by vendor. For your DNS servers if they're Windows you typically use WMI to monitor those in most cases. For the routers, chances are these things were set by your network administrator and it'd be best to ask them since this is a Server Application Monitor forum and…