novasamurai

As long as that vacation from Thwack means not having maria.bungau​ around to give us missions and answer all our questions. Even though my new employer does not yet have Solarwinds. I still hangout here to see all the great stuff Solarwinds is comming up with.

yeah some tricky questions lately. got me on two of them this month It's still fun regardless. Also can't complain, as I won the first week this month.

Along with all the separate silos within IT departments. Some have duplication of monitoring and logging systems. One area uses one tool while another uses another tool. Some could care less about tools that can monitor other areas of IT, even if it could take the blame away from their area. This is why I am all for the…

In the past 10 years we said good by (most of us) to HPUX and Windows 2000, dealt with several windows upgrades from 2003 to 2012 R2, integrated Linux and watched as our network links went from T1 to Fiber 1 or 5 or even 10 Gbps (depending on where you live/work). The shift from trying to do it all, to developing a team to…

Sounds like a lot of fun, I like how you have found something you enjoy "Deploying and Supporting Solarwinds Products" doing and just focused purely on that going forward. By the way great website. I found that when you are more aligned with your why and you enjoy and feel passion for what you are doing, you not only have…

I agree with simple SQL clustering active/passive may be the easiest to setup, and better performance, and this article is a great foundation for more advanced clustering. Personally I have seen several sql cluster working together over geographical regions active/active and still work. How is this possible? Well with…

Very cool, good luck everyone. Yeah these challenges are lots of fun, and learning a lot about Solarwinds products at the same time. Also getting to meet great SysAdmins out there tackling similar IT issues.

Wireshark is also a great way to learn how network technologies like wireless work.

I don't think I would call vulnerability management in the same realm of vulnerability scanning. Scanning implies you do a little more then check the cvvs data base and compare more then just cisco ios versions. It imply active scanning targeted devices of all types of OS from Windows to linux, and that you track…

We currently switched from help desk to service desk in the past year. At first it was mostly a name change, but later as we started to implement the remaining elements of service we became even more integrated with our business and a lot more proactive.

We have used Kiwi, and later moved to NCM. Backing up our configs is a must, but knowing when things changed is just as important.

I like how colby‌ put it, "Defence in Depth." At some point the data has to be unencrypted to work with. It's a matter of re-tooling tools to identify where to monitor. I personally feel that some network based security monitoring is going to loose value if it relies on purely unencrypted traffic. It does pose some real…

Understanding CLI can help open up your ability to automate just about anything. Also all features in a gui start out as a CLI at some point.

Thanks for the point boost just finished my Thwack camp marathon this morning for week 1, very interesting, learned a lot. I may have to watch it again to see if I missed anything else.

Very informative, even as a long time Thwack user. Like what you have done to Thwack. Keep up the good work.

Congrats dmbeckemeyer‌

ICMP can do a little more than just ping, also modifying the default ping packet size and how fast the pings are can greatly change the results of your testing.

I'll check it out, hopefully some of the previous issues have been addressed. Otherwise I'll stick to putty.

Here is another example of what I did above. Lets say you want to bold the values in your resources by default on your display, but one of the views this just does not work. Here is the solution I tested that seems to work. @-moz-document url-prefix(http://orionservername/) { table.titleTable { display: none ! important }…

If your using firefox and you want to hide the title bar to increase the available space on your display you can using the following usercontent.css Here is the content of usercontent.css: @-moz-document url-prefix(http://orionservername/) { table.titleTable { display: none ! important } } Here is a few other objects you…

It's called SNMPWalk.exe I found mine under C:\Program Files (x86)\Solarwinds\Orion\

Yes it would be kind of cool if you could setup an alert based on previously triggered alerts, even esculate everything. So you go from alerting only a specific function to alerting an entire department. Also another way of looking at this feature as it would almost give the system the ability to discover correlations…

If you use Firefox you can actually override the CSS for a domain or even just a page: http://coreygilmore.com/blog/2008/10/23/per-site-custom-css-in-firefox/ I haven't had a chance to test this out yet, but I'll let you know if I have problems. I have had fewer issues using firefox on my displays, Printable=true, and…

I second ChrystalT‌ on the separate discoveries. Also you can narrow down the IP ranges to just those that your expecting network gear for the SNMP scans.

thank you mr.e

You can attempt a SNMP Walk I believe their is a tool in the Bin folder of Orion. All you need is the IP address of the target device and the SNMP community/authentication. It will spit out a text file with all the OIDs and returned values. You can use this to either find it in the Universal Poller App, Google for a MIB,…

I like to do my SNMP walks from the pollers for exactly this reason.

I'm interested in this as well. We have a lot of APC gear, Netbotz and SMARTUPS, but they pretty much have the same interface. There is a utility that you can download, but it is not very good if you have 20 or more devices to check and backup configs like we do for all our other devices in cattools. As for the FTP, I…

I have at least one APC Netbotz device that shows as an unknown even though I have 12 other Netbotz that are correctly place under the correct Vendor and type. I'm wondering if it has a newer firmware that has change the OIDs enough to change the mapping.

ah yes, I do remember issues especially when needed to search for a field. the recent/favrorites helps find them faster. Compared to other web query generators I've worked with it seems like they are heading down the right path, hopefully they can fix any issues with the UI. Also the Simulation Part Does not work at all…