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It won't be used for good though. It will be used by big business to fleece everyone even more.

Really not sure about the 29th. The documentation clearly states that the Agent is installed as a part of the Platform Connect setup. Without the agent how does it communicate.

We need some walls otherwise the roof will fall on us.

What can we learn from the Capitol One hack. Big companies are really bad at security. Public cloud just makes stuff less secure. Management caused the issue by refusing to pay for stuff to be done properly but some scapegoat will be fired. Lessons have not been learned. Trust no-one and wear a tinfoil hat.

Another one I have signed up for. Always good to see how other people are securing stuff. It might not apply to here but it does show the thought processes and can spark ideas.

We monitor customers systems so aren't usually allowed to install agents. It can be difficult to even get them to allow SNMP configuration. It's the usual problem. They believe some garbage they read on the internet instead of the IT professional who actually knows what they are talking about.

Unique doesn't even come close. He also deleted everything in Solarwinds that was RED as "It obviously hasn't been set up properly". That included servers which were having issues and needed to be investigated urgently.

b. But I did have a customer recently who claimed I didn't know what I was doing because I wasn't using WMI to monitor a Linux system. Maybe he knows something NONE of the rest of us know. Good luck with the SCP. I'm supposed to get mine before the end of the year 

In the market sector we operate in the words "Open Source" are really frowned on and don't even think of mentioning AI. Yet they are happy with Microsoft.

Unfortunately the requirement for an additional 25 licenses was because we didn't have 25 free licenses available.

Agreed. I just asked for a quote for an additional 25 licenses so we could monitor a small VMWare environment. Over £40,000. Apparently we need to buy a 250 license bundle. Not going to happen. The lunatics have taken over the asylum. I fear management will go with another vendor and Solarwinds will be dropped. We are…

I registered for London ages ago but still haven't heard back as to whether my registration has been approved. I need to get the time booked at work so can anyone let me know if I'm on the guest list (VIP obviously ).

Just hedging my bets in case they win.

Oh goody. The machines are in control. ........... And I welcome our robot overlords 

I use custom properties to exclude certain servers from alerts during their automated nightly reboots too. I just couldn't be bothered to rewrite all the alerts so just muted the alerts on the servers which would mean they don't trigger the alerts. Changing some of the alerts created by previous IT people is a nightmare…

You could try the 'Unmanage Scheduling Utility' on the Solarwinds Server. That's what I used to mute alerts whilst scheduled server reboots happen every night.

https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/sam/content/sam-windows-scheduled-task-monitor-sw2577.htm In case you haven't seen this. I've set scheduled task monitoring up in the past for just this requirement but don't work there any more so can't look at how I did it.

I don't have a Solarwinds cert but I do have 10+ years experience. With that I set up a client's Solarwinds solution over the last year with everything monitored, some alerts and reports and some dashboards. The next stage was a lot more alerts, reports and dashboards but they decided to employ someone to do it instead. He…

Don't edit a template. Copy it and edit the copy. That way you still have the original.

OK. Nobody panic but the SCP vouchers are back in the store.

We might have to make you drink more Mead.

Worked on Edge when I typed the URL in manually (from work) but not when I copied and pasted URL. How odd. Not working on Chrome at all. Gave up on Firefox years ago after it became bloatware.

London dates announced. I'm already signed up.

You need SAM. Then you can monitor services and create alerts which can also be used to restart a service if it is not running. I use it all the time. We have some flakey systems who's services are always stopping. Now I don't have to worry. Solarwinds just sees that they have stopped, restarts them and drops me an e-mail…

Started great. Completed all the repairs required by the global company that I had joined 13 months before. Their existing IT people didn't even know that their AD wasn't even replicating between domain controllers and nothing was being patched (amongst so many other issues). They had even finally agreed to replace an…

I did figure this out in the end but can't remember how. I'll dig through my notes and see if I can get you an answer.

OK. I guess congratulations are in order. I've been digging around the DCs and have found lots of stuff not configured. I've set up a custom perfmon data collector and added the items from one of the AD monitoring templates. Just playing around with the collection scheduling and will see what happens. Come back Novell, all…

Grant, Sorry to hear that. I hope you have something better. Thanks for responding. I am trying the 2012 templates and will run it past James after I run out of ideas. I'd rather not install the agent as these are Domain Controllers and management get a bit funny about installing software (even if it is vital and the…

Anyone got an answer to this. We've just replaced our domain controllers (2008 to 2012 - yes I know but I have no say in things). and are getting this. A fix without reboots would be nice as we can only reboot servers from 07:00 to 09:00 on Tuesday mornings (unless something breaks, then we can do what we like ). 

Started on Netware 2.15, did a lot of 3 then actually got certified on 4, 5 and 6. Those were the days when server O/S actually worked. I remember installing a superserver at Novell's Bracknell HQ (UK). They were debating whether to run Netware 4.11 (it was just out) or Windows NT3.51. I pointed to the 12 snakes on the…