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Just curious, DanielleH, when will the points for the correct answers be awarded to our accounts?

Awesome read! I didn't realize how many resources were available for DPI until just the past few days. I would love to see some sort of way to do this on a network device link (i.e. a trunk between key locations) without an external node polling a mirror.

I'm still relatively new in IT (only about 5 years under the belt) but I love that you mention how important automation is. I've already witnessed plenty of instances where having a large number of people in charge of say server naming, account naming, process to remove accounts, etc. can create a ton of discrepancies and…

Are you measuring end-user experience on mobile devices? No. We monitor server health and trust our Orion infrastructure to indicate to us if there are problems going on within the network. Do you feel mobile application performance monitoring is a different discipline than web performance monitoring? Yes. Mobile app…

I love all the comments! Awesome thread. The only thing I can really add to everyone else's comments is to not be afraid to try out different ways to monitor things. In a word "versatility." That could be a different toolset, MIB, device, etc. Maybe even go with another vendor for monitoring certain statistics. (I'll be…

Thanks for the reply HolyGuacamole. I used your suggestion and will monitor to see if it continues to have problems in the future.

mharvey hit it on the head. You could also add the node by IP rather than DNS if you know which IP you would rather it be. If you go into edit node properties and click "Select IP Address" next to the Polling IP Address field toward the top you will receive a popup that shows the IP addresses that have been discovered on…