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I once had a customer return a brand new computer we sold her company because it stunk. Now mind you, a new computer smell can be very overwhelming, but apparently it was too much for this admin to handle. I dropped off an identical machine and I'm guessing she was OK with it after that. I love that feeling when you peel…

acmtix​ -- you need SAM 6.4.0 and probably NPM 12.1 to see the perf stack charts. I hope this helps.

That moment you've ordered something a week ago and then get a call that it's out of stock. What kind of circus show is this ordering supply? LOL

I found today's question much different than some apparently. It was fairly easy, since most of the things in the news discuss disclosure of information about certain types of situations. The one that's always in the back of my mind, since it hits close to home is the OPM breach within the US Government. Google what breach…

I have about 144 disks per array right now, and approx 4 of those arrays, which may be why my purchase got shot down like a clay pigeon. This doesn't include the ones holding CIFS data, which is another 400 disks. It would be incredibly useful, but budget destroys my "non-mission critical" purchases apparently. This is…

Horrible video -- same boat.

I'm trying out the new awesome perfstack charts in the latest release (upgrade success!) Are the saved projects supposed to be available to all SW users on the system or only just the one who created it? I had a few people look and they can't see any projects to load. I oddly sent one of them a link and they clicked save,…

Here's what I did... I basically ignored the audio and I got the answer right finally.

I'm out too, shame too. The video is super vague and even following some articles, it's hard to match up what the right answers should of been. That video is super marketing with that background music and the voice over, lol.

This is quite the ALL or nothing type of question.

The question asks marketplace, which is actually false, since the wiki hint link shows it being pulled from the community AMIs, which is different. The consistency of the question/answers is outstanding. (sarcasm font needed) -R

Boooo.. I guess I won't be updating SAM & NPM after this, sadness. "Support for operating system Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise version 6.1.7601 is deprecated as of this release." "Installation on Windows Server 2008 R2 is deprecated as of this release. Future SolarWinds Orion Platform product releases will no…

/pizza ftw -- thanks pizzahut, lol. /gems is also pretty bamf when you're waiting for that elusive group.

queue the alanis morissette music... I get that software vendors need to draw the line for support ability of legacy (yes, 2008 R2 is now legacy), but perhaps a better approach was needed prior to dropping this bomb on their customers. I'll probably just end up getting a new company to purchase solarwinds and keep on…

The zip-up hoodie, which is being phased out, according to the supplier. I'm guessing they're replacing it with the hammock. I'll just save up a few more points and grab the jacket for long datacenter days, which is what the hoodie was going to be used for.

Today's question can make you a bit too confident, which might make some people answer too quickly. I drilled down to the admin guide, which reaffirmed my selection, which was correct. It's definitely good to know the key term here would be "map" on today's question, not simply integration.…

It's easy to moan and groan when I get them wrong. I think ideally, the answers could of been a radial, not some weird checkbox hybrid with an "all of the above" as a checkbox option. I think there can be two possible ways to answer this question, both yielding a correct response. wabbott​ -- I'm keeping it honest here,…

Q1 is a bit weird -- it's outside the network and according to the video it shows 2 of the options shown, yet, wrong when answered in that fashion.

There's only one thing I have to say... Click Me!

Oh, how I wish this was a physical problem in the end, but it always seems to be a BGP related issue. The way I have my edge setup, the loop back (seen in the screenshot) has to route through the current primary, so it's a fairly decent address to keep watch. If the loopback does drop, it means BGP went out to lunch. It's…

Network Insight for F5 BIG-IP - Video - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support I guess this just gets asked so much in my environment, so I kinda knew, but here's their main feature page for the new F5; I believe it's in there.

I'm missing one day, but not sure which day is missing.​ After not being lazy, it looks like it was tuesday that was not awarded.

Ok -- I'm pretty impressed. So, apparently post-upgrade a new out-of-box alert was created for neighbors being down, CDP neighbor, etc. This caught my backup circuit being down and missed by my other network SIEM system, since it had been down for so long. The circuit was down for 18 weeks, 2 days and the provider didn't…

I recently built the PiGRRL 2.0 over the Christmas break and I still have a few more tweaks to make for proper speaker feedback conditioning with Fair-Rite EMI Suppression beads. This also includes copper foil tape to ground the battery to the common ground, which apparently reduces noise feedback too. If you can get soft…

The last 10 years, there was so little virtualization at the beginning, it was simply a neat idea people were playing with, very few took it seriously or into production in a large scale across like it is today. The percent of datacenters 10 years ago were mostly still physical, if not 100% in some cases. There was a fixed…

The character names were gems, far ahead of its time.

1. Development to check their code prior to deploying. 2. Load Testing, the right way. 3. License Compliance, why is this so hard. (No devs, you can't just stand up MS SQL for free in Production ) 4. Datacenter Divestment "fun" to end eventually, but why am I lying to myself here, it wont. 5. Code Upgrades with No…

I believe this morning, I may of blurted out something profane when I saw the "maybe" as an option.

same here, no points.

If I was having issues with today's question, I would certainly look at Table 2 for some guidance. The footnotes on each of those tables ended up guiding me in the right direction. It's also a pretty obvious choice, echoing what ecklerwr1​ mentioned. Cheers and Goodluck!