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Isn't it amazing how few historians there are in the Tech industry? We're doomed to repeat the failures of others when we don't study and learn from their mistakes.

To these I'd add: * Staff appropriately. No one wants to be crushed by the load, and adding monitoring brings transparency to issues, causing increased demand for timely responses by staff. * Train your staff to the level needed to prevent problems, troubleshoot issues, and implement best practices. Budget for each person…

Waymo might gather more users if it wasn't so easy to connect Waymo with "Whammo!" due to fears (or actual observations) of driverless cars being involved in accidents.

I can't speak for all the rest of the team, but I started walking two miles during my lunch break. It did wonders for my stamina and waist line!

Companies relying on SEDC should understand what's happening and drop SEDC for a service that complies with industry security standards. Even better, companies (or individuals) shouldn't be creating web access when they don't understand how to do so securely.

The randomness of the Internet led me to a web site of foreign language terms or phrases for things that have no direct English equivalent. And there it was: "Grief Bacon" For more ideas (sorry, no more bacon in them), check it out…

Once I worked where one department was dependent on an in-house network fax service for providing critical materials to another department. An extended maintenance window resulted in the second department frantic for supplies--how could they place their orders to the other department, when their process required computers?…

Your analysis has merit. I can't disagree. Until such time as it's available, I don't know an alternate other than going the manual route. But I'll be watching here with interest for other ideas! Somehow I was completely confused and thought this was a Discussion, not a Feature Request. My apologies for that, designerfx.

Teams that ONLY work through tickets/requests are a challenge. I understand some of their push back, but there MUST be flexibility to handle emergent items through documented and accepted triage procedures. On the one hand, the ticketing/tracking system is relied on by upper administration to justify staffing levels or…

For Facebook, it appears to all be about money. When their own internal research says the results of their algorithms is bad for people, but they ignore that research because changing their ways to be better for people "might hurt engagement". Hey FB: Did you ever think doing a kinder job might ENHANCE or INCREASE…

Contributing was fun. Reading others' work was amazing. Receiving the request to be responsible for a word was an honor. Thank you for all of it, Leon!

That's a good point. Anything to get rid of default passwords!

I'd love NetPath to work natively with Cisco boxes or AP's or Windows clients--without having to add anything more to my network. From Dobbs' first comment, it seems apparent a probe/client is required. Oh well. I, too, am eager to deploy & learn this part of new NPM 12.

Requiring court warrants before getting access to electronic location information? I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad one. If it's used for bringing a criminal into jail and for protecting the public, it seems reasonable. If it's used to track an innocent person's location for purposes of persecution for…

Bump. Folks, if we don't get this to 1000 likes from as many people, it probably won't make it into a future version.

Spotify shouldn't object to ad blockers unless we're allowed to object to ads. They don't want blocking, we don't want ads. Solution: I don't use Spotify. Easy!

The Serv-U file transfer management stood out. Is that still the way to go?

That's a good observation. I pull the wool over my eyes and pretend the rolling green you saw was simply a copy of XP's background screen someone put on a Windows 7 or 10 PC. Because, as we all know, replacing a PC isn't expensive and using XP isn't safe. The recent challenge I've seen (the last 12 months) is obtaining new…

I like it! You could make a classy Can-Can dance out of that. Or join Sammy Davis Junior's Candy Man Can song?

It was a surprise to see which rules were partially shadowed, which ones were redundant. Cisco should've included this in their ASDM and CLI. Score for Solarwinds!

MacOS and Open Source solutions? It sounds like they've been taking a page from the Solarwinds Thack book of success.

If it's any help, "Welcome to the Club!" I did the same thing--didn't watch / listen to the hint, thought the answer was intuitive. Sigh.

Also, if someone follow through with this, it is important to include any customized bandwidth information in the label of what actually constitutes 100%. NPM defaults all ports' bandwidth to 1000 Mb/s, but I adjust that to the actual contracted bandwidth for WAN uplinks. If I have a 30 Mb WAN link to a site, and a graph…

Of the four answers from which to choose, one is in plain sight once you enter the demo environment. It's a matter of not seeing the trees for the forest. You'll kick yourself when you see how open and obvious this particular answer is. I'm sorry.

Although it should be obvious, I bet some organizations or individuals will miss planning for / purchasing / deploying monitoring in the cloud. Since this is a SolarWinds forum, it's not inappropriate to reiterate the products, their uses, and their costs and sizings. Otherwise that could fall through the cracks for some.

I had a similar issue with Solarwinds communications filling up the local server's C drive after the last major upgrade to NPM 12.2. In response, I built this view for my NPM front page: It's easy to keep an eye on C drive space, but no longer strictly necessary since hotfixes have corrected the cause. PM me if you need…

I'd consider all of the above, and some basics that might even come before them: * Evaluate the COS and ROI for hybridizing your environment. What reasons would you do it, not do it, continue to grow it, or move away from it? What pain points and price points are significant to your organization and its budget and its…

I like these ideas. But they might only remain in the theoretical / best-practice realm for some I.T. staff, who accept them as theoretically ideal but unattainable in practice. Worse, some folks might cast aside good standards or recommendations because they don't have the experience or environmental scope and scale to…

Yes, I've received this. It's not a "letter" as in an e-mail or snail mail. It's an alpha character displayed as a popup screen while you're doing a question. Just write down the letters and store them until it's time to submit them for a bonus.