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I, too, wish this to be the case. But I've found it's quick to just put a Bookmark short cut on the Bookmarks bar in my browsers. Until this feature comes true for you, consider my work around: (But this request really IS a no-brainer for SW, and it ought to be as simple as providing a check box in NPM views to include…

A telepresence parasite that sits on your back, looks over your shoulder, AND it has hands and arms?!! What will governments do with this? George Orwell would know, if he could re-write 1984: In George Orwell's novel 1984, the Ministry of Truth controls the media; the Ministry of Peace oversees war; the Ministry of Plenty…

That's a good one. Sometimes I think we're like the mice voting to put a bell on the cat, for this task. The price and labor involved in an enterprise NAC deployment are not insignificant. Writing the correct rules to allow and deny access to/from every device on a network, applying those rules at an ACI data center level,…

Please describe this vote more. I monitor my NX-OS devices with NPM and NCM and NTA. Are you suggesting there should be a Policy/Report that shows the vulnerabilities for NX-OS, by device? That would be something you could create without SolarWinds modifying their product. What exactly are you looking for?

Seriously? It wouldn't surprise me, but if you're not joking, please tell us more about how you integrate GPS with NPM. Or did my leg just come off in your hand?

Make it so!

Here's hoping it doesn't come down to Sky-Net or Matrix-like automatons . . .

Thank you for the additional information, Mike Lomax​.

Ah, procrastination . . . it's my friend, too. In fact, as a kid, I had multiple blue ribbons and trophies in Procrastination. Nowadays, not so much. But a little!

We still do backups of data AND of systems. Health care records have to be created and stored and made available for varying lengths of time, depending on the health service. Children's records may need to be stored until they're 21 years old, some patients' procedures have to be available for seven years following the…

DanielleH​, how about Jeremy's points?

IMHO, the cloud is appropriate for: * Data for which you have no concerns about security* You can't verify physical access restrictions in the cloud. That's enough for me to bypass the cloud entirely. * You don't know where your data is physically located. The more copies of it created, with or without your knowledge, the…

I'd like to think you're right about that, but I see my job responsibilities being whittled away by automation every year. We don't buy/configure individual switches anymore--we provide a template to Cisco and they install the configs and drop ship the equipment to a site. Anyone who can read instructions ("Plug network…

Remember that greener pastures don't necessitate leaving Thwack! 160,000 of us AREN'T employed by Thwack or SW, and lots of us are here every day. OK, maybe you DO want some kind of life . . . Thanks for participating! Good luck in your next adventure! Swift Packets, Rick Schroeder

Oh dear--another parallel to the E-Rate funding I had to deal with in the Public Schools sector? That one was cumbersome, time-consuming, red-tape-filled, and had insufficient oversight to eliminate/prevent fraud or misuse . . . Yes, It seems like this is needed--especially for those businesses who can't comply without…

I'm advocating for a more global adoption of a more universal tool platform (Orion) across our multiple silos. There's push back by users who feel the freeware version of Nagios is the right price point, or even the paid version ($8K) better suits their comfort levels for budgeting. I can sympathize--Orion isn't free, or…

It's the old IT Support joke in real life. "Take two reboots and call me in the morning." I've had similar frustrations, and learned to reboot as a matter of course--no matter how well everything else was working. Seemed to start with Windows 2000, continued with W7. I still don't remember to reboot early enough in the…

Well, whatcha gonna do when they DON'T use your hints? You can a lead us techs to knowledge, but can you make us think?

I feel like I (and maybe others) would benefit from a new "You Don't Know Thwack" mission based on teaching us the ins and outs of the new Thwack environment. May I request that be one the first new Missions post upgrade? Swift packets! Rick Schroeder

I'm not quite able to imagine your original intent for your first sentence, zero cool​. What idea were you trying to highlight?

Trusting security for resources that are not 100% in your physical and virtual control is where ASP's fall short for me. I can physically secure my DC's, I can monitor everything happening within them through security cameras and NPM and other Solarwinds suites and tools. I know what's happening there, in and out. No so,…

Boosting competitors in advertisements is an interesting philosophy. It's not what I think of when I understand a group of companies will more aggressively compete with another company. Where will we be impacted negatively? Will the WalMarts of our towns, which caused the decline and fall of so many businesses, fall victim…

The rain that caused CES to go without power for a few hours obviously caught the electric company's designers by surprise. Certainly CES was surprised. And they were disappointed. Rain happens. Heavy rain happens in their area less frequently, but it happens. Not designing for that saved someone money. And not designing…

shidoshi1000​, do you have any comments to my questions?

That crazy Greek language! If only it operated with intuitive rules that were consistent. Like English.

I, too, saw the special character, but ignored them and correctly selected the right answer. It's intuitive if you're familiar with load balancers, or have read the NPM 12 documentation.

Acquaintances from Texas have told me that wild pork tastes far superior to farm-raised. I can't comment from experience, but I did get to taste the difference between raised in a free range and table scraps environment, and indoor grain-fed pork. The outdoor-raised pork tasted much better than the corn-fed indoor…

This is so sad. That users believe wireless is truly wireless. That they also have this impression it's ubiquitous, secure, fast, and reliable. So extremely, ironically, unavoidably sad. Like Ariel seeing her little buddies Flounder & Sebastian in the Wal-Mart aquarium.

Now that this month's mission is about security, I suspect I'll need to review all four sessions.

Your suggestion makes sense for large deployments, but perhaps less so for smaller ones. I got by just fine with the NPM Syslog & Trap systems included with NPM, as long as I was judicious in selecting the types of messages and traps I wanted to receive. However, if you have Wireless Controllers or firewalls that are set…