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While I have, and enjoy, several Solarwinds T-shirts, my team is not allowed to wear product-placement / endorsements at work. But I'm doing my best to sneak by with a Hawaiian-flavored Solarwinds Chief Geek shirt. Here's hoping for points for effort!
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I'd go for the audio transcript only. Waiting through a video's pleasantries to get to the useful content is challenging, while skimming text isn't bad at all. It's even easier to edit the text to the meaningful sections and only publish them.
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FM drift was so frustrating. My Yamaha Receiver had a button to push that compensated for it somewhat--at a price of quality/clarity. It seems the 70's were a great time for people to become exposed to new levels of audio equipment quality. Component systems were the standard, and many components had MTBF's of 20 to 30…
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Excellent. I use solutions like this continually with NPM. When a WAN site with a small uplink pipe reaches a specific utilization we want an alert. When that utilization exceeds a specific amount, and when it's caused by specific application (a bad WAN Killer is Dragon--a voice to text transcription application), we want…
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Certainly data is a commodity. Anyone who's experienced Identity Theft or stolen credit card information recognizes data has value. And criminals want to control that value and turn it into cash for themselves. The government is too slow to realize what data has value, and Mark Zuckerberg was fast to understand that…
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One of my coworker's parents have a large rural plot of land, and they tend to take anything that would ordinarily go to a recycling center or sanitary land fill, and bring it instead to their farm. Where they promptly load it with Tannerite and shoot it. I suspect the EPA would be disgusted at the network printers and…
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You are right--that password policy is annoying. And the password checking/validating system prevents incremental or single-character or dual-character changes, to specifically prevent someone making easy changes. We use a password generator, and also a password safe. It's the only way to comply and still get the job done.…
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The Network Discover Sonar Wizard is a reasonable place to start, when seeing what's present on your networks. Once you know all the switches, routers, and firewalls, you'll be in a better position to manage and document and map them.
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Facebook really needs to subscribe to Thwack so it can learn what to do to prevent security events. The Actuator – June 27th The Actuator – October 24th The Actuator – March 20th The Actuator – March 27th Maybe Thwack could be a paid white paper contributor and white hat for Facebook? Naw, I don't think we'd want to share…
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I worked on a hospital network for seventeen years and saw how patients and medical providers required access to their data 7x24. And I've seen too many cloud-based total outages that affect patients and medical staff for hours, or even days; there's nothing good about the cloud then. There will always be a need for…
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Something to persuade Mgmt that SAM is worth the money. The team responsible for servers likes home-built, free, or custom tools provided by the source vendor. Third party, like SAM, gets no consideration.
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Thanks, @"yumdarling" Like others, I received the same messages (1 p.m. today, 4/26/2021). But I was able to complete the page successfully, even though they popped up. All's working well, outside of the popups. And in this case, they don't see to matter. Rick Schroeder In The Little Red House In The Saginaw Wood
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When I was in a similar situation, I reached out to the president of the WAN service provider and pointed out the millions of $$ our company was annually spending on WAN service & network hardware purchases from the service provider. I told him what I wanted, explained I was denied by his staff who weren't being very…
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I originally pointed all smtp traffic from Solarwinds to a load-balanced smtp server solution hosted behind a pair of active-active F5's. Any smtp server can fail (up to seven of them) and mail still flowed (via the 8th). Later, Management required I drop the smtp in favor of syslog messaging, which was sent to our…
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Excellent!
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Agreed, the solution isn't satisfactory because it causes you to lose historical data for that switch. You may be able to find someone in Thwack, or via Solarwinds Technical Support, who can offer you a solution that uses SWQL to dump only some of the data associated with the old switch, thus allowing NPM to poll and learn…
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I've had similar issues in the past. They were caused by using the same machine name and management IP address. I don't know why, but my NPM solution never did a proper full and complete rediscovery if I kept the same IP address & device name on a replacement. Two work-arounds for you: 1. Copy the machine name, management…
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I don't have the script for you, but do have a couple of thoughts on the topic of disabling ports. My organization was concerned about unused ports being used by unauthorized devices plugged into patched network jacks. We embarked on a project to unpatch unused ports, but never found a way to force technicians to unpatch…
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You are welcome to all with which I can help. Swift packets to you and yours! Rick Schroeder
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Parent-Child relationships will prevent alerts from every Child object when its dependent Parent object has issues. That can help you a lot, quickly.
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Do a new discovery of your switches, but this time include the stack discovery options, and make sure you view has the Stack information included in its display. You'll receive information about the status of the stack ring, when it breaks, where it broke, as well as port and power information for every switch in the…
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Read up on How To Create Alerts in NPM (you know, "Read The Friendly Manual"--no offense intended!). Set that message as the Trigger. Did you know you can also search all past entries in Thwack for keywords and phrases? Give that a try and see if you don't find someone who's asked that exact question. I'm betting it's been…
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Check and see if you own Network Configuration Manager. NCM will get you change reports on everything you set it to monitor. You can also give it read-write permissions and then automate changes 7x24. NCM also provides a wealth of knowledge about any node it manages. Further, you could use it, or SDK, to populate fields in…
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I think the easiest way is to use Network Configuration Manager to manage & monitor the configs on your network hardware. It records all the information about every port and its configuration. It's easy to run a report showing the data you need, and also easy to custom-build a new report that shows ONLY what you want. Plus…
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Until someone who's experienced this, and remedied it, I recommend you gather the logs & diagnostics files, attach them to a new Technical Support Case, and call Support once they are uploaded. SW Support should be able to help you resolve this quickly.
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It took a long time to get to the end of 2020. We all know the challenges, the lost opportunities. The sickness and death. The isolation. But 2020 also brought new opportunities and positive new futures. Rather than dwelling on what we lost, what did we gain? Here are some things I recognize as positive improvements that…
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I like your topic--specific enough to draw some hope, broad enough to be attractive to many folks. What I want/need in monitoring SD-WAN includes, but isn't limited to: * SD-Monitoring. If I'm going to do anything "SD-WAN-ish", I don't want to do physical hardware setups and spend time doing physical changes in my…
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Solarwinds Netflow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) is versatile, powerful, and flexible. You can find online resources in Thwack that describe exactly how to configure your L3 switches or routers or firewalls or access points / WLC's to send the right kind of data to NTA and have it displayed quickly and intuitively. I haven't…
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I've always felt NPM (via NAM) is the best tool for any sized organization. It can be automated or customized as much or as little as necessary, for a single person to operate it and still get awesome stats & reports & backups. Or for a small team to really leverage more and more of the power of SW tools through SWQL. Or…
