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You're right on, regarding paths and distance. One of my regional hubs is 125 miles from my main site, and the two resilient paths are very different geographically. One runs about that same 125 miles, the other is closer to 300 miles. Sadly, the WAN provider insists the longer path be the primary path. The users love…

Even as Syndrome (in The Incredibles) claimed to be "geeking out" over Mr. Incredible's creative hiding behind a dead super hero, from a robot searching for a live super hero, so too am I geeking out over your techno-sleuthing. Nicely done!

QoE for our servers is done via WMI using the defaults. I get some beautiful QoE pages. We've drastically reduced the number of servers in the Central and West regions four data centers, and moved most services into our two new resilient data centers in East. That puts most of the servers in the same room as the UCS…

That is true: our Orion Management traffic is not impacting our WAN. Neither is the Orion SQL traffic, which is all sent to my region's data centers. Perhaps because our WAN is comprised of dual-1G MPLS circuits, and the vast majority of our access traffic is Citrix. However, there are many very large files passing over…

Disregard my comment here, ecklerwr1‌; I was mistaken. All my regional pollers report SQL and everything else back to my main East data centers. I don't know why it works well here, or why others have had some issues with distance. My West and Central sites run about 7 ms and 11 ms in round trip latency from/to my East NPM…

That'll have to be my direction. I also attempted to delete the original discovery--successfully. And then build a new discovery--which failed with the same error.

Nicely done, Sir! That's a great start for the new year!

SWUG's are a lot of points. I wish there were some within driving distance for me to attend, but that's the price I must pay for living in a rural area. I keep telling myself the easy drive, the quiet in the woods at my home in the big pines, the clean air, the great fishing & wonderful bird watching and big vistas free…

I can dig that.

You're exactly right. However, Skeptical Cat remains Skeptical about membership. SW claims 160,000+ in the Thwack User Forum. But I see no more than 700 attending any individual Thwack camp session, and folks with pretty low scores are ranked in the 600's. Are there REALLY 160,000+ Thwackers? How many post at least weekly?…

Security is hard to troubleshoot if you're not responsible for implementing it. Once upon a time, I did the DNS, the DHCP, the routing, the ACL's, the firewall rules & DMZ configuration, etc. I miss those days--having all that in one brain made for fast and efficient configurations and troubleshooting. As we grew, it was…

If you're comfortable with it, please share the results of your NTA 4.2 RC install adventure. * Challenging or easy? * What problems did you experience? * What limitations did you discover--if any? Finally, I think we'd all be interested in any NTA screens shots showing your WLC's Netflow output. This might be the item…

Perfect--that did it. Now my NOC view has this Resource in it, thanks to your help: And now my UPS team has a new way to prioritize their work. I wish I could mark your response as the Correct Answer--that's not an option. But you got me going--thank you very much, @sum_giais!

I've seen Uruguay listed in similar threads more than once. Is this a Thwack/SW glitch? Hopefully it's not Thwack-user-error. 

Might you be able to work with pre-existing fields, and simply change their data? For example, you might not need the info in the System Contact and System location fields. If you populated the devices with the info you want in those fields, you could report and sort on them. Always trying to find a helpful solution . . .…

What--you're not running NPM 12.0.1 and NCM 7.5.1? My luck (and bane!) is that only my team relies on Orion, therefore we can afford to upgrade and keep at the leading edge. I understand when other SW customers must remain at older versions. In fact, I'm a big fan of NCM 7.3 for some of the features that live there, but…

I like the information you've shared, and I thank you for it. But it doesn't remedy my initial bug identification. After creating the view and then adding it to my Menu Bar, it still references an undesired path, which I've circled here: Perhaps this bug is only present as a result of past configuration versions and…

Jason, if you're not the Customer Relations Manager, you have nothing to fear . . .

Thank you!

Perhaps something in Active Directory . . . This user isn't part of our Network Team, and we have advanced rights via that group. Still, since I've added him directly to NPM as a single Windows account I'd expect him to have exactly what I allowed through User Management in NPM. Hmmm. Perplexed.

I've run into the same issue. I want a user to only have the ability to modify and view a report, but I don't seem to be able do it without giving them Admin rights. What, other than Allow Administrator Rights, is required in addition to Manage Reports to view and edit and create a Report?

The picture is from a different product that isn't a true air hockey table, but the image shows very much what the end product looks like. The Thwack table IS a true air-hockey table with a blower and multiple holes through which air suspends the small/thin air hockey pucks.

No sweat. It's in SW's court. If they have resources (staff, empty boxes into which VMs could be deployed & tested) they could install trial/test versions of ASA & FTD and test them there. Or . . . they could offer 5000 points to get customers to test this in prod or test systems . . .

" . . . through blunt trauma . . . " You made me grin!

If decreasing your polling and collection intervals and increasing your PPS don't do the trick, and if no one else offers a good solution, have you considered using the Bandwidth Gauges in the Engineer's Tool Set? I build a gauge for every interface that needs frequent and granular monitoring, then choose the Historical…

If you look in the thread above for rogdog​'s entry, it seems the information provided there may be what you've been looking for: rogdog​ wrote: " Why do ports become unmonitored ? Solarwinds support confirmed the following to me today If a port/switch is unreachable in UDT for more than 3 Hours, it goes into an…

That's very useful information, rogdog​! Thank you for sharing it. Rick Schroeder

Impressive! I might be "luckier" than you in that my network is simpler. 100 hospitals & clinics, an shared MPLS / VPLS infrastructure. 200 Network Rooms, 53,000 active devices. And STP works well here, along with HRSP & BGP & EIGRP. I remember the days when we were about 7000 employees, running on a RIP network. I could…

You guys are teasing me, now! Do you have a proven query or report to share? I'm thinking you do--or something quite close, that could be modified?