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I encourage you to move to 2016 and make the jump to current versions of SolarWinds products. I did; it was pain-free, hassle-free, and everything runs better (faster, more reliably) in SQL 2016 and Server 2016. It was definitely a win for me to move my seven APE's and SQL instance to 2016. The improvements to the way one…

We use Secure-CRT and Putty Connection Manager. Neither are easy enough, in my opinion, simply due to the tedious work of getting all our nodes into each one. Ideally I’d like an Orion map with all of my 750 nodes on it. All nodes would change color as their status changed. Right-Click on a node and you’d get a drop-down…

Thank you very much, Ron! I've forwarded your report to the rest of my team, and to our other groups who are analyzing packet-forwarding vendors. I think everyone likes Gigamon, and their only hesitation is Gigamon's price. When I spoke with Gigamon and Datacom Systems (one of Gigamon's competitors), it sounds like the two…

Yes. Low priority for now, but I'll get it to you when I get caught up with sixty ASA upgrades.

Are you using NAM? I love that I can add up to a total of 20 APE's anytime I want, and monitor 100,000 elements at no additional charge when I moved our licensing to NAM in 2017. And this year the element count has doubled to 200,000--again, at no extra charge. It's saved my organization $$. And getting NAM reduced my…

That sounds promising. Should I give that a try, towards getting my UDT versions back in sync? I wasn't aware of installer version incremental ID's. Does one pick & choose which Installer version they use, or is that version simply the current one?

pparsaie​ Is there line I can add, or an option I can enable, in your report that will display the sum of all ports, for a "Total Ports Across All Nodes" entry? Obviously I can export it to Excel and run the Summary function on a one-time or as-needed basis, but it would be an attractive feature to show Total Ports on ALL…

I like the concise output of your report, but it doesn't provide the information I needed. I was searching for a method of discovering how long inactive ports have been inactive. The sole focus is discovering the length of time that inactive ports have stayed inactive, and sorting them by duration of inactivity. The goal…

If you don't install a beta until you have a test environment that's separate from your corporate Solarwinds gear, it can't impact your environment.

Yes, MVP has to be reapplied for, renewed, annually, by invitation from SW staff. If you've been contributing hard all year, it's reasonable they'd extend an invitation to be MVP the next year. I recently received my invite for re-upping as MVP for 2018--just this week.

Thank you!

That definitely dumped out nice clean answers. Thank you! Questions (to help me submit fewer newbie questions in the future, hoping I've leaned a bit more from your expertise): * What does "t2.date" represent? * The Date column shows the last 30 days, with a time stamp of 12:00:00 a.m. * What does this tell me…

You may be right about this making a useful NCM Feature Request, but now that it's documented and working well, with good descriptions of how to build it and accomplish the goal (thanks to jeilers​), I don't see a need to ask NCM designers to jump through hoops for something I think is very specialized. Oh, I wouldn't MIND…

This one produced the information I wanted. Thank you! The output looks like this: is there a way to filter lines so a node / line is only present if "entservices" is present? Or how about filtering out rows if the line contains "ipbase"? Nicely done, jeilers​!

As long as it helped get your reports looking correct, that's the main thing.

SolarWinds still reports this behavior is normal. I still see the information in which I'm uninterested in NPM 12.4. I'm no longer pushing for a resolution; I've learned to live with this as it currently is. But I'd gladly use any resolution or workaround others have discovered that's successful.

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I've migrated from TACACS on ACS to ISE--it's pretty painless, and ISE is much more stable and reliable (for me) than ACS. There will be unique configurations & AAA syntax that vary per IOS or hardware version. For example, the TACACS syntax on a 3750 is different than that on a 2960S or 3850 switch, which differ from…

I can't speak to the cause of your poor experiences, but I can sympathize; I've had the same. My most recent case opened via the web was first responded to a week after I opened it. SW Support recommended that anything urgent be opened up via a telephone call, to ensure it was addressed immediately. They noted they're…

These are beautiful, exemplary, clear instructions! Thank you for them! You've provided the right format for me to follow--nicely done. One thing is unclear to me: Is 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.46.1.6.1.1.5 the correct OID to poll to determine if a switchport is a member of port-channel or channel-group? It looks as if this OID can…

How might you generate a port list of only ports that are members of port-channels? My thought (see previous entry) would be to run a search in all 1000+ current configs for any port that has "channel" or "channel group" in it. Then review the output and see how difficult it would be to put that list into a new Resource or…

I didn't know that. I'm not sure whether to think that's a good thing or not. Do you use it? Do you like it?

This looks very promising. How does it handle the C drive being virtualized? When I've created a test View of Volumes, limiting to only the C:\Labels I need, I find that the System Admins have tweaked these VM servers' drives somehow so I see much larger drives than are actually present. They seem to be mounted in the same…

A limitation would work. Actually, five limitations, I suspect. Volume/Node name must include "_______". I was thinking in opposite terms--not filtering out all other volumes, but only looking at these five volumes. The effect is the same, just different search parameters & logic.

Having just migrated off an old version of NPM, can you help me find the spot where this SQL script should be applied? If you don't mind my asking, it would help our team if you could provide the sequence of steps to get into the location, and the tool(s) to use to apply the script. Feel free to be as literal and specific…

We have just twenty-one FEXes in this ACI deployment. Maybe the problem we're running into with OID's listed stopping at ~40,000 is we use snmp-v3.

It's a good thing there are not Geek Points--unless they were part of a different Leader Board. I'd be so far behind guys like you & Eric & Adatole . . . But it would be FUN to have a Geek Point board! Would they be awarded by Thwack members in the public--maybe you'd need to get a certain number of Thwack "Likes" to…

How about sharing a photo of the cooler/warmer open, showing the inside, maybe with soda or soup inside?

Thanks, Jiri. (I was hoping there was a way to still get that info from NCM). But I understand. Rick

Thank you for your thoughts and analysis and ideas! Your discussion mentioned a crucial item: Enabling session traces reveals the template used. I don't have that many different Machine types. I can turn on Session Trace, run a discovery or a backup on one of each, then review the traces to confirm which template is used…