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Thank you for your thoughts. No nodes were assigned to the credentials I'm hoping to delete. But it was a great suggestion!

Nice work! Thank you for sharing.

I hope you've checked the UX Participant box on your Thwack profile--one of those sessions is worth two or three thousand points--you could break into the Top 100 before the end of this month!

A Top 50 might generate more contributions, more activity.

Yes! And once you get into the higher ranges, it takes 40,000 points to change levels. On the bright side, points DO seem easier to come by these days. I made a screen shot of the Leaderboard last Halloween, and just compared it to the point totals on January 2 this year, and found I'd added about 24,000 points in three…

You rock today. And you'll rock harder in the future. I played tag with ecklerwr1​ for several weeks, bouncing in and out of 10th place. Then I got motivated and did a bunch of work and got up to 9th, and then 8th. I've been chasing Jfrazier​ for years--he's ACTIVE! "For now" I hope I'm somewhat safe as far as being moved…

I also enjoy working with SW people on UX's, which I only realized today are examples of SW using DevOps procedures. Each time I get a chance to view a new product's GUI and features, and can make suggestions about what I like or expect or don't expect, it's an example of their great customer support. Which is what DevOps…

Congratulations on breaking 300,000 points! That's no mean feat, given the time it and effort it takes. It's crazy to think that a person has to have MORE than 300K to be in the Top 10, but perhaps it's merely a function of time. When I started with Thwack in 2004, I never imagined being able to reach par with folks like…

As you can see from the date of my original post (May of 2017), in six months (it's October of 2017 now) it's possible to add 90,000 points to your score--simply by participating and helping others. I bet by this time next year you'll have over 150,000 points. Maybe more!

Nicely said, Eric. And thanks for sharing some of the history. I'll go out on a limb and say most of us know very little about Solarwinds as a company, its history, and its challenges and failures--but I think we DO know some of its successes!

Thank you, rharland2012‌. This is all news to me. For years I’ve been using a year, month, day, hour, minute, second, and possibly two trailing characters for version. Or 20152110141738. I think that’s readable, especially if you put in spaces, or imagine them. The online calculator was an eye opener, and I appreciate it.

Happily, I wrote the document you referenced. ;^)

Thanks, Claudia. I found the problem is a common one caused by choosing an inappropriate resource for the view. Once I selected the right resource type, the problem immediately disappeared. Yours, Rick S.

The goal is to be able to create a View showing bandwidth utilization from multiple similar devices interfaces. I'm not sure how I'd get them all on the same page by first assigning the Interface View to the Interface, but I'm open to learning. Please say more about how that might be accomplished using your method? I'm…

Agreed--your comments on ASA's poor onboard logging are accurate. My Sidewinders keep incredibly detailed logs onboard, and they're easily searchable with Unix CLI commands or scripts. Even better, they can be filtered with commands and then generate an exportable report. I DO like your explanation of Checkpoint's tracker…

The perfect reply!

There's the key--whatever script you use to access the config is also the exact script you must tell NCM to use. I'm glad you got it figured out.

Yes. I suspect a re-index may fix the incredible slowness.

Nope, they're green, not grayed out.

A good idea--I'll give that a look this week. Thanks for the reply and idea!

I hear your pain. I had to manually discover NAM, and once I did it was obviously the right choice for my environment. I'm honestly surprised they sell / bundle NOM--it has no NCM, and to my way of thinking, configuration management and compliance (provided by NCM) are mandatory for all network environments. Who would want…

It's interesting to think of using NTA that way. Regarding NPM missing the spike caught by the Bandwidth Gauge, a couple of items: * The Gauge correctly recorded the spike. I was the one generating a large download of Cisco IOS code, and I watched the download correspond exactly with the Bandwidth Gauge's spike. So kudos…

Thanks for the suggestion. However, it's not the one I need because it only addresses the limited number of interfaces that would be adjusted for higher polling. Given 50,000+ interfaces in this particularly Orion monitoring deployment, there will always be times when someone wants to know accurate statistics for a given…

Holy Porky's, Bat Man--that Hunt family gets around!

That helps explain the problem trying to get to port 17777 and 17778; thank you. Pointing SDK at my Main Instance's FQDN reveals a new error: My organization is getting tighter and tighter on security every day. So I regard the above message as an improvement. At least SWQL Studio hit a valid listen on a valid destination…

The new installer is definitely an improvement over older versions, @Serena. I'd love to see a "next step" that bundled installing/patching/upgrading on ALL APE's automatically as part of doing the Main Instance. For folks with multiple APE's, that would be such a big time saver! I only have four APE's, and I already spend…

Or for those with newer versions: Either select an existing job and run it manually or via a schedule, or create a new job that meets your custom requirements and run it.

OUCH!

Now I don't think it's "really" fixed, since I see a gap between standings. For example, if I'm at rank 21 and the next person behind me with slightly fewer points is at level 23, they should be ranked at 22, and that's not the case--they're at 23. It's close, but no cigar yet.

I agree. But two months of the leaderboard being inaccurate? It's less fun finding challenge to compete unless / until I can see my ranking changing.