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I LOVE IT! " . . .we're ramping up an army and preparing to rain a nightmare-sized flaming ball of elevated escalations upon their heads."

If they're not responding to your needs in a timely fashion:

Also, one may "purchase" a certification test through the Thwack store if one is willing to accrue and spend the 60,000 points required. You can also test for SCP for free if you happen to earn the MVP award.

Thank you for the update. I've modified my post accordingly.

Under the previous program, some of the benefits of becoming a Solarwinds Certified Professional included: * Access to NFR (Not For Resale) licenses for most (all?) Solarwinds products. These licenses are the smallest licenses, not an unlimited license, and getting free fully-supported access to them is (apparently)…

That's a nice (but complex) solution to your exact problem. You are to be elevated and praised for your creativity!

I think a world-wide design should be leveraging Solarwinds' expertise to ensure the right solution is applied. What works well for my environment, which spans only three states, may not be the right deployment for a successful solution when covering multiple continents.

For what it's worth, the bulk of my monitored elements are in my East region, and I have two SLX (10,000 element) licenses active there on two pollers. Each one runs somewhat over 10,000 elements, and many are being polled more frequently than 120 seconds. My Central poller is doing about a third of that: And my West…

CourtesyIT‌ I was mistaken about the SQL servers--all my remote pollers send their SQL over the WAN to my East NPM deployment--and it works quite well. Orion pollers aren't killing our WAN with bandwidth or alerts or Netflow--not in any way. There is no problem with the amount of WAN utilization by Orion--the three regions…

As someone previously caught, I have local SQL servers in each region. Our regional pollers simply report stats & make beautiful graphs with the main NPM solution, along with sending fast alerts.

I bit that bullet long ago and bought into NAM to enable me to monitor every port. When Security said they all need to be shut down until an authorized device was patched into them, I showed them the cost of employee-hours to unpatch & patch ports in a hundred hospitals and clinics and business offices in three states,…

Woo HOO! Shipped! (Sorry for being the squeeky wheel, DanielleH​. You ROCK!)

Danielle claims it's fun and good quality, but that's it's hard to assemble. Fingers are crossed it arrives in time for a birthday gift!

Good work troubleshooting this. Congratulations on another successful piece of detective work!

If you don't mind going old-school and creating it through the old Report-Writer, message me Monday; I've built a report to show exactly that info, which I needed after NCM 7.4 stopped displaying port-status with unused ports that also showed how long they've been down. I used that for determining which ports might safely…

Thanks, Nick. SW Support had no comments about the Unmanage button being broken in this view; they simply told me to go to a different screen, select "Delete Nodes" (yes, that's TOTALLY not intuitive to me), and then a prompt appears that asks if I want to delete the nodes only from UDT, or from all Solarwinds apps.…

That'd be the way I'd go--unless I had to install the WMI agent AND QOE on them. I'm not sure that'd be possible through NSD. But cool if if it IS!

Your skills are so cool and helpful! Thanks for sharing your expertise with Thwack!

Wow! I'm impressed. Thank you for sharing your hard work!

Thank you for this. I'd been wondering why my NTA views weren't showing domains. It turned out that I DID have NTA Settings for DNS correctly configured, but my NTA Summary page didn't have the right resources added. Once I saw they were an option that was missing, I added Top XX Domains, Top XX Traffic Destinations by…

Ditto--what he said: Open a ticket with Solarwinds Support to get the right info and procedures. Otherwise you'll find what isn't compatible--the hard way.

Yes, I'm very interested. CLI is too powerful to be inconvenient and non-intuitive. At a minimum I'd constantly use the ability to hover over a node (which I have to do to see its IP address now) and then be given an open to SSH to it directly from that hover. At a luxury Tesla level, I'd want an analogy to the Nortel…

I use Putty, too. Still looking for a way to get it to work quickly with NPM while hovering over a node's icon, though. Or an easy way to get Orion's Telnet link to use SSH. 

Cool--I've not heard of mRemoteNG before. It sounds much like Putty Connection Manager and Secure CRT.

There is an additional option I didn't go into--Remediation Script. If you wish, and if you trust your scripting and NCM's work, you can set up an automatic remediation script that can fix (or seriously mess-up) all of your configurations. NCM can search for your string and if it's not found, it can add it into your…

Thanks. We have Secure-CRT; there's not been a great way to import all our devices into it--AND associate it with hovering over an Icon in NPM. But I'm glad you're happy with it. I'm still looking for something even easier.

I'm glad this is what you needed, ACDII‌. If you find my answer was correct, please set my response as the Correct Answer (it'll slide me 5 Thwack Points, which are always appreciated!). Have a great weekend! Rick S.

Thanks--I've never heard of ZOC. I've seen multiple requests for an easy way to get NPM's Telnet to translate to an SSH client. The few answers that have come back have been too complex to support, IMHO. It'd be nice if even that Telnet could be ported to use SSH, but it doesn't serve my best desire because it requires you…

Thank you, mesverrum​. I'm going through a Solarwinds database move this afternoon; it'll be a perfect time to restart everything and test your findings here. When I opened a ticket with SW Support, they said this behavior of the GUI is normal. I don't believe it.

Back them up locally to a separate server, that's also backed up automatically to the network, via ACI instructions. They're not compatible with NCM as far as I've been able to determine--there's no single flat file to retrieve from them that NCM can handle.