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My thought is that anyone in this forum is probably either operating at least one Solarwinds product, or they're interested in one (or more). If someone has NPM, why wouldn't they bundle it up with NCM and improve their reporting and uptime? And once you start down that path, NTA, DPA, NPM, LEM, SAM, WPM, and…
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I'm on board 100% with all of the above comments, and will simply contribute that telecommuting from my rural area that has low bandwidth availability became MUCH improved when my two teens moved out of the house. It seems they feel full-time audio AND video streaming of entertainment media is necessary to living a normal…
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Perhaps the solution is to "be needed". Become the solution to someone's problem(s), and you can be hired / paid to resolve those issues. Or you can get married--same thing, in some cases. Developing your skills & knowledge can be the path to being needed more than the next person. But no matter your training,…
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Stock Market? Relying on the stock market's performance to always increase, to always rebound, simply because "it always has" does not take time and need into account. Let's say I'm retired. I moved most of my funds out of volatile stocks when I retired. The market crashes, so what? My investments are safer than most…
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Leon, the SW Orion product line is so full-featured and useful that I just wish and hope I can get my organization to adopt more of the modules. They're how I'm hoping we can break through the silos and start sharing information and expertise horizontally, making a team of IT Support Staff that is more well-rounded, better…
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Efficiencies have reduced our data center floor area requirements, and we've reduced our data center operators from a staff of 25 that operated 7x24 to two people who are here 8x5. Our DC server hardware growth was out of control eight years ago, and we'd run into cooling, electrical, and floor carrying weight capacity…
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I'm with you--seeing that info (especially the cost of paying for and supporting multiple tools, and also seeing the inefficiencies in not being able to resolve issues quickly because you don't have access to the big picture, the single pane of glass) would be great. It might make enough difference that it could be used to…
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I've worked with the solutions you mentioned; my organization constantly considers risks and works hard to maintain trust by staying HIPAA compliant. Some things we've implemented include: * Multi-Factor Authentication for all secure access. It was a pain to set up, and we have multiple flavors depending on what we do. But…
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Yes. Our data IS being manipulated. But we don't mind because we don't see the results on an individual-impact basis. My favorite quote from this article: " . . . reconsider what security looks like in a data-driven world." Doing so would be pretty helpful and useful and cool. I suspect it'll never happen because it's too…
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Monitoring gives you information and alerts for multiple systems, all in the same pane of glass. Why would you want to search multiple places when Orion can display it all in one place?
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Cloud Backup? Not so fast. (Literally and figuratively) What should a person know BEFORE testing the cloud backup waters? For starters: * What guaranties are in place to ensure your data backed up to the cloud is:* Safe* Who has physical access to the facilities that house your stored data? * What security is in place to…
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Yes, backup, backup, backup. And restore on occasion--your backups are only as good as your last restore. But where's the NSA or FBI, or vigilantes for that matter, in hunting down and destroying the ransom folks and their resources? It's organized crime, isn't it? It uses IP addresses that are assigned, right? It seems…
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Thank you so much for bringing up the Target case again, and commenting on their flaws! It's great information, and a pertinent and timely warning to anyone with a network or an IoT device.
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I know it's all in good fun, but lest some gullible folks take you at your word, I gently submit, kind friends, that problems displayed during a VIP's tour should generate increased trust in your team's ability to react efficiently to trouble. And good administrators should recognize that staff and training and tools are…
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I suspect everyone who's ever bought an APC enclosure has looked at the key, eventually lost or wanted to replace/add a key, and discovered they're all identical.
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My kids went to auto correct as fast as they discovered it. I fear that as adults they haven't a clue about what the right word or spelling of that word may be, that they'll just select something the word processor suggests . . . As the child of two educators, and one who believes written language lifts us up above the…
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Not everything MS does or offers is necessarily a great idea, even when other giants jump on that bandwagon. Before joining that group of people, verify the cloud's security, and that it provides Six-9's availability / performance / accessibility, and get signed SLA's with the cloud providers--these SLA's must have some…
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Yes, I see this is the direction many things are going. Either we build our own cloud, or farm out to someone else's. However, remember the advice: "Trust, but verify." * What surety do you have that your services will remain up and available 7x24? * What penalties is your company willing to accept for your customers' loss…
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An example of where this would be nice for me is we have some Cisco 3650 switches online that start automatically crashing/rebooting if they're up for three years straight. A stack of three might have switches 2 and 3 reloading over and over. The only recovery is to reboot the entire stack. I've noticed that in the seven…
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I know what you're feeling, Jeremy. I think SW provided the "down vote" option to give them a better sense of how everyone feels about a topic. As you recommended, if I don't care about a topic I ignore it, don't vote. But if I think a suggestion has really has serious problems (and there are only two suggestions in all of…
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Oh, yes, I'm WELL aware of AZ's abundance of birds that are NOT on my Life List. Some of those hummers are spectacular (I'm thinking of Lucifer and Broad-billed and Anna's and Costa's in particular). When I retire, I'll be spending some time in Arizone searching for Hummingbirds, Owls, Five-striped Sparrows, Gilded…
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Oh no! I can't stop myself! Not The Hobbit, but The Fellowship Of The Ring. I'm so sorry . . .
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Keeping this alive--still useful.
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"A long journey begins with a single step." Yes, risk and bad behavior exists out there, and we must account for it and counteract it. Yet that's only "giving me a fish." Instead, let's TEACH how to fish, so that tomorrow we may not be hungry again. Or, in more direct terms, let's teach ethics to all users--especially when…
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I know nothing of Japanese language, but I have a friend who knows it well. She says she likes it because she found it easier to pronounce when it's written in English. Apparently (?) every letter is spoken/pronounced . . . unlike English. As I have surfed for pleasant and impressive Internet art, I've found some Anime…
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We all KNOW what happens to those who don't study history. And we know NPM is a pretty good tool for seeing recent history, and extrapolating from it to predict possible futures. When will we have a Solarwinds Data Warehouse option that lets us view historic data and project trends based on the last five years, or ten…
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Have you tried going to Manage All Nodes, selecting the nodes on which you wish to change monitoring, then selecting the Pollers, and unchecking Physical and Virtual Memory Volume options?
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The Dark Theme is there in the latest version of NPM. It was hidden with unlikely commands in the demo, but was there for anyone to view and try. It's not as high-tech and "Vader-ish" as one might want, but bright screens were no longer mandatory in the NPM 12.3 demo.
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Bacon is always appropriate for the holidays. Even Halloween! https://sweetsoursavory.com/blog/2015/10/29/halloween-meatloaf?fbclid=IwAR1zQQb0NGAjW8ZiuJAMFOw-rrWt-Vn_uSr6PsukBureLZf6SpDFBHbWFto
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I saw a similar decrease in speed and availability when our Outlook and Office was moved to the cloud a year ago. The problems and slowness remain. When we had it all internally, we had our own resilient backup servers and links and multiple F5's load-balancing it all. I understand MS has that same type of resilience…
