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A lot of the above is not necessary depending on the versions you are running. For example, NPM 10.4+ the legacy custom property editor is not available. Depending on the versions, the majority of settings and content is stored in the database so as long as you are connecting to that same database you should be OK. I think…

Does that include international users?

I simply enjoy helping others get their systems up and running, especially when it comes to showing off some of the cool stuff you can do with SolarWinds (as soppy as that sounds haha).

I appreciate the later morning start. I am not a morning person... Now purchasing 40 hours of non-refundable flights!

I had a particular customer one time complain about some devices that were constantly creating tickets in their help desk. Rather than try to resolve the underlying issue of why the device was triggering the alerts, they just removed the device from being monitored - no more tickets = solved! We also use our help desk…

I'm looking forward to the December mission as there is apparently something for us internationals.

Hopefully Australia isn't too far behind.

That Security Q1 is brutal!

I "won" also but I can't claim as I'm ineligible due to country. 

Yes

Reminds of when I was doing a stint as a Dell service technician. I was called out to replace a users laptop motherboard as it "wasn't turning on". I opened up the chassis and found dried milk (I hope!) everywhere and the components were stuck together. I'm not sure I would have been able to separate the board from the…

With the probable prevalence of cheap commercial devices that have minimal (none?) security, the humorist in me can picture internet trolls taking control of other peoples houses and turning the house against them - lights flashing on/off, temperature control swapping between heating and cooling, TV blaring at 3am, the…

I have NPM 12 RC3 installed. When I try to run the NPM 12 GA installer, rather than upgrade it says I already have NPM installed and to use Add/Remove Programs to repair the install?

I started off with Cisco certifications but ever since SolarWinds has been my focus they have lapsed. I'm looking to regain them as well as the upcoming new SCP certification(s). Your comment about it being fictional how there is only one correct answer rings true to me as well. One of the common responses I hear from…

It will take the maximum of the maximum data points, and minimum of the minimum data points - so you'll know the minimum and maximum values from all the data points collected in that hour (and when it is rolled up into a daily statistic, the minimum and maximum value for that day). So yes, in the screenshot of the…

Sooo many times I have used "Garbage In, Garbage Out"

It's been a busy 2015! Also, whoa whoa whoa.... the MVP bobble heads are out?!?

A fun read

The letters are for extra "flavour" with the monthly mission - in this case, telling you what the grand prize will be. You can also use the letters with the image provided to track which questions you have answered. Sometimes the monthly mission will have a final question where you can submit a phrase obtained from…

Grats to all the winners!

I once went on-site to a customer for a relatively straight forward upgrade (they were a few versions behind - NPM 9.1 (?) upgrading to 10.6 so we expected a few step upgrades). Unfortunately, things did not go very smoothly with the first upgrade to NPM 9.5.2 crashing out. After hours on the phone to SW Support,…

Congrats to bvinson‌ and jhay317‌ !

Same. I couldn't see a link on @SWI_Network but Linkedin was fine. The only tweet I can see is the one that links back to this page. Oddly though, if I search for #DPIChallenge on Twitter, it shows the tweet in the results and I can see it in the other SolarWinds account feeds (retweeted by @thwack and @solarwinds)...

No worries. I think to clarify my question would be: "Is there a difference between this UCS monitoring in SAM vs VMAN vs NPM?" Presumably, if the new feature is the same (i.e. part of Orion Core), any systems still on NPM 12.4 / VMAN 8.4 and no SAM won't have this feature until the next product release or they purchase…

When SolarWinds first announced the WinRM monitoring I thought that is was going to be for THIS - node polling. Not only for the SAM application monitoring.

Network Automation Manager (NAM) includes NPM, NTA, NCM, UDT, VNQM, and IPAM as well as unlimited additional polling engine and high availability licenses. When you hit a certain number of devices and multiple modules, there is a point where it is more cost effective to purchase a NAM license (based on number of nodes…

I know someone with NPM and a need for this now. They have a large number of ADSL2 connections and are using bandwidth and bandwidth receive statements as they are asynchronous links. NPM is only picking up the bandwidth statement and using it for both receive/transmit, and is ignoring the bandwidth receive statement. It…

Another notch for Webex here as well. It's helpful to see what the customer sees as sometimes an issue reported in a ticket or email is different to what is actually happening. As Jfrazier above mentioned, access to customer data can be an issue so this allows the client to provide us access as they are monitoring what we…

Congrats and welcome!

You could use the File Age component monitor to check if the maintenance runs overnight (if it doesn't run, the new log file won't be created). You would need to run a Powershell or similar script against the file for indepth log file checking (at least until SAM comes with native log monitoring). The system itself will…