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Ok. SWI need to just straight employ @i_like_eggs to work on the OSH GUI. Well played! I would love to see how I could get any of this to work on lab, let alone my client instances.

This series is impressive. I'd love to have a peep 'behind the curtain', as there's got to be something other than basic SWOSH going on here to generate these dashboards. Rendering may be inside the product, but the rest has to be done elsewhere else! As a #DarkTheme advocate (some may say the advocate among the MVPs!)…

Thanks as always for this! There's always a few updates I missed in the previous month, and this gives me a chance to catch up! 👍️

Double post, please ignore :)

You could try using PerfStack to do this, so rather than a report, it'll be a live dashboard. Go to My Dashboads > Performance Analysis: Add the nodes you want to display the data for: Add the related metrics for each of the nodes, so you can find the interfaces, by clicking the relevant button: And then drag the metrics…

Unpicking the specific permissions required is messy, and there is no definitive list, as far as I'm aware. The following KB gives you some info: https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/npm/content/npm-what-privileges-do-i-need--sw56.htm?cshid=OrionPHWhatPrivilegesNeed Given the power of the agent, I would…

Check the health of the license store on the main polling engine. Go to Settings>License Manager and make sure that the licenses are correct and activated.

Points Come, We struggle to build a count, New Hoodie Awaits.

LMAO! Oh, Behave!

Hey Zen! I hear you. There's a lot of negativity in the world right now, it's tough to stay positive. I use the escapism of computer games to keep me sane most of the time, but it's a very insular thing. Personally, I've never been busier, which is keeping my time in THWACK and Slack down to the minimum, but my drive to be…

I'm going to miss the UK World Tour this year, as I''ll be boarding a cruise ship on the same morning :( Hope it all goes well, I will be there in spirit (or spirits, depending on how good the bar is lol!)

At the moment, my personal use of any form of AI is limited to the new Alexa+. In business, while I have used them for testing purposes, I have my concerns about the world putting all their eggs in the datacentre basket, and it all collapsing under the strain, leaving the world in chaos. It's all moving too quickly for my…

Cheers for this, Chrystal! These recap posts are always useful as I'm sure I'm not the only one who misses some of these messages! Keep up the good work!

Hey @B.Rathinavel Would it be possible to expand this functionality to Versa? There's an old community FR for this, and I've had a client ask for this just last week: https://thwack.solarwinds.com/discussion/123311/versa-sdwan-api-dashboard

This is really disappointing to hear from some THWACKsters who have obviously been here for a very long time. While it is true THWACKs various migrations from the original platform have all introduced issues (and a lot of challenges), I don't think it's entirely fair to throw disrespect at the CMs here, as they can only…

Can this be looked at? More and more customers are looking to monitor Versa Networks SDWAN. It'd be great to have this included along with the existing list of OOTB supported SDWAN vendors. For reference, as of today (4th Feb 2026) this list is: Meraki Viptela VeloCloud Prisma Fortinet FortiManager Aruba Central Aruba…

Nice and easy start to 2026! Will be interesting to see what the community as a whole vote for, as some of the questions should inform how 'we' do THWACK and SWUG (bring back the old name, peeps!) going forward.

2026 will be a challenge for us all, so let's go into the year with resolve to meet whatever it brings!

Sol-AI - "Hey SolAI (sounds like SolAYE), I've lost my brain and need to rely on you to do my work for me!" Sorry…. I'm somewhat negative about the proliferation of AI, and how the vast majority of users use it to do their work for them, rather than it being used for something useful like medical research etc etc.

THWACK has had it's ups and downs over the years, with the platform moves and changes in staff etc, but at it's heart it remains a collaborative space, where THWACKsters new and old can come together and share ideas and solutions, all for the greater good!

Great article adatole​, and equally good repose cnorborg​! As a long time server engineer, I find learning anything networking like some kind of dark magic, although if I'd have been a Unix engineer in a past life, rather than a Microsoft one, perhaps I would have found it easier? It's all about learning, and challenging…

Another great mission! Oct 1st was a tough one, but it was fun Live long, and prosper, Thwacksters!

A good idea. There would have to be some new limitation option built in to Orion, I would imagine, and function the same way as view and report limitations . #bumpsquad

Limited and mindful automation is the way to go, in my experience. If you try to automate everything, invariably you either miss something, or you end up being in a situation where something fundamental changes within the automation stack, and it breaks a lot of your work. Like everything else, use automation as a tool,…

This was so much fun! I think I found 'em all! Good luck on the hunt, THWACKsters!

Now this would be a great quality of life improvement! Bumped!

Get your knowledge on people! Good luck to all. Those Halo X1's are sweet! I'm crossing my fingers

Technomancers?

Good post rschroeder​! I always find the key is tailoring the information you share with your key "brokers" is what gets the buy-in process started. Take time to think about what each silo of the business needs, and don't be shy to approach the non-technical teams! You can knock up some really useful dashboards with a bit…

This looks like a fun one! Cheers wabbott​ & co!