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Grats ttl‌

LOL @ that image! I shall have to borrow it!

Good post! The comment on remarks in your ACLs is something that training needs to highlight as good practice. For example, if Cisco and affiliated trainers added this as a good practice in their courses, then we'd find more helpful; configs down the line, and less "WTF is this for?!" moments at 3am! I'm learning…

Yup, you need to identify the root cause as quickly as possible when you have an Emailageddon going on. In Orion, turning on 'Auto Dependancies' helps a lot with this, but you're always going to want to ensure the big silos of kit are sat behind the correct edge device in these parent>child relationships. By edge device, I…

NDR sounds AWESOME!

You forgot to include:

That's some first car you had, rschroeder​! Mine was a late 1980's Ford Escort with a massive 1.3 litre engine lol

#IBumpedIt

Now this is a perfect piece of Thwackage! You have raised the bar, sir!

Mine has to be the time an elderly relative asked me to look new deskop PC.I arrived to find the unit placed in front of a monitor, with a perplexed 70 year old explaining that "it simply doesn't work as they said in the shop!". On closer examination I found that nothing had been plugged in, other than the power. No mouse,…

Could you say that the first SWUG for you.... BOWLED YOU OVER??

Congrats to the winners!

Indeed, byrona​! Often monitoring is seen as a commodity, rather than a critical business function. How many businesses do you know that have an entire team of people dedicated to backups? How many businesses do you know that have a team (or even one!) person dedicated to monitoring? From my own experience, I first started…

I'll take a look and wade in if I feel I have anything useful to say

Good idea. Whilst you could do it via SAM, it should be a chart native to NTA.

If only I had a personal Cisco account to access the test IOS software I need ... I'm going to have to pass on the chance of the big kahuna prize this time

NCM is amazeballs. You'll love it. All the backup goodness wrapped up with compliance reporting AND change control for properly managed device changes from within NCM itself. Allows enterprises to empower their lower end network engineers to make low level changes, even if they don't have enable access, due to work having…

Awesome! Thanks maria.bungau​!

On thinking about this again this morning (Super Bowl fug needed to be blown away, so engaging my brain helped!), perhaps leaving the ability to vote down in is worthwhile, seeing as we now know a little about how SWI use this feature internally. However, if someone does click the downvote, for the vote to be registered an…

Congrats to the winners! On to "Destination Automation"!

Too true, m_roberts​. There have been many embarrassing miss-steps taken by the NHS and UK government as a whole, but it cannot be understated just how gigantic and complex any given Trust environment is. The issue, ironically, is that Trusts are convinced that they need something created 'just for them'. As their legacy…

Get a SolarWinds partner in to demonstrate it. You'll be amazed how much difference an external company showing the tools makes to making the bean counters open their wallets

NIce post scuff​! I can remember the old days, where bulletin boards and IRC were the only ways to reliably keep in touch with my friends over the pond. I picked up ICQ when it was released, and this replaced IRC for me, for a long time. Bots in general are a good thing. But, as with every other 'smart' technology, we have…

Cheers for this, OP. It's great to highlight the customisation available in SWI products, and WHD is no exception

Welcome to the new people, and -FIST BUMP- to the returning THWACK warriors! I'm proud to be in my tenth year as an MVP, and it is my honour to continue to serve! May we all help SWI and the THWACKSTERS have a fantastic 2025/26! Let's rock! 

You're too kind, maria.bungau​

Thanks for this, sqlrockstar​! A good read, and dispels the myth of the 'Oh, it's a SQL server, it always eats all the memory'. I'll be sharing this around

I voted to support this, but I'm not sure how sensitive the schema is to the product as a whole. If SWI were to publish it, they'd have to be careful that they weren't exposing any possible attack vectors to nefarious individuals! Also, it's likely that they'd need to expend significant resources keeping this published…

Whilst some may want to try to DevOps away the need for these big, expensive solutions, the sad fact is that agencies that provide auditing against an organisations security, increasingly expect a decent brand of SIEM solution to be deployed for your company to get the tick in the magic box that renews their ISO 27001 (or…

That's a great story Radioteacher​! I bet if you attached an oscilloscope to the kit you manage these days it'd melt your eyeballs!