sneakernet

Upvoted. This request was first posted in 2012 and continues to gain support. This should have been made available years ago. My company has a large Solarwinds instance. We can't justify the cost to stand up another Solarwinds instance to use for a dedicated Dev server that would be practical for testing. We need a proving…

I like what prettyflyforawifi has contributed. With the Solarwinds pricing model, they do tend to squeeze you. It is efficiently priced for my specific environment because we are using it at a way larger scale than it was ever designed for, and we have been able to make the most of their unlimited licenses. The downside to…

Solarwinds is pretty particular about what output your script should present. Some things to try: * Go overboard with error handling, throw the meat of your script into a TRY/CATCH block and make sure that your script can grab terminating errors and fail gracefully while still generating console output that Solarwinds…

Nimsoft is a great product that brings a lot of unique features to the table. It is a different beast than Solarwinds, and there are both benefits and disadvantages to their approach to monitoring. I am a Solarwinds admin and a Windows admin, but recently my company was considering standing up a Nimsoft environment so my…