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Looking forward to this, as I haven't had the chance to participate in the past.

Disregard my last requrest. I went day by day and it looks like I answered all of the dailies, so I should be good.

Maria, No problem at all with a challenging question, and I feel that this is a good thing once in a while. With question 3, I added comments as to my experience with it. I got it wrong and can accept that, wishing I had read through one more time. With question 2, I did have some concerns with the mechanics of it, in that…

All done! Got them all right, now I get to keep my fingers crossed for the last two prizes. This one was a fun one. Thanks Solarwinds!

Yep, that one works for me, as per my comments below. Thanks-

Though small, this is something I would definitely like to see. Many times, I have had admins ask me to unmanage a node for one reason or another, with no set time for it to be managed again (due to vendor time constraints, etc.) and I then have to go several months out to pick some arbitrary date. It would be nice to have…

Hmm, I didn't notice which week the last week listed. I just noticed that it said I completed it and that it would be 750 points. Guess I should have read it a bit better.

Same results here with regard to the bonus week. Stating that I completed it when I did not. And on a side note, I would really like to win this prize! It seems like it would be a heck of a lot of fun, especially after watching videos on how steady these things fly.

At my previous company,I was monitoring dozens of Steelheads, and I had set up an advanced alert for them to alert on hardware health, using the Riverbed MIBs. You should be able to do something with this already.

Danielle, The paranoid part of me is taking over. If possible, can you verify that I didn't miss any days of the regular question? As far as I know, I should have only missed the first bonus question, when I was on vacation. I have been busy as heck lately at work, and would hate to miss out on the drawing because I missed…

Based on everyone's comments here, I tried answering the question differently, maybe choosing an answer that encompassed several. I bombed out, and was surprised at what the answer was. Unfortunately, I couldn't go back and review.

I am with you. I am pretty sure I know the answer. But with not only this week's prize on the line, but the monthly prize, I am scared to pull the trigger. The question is very vague and I had to think of it in those terms to come up with an answer. Now I just need to build up the nerve :-)

Danielle, Can you tell me if all of my points have been added? I was suprised to see that I dropped a significant way on the leaderboard, and was wondering if perhaps points hadn't been added yet or if I am just slipping in my contributions.

Sorry, I should have been clearer. We have a streaming media block policy here at work, and it will block everything of that nature unless an exclusion is done. I saw that it was bcove and knew that was why I couldn't view it. I can watch Youtube videos directly because of an exclusion, but even then it seems like it is…

Yay, that was fun. All 20 questions done, and the last phrase entered. It was a little tricky entering the phrase--note that all caps won't work. (Hope I am okay to say that!) All in all, quite fun. A couple really had me stumped, but it was all great. Thanks again for a great monthly mission.

All good here, thanks Danielle. And I would like to say that this challenge was a heck of a lot of fun. Coupling the answers with the crossword puzzle added to the challenge.

I have been dealing with crisis after crisis at work over the last few weeks, pulling very long hours with little time for anything else. Finally got around to trying these today to give them a go, so I guess I am a procrastinator. Probably shouldn't have tried doing this on very little sleep though. I bombed out on the…

Kurt, She mentioned that everyone who submitted Day 5 will get a pass.

I answered all three questions and did not see a bonus question this week.

I know that, in the past, Danielle has added the points week by week, rather than in full blocks for each participant. Most likely, that is what is happening here--she probably got the first week done for all. Also, I got the hoodie and I love it. It is so comfortable, when I wear it to work, I feel like I am wearing…

No problem at all, and I understand. I should have been clearer in my posting and posted all in one entry rather than multiple. Thank you!

In Advanced Alert Manager, when in the Edit Alert window, on the General tab (far left tab), under Name of Alert, you are trying to use a variable? If this is the case, then I don't think a variable will work here. This field can be anything you want it to be and is just a text input. I don't think there is any…

I was thinking about it a minute, and did recall something. Sorry, it came a bit late for my last post. I think the issue was with the ifindex value on the routers, and the persistence of the value associated with this configuration. Take a look at this Cisco KB and let me know if any of it sounds like it might fit your…

Okay, these are routers then? Cisco? I had a very similar issue in my past environment, with routers exhibiting behavior where it seemed they should be reporting interface data but were not. I did everything I could think to do from the Orion end, including completely deleting and adding the routers back in. Eventually, I…

I was speaking particularly from the Additional Poller perspective, which I mentioned in my first post. I then posted a couple other ideas as they came to me. I probably should have waited to collect my thoughts a bit and posted all at once. After I posted, I read through the request again, which is why I posted the…

Well, I tried the steps you listed, but we still saw the traffic today. Yesterday, I even turned off Neighbor Scanning completely in IPAM, but this didn't clear the issue. I wasn't really sure it would, since the firewall entries only show up once daily, and IPAM scanning is currently set to every 4 hours. It looks like I…

Thanks much! I am going to work on it, and will use the steps you listed as a guideline. I will post afterwards to let you know how it goes.

One other item I should mention, if it might be helpful. At my previous job, where I administered the Solarwinds environment from the time we insourced monitoring in November 2011 until about a week ago, the size of the environment was approximately as listed below (with some intervals as well): For Most Nodes: Polling…

Thanks Danielle, I thought it might be something like that. I will try to get my poll posted shortly.

Thanks a ton for pointing that out Andy! I did not even notice that, but now that you mentioned it, I should have caught it. The Thwack forums have been an invaluable tool for my Solarwinds admin tasks, and I feel like I have been learning by leaps and bounds thanks to the helpful folks here.