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To be honest I don't recall off the top of my head, but I'm pretty sure it uses a single "widget name" but the workaround is to incorporate the name to any of your maps by using the txt tool.

Strictly speaking it only does this to any group that uses teh same page template where it was set. So if you have two page templates A and B and only set it on A, then B remains as it was.

Nice - thanks Thomas.

@mariefab - can we please have a registration form that is applicable to individuals that are NOT affiliated to a company and that don't want to hand out personal numbers? Otherwise this will be another session I'll have to miss?

You can potentially create a couple of Universal Device Pollers that lists all interfaces Interesting approach, and not one I'd considered; probably because I can't envisage how that would work. At my last employer I just utilised NCM and did exactly what @cnorborg suggests. Specifically we had to produce a regular report…

Cha ching!

I won't be able to join…. UNLESS you can provide a registration form that doesn't require an employer name, job title and phone number. 😭 @mariefab ???

Sadly this is the way of it for the vendors seen as "non primary". I mean, I get it, as 15yrs+ ago Cisco dominated so it was appropriate for a monitoring product to concentrate on that. But with the size that Solarwinds now is, its market share and the price they charge then they absolutely need to do better by default. As…

You don't do it that way. As my original response said you have: 1 x Alert for Customer A and that emails alerts to Customer A You then duplicate that alert and edit it for Customer B and so on….

He already has the CP's.

First off, you won't be able to edit the OOB alert so you will need to duplicate and edit. Secondly, presuming I've understood the ask, the easiest way is to utilise the custom property you've created. I'm not in front of a setup now to 100% advise and the alert logic would be something like: If node = down AND Custom…

There is no global setting you can use. the options are: 1. Change each node individually - tedious and subject to nodes being missed if you have a lot. 2. Script it in powershell or python with the script making calls to SWQL. - Recommended way. 3. Then there is the 100% not recommended approach using a query in DB…

Just as @cnorborg says - create and use custom properties. They are a mini powerhouse behind Solarwinds, and once I'd got my head around what they were and what I could do with them, then we were flying. But we do just what you want to do using a custom property we called 'ResponsibleTeam' and its properties were things…

Hopefully this will be being recorded and available afterwards, as I'm on holiday at this time.

Yay me 😁 I can no longer say "I've never won anything on THWACK" 🤣😁😍

And a Pro MVP tip back at you 😁 Just search THWACK!

I'd suggest you could start by reading the answers to your last very similar question. Over here:

Today's is sneaky @mariefab 😉 Truth be told, I do read the announcements looking for my name 😁😁 but who actually remembers?

If I understand, you want to connect PowerBI to Solarwinds. A quick web search gives me this: Failing that, a search of prior posts in THWACK might help: In no particular order try: or

@mariefab and @John.Summers Is there a timed release for each day's questions? I ask as I'm an early starter and try to get them out of the way before kicking in to work mode - around 7am. But here we are, almost 08:30

Meanwhile, I'm F5'ing the page waiting for today's question to be released 🤣

And we are off. 😁

@mariefab Am I just too early/keen as I can't see any sign of the new mission? 😁

It's been a long time coming since I raised my initial "please can you fix" post but great to see this si finally sorted. Only query, in what release did the advanced alert appear? My read of your post is that there shoudl essentially be two OOB alerts now, but our clients still only see one?

Most of your "suggested" additional alerts would be considered noise to our environments. Unless you have explicit SLA's or contractual requirements for the above suggestions then my opinion (for what it is worth) is forget them. For example. Utilisation thresholds should, to my mind, be 100% in a report. Or at least not…

I'm no S(W)QL guru but sharing what you've tried already would be a great aid to those that are.

Sorry, but that's just nuts. 99% of the auto-generated links we have/had are interfaces. If the node is down, then the interface will also be down, and as such, the map should depict that. Network Atlas behaved that way, so why would a newer product from the same company not behave the same way? No answer actually required…

I saw the opening post about it coming … and then there was this that appeared a day or so later.

Perfect. Diolch yn fawr.

I've never won a prize but I do like to try and complete the questions. For me, it's about trying to get all the right answers, and sometimes that used to mean I'd do 5 answers in one day to play catchup. If I'm off, on training, sick or some personal crisis going on (and boy do I) then knowing I'm not forced to turn up…