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Totally agree.

The Thwack community is one of the best aspects of SolarWinds. I know a lot of vendors try to keep a community, but few actually pull it off.

It's amazing how people will accept so many things that people can go without as needed, but let Facebook fail and some people just loose it.

Interesting article. Same stuff different process - isn't that always the way. My contention (and mind you this is a very personal one) is that I got into the Network Engineering side of things because I didn't want to be a programmer. Now in the Windows world everything is moving to PowerShell (or Posh as a friend calls…

Well, Chewy needs to save his strength - I'm afraid there are Pinky fans out there that are going to vote against Chewy in the next round - that would be a travesty!

Another case where a week written article applied to many others.

Nice, GNS3 continues to grow and is a very promising product.

Great stuff. I'm going to have to dig into the OIDs on my devices and see how much of this I can duplicate.

I'm still pondering my response for similar reasons.

The whole idea of IT predictions is always very interesting. Vendors will always be "pie in the sky," management will always want it yesterday, users will always find a way to break it and IT will always be tasked with "Make it so." Ahh, the fun if IT.

But it's so tempting with that stock photo of the same girl for every company!

I still have a couple of my picks in the running, but I don't hold out a lot of hopez

Monitoring is very important, but one must plan for "events." I see chatter about outages and such, just as we have redundancy in our data centers we need redundancy when we move to the "cloud." Without diverse ISPs (sometimes not even possible) there is the risk of outage from that front. I've seen many cases where…

Even as a non-DBA the time I installed this product I immediately found issues that could quickly be resolved. For me the more products that can be pulled under one umbrella the better as you then start to have a single point of truth. So many environments have multiple points where data is accumulated and it becomes…

I have this at my desk, maybe you should get one.

Point 1 is so important, but so often neglected. We get so busy with the "just make it work" attitudes and work loads that we forget that if we baseline we can more easily find anomalies and even "predict the future." (Of course a lot of that is built into our SolarWinds tools, but just sayin')

Agreed - but then I've seen iRobot and Battlestar Galactica - what could possibly go wrong.

Not at all - it means good detail and explanation.

Nice articles and great variety of topics. Thanks for adding in the photo of your fire pit. The Thwack community is more than just a product forum and I so appreciate the "community" that is in this community.

Congrats dcschwalm​

Very good article and brought ideas in a fresh light. Getting a good set (i.e. well balanced) of alerts is always hard. Many times no one cares about the alerts until either they get too many, or don't get what they want but the answer is usually just "fix it." Getting buy in and time to work with people to make the…

Nice case study on App Stack.

Nice description of the various types.

Another example of the cyclical nature of IT. Years ago everyone programmed, then things separated, now we see Network management, Server Management, etc. needing to code again.

Simple explanation. Thanks for posting.

Congrats ralfs​ enjoy the backpack.

First question out of the box - if they are all like this it's gonna be fun! I like fun trivia. And I like the new store items. Need a beaker to go with my lab coat.

Love the pig usb hub

SQL has become so dominate but costly, I'd prefer to use something else.

I get that error as well, but the website does work.