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I've been in IT for a long time and it is constantly changing. It can be very exciting and fun. I just wish the places that I've worked would make a bigger deal out of IT Pro days.

Yes, this tool should prove to be very helpful. I really appreciate the continuing changes and development to SolarWinds products.

Agreed. A good product sells itself. All of us on Thwack are already customers and don't need further "pushing." It's nice to have a forum where we can share ideas including competing products and come to good conclusions for what we really need to accomplish. On the other side of that I'm glad that SolarWinds is…

Agreed. When I was in Kansas City I helped the IT Admin at my church to configure his Cisco switch that was GUI only. We needed to configure about 20 ports with tagging, untagging and descriptions. 20 ports took (I don't want to exaggerate) Forever! So, when it came time to upgrade switches we went to an HP that has both…

2FA tends to get a lot of push-back from users and very often management. There's the fear of that added "complexity" and less convenience. However, having worked in multiple environments that utilize 2FA it's really a pretty quick learning curve and people adapt to it very quickly. In sales you are taught to sell the…

I love how this community jumps in to help - even long after the cash award has expired. I really think Thwack is a big part of the reason that people are willing to recommend the product. I know it's one of the big selling points for me and I mention Thwack whenever I talk about SolarWinds (or any monitoring solution for…

Etch-A-Sketches for everyone. Seriously though - the more dependent we become on technology the more vulnerable we become. It's a complex question with even more complex solutions. My biggest fear is that people will scream for help and allow (some even expect) government to step in to help. History has shown that the free…

Thwack Camp is always a great experience. It is growing enough in size I'd like to see a 3rd track that digs deeper into the subjects. The current subjects are very good and I always learn something but it would be good to go deeper for those of us that have been using the applications for some time. Oh, and share some of…

Yes, the earlier Beta was on the machine. The install did say that it would upgrade, but I'm guessing it didn't do so correctly. Will uninstalling all the SolarWinds pieces and then reinstalling fix the matter?

I am NOT a thwackaholic - I can stop anytime I want!!! Oooo, is there a mission for that??

I'm picturing some sort of meme for rschroeder​ in a black hoodie "I don't often hack my network, but when I do I call it "discovering."

Nice, just downloaded and it's setting up now. I've used a couple different ones of these and none have really provided everything I would expect - and most don't resolve all of the information needed. Here's hoping this is a polished product. (and another reason to tout SolarWinds)

Our install went really well and was way, way, way faster than installing individual pieces. Very impressed.

I had to take a couple of days to look it over before I actually answered that one.

Congrats nhkelley​ & bman6074​

I've enjoyed each of these that I've been able to participate in. It's nice to hear the opinions and perspectives of other community members. There's always something to learn.

Ditch your IT staff is kind of like the way that computers will make the world "paperless." Computers are the best thing to happen to the paper industry - information can be generated and printed faster than ever. To scuff 's point about the SMB market. I remember the early days of PCs where small business and home PCs…

Agreed - some that are moving forward don't deserve to be - thanks for the definition!

This is vital information - I had a case where my customer had a connection to a provider. When problems came up on Monday they, of course, said it was on the customer side. By using SolarWinds to inspect the path to the vendor I was able to quickly identify that the provider had 1 connection into their network on Friday…

I've found that creating a ticket and waiting doesn't get the response I expect. But if I create a ticket and immediately call in the response has always been amazing. I don't know why there is a difference, but anytime something is important you need to create the ticket and then call in with the ticket number.

Could you use a unique email address for each server then use your mail receiving app to put each file received into a folder based upon which address from which it came?

Personally, I prefer to upload images in color that fit what I'm trying to represent. It adds variety and a more "fun" look.

Check the settings on the widget, just in case it is set to only display 4 alerts. When you say it's only working for some devices do you mean whatever alert (email, sound, etc) you are expecting is not firing?

I've found that support via a "ticket" entered on the portal, vs a ticket called in gets very different results. I always recommend entering the ticket on the portal and then immediately calling in with the ticket number. (of course on non-critical things ALWAYS check Thwack first)

Have you verified that those elements are in the same location (MIB) as on other Cisco devices? If they are not you could build a Universal Device Poller to pull the information that you need. Either way, you are in the right place to find an answer - likely someone here has already done the work for this or similar…

Also, how are you monitoring - WMI, SNMP, Agent?

Can you describe a bit further, it might help diagnose, is it seeing them, but not correct measures? etc.?

Thank you for this - it's exactly what my leader just asked for.

Thanks, I was going that direction. I've updated to show the completed build.

Thank you for your input - I was able to verify that the ACL is the actual cause. The ACL being applied to the bundle shows the discards when you look at it as an interface. This explains why you wouldn't see them on the physical interfaces.