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Earn THWACK points for attending our SolarWinds Academy Classes!

cal.smith
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As a response to many of our customers, I am pleased to announce that starting on April 20, 2017 we will now be providing THWACK points for attending our SolarWinds Academy virtual live classes.  My hope is this offering will expose the great training we provide today to even more of our existing customers.  In order to receive your points you must attend the class and complete the training survey with a valid THWACK ID.  The point amounts are listed below.  Remember you can attend any class as long as you are under active maintenance for one product.

Once the class is completed you will be awarded points based on the length of the class, up to 2000 points*.

1 hour = 500

2 hours = 1,000

3 hours = 1,500

4 hours = 2,000

Please see the Virtual Classrooms Calendar for upcoming courses.

We look forward to seeing you in class!

*points will be awarded within 5-10 business days of class completion.

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  • Looking forward to points from attending LEM yesterday.  It turns out LEM is different than I expected--I was looking for a sort of "Syslog Reporter On Steroids", when in fact LEM is a SIEM similar to Splunk--but not scaled as large as Splunk.  I was hoping to replace our Splunk with LEM, but the instructor said LEM can't handle the amount of data our Splunk is receiving (per our Security Admins, 200 GB of messages per day by volume--I'm not sure what that equates to in messages per day--the SecAdmin tried to help and said "3000 KB/sec, but that still doesn't put me into "message per second or per day").  The 70 firewalls I manage, along with network hardware (switches, routers, AP's) in 280+ network rooms, along with the 58xx and 85xx series wireless controllers in six data centers send a LOT of data.  So much that our initial Splunk deployment was unable to handle it--the VAR didn't have a correct idea of the scale of our messaging output, and sold us equipment that was undersized.  After a few weeks of filtering & comparison & analysis we ended up moving to bigger Splunk hardware, which does the job quite nicely now.

    Still, it was good to get LEM's purpose squared away in my mind.  It's a SIEM, not a simply Syslog Reporter such as NPM provides.

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  • Looking forward to points from attending LEM yesterday.  It turns out LEM is different than I expected--I was looking for a sort of "Syslog Reporter On Steroids", when in fact LEM is a SIEM similar to Splunk--but not scaled as large as Splunk.  I was hoping to replace our Splunk with LEM, but the instructor said LEM can't handle the amount of data our Splunk is receiving (per our Security Admins, 200 GB of messages per day by volume--I'm not sure what that equates to in messages per day--the SecAdmin tried to help and said "3000 KB/sec, but that still doesn't put me into "message per second or per day").  The 70 firewalls I manage, along with network hardware (switches, routers, AP's) in 280+ network rooms, along with the 58xx and 85xx series wireless controllers in six data centers send a LOT of data.  So much that our initial Splunk deployment was unable to handle it--the VAR didn't have a correct idea of the scale of our messaging output, and sold us equipment that was undersized.  After a few weeks of filtering & comparison & analysis we ended up moving to bigger Splunk hardware, which does the job quite nicely now.

    Still, it was good to get LEM's purpose squared away in my mind.  It's a SIEM, not a simply Syslog Reporter such as NPM provides.

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