Welcome to Monitoring Central

SolarWinds THWACKRegistered community has grown to become one of the largest and most active communities for IT professionals, expecting about two million unique visitors this year alone.

We see it as a great opportunity to have a conversation and to connect.

IT is changing all the time. That’s what makes it such an interesting industry. SolarWindsRegistered solutions have been changing, too. In addition to our traditional product line, powered by the OrionRegistered Platform, SolarWinds now offers a remote monitoring product line for MSPs, and a portfolio of cloud monitoring products for DevOps teams building cloud-first applications.

This makes it more important than ever that we have a space to connect with customers and with the IT industry. This is that space.

Monitoring Central complements our two other blog communities on THWACK: Geek Speak, where you can read opinions from industry thought leaders, and the Product Blog, where you find out about product updates and new releases.

Monitoring Central is a new space to talk about all things monitoring.

We invite you to participate, ask questions, voice your opinions, and actively participate in this blog. For example, write a comment below suggesting any topics you would like to hear about.

We look forward to the conversation.

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  • OK, bring on the meat & potatoes.  I'm looking to see what I can learn from others' questions, maybe even generate my own (once I get a feel for the content of this forum).

    Management came to my team recently, saying "Department X needs to have a Reserved IP address on our corporate WLAN--something they can use from any site in any U.S. state.  They need to do real-time streaming of two video monitoring/conversations of employees interacting with customers. (I'm thinking This sounds like Big Brother in action, but I say nothing).  When can we have that IP address?  Oh, and, by the way, we expect you to provide Q.o.S for all this traffic, so it works flawlessly, no matter the bandwidth utilization on any given site's WAN pipe.  And just to be able to prove to the customer that everything's working well, you've got to monitor this 7x24 and show us the performance of that wireless video conversation anytime we want to see it."

    Ooookayyy . . . .

    Yes, I can build a static address for them that'll work across any of my sites.  Yes, I can set up Q.o.S. for that address.  And yes, I can monitor it with NPM and NTA--maybe even with QoE.

    How would YOU support the monitoring section of this, and be able to prove you did your job, and that if problems arise, the right people will get the right alerts immediately?

    (Yes, it would be nice if this were a hypothetical situation I just dreamed up, but it's something that made it into my inbox on my first day of vacation.  I should NEVER check my e-mail when I'm on vacation . . .)

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  • OK, bring on the meat & potatoes.  I'm looking to see what I can learn from others' questions, maybe even generate my own (once I get a feel for the content of this forum).

    Management came to my team recently, saying "Department X needs to have a Reserved IP address on our corporate WLAN--something they can use from any site in any U.S. state.  They need to do real-time streaming of two video monitoring/conversations of employees interacting with customers. (I'm thinking This sounds like Big Brother in action, but I say nothing).  When can we have that IP address?  Oh, and, by the way, we expect you to provide Q.o.S for all this traffic, so it works flawlessly, no matter the bandwidth utilization on any given site's WAN pipe.  And just to be able to prove to the customer that everything's working well, you've got to monitor this 7x24 and show us the performance of that wireless video conversation anytime we want to see it."

    Ooookayyy . . . .

    Yes, I can build a static address for them that'll work across any of my sites.  Yes, I can set up Q.o.S. for that address.  And yes, I can monitor it with NPM and NTA--maybe even with QoE.

    How would YOU support the monitoring section of this, and be able to prove you did your job, and that if problems arise, the right people will get the right alerts immediately?

    (Yes, it would be nice if this were a hypothetical situation I just dreamed up, but it's something that made it into my inbox on my first day of vacation.  I should NEVER check my e-mail when I'm on vacation . . .)

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