The Orion product team is working on enhancing the Orion web console. One of the areas we want to look at is customization. We want to know more about what our customers do regarding this functionality?
How do you customize Orion? When you customize Orion, what's the problem you are trying to solve? What do you want to do that you cannot do?
Denny LeCompte
Sr. Product Manager, Orion
SolarWinds
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Here's a few for starters;
I'd like my team to be able to manage & unmanage nodes &/or interfaces from the Web Console.
Create reports using the Web Console.
Publish Report Writer reports as a graph & publish multiple data lines on one Graph.
Use AD groups via domain passthru authentication to manage users.
Managing 100's of individual Orion users is a huge task. AFAIK, no one here has been able to get Windows AD groups working for authentication.
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1) I would like to have an easy mechanism to control not only the menu bars, but the tabs at the top of the page as well. As it is today, we have created a lot of different groups of views for various functional areas of our network, and it would be nice to be able to tie them to tabs at the top of the page for easy retrieval, while still having the menu bars on the pages associated with each tab for granularity. Furthermore, this could also be used to facilitate connections to other web-based apps or documentation repositories, and would better position Orion as a single touch point for all monitoring and management needs. We do some of this today with links that open in a new window, but it would be nice to be able to do this from a single window.
I've seen other apps with this type of functionality, and the thing I disliked most is the fact that they opened a new session whenever a different tab was selected. I don't know if there's any way to have each tab (session) remain memory resident, so that one can return right to the point at which they were previously.
This is how I would like to eventually be able to access Cirrus, but along with that comes another thing I would like to see, which is for Orion and Cirrus to share a common database. This may just be wishful thinking.
2) When managing a large number of users, it would be quite helpful to be able to assign those users to groups, so that all the parameters such as account limitations, view selections, and such can be controlled from a single place for everyone in the group.
3) The ability to see who's logged in now, rather than just the time of last log in would be nice as well.
Vic Cato
Technical Lead - Network Operations
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When viewing specific nodes (our switches) I would love to have the MAC address and the IP addresses their associated with linked to the port. I plan on doing this myself (if I have to) but it would cut into my Counter-Strike time and I would rather not do that. :-)
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