AppInsight for Active Directory
In the Same vein as AppInsight for SQL, Exchange, and IIS, AppInsight for Active Directory should provide a simplified turn-key user experience for monitoring key aspects of Active Directories...
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SAM AppInsight for SQL - ability to ignore fragmentation of specific Indexes
There are some indexes that will just never be sorted for longer than an hour, but for that one index it's *ok*. I would like the ability to "unmanage"/ignore just that index and then I can pay more...
View ArticleLet's make up a name! # = Octothorpe, @ = ???
The name "octothorpe" was made up by a Bell Labs supervisor, Don Macpherson for the # symbol. I think it's time SolarWinds gets in on the action for @. I can sneak it in somewhere. .
View Articlerestore virtualizaton manager on another server
May I ask how to migrate a virtual appliance (Virtual Machine on VMWare 5) running VMan to another another virtual machine that has a different ip address and name.
View ArticleWho's Your Favorite Pollster?
Vote for your favorite pollster; whose poll do you look forward to seeing all the time? Lemme hear from you.
View ArticlePacket Analysis
Is Packet Analysis one of the tools in your tool box, and if so, how often do you use it.
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The Importance of Standards
Throughout my career I have worked on a number of projects where standards where minimal. You have seen this type of shop—the servers may be named after superheros or rock bands. When the company has...
View ArticleThwack bowling towel?
Do you think there should be a Thwack bowling towel available in the Thwack Store?
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SSL Certificate Expiration Date Monitor - added feature
This request is in regards the the SAM posted in this thread. Many folks have the scenario where there are multiple name-based virtual hosts defined on a single web server. For us, we generally create...
View Articlesql for high bandwidth duration
I can query for the high bandwidth utilization alerts and get a count. What I would like to do is show a chart with the total duration time of the high bandwidth alerts for each node. Also, how can I...
View ArticleWeb Help Desk Active Response
The LEM ought to have an option by which a rule can send some information to Web Help Desk to create a new ticket and assign it to a queue. For example:User locks their account, ticket is created and...
View ArticleMonitor Processes Regardless of Status
Sometimes it's important to monitor resource consumption of a process that's not running at all times. It's also nice to be able to quickly identify when the process was running and report upon how...
View ArticleCreate IDS Event Class in LEM
Currently LEM distributes IDS events into approximately 180 event classes, including high volume classes such as TCPTrafficAudit, UDPTrafficAudit, and ICMPTrafficAudit. This makes it very difficult to...
View ArticleRelocate SolarWinds log files off the system drive
As most of you know already, SolarWinds stores the log files for all of its applications on the system drive (at least for Windows-based servers). This is a very bad idea, in my humble opinion. The...
View ArticleSCHEDULE REBOOT
I would like to see a feature added that would allow us to schedule a reboot at a future date/time, similar to being able to schedule an unmanage of a node at a future date/time. Also, I would like to...
View ArticleAutomated pruning of old log files
The log files generated by SolarWinds usually take up a lot of space on the drive. Also, these files could be deemed useless after some time (i.e. 3 months, 6 months???). Of course, we -- as SW...
View ArticleAppInsight for Oracle
Providing the same level of monitoring for Oracle as SAM has for MSSQL via AppInsight for SQL. Table Sizes, index fragmentation, individual database statuses, connections, most expensive queries, etc.
View ArticleSFTP/FTPS/SCP User Experience Monitors
FTP is an insecure, unencrypted protocol that is seldom used in production environments anymore. Replaced with more secure equivalents such as FTPS, SFTP, and SCP, SAM currently supports none of these...
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