Track VM storage performance
One of the things I find very odd about Storage Manager's Virtualization view is that it shows almost nothing about the actual storage. I can look at CPU and memory performance from a virtualization...
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Support for Oracle ZFS Appliances: 7120, 7320, 7420
Essentially custom OS versions of Solaris 11 with ZFS file system pools. Sun ZFS Storage 7420 | ZFS Storage Appliance | Oracle We use a lot of these on iSCSI and really need to have a unified view of...
View Article11.5RC4 with UDT caution
If you are running UDT, do not install RC4. It breaks. Schema is not compatible with UDT. Pages won't load. This will not be fixed until RC5. I had to remove all UDT resources from all my pages to...
View ArticleNPM 11.5 RCx - Dataprocessor.exe out of memory.
Is anyone else seeing the following in the windows event logs? Application: SolarWinds.DataProcessor.exeFramework Version: v4.0.30319Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled...
View ArticleNon-recent SNMP polled data should be grayed out
In NPM, when you set the device status via ICMP instead of the slower SNMP, a device still might shows as up, and the last polled data is being showed on the web page even if the SNMP service on this...
View ArticleWould you watch a SolarWinds reality TV show?
Before you answer, consider the reality shows out there already:Duck DynastyHoney Boo-BooStorage WarsSwamp PeopleIce Road TruckersFinding BigfootAx MenAfter interacting with all of my co-workers and...
View ArticleLink IPAM to Netflow(NTA) in order to import subnets into NTA IP Groups.
I think it would be a good idea to have a link between the NTA and IPAM products, so VLANs/Subnets that you have defined in IPAM could be imported into NTA IP Groups thus preventing the user from...
View ArticleGet with the flow… with NetFlow!
IT professionals are admittedly a prideful bunch. It comes with the territory when you have to constantly defend yourself, your decisions, and your infrastructure against people who don’t truly...
View ArticleMy WHD clients are employees, customers, partners...?
WHD is surely flexible and you can use it for IT support, as a generic company-wide help desk, for customer support, for managing partners, your fitness centers or manufacturing process (seriously we...
View ArticleMake Thwack webinars easier to attend
I have noticed that Thwack webinars are not as easy to attend as the labs. At the very least, the calendar invitations should include a link to the applicable webinar(s). Else, the Thwack site needs...
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Read Me Notes for Release Candidates
I would like to see SolarWinds posting brief Read Me (aka Release Notes) on their Release Candidates. This might give us an idea of what issues are fixed on the new Release Candidate posted on the...
View ArticleFTP Voyager Scheduler - Run External Program and Exit Codes
We have created a task that has several actions. We would like the to get notified when a "Run External Program" task fails. I have configured the action's "Task Execution Failure" event to notify us...
View ArticleHow to add node extra node details to a node, to be featured in NPM?
For example, rack number. Rack number cannot be polled so it would have to be added manually. Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
View ArticleEveryone Loves an Awesome Network Diagram
This is my last post as an ambassador. I've had a ton of fun and appreciate everyone’s feedback and opinion. Now let’s talk about some network diagrams!No network should be without a good visual...
View ArticleSneak Peek email about new look for Orion?
Has anyone else had problems accessing the 'new look' Orion server link received today from Solarwinds UX research? I can login but just get a blank screen
View ArticleReport for discovering nodes that do not have a downloaded config
Hi, I discovered that our baseline job wasn't running. I kicked it off and it warned me that two nodes did not have any configs downloaded. Is there an easy way to find this information? We have...
View ArticleAIX SNMP Configurations???
Hi Everyone! Please, I need help. I am not AIX saavy at all.And I am trying to monitor AIX servers and we've been unable to do so. Does anyone have a sample SNMP configuration for an AIX server that...
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SLA Monitor standalone
I would like the SLA monitor to have to rely on VOIP phones, unless there is support for Avaya Phone systems.
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