Review Copies Available for-SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor:...
Review Copies Available for-SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor: Deployment and AdministrationFahad Monib Siddiqui Marketing Research Executive at Packt Publishing We have a few e-copies of...
View ArticleAre you KIDDING ME.....!!!
Is there any way to create an alert for a group that I have created in NCM? I pulling my hair out on how to do this. I have tried both the Basic and Advanced Alert Manager. Even had a Solarwinds S-Rep...
View ArticleBulk Import ICMP Nodes with Attributes Help
Hello, I'm trying to import around 2000 ICMP managed devices. But I also want to also bulk import the attributes associated to the devices. Change the Caption to a hostname rather than IPApply the...
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Friday Fun - Doing It Wrong: High Availability and Security
Just something quick for y'all here on a warm last day of Autumn in the Northeast... You can read more about it here: http://thomaslarock.com/2013/12/doing-it-wrong-high-availability-security/ The...
View ArticleWhat do you expect from IP address Management solution? 250 Thwack points reward
IP Address scope starts with spreadsheets and may end with one click backup and restore of DHCP or DNS servers. We would like to see how you can define IP Address Management problematic. If you don't...
View ArticleUpgrading to 10.6.1
I'm currently running 10.4.0 on Windows 2003 Server. I have two new VM servers, windows 2012 STD edition.Can I, should I just install the latest and greatest and let config wizard get my system up...
View ArticleDo you need Network Access Control solution ?
I wonder how many of you already have some version of a Network Access Control (NAC) solution in place. Theoretically speaking, Mobile device management (MDM) is just a part of a bigger NAC, so I would...
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Don't Panic and Know Where Your Logs Are
Information Security Event: An identified occurrence of a system, service or network state indicating a possible breach of information security policy or failure of safeguards, or a previously unknown...
View ArticleAbility to see and add nodes that are not selected for any existing job in...
In the GUI of NCM when you want to modify a job when the Nodes tab is selected you would see the nodes you have selected. You had the option to add devices that would show which devices are not part...
View ArticleReset Hyper-V Failed Resource Performance counter.
We currently run SAM 6.0. After removing highly available machine from our Hyper-V cluster the failed resource count increases from 0 to X. Is there a method to reset this performance counter value...
View ArticleHow do you labelize or mark your IT equipment?
What do you use to mark your IT equipment?Is your company even caring about it? How do keep track of those IT asset? You use an serial asset number or just go by service tag? I'm curious to see what...
View ArticleAppInsight for SQL
I have an application running that while it has only 400 rows in the indes, it continuously fragments (it takes less than 10 minutes to go to 99% fragmentation in a clustered index). Is it possible to...
View ArticleHow to monitor AS400
I am curious if SolarWinds has any methods available for monitoring an AS400. While I am not a huge fan of the product, I did notice that Manage Engine does support monitoring of an AS400 as can be...
View ArticleBeta 3 - AppInsight for Exchange install question
I have Beta 3 up and running and want to test drive the Exchange piece, but my Exchange admin wants to know what changes the monitor needs to make on the Exchange boxes before he lets me push it out....
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Warranty Information
Currently we use spreadsheets to track warranty information for servers, routers, server applications, etc. This requires scanning on a regular basis to check that nothing has gone out of warranty....
View ArticleSeparating Department Access in Web Helpdesk
Does anyone use web helpdesk for other departments besides it? Examples:MaintenanceHRUtilitiesVehicle Fleet Management If so how do you set it up to keep each department from being able to see other...
View ArticleSysAdmin Day Contest - YOU decide
Last year was the first-ever annual SysAdmin Day Contest held on thwack. We definitely have some plans brewing for this year and we want to know what YOU would be most interested in. The contest...
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CISCO 2960 - Packet Loss Between VLANs
Hello, I have recently inherited an existing network which has two stacked Cisco 2960's that connect to a Cisco 5510 ASA. Currently the Cisco 2960's handles its own routing for gateways via the VLAN...
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NTA Traffic Direction (Source vs. Destination Host)
I'd like an explanation on the NTA traffic direction. From below, you can see two hosts - 10.10.100.165 and the xxxx.amazonws.com host. Now, from the looks of the arrows it appears that all traffic...
View ArticleNTA Alerts
I'm having issues figuring out how to create NTA alerts. Here is what I'd like to do: Create an alert that monitors a particular NetFlow source that looks for- Ingress traffic on a particular...
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