What platform do you run Orion on?
Are you totally virtualized, still committed to the physical world or something else?What does your system look like and why?
View ArticleThe Green Energy Company
As someone who works for Solarwinds, I've had this exchange: Friend: So where do you work?Me: I work for Solarwinds.Friend: Are they in, like, solar panels and wind turbines?Me: No, they make network...
View ArticlevCenter Connector
I would like to see a connector for vCenter logs. Currently vCenter only logs to local log files and our auditors are pointing out that we need a way to get those logs off the vCenter system and into...
View ArticleYou guys rock!
The last couple of weeks I've been the storage ambassador for the thwack community. I've really enjoyed sharing my thoughts with you guys and reading all of your comments. I noticed that the thwack...
View ArticleHelping customers to solve their problems first
One of the good parts of my job consists in helping customers benefit from implementing virtualization management solutions. In most cases they start looking for solutions only after they experience...
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Network Atlas Frustrations
Hi all. I am still working on addind bandwidth colored links in out WAN map. The rourers are managed be an SP so we have limited ability to poll and cannot poll topology. I am wondering why topology...
View ArticleIf...Then...Else statements for Alert Manager
I think it would make managing alerts much easier if we were able to build an if-then-else statement into the actions for an alert. My example...I create an alert for a particular set of criteria, but...
View ArticleNPM True node status - Poll & Alert with BOTH ICMP & SNMP
Previous to NPM 10.7 you would poll a node via ICMP. While a node might be ping-able, that did not mean NPM was able to gather stats via SNMP. In other words, you would loose true visibility of your...
View ArticlePOE budget information
It would be nice to be able to, out of the box, have a gage on how much POE budget is left on a switch, and a per device POE calculator. Alerting, based on this feature would be awesome (ie: alert me...
View ArticleCustom Property Editor
I would be extremely helpful to expose all Custom Property details in the Filter or Group By areas. Example: I need to update a group of Volumes or Interfaces for a certain Department. The Department...
View ArticleOutage page
Outage page I would like to see a public facing outage page using a differentURL.. Data should be populated either automatically via tags, email response, ormanually.
View ArticleNew Volume Discovery
This idea is fantastic please add this. Problem: I have a new volume added to a server how do I have solar winds automatically monitor this or at least alert me I have a new hard drive (maybe I do...
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Ability to customize additional Orion properties that appear in email...
Some people have Orion custom properties that describe more information about the alert that might be useful to have in the email notification. We made an assumption that you'd use the AC web interface...
View ArticleSerial Number Lookup
The ability to type in a serial number and have it return the node that it belongs to.Very helpful to management when they do audits and maintenance contracts.
View ArticleAbility to add Web Based reports to a Summary View
The current resource for generating a report in a view only allows you to select reports that have been created using the Report Writer on the server, it would be really neat if you could also choose...
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