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Get exact Server Last reboot time (UnDP)
Here i have attached UnDP poller for all windows and Linux servers to get exact last reboot time. By default solarwinds is showing last SNMP restart time in Node details view. Using this poller you can...
View ArticleIntegration: Log & Event Manager and Orion Platform
Use-caseOrion Platform alerts can be sent to LEM (traps? emails? syslog?) for further analysis and correlation
View ArticleMonitoring Websites from an ISP
Hi, Hope you all are doing great. Being working in an ISP, I wanted to ask the THWACK community as to what methods they use for "Monitoring responses of most used websites on internet like Google,...
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Did any get Cattools 3.11 working with SonicWALL backups?
I have handful of SonicWALLs in field I need to do scheduled backup. However from what I can tell, the Cattools 3.11 still can not backup SonicWALL properly. Versions of the running SonicOS are 5.9 and...
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Virtualization Admins: Three Jobs, Two SMEs, One Tool
Virtualization admins have many responsibilities and wear many IT hats. These responsibilities can be aggregated into three primary buckets: planning, optimizing, and maintaining. Planning covers...
View ArticleUpgrading NPM 12 to NPM 11.5
Hello Guys, i have checked the compatibility and we are good to proceed upgrading. Can you guys help me in the upgrading process. It would be great if i get a step by step method of upgrading NPM....
View ArticleUnable to retrieve url: when sending reports
We recently changed over to SSL and also changed the hostname as well. Now all of our reports have the wrong URL. I'm hoping we can just make one change in the database to resolve this. Any assistance...
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Save the date… THWACKcamp 2016!
Save the date(s) September 14th & 15thfor THWACKcamp, our annual virtual conference. This year’s going to be bigger and better than ever before! EMEA THWACKcamp will live-stream in local time on...
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Adjust Warning/Critical Query Thresholds
I would like the ability to adjust what is considered warning and critical for queries like I can for resources. Reason being, I have a service health dashboard for management where I link the Network...
View ArticleWhat hardware/software packages do you use for your networking study lab...
It seems that GNS3, VIRL and Cisco Packet Tracer are the most popular options but the following article listed some other alternatives from Cisco including CCIE Lab Builder, CML, onePK (now EOL) and...
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THWACK Monthly Mission - June 2016
You are about to embark on a journey into the deepest enigma of network management—NPM 12.Join the ranks of the great Network Admins past and launch your own epic exploration to seek out new insights...
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The Ultimate CPU Alert
CPU alerts are a yawner. Grab the CPULoad, check it against a threshold (maybe even a per-node custom threshold, as explained here: TIPS & TRICKS: Stop The Madness: How to set alert thresholds...
View ArticleH3C Hardware Health (12518/s9512/7510/5900/5800)
Hardware health has been a great addition to NPM for cisco gear. MIB is present on H3C (some models listed above), yet not polled for, or presented in NPM for H3C nodes. If you have H3C gear, and would...
View ArticleTest/Development Licenses
Disclaimer: I know that there are other threads on this but I wanted to update it in this new Idea space.I would really like to have Test/Development licenses for SolarWinds products, at least for the...
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Option to set "Server Warranty Summary" view resource to remember...
Currently the "Server Warranty Summary" resource on the out-of-the-box "Application Summary" View has its expandable/collapsable trees set to be Expanded by Default. While there are some nice options...
View ArticleCreate a simplified installation
One of my issues is that I run a lot of Solarwinds products - SAM, NPM, LEM, UDT, Patch Manager, VIM, NTA, and Dameware. It gets somewhat daunting to figure out what is compatible with what. How about...
View ArticleAppInsight preview
It would be nice to see what monitors are going to alert out before putting the AppInsight in place. Similar to other monitors you put in place...you can run a test on them first before you make them...
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Application Apocalypse
Apologies for the doomsday reference, but I think it’s important to draw attention to the fact that business-critical application failures are creating apocalyptic scenarios in many organizations...
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Netpath Help
Hi! Now i have a fully upgraded 12 instance, i was testing out Netpath. I have an issue with our firewall it looks like, as this probe to Facebook shows the following: So on the left is my SW server,...
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