Solarwinds should plan which one of the following in future
With so many Solarwinds modules like NPM including NetPath, NTA, IPAM, NCM, SAM including AppInsight, WPM, DPA, SRM, VMAN, Syslog, LEM, WHD .. is it worthwhile for Solarwinds to offer a unified...
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Stress Relief Companion Animal Choice
Here's an easy one, I think I know how this one will turn out, but I'm curios to find out. Working in IT can be stressful at times, so when you go home to relax with a companion animal (I don't like...
View ArticleCompare config against master template
I work for a company that has many remote sites that are all nearly identical in their network configuration. Basically the IP addresses in use at each site are different but the rest of the...
View ArticleSpanning tree topology map
Spanning tree, as we know, is an extremely useful function of a network. However, equally so, in the hands of an inexperience engineer, or with someone adding network devices or 802.1q capable network...
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The Actuator - September 7th
I'm back from Las Vegas and VMworld. I loved the energy at the event last week. It was great talking with vendors and attendees about technology and events. There were a handful of announcements, of...
View ArticleSam Linux / Unix filesystem monitor only looks at root (/)
Sam Linux / Unix filesystem monitor only looks at root - What about the other filesystems ? How can i add them in the monitoring scripts and get back values ? I have other people ask the question and...
View ArticleWhen will your SCP badge be added to your profile?
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View ArticleSolarWinds NPM - Monitoring RedHat Servers
Hello Thwack community!I currently have SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor deployed and am trying to monitor some RedHat servers my company has deployed. I have spent hours poking around the...
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cisco device connected to other vendor
Looks like the application failed to find connectivity when a device that supports CDP or LLDP is connected to a device that does not support any of these protocols.I suspect that the reason is that if...
View ArticleHave the possibility to run a task only if another task has ended
I would like to be able to run a task only if another task has ended.You can now run tasks by time/date but not "if task xyz has successfully ended"This will help if you run tasks automatic but can...
View ArticleSchedule Actions for "Next Appearance" of a Target Machine
I have a large number of virtual machines and laptops that aren't always kept on, making patch management of them difficult. Even installing the agent software doesn't help here, as I never know when...
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THWACK Monthly Mission - August 2016: THWACK Awards!
Welcome to THWACK Awards 2016!We are thrilled to introduce the first annual THWACK Awards! Over the years your stories have inspired us and fueled our passion to continue to build our community and...
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syslog alert
hey folks - its been a while, but I have a quick one, I hope. I need to write a syslog rule to alert us when we see syslog messages containing "/9100" but NOT containing "10.253.1.63". We have a IPS...
View ArticleVerbArgument Example for 'AddResourceToView'
Hello Thwack Community, Looking to automate the creation of custom query / swql resources. Here is what I have from the Metadata.VerbArgument table in SWQL Studio filtering on the 'AddResourceToView'...
View Article.Net3.5 installer included somewhere?
Could someone please remind me if NPM or SAM etc include the .Net3.5 installer for a Win Server 2012 setup?Installing a standalone Patch Manager Server. [2.1.1 and 2.1.2 don't include it but require...
View ArticleMajor Trap issue after upgrading to 12.0.1 RC
Be aware! We discovered that all rules in the trap viewer were blocked if the rule (or a previous one) had a wildcard in the OID section of the trap rule. All traps were logged in the Database but no...
View ArticleNetwork Sonar in Toolset - Topology discovery complete - 0 subnets found
Hi.I'm trying to scan all my subnets, but when I set up my seed router, 0 subnets are found.SNMP string is correct, and no errors occours. When I use the same IP address with the same SNMP string in...
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There's a new 200K club member
I just wanted to extend my congrats to bsciencefiction.tv (Dev Ops) for being the 6th person to get to 200.000 points. You introduced me to Solarwinds and Thwack and I'd like to thank you for that....
View ArticleNetwork Atlas Group Custom Properties?
Is there a way to reference a custom property assigned to a group via network atlas, utilizing the label? Not a custom property assigned with a node. I tried ${custompropertyname} in the label but...
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