WAIT, Where's has my Frogger Gone?!?!
How many of you have a separate tab/window open with Frogger and are still playing after tonight's (or last night's) maintenance? Comment with your high score...
View ArticleLooking around you, how much time do you think co-workers spend on sports...
Fall sports are going strong, baseball playoffs and football season is ramping up. As you watch your co-workers around you, how much time would say is wasted by many on daily conversations about games,...
View ArticleHow many work hours would you guess you waste on sports this time of year?
So with baseball season wrapping up and Football roaring through, how many hours in a work week do you spend chatting with others around the water cooler, checking scores and checking fantasy leagues...
View ArticleMicrosoft Ignite Recap: The Accidental Cloud DBA
Last week was Microsoft Ignite in Atlanta. I had the privilege of giving two presentations, one of which was titled "Performance Tuning Essentials for the Cloud DBA." I was thinking of sharing the...
View ArticleRequest for ideas to reward @Wabbott and @DanielleH and @Mrs.Alterego (and...
Between their "normal" tasks, some folks at Thwack (like wabbott and DanielleH and mrs.alterego are responsible for crediting us for the points we earn, no matter whether earned by attending &...
View ArticleSpecial Orion license level for consultants and sales support engineers
I found necessity of having small Orion installation for verify questions of users or resellers regarding "what Orion can do and what is not possible". From the other hand live presentation for...
View ArticleSetting CreateCorePluginConfiguration details for Orion.Discovery in python
I've been trying to manage adding and removing nodes using the API. My language of choice is python. I have most of the discovery profile details figured out, but am not able to understand how to set...
View ArticleNetpath Reports History
Question, Does netpath have historical reports you can run, or is this something you have to create with report writer? If so, how?
View ArticleLEM - inline mode?
Do you use LEM in inline mode to actively block/shun IP's via your firewall. Or strictly as a monitoring/log receptacle?
View ArticlePacket-level traffic analysis and classification
I'm curious on whether or not others are excited about the packet-level traffic analysis and classification that is listed in "What we're working on". For us, its hard to say. Without knowing the...
View ArticleWeb Helpdesk
Just wanted to say that after several ticket logging applications, Web helpdesk is by far the best that I have used. Excellent product and easy to use.
View ArticleASA failover monitoring and alert setup
I currently have a UnDP setup to monitor OID: 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.147.1.2.1.1.1.4 This is displayed on my node details page and looks like this:However here is my first issue:1) The above image was pulled...
View ArticleAccess to Node Management Page (/Orion/Nodes/Default.aspx) for accounts with...
Currently it seems an account needs 'Node Management Rights' to get to the management page. * //ServerName/Orion/Nodes/Default.aspx * *This page needs to be available to all users with the...
View ArticleNetapp CPU Busy Percentage
Why dont we have NetApp CPU Busy Percentage performance metrics in SRM(Orion) ? This is present in SRM (Profiler) for 7-mode devices, but was upset not to see that in SRM (Orion) where we added C-mode...
View ArticleCreate Reports for Resource Metrics
I have several custom resource metrics that have been created to act as KPIs. They can all be viewed in the Resources page, but there is no way to report them other than perhaps a screenshot. If it...
View ArticleExport Reports
Any chance of being able to exports reports etc to other formats (like SSRS) rather than just have an option to email?
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