UnManage Component Monitors within an Assigned Application Template
Sometimes it's necessary to unmanage an individual component within an Application Template but it's not desirable to unmanage the entire application template because you lose visibility into the...
View ArticleNPM NetScaler Info
Similar to the NPM F5 info idea, it would be very nice to have more Citrix NetScaler info in NPM. The SNMP OID info is well documented for them: NetScaler SNMP OID Reference . It's really just a matter...
View ArticleWireless Networks and things that just don't make sense...
First of all, I know that I said that the next post would have more information about disaster recovery scenarios. However, this topic is hot on my mind and I'm in a location with very limited internet...
View Article"Auto" Sensing Switch Ports
I just finished troubleshooting an issue where the link between a small workgroup switch and the switch upstream in the LDF kept going down. The workgroup switch was setup amongst a small group (10) of...
View ArticleUsing Switch Port Mapper to detect Switch Configuration Issues
In the previous post I talked about a situation where a simple configuration issue on a couple of ethernet switches was causing a serious problem for the connected users. I failed to mention that I...
View ArticleIBM FlashSystem A9000 support
Please add support for IBM FlashSystems including A9000. We currently have an 840 and getting a A9000 in the near future. It will help a lot having a dashboard monitoring all our SAN and Storage....
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Next UK SWUG location
Off the back of a very successful SWUG in London, I've been considering running one myself. (South west). So the big question is where would you like to see a SWUG in the UK, and would you attend. I'm...
View ArticleReport for nodes not in World Map
Hello, I was wondering if there is a way to create a custom report that will tell me what nodes are not in the worldwide map? Would it be possible if this could be done without having to do an Advanced...
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The Actuator - November 23rd
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving here in the USA. I have much to be thankful for but these days I am most thankful that jennebarbour continues to let me write this series each and every week. So, in that...
View ArticleReport that describes alert that we have made
okay,, so what i want is a way to fetch or if anybody has made a custom report that can get the node names that are added in any/all alert + the recipients email that we have added in trigger...
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 ArticleUndeleting an element (node/interface/volume etc.)
A few minutes ago I accidentally deleted my backbone switch (and all the interfaces of course). Since undeleting an element (node, interface etc.) is not possible (Except restoring SQL from backup) it...
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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Duplicate "Node Tabular Universal Device Poller" Resource In Order To Add A...
I'd like to be able to replicate the information in this Node Tabular Universal Device Poller resource because my engineers want more visual notification if the EqualLogic disk status is on-line or...
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Everything I Needed To Know About A Career In I.T.
(image courtesy of Marvel) ...I learned from "Doctor Strange"(This is part 1 of what will be a 4-part series. Enjoy!) "When the student is ready, the teacher appears," is a well-known phrase, but I was...
View ArticleCustom field layout
Could there be a way to change the layout of the customs fields so that some of them could appear above the request details box. we have some drop down custom fields and we would like to move them...
View ArticleCheck out my Blog Review
I have a blog called ACYBERLIFE - please checkout my SolarWinds review -> ACyberLife: Way to go SolarWinds
View ArticleAppInsight for Active Directory
In the Same vein as AppInsight for SQL, Exchange, and IIS, AppInsight for Active Directory should provide a simplified turn-key user experience for monitoring key aspects of Active Directories...
View ArticleSAM 6.3 RC & NPM 12.0.1 RC
This didn't go as smoothly as hoped, had a few issues 1) IPAM stopped upgrade - support advised to uninstall pre NPM upgrade2) SAM nodes were not storing data (devices coming up with unlicensed...
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