PCI DSS Requirements and Your SolarWinds Installations
Several SolarWinds products can help with various areas of the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standards (DSS) requirements. The purpose of the PCI DSS is to set a baseline of minimum...
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NetPath Accuracy
I have a Netpath connection from my Solarwinds Orion server to a customer. This first connection on the path shows a 30% packet loss w/ 13ms latency. This is my local firewall. Pinging the firewall...
View ArticleJust curious, How many people in total hold SCP? I am certain I read it...
I am certain I read it somewhere but can't remember where.
View ArticleThe Role of Packet Analysis in Network Monitoring
The Rolling Stones once wrote a song about how time waits for no one, but the inverse is also true today. These days, no one waits for time; certainly not government personnel who depend on speedy...
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 ArticleAllow Query Tools to log a matrix of data
Allow Query Tools to log a matrix of data Query tools such as the "SQL Server User Experience Monitor" and the "ODBC User Experience Monitor" have been severely limited, presumably to make the results...
View ArticleDelta method, the rate of change
The recommended metric is the threshold relative to the change within a defined interval of time.
View ArticleGlobal Search Technical Preview - Notes & Info
Last updated: March 23, 2015 Thanks for your interest in the Orion Global Search Technical Preview! This preview will give you some insight into what we're building and testing, and let us gather some...
View ArticleTurkey sandwiches: Toasted or not toasted?
The UX team is having a debate over the proper way to eat a turkey sandwich. There is no conditional toasting, this is toasted or not toasted only.
View ArticleEmail Monitoring - End User Experience
Hey Guys,I have been configuring email monitoring I have been tasked with creating monitors for the following.ActiveSyncEmail External Mailbox to InternalEmail Internal Mailbox to ExternalEmail...
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SWQL Node Availability Query
Hello, I am trying to generate a SWQL query to gather node availability so I can post this on an NPM page. I encountered some old Thwack posts where people were referencing a table named...
View ArticleEmailed Reports broken after enabling SSL for Web Console
We recently enabled SSL for the web console of NPM. Since then emailed reports contain the following error instead of the report: Unable to retrieve url:...
View ArticleNetwork connection failed. HResult: No data to return. Error: Unable to...
I'm getting a message in SAM, "Network connection failed. HResult: No data to return. Error: Unable to connect to the specified computer, or the computer is offline." The computer being monitored and...
View ArticleCustom Report - Top Plan Advice
DescriptionThis procedure will return the top index advice for the number of days back specified. It ranks the list by the amount of wait time saved. See comments inside the procedure for more details...
View ArticleWeb Gui Issue
We are experiencing an issue where every couple days the web gui for Solarwinds will not open. The website is unable to connect server. We have a temporary solution of migrating the server to a new...
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Day 6: Believe
My job includes the privilege of traveling to conventions and tech shows, sometimes to give a speech but much more often to listen to what others have to say and then react to what I've heard - either...
View ArticleSolarwinds High Availability - Migrate multiple interfaces
Hi. I have and NPM+SAM+NTA environment in production, I upgraded to NMP V12.01 and SAM 6.3 and have the need to deploy the high availability, i thought i did until i realized how it works, my problem...
View ArticleCustom ASPX resources in NPM 12
So I have been using several custom resources I created over the years (earlier versions of NPM) and tried to add them to NPM 12.0 but it seems that everytime you run the configuration wizard for the...
View ArticleDAY 7: Choose
Choose This word has such merit and weight. Why? Why is a six letter word so intriguing to me, you may ask? Simple: I choose to live every day. I choose to love and learn every day, all day, and...
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