The Actuator - January 4th
I think we are all happy to have 2016 in our rearview mirrors. The start of a new year is a great way to make an effort to have a fresh start towards some goals. Not resolutions, mind you, but goals....
View Article2017 IT Resolutions?
Aside from resolutions to Helpdesk tickets, are there any resolutions that you are making regarding something in your IT life?
View ArticleDNS security monitoring
DNS security is vividly discussed topic in IT world. How do you need to deal with it in your company?
View ArticleConsistent Customization Of Resource Details
Hello,I am not sure if this is the correct place for this kind of request, but I would really like to see some consistency in how I can customize resources I put on a view. I would like the following...
View ArticleSNMP trap receivers and polling engines
I'm using two polling engines, my primary NPM server and and additional poller. Not always knowing which poller will be polling a device, should I configure them to send traps to both, or just the...
View ArticleOrion NPM Database password
Hi guys,Hypothetical.Say someone created a database for Orion NPM and then didn't document the credentials and then when it came to install NCM and needs to know the database password he can't remember...
View ArticleApple Application Support (x64) checksum issue on ver 5.2
Having an issue when downloading the latest iTunes 12-5-4-42 (x64) and extracting the AppleApplicationSupport64.msi file, when importing into the Apple Application Support 5.2 (x64) receive an invalid...
View ArticleAre you using Alert Central in Production?
Tell us what's up with using Alert Central in production. Are you there yet? What's stopping you? Missing features, that super annoying alerts bug that we're fixing, something else?
View ArticlePrivileged users unable to scroll within MAP
Hello, In our environment, when privileged accounts are used with Internet explorer to utilize SolarWinds, the privileged accounts are unable to scroll within the Global Network map. We're able to zoom...
View ArticleTerminal Server - Report for processes monitored on a per user basis
All, First time poster here. Thank you for your help. I wanted to ask if there is a way to monitor multiple processes on a terminal server and generate a report on a per user basis to show how much...
View ArticleIPAM DNS Server list
Has anyone managed to get the DNS Server list to display more than two Servers in the list. I currently have 8 DNS servers in IPAM. But when you go to the DNS Servers page they only show 2 servers and...
View ArticleReporting SAM Component IOPs
When monitoring a process, in my case w3wp.exe, the Application Details page shows the CPU, Memory, and IOPs for the process; I would like to expose this data in a report, but in Report Writer, the...
View ArticleSW Agent Failed - Protocol https - Connection failed with error 0x65b
I started another discussion earlier that the solarwinds agent 1.6 would hang and not uninstall. As I was trouble shooting, I reinstalled the agent on the 2008 R2 windows domain controller server. How...
View ArticleAutomatic connector restart
We have have redundant firewalls that frequently fail-over. When this happens the configured LEM connector will drop its connection with the firewall log server. Would be great to have a way to have...
View ArticleDuplicate nodes - Warning or detection
I often run Network Sonar Discovery on my network to make sure that we cover all devices in our multiple subnets and remote sites. Once this is done, I often realize that we end up with few devices...
View ArticleEnhancements needed.
I wanted to open a discussion and engage the community. I was wanting to gauge and see if this is possibly something that others could agree with or maybe contribute ideas that could be helpful not...
View ArticleSo Long, and Thanks for All the Alerts
It is with a heavy heart that I announce the End of Life of SolarWinds Alert Central. Alert Central was an attempt to build on something that you, our users and customers, knew us well for, free tools....
View ArticleSCP Branded Shirt Interest?
As a result of recent interest in SCP branded polo shirts, I've been discussing the idea with a vendor to offer them up for sale to SCPs. The idea right now is to offer a male and a female version,...
View ArticleCustom Views for Specific Users in a Group
Hello All, We have an admin and a read only group setup in Orion using Windows authentication. Currently multiple site leads want to have access to Solarwinds for there specific sites. These users will...
View ArticleHow to Import the SolarWinds Log & Event Manager into Hyper-V
This is a quick set of instructions on how to import the SolarWinds Log & Event Manager appliance into Hyper-V. Download the SolarWinds Log & Event Manager evaluationExtract the files by...
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