Are you or your peers "IT Superstitious?"
Are you in an environment where it's just uncanny how the network can have problems as soon as someone mentions "how good the network's been lately"? Is it just you, or your team, the whole IT...
View ArticleHow dedicated are you?
Since the IT department is the most important department of any company (that has a network), things go wrong with viruses and bugs and eventually, you get one yourself. This poll is to determine if...
View ArticleAre you carrying graphite (pencil lead) inside your body? Have you ever had...
I stumbled across four Thwack MVP's who shared a commonality: they all had graphite in their bodies, due to childhood accidents, carelessness, attacks by peers or siblings, etc. Informally polling all...
View ArticleWhat could have been: Kirk vs Picard
Our Bracket Battle 2016: Oh Captain My Captain knocked out 2 Star Trek heavy weights early on. First Han Solo beat out the beloved Captain Kirk then Han Solo beat out Captain Picard. **This is an...
View ArticleTransaction Monitor Error (Element field not found)
The recording that I created works fine when I run it manually. But when I run the transaction every 10 minutes, it always fail with "element text field not found".. On my other recording,...
View ArticlePatch Manager computer group membership changes not reflected in scheduled tasks
I have PM set up and have created groups of computers for scheduling purposes. I have scheduled tasks that use the computer groups in PM to select the target machines. I make changes to the group...
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IT Monitoring and the Five Stages of Grief
It’s a fact that things can go wrong in IT. But with the advent of IT monitoring and automation, the future seems a little brighter. After over a decade of implementing monitoring systems, I’ve become...
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Add XLS export for NPM Reports directly from web-site.
Solarwinds NPM 11.5.2 can export reports to PDF only.If you need to make export to XLS you need to use Report Writer. And you have to allow RDP to the server for the users who wants to have his reports...
View ArticleAdvanced AppInsight Template Customization
We're using AppInsight Templates for many customers project.It has been gaining us very useful informations.But, for some reason (mostly depends customers processes) we need to customize template...
View ArticleCannot connect WSUS server to Patch Manager server
Update services on the patch management server was working today. Then stopped.I've rebooted both the wsus and patch manager server, but I can no longer see my wsus server or connect when I try the...
View ArticleIs it possible to create an alert based on disk space usage change percentage?
I am trying to figure out a way to alert on say the % disk space available but only create the alert if it has changed by X percent over a specific time period so say a server was sitting at 50% of its...
View ArticleAppinsight for IIS / DMZ
I am having problems getting the Appinsight for IIS to work with my DMZ servers. I am getting the following error. Error code 16013 unable to access remote admin share. The help takes me to the...
View ArticleHow to Upgrade an Additional Poller to NPM 12.0.1
This is how I was able to upgrade an Additional Poller running NPM 12.0 to NPM 12.0.1. Installs from system to system may very. Step 1. Upgrade Core Orion Server Software first.Step 2. Install NPM...
View ArticleAdd SRM Support for IBM Spectrum Scale
Please add support in SRM for IBM Spectrum Scale. This was formerly known as IBM Elastic Storage Server (ESS) which is not the same as the already supported IBM ESS (Enterprise Storage Server).-...
View ArticleWhat Password manager do you use?
If you are using a password manager, which password manager do you use?
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Can't locate object method error for apache template
hi Guys, Maybe you know on how to resolve this issue from the apache template. Our apache server stats is working using https upon access.. So, I have no idea why it didn't work now
View ArticleTrying to create a custom powershell monitor
I am trying to create a powershell monitor to check a websites search availability, however if I run this script as an administrator on powershell on my PC everything works fine, if I run this on my PC...
View ArticlePowershell Functions Searching Logs
I Was Given this powershell Script and told I'd be able to use it in Solarwinds to monitor who logs into the Application. Any advice on how to get the script to output in a format Solar Winds can read?...
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