Packing Light: Thin Provisioning with GNS3 and NPM
In the nearly three decades I've worked in IT, there is a truth that trumps all others: More is better; smaller is better; and more-into-smaller is the best. Whether your area of interest is storage,...
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thwack Monthly Mission - December 2015
In a database server room far far away… Turmoil has engulfed your IT environment, thrusting your database into an epic period of unrest—and not just because you’ve been awake for the past 36 hours....
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New location not showing on Client new request page
Still working on setting up WHD, and I am running into an issue with the Client-side new request page not showing the correct locations. Currently locations I have set: Locations available to my...
View ArticleAdd support for Nimble Storage
I've had a few requests already to add support for Nimble storage.The trending for using Nimble for SMB companies is growing rapidly.
View ArticleNCM - COLLECT/SCHEDULE CUSTOM COMMAND OUTPUT INTO DATABASE
It would be great if it is possible to create a NCM job collecting ANY command output from NCM devices,format it based on flexible filter/scripting criteria and write the results directly into the...
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group member alert does not show what triggered the alert
I don't understand why there is group member alert available in Solarwinds. I setup email alert working well, but the system doesn't allow me to show which nodes or groups or group members triggered...
View ArticleNPM Upgrade with Additional Polling Engine
Hi, We are in the process of upgrading our SolarWinds estate and I have a question which relates to minimizing monitoring downtime. If we have an instance of NPM 10.4.2 and SAM 5.5 with an additional...
View ArticleInterface Web erro "time out"
We are having an intermittent problem, which at one point error is displayed on the web interface with the message "time out" and only system back to normal after restarting the Solarwinds services.
View ArticleWeb Report - Address Sort Key on IPAM 4.3
Hello, Previously in the Report Writer I had a hidden field of "Address Sort Key" (ASC) to order my subnets correctly, however as I'm re-creating the same report in the web view the Address Sort Key...
View ArticleEverything DISA STIGs for your Network
Introduction This page will be the Main Page for all DISA STIG information provided by CourtesyIT. The intent is to follow this page to alert you to new content and discussions about being DISA STIG...
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Solarwinds not able to retrieve UCS information with UCS Central configured
We are attempting to monitor our UCS Domain using Solarwinds. We were able to create the node with SNMP and UCS credentials, connect to the UCS Master, and add the fiber switches as nodes. However, the...
View ArticleCisco UCS Config Down loader Tool
This tool can be used to view how the UCS is actually configured and required output by Solarwinds Support. ( Please Note : This is not the actual configuration down loader like as NCM ) Please run...
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Database transaction log is full - Recovery ( Simple Mode vs Full Mode )
Growth is either down to 2 reasons:1 NO DISK SPACE2 LDF Autogrowth restriction has been reachedFirst thing I would do is Change Recovery from FULL to SIMPLE if not done so...
View ArticleCisco 3650x - "one or more interfaces have state: unknown"
Installed our first cisco c3650's and getting that error above which coincides with 2 of the "trunk" (uplink) ports on the switch.Has anyone run into this ? have a fix ?
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Hardware health monitoring of standalone C-Series UCS servers
I would like to see hardware health monitoring of standalone C-Series UCS servers in NPM. It does not appear it is possible to do through the OS like is able to with HP servers, but appears to be able...
View ArticleBlade Servers
Hi,We have a couple of HP C7000 G2 servers. I am running the latest and the greatest SAM and NPM. For some reason, I cant get SW to see, or set up a relationship between Blade Servers and Blade...
View ArticleHow to monitor a HTML header in WPM?
Or any html at all. I tried in the text box to use html and it didn't work. Any pointers? Thanks
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