If you've upgraded to Windows 10, what were your results?
Please share your experiences and degree of satisfaction with upgrading from an older version of Windows to Windows 10. Please don't include new purchases/installs of Windows 10 in this poll, unless...
View ArticleEducation, which is best for me?
If you are contemplating an educational track with your current career path, which should you focus on Certifications or Degree?
View ArticleAbility to customize the notification email templates
I don't see this explicitly requested anywhere - although it's suggested by a couple of other ideas - so I'll say it: would be great to be able to edit the wording of the notifications to suit our...
View ArticleFeeling old? (2)
Hello all I'm in my late 40's and lately, in the field of telecom, i've started to notice my age. I don't understand things as fast as I use to, the 20 something in my group seem to know more than I...
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syslog server 9.5 log path incorrect
I've newly installed Kiwi syslog server 9.5 in Windows 7 and it is logging to an incorrect path. The log file in setup is: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Syslogd\Logs\SyslogCatchAll-%DateISO.txt". I found a...
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Test Failed. An unsecured or incorrectly secured fault was received from the...
what's my PE fault? SAVE ERROR REPORT LOCALLY is here:Time: 09/25/2013 10:55:23.6111Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5Pipeline: IntegratedUser Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.31 (KHTML, like...
View ArticleS.A.M. of a URL or Web Server
Still new to the Server and Application Monitor product I have been tasked with creating a monitoring job that can prove a Web Site is up and running. I asked the person who was requesting this what...
View ArticleDo You use Product Upgrade Advisor website before you upgrade product?
SolarWinds has Product Upgrade Advisor website which helps users to validate compatibility of product versions.https://customerportal.solarwinds.com/support/product-upgrade-advisorDo you use that prior...
View ArticleHTTP/S Monitors ability to use custom property variables to concatenate a path
Currently the only macros supported are: (documented in SolarWinds Online Help) -${Node.SysName}-${Node.Caption}-${Node.DNS}-${Node.ID} The ability to use custom properties as a variable to concatenate...
View ArticleCreate a child ticket from within a ticket
I'd like to see a button within a ticket to create a new ticket ("on the fly"). The new ticket would automatically be linked as a child to the parent ticket from which it was created.
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Alert on Nodes that stopped responding to SNMP
Custom alert for Nodes which stopped respond to SNMP: use Advanced Alert Manager and create custom SQL alert on Nodes with this custom SQL Query:SELECT LastSystemUptimePollUtc FROM Nodes WHERE...
View ArticleBranded SWAG: What should we do next?
I think it's a fair assumption that SolarWinds has been killing the t-shirt game this year. From the 2015 tradeshow "Heart IT", The Node Abides Contest, Rage Against the Virtual Machine, and you can't...
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Solarwinds - Ugly Sweater for 2016?
Would you use points to buy a Solarwinds Ugly Sweater if they had them available for 4th Quarter of 2016?
View ArticleBeing able to put a device in a decommissioned state for historical purposes.
Hi All I would like to have a proper way to decommission a device in Solarwinds NPM and sub modules in order to keep histoircal data.Ie I want to decommission devices for the following reason:Keep the...
View ArticleData Warehouse for long term interface statistics, reporting, trending, and...
One of the useful aspects of Orion and NPM is the statistics gathering for performance and capacity planning...until you have to change the IP address for whatever reason or similar events.Now all of...
View ArticleSQL Failover Cluster Monitoring Best Practices
I am trying to best understand what the best practices are for monitoring a SQL Failover Cluster. My scenario is as follows: SQL Server 1SQL Server 2SQL VIP I add both the actual SQL nodes into Orion...
View ArticlePossible to give VMan 6.3 more than 4 CPUs?
New to SolarWinds virtualization manager, our environment has been up less than 2 weeks. Running VMan 6.3 with hotfix 1. I see the CPU pegged at 99% on the Configuration Summary page during data...
View ArticleWhich Holiday Do You Celebrate in December?
Tell us how you celebrate during the month of December and take our poll below. And feel free to share your holiday traditions in the comments.
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UDT report for used/unused ports per device
Unless I'm missing it, there isn't a OOTB UDT report (v2.5) that provides Used Ports/percentage, Free Ports/percentage, Total Ports per device like the UDT Ports in Use Overview graph below. Has anyone...
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