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[VIDEO] SolarWinds Tips & Tricks: Rebuilding Database Indexes

SolarWinds Head Geeks Leon Adato, Kong Yang, and Patrick Hubbard look at one of the easiest ways to improve your database efficiency: rebuilding indexes.

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Fix as many "Bad Tools" in VMware as I can.

Too Many Bad Tools......I resolve to get them fixed up. RT

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Ruckus AP and controller support in Orion!

Hi, I have successfully added my Ruckus ZoneDirector(ZD1112) and APs as nodes and monitored a couple of interfaces on them (and they are not "unknown"),but nothing ever showed up in the "Wireless APs"...

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Where should SolarWinds User Groups go next?

We recently announced SolarWinds User Groups (SWUG) and need to know where you want to see a user group near you in 2016!  If your city is not listed, please add a comment below. Announcing SolarWinds...

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F5 sFlow and NTA

Hi, I don't see any F5 sFlow data on the NTA. I have checked my config is fine. The SNMP polling works fine and I can see the F5 devices in the NPM.  I find below that the sFLOW is not supported by...

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NTA deployment guidelines for two WAN sites?

Dear community, existing situation:company with two separated sites - one office and one datacenter site connected via WAN infrastructureNPM application installation together with separate database...

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Improve the Query Builder (Add a wizard)

The query builder is powerful but difficult to use, generally requiring regex expertise and lots of trial and error. Create a wizard that allows users to simplify building of basic queries, but leave...

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Capture per HBA and per vmnic performance data

We use Fusion-io ioTurbine to improve storage performance. I would like to be able to capture performance of the vmhba used by Fusion-io to see show the IO offloaded to that HBA. Also, per vmnic...

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thwack Monthly Mission - January 2016

Get ready for a veritable virtual venture! January’s thwack mission immerses you in a haptical world of virtualization technology, featuring two powerhouses in the alliance of network management...

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Who will win this year's Super Bowl?

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If...Then...Else statements for Alert Manager

I think it would make managing alerts much easier if we were able to build an if-then-else statement into the actions for an alert. My example...I create an alert for a particular set of criteria, but...

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Undeleting 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...

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Granular Node Management Rights.

There needs to be a simple way to assign users specific node management rights. For example, i have a group of users that i only want to be able to unmanage nodes, nothing more. There may be...

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Did you see the news about Disney?

They are apparently outsourcing and letting a bunch of their IT go.  On top of that they are making the current US IT team train the foreign people that are going to replace them o.O!!!

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Best Off-Label Uses for Solarwinds Products

Solarwinds has awesome tools for monitoring and managing your environment, it's true, but anyone given tools capable of doing things will find things for them to do. SAM can monitor anything, but...

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Ghost device

I am getting connection errors in the logs for a device that I can not find listed in the devices. It is like a ghost device that maybe existed once but now I cannot find any reference to it anywhere...

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More Exit Codes for SAM

In addition to the current values available, UP, DOWN, Warning, Unknown, it would be great if I could also exit with Unreachable. It would be even cooler if I could customize my Exit codes to match any...

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Sort all dropdowns alphabetically

All dropdowns in the Solarwinds GUI should be sorted alphabetically to make it easy to locate list items. For instance, the list of SAM credentials is not consistently sorted by name. Specifically, the...

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Have you tried turning it on and off again? Share your craziest helpdesk...

I don’t like Windows 8. Can I upgrade to Windows 10?You already have Windows 10.No, this is 8. I don’t like it. Can I change it?Every computer here already has Windows 10.Well, can I still have the...

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Virtualize servers to minimize data center footprint

Virtualize servers to minimize datacenter footprint. This will allow us to move away from aging hardware and provide optimal use of electricity and cooling.

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