Adding Custom Icons to NPM
I have followed the directions in the Thwack Community plus using the "help files" in SolarWinds, but for the life of me I can't see my custom icons. I put them in the correct location/file, correct...
View ArticleWhat is the value of certification?
I'm new in the field and would like to know how much it costs to make a certification?
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Is there a ‘Comprehensive Guide for DPA for SQL Server’?
Is there such a thing as the ‘Comprehensive Manual for DPA for SQL Server’ ? A document, guide or manual that covers DPA For SQL Server from top to bottom leaving nothing unexplained. I’ve already...
View ArticleChange working days
Hi,May be this question triggered before , but actually couldn't find answer for it through search. I want to change the week days to be Sunday-Thursday instead of Mon-Fri as this affects our reports...
View ArticleWould you like a SolarWinds shirt that says, "My hands are sore... I Thwack...
Just curious if anyone else, besides me, would like an official SolarWinds shirt that says: "My hands are sore... I Thwack daily!!" and just to be clear, my hands would only be sore from typing so...
View ArticleTerrible Customer Support Experiences Lately!!!!
Is anyone else having issues with SW Tech support? I have three open cases with an average duration of over 2 weeks and it seems as if no one at all in Tech Support cares or wants to render assistance!...
View ArticleAppInsight for IIS - Unable to start polling
Hey All, We've got the AppInsight for IIS template applied to a handful of servers, and it generally works fine. Today I discovered that this monitor for just one particular server has been in an...
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Settle an argument between me and my boss.
Hi Thwackers. My boss and I had a discussion today and I need your help to settle an argument. We recently had to beef up our server and our polling engine due to it being sluggish. My boss is saying...
View ArticleHow to create an Alert based on a trap threshold
We want to make an alert that would email a DL if we reached over X traps in a 24 hour period. I am guessing it can be completed in a SQL Script, but I don't know where to start. Any help would be...
View ArticleSupport Azure SQL Database
Microsoft's Azure cloud has Azure SQL Database, their DBaaS (Database as a Service) offering. It would be great if DPA supported Azure SQL monitoring.
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Solarwinds Support for MySQL 5.7
Please update the MySQL Template to support MySQL v 5.7.9. Currently the connection string shows Driver={MySQL ODBC 5.3 Unicode...
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hardware alerts.
I need to set up an alert for critical or warning status on hardware which was simple enough. Now I need to remove all batteries from the alert notification. I have tried different iterations and it...
View ArticleAdd MySQL as a repository option for DPA
DPA does a great job monitoring MySQL, but can only use Oracle or SQL Server as a repository. Please add MySQL (on-premise and Amazon RDS) as a repository for DPA.
View ArticleStore the XML for deadlocks in the repository
This would enable the following potential additional features:A deadlocks tab that would show the SQL involved in deadlocks along with a count of its appearance in deadlocks during a specific timeframe...
View ArticleGroup individual statements/batches in stored procedures
It is nice to report on the execution characteristics of all the statements/batches in a stored procedure. The individual hashes have to be selected. We make this a little easier by our naming...
View ArticleProvide a way for me to see the cause for a sudden PLE drop
Knowing how much time is spent in CPU/Memory waits doesn't help. Really, even separating the two wouldn't help. What would help is a way to see which SQL statements have/had allocated the most memory....
View ArticleDPA Report - Hardware Resources
It would be nice to be able to generate DPA reports about hardware resources (CPU, Memory, Disk...) per SQL Instance.
View ArticleDPA Blocker Email Functionality
I just noticed that email functionality is not enabled in the Blockers tab in DPA It would be nice to have this enabled.
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