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Please help us understand your organization's thinking on this topic by selecting how much you agree or disagree with the following statement: "My company would never purchase a SaaS-based monitoring...

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Show points awards from monthly missions in activity history

June 4, 2015, 11:06 am

Right now, points activity from the monthly missions (and other off-Thwack activity) do not show up in the Activity History, so it's not possible to easily check if the points were correctly awarded...

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Undeleting an element (node/interface/volume etc.)

June 25, 2012, 9:03 pm

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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Standardisation of Variables Across All Products

June 28, 2012, 4:42 am

Hello, This is something that has caught me out quite a few times. For example sometimes NodeName will be ${NodeName} then othertimes it will be ${Node.NodeName} etc. It would be nice to have these...

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Why Monitor Windows Event Logs?

June 27, 2013, 6:38 am

What does Windows® Logs tell you?A Windows domain controller generates almost 100,000 event logs per hour, which means that the collective output from a rack full of Windows servers on an average day...

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2016 IT Resolutions: It's Part Of The Program!

March 23, 2016, 8:07 am

One of the resolutions that any IT professional should make and stick to for 2016 is to learn a programming language. Before anyone starts shouting and telling me that they aren't going to be a...

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Calendar’s for maintenance windows, SLA’s, and production monitoring windows

August 14, 2013, 3:11 pm

Calendar’s for maintenance windows, SLA’s, and production monitoring windows I know this has been beatup before but I am attempting to introduce this at the product core level to be available to all...

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Load Balancer Support

March 18, 2016, 1:31 am

I would like Solarwinds to have better support for Load Balancers such as netscalers over snmp natively so that topology, routing tables and hardware health can be monitored.

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Allow Web-Based Reports on NPM Page like old Report Writer

June 3, 2015, 11:20 am

Would like to allow Web Based Reports to be shown on NPM page like the old way of Report Writer able to display on NPM Page-Be aware 11.5.2 breaks the Filter SQL Node feature so you will need to...

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Report Writer: Ad hoc report filtering and parameter prompting

June 21, 2013, 9:03 am

Idea came from http://thwack.solarwinds.com/message/96318#96318 originally requested in 2009. Can we add a feature to allow filtering for a report thru the web interface? Of course, if it's a...

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How do you secure a network when an employee leaves--particuarly with regard...

March 16, 2016, 3:01 pm

Imagine a SysAdmin or Network Analyst leaves an organization. Even if they leave on the best of terms, you have a responsibility to the organization to change passwords they knew, to remove account...

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Database Maintenance

March 25, 2016, 7:10 pm

I want to check my SQL database for fragmentation and defrag it. A Solarwinds tech indicated I should follow this Reorganize and Rebuild Indexes , but it assumes 1 table at a time. Anyone have any...

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thwack Monthly Mission - March 2016

March 6, 2016, 4:08 pm

Here at House SolarWinds, we fight day and night to bring you monitoring solutions that help you conquer the never-ending battle for performance. This month, we summon all who stand watch over their IT...

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