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How to create a simple custom view of multiple interfaces' bandwidth utilization
I've used custom views to show clients and my Team many different things that NPM monitors, and those folks really appreciate the service. You can be a rock star in their eyes when you give them...
View ArticleRoot password on VMAN 4.3
I setup VMAN 4.3 and changed the admin password for logging into the appliance. Since making the change I can not able to SSH to the appliance with what we changed the admin password to. We need to...
View ArticleMore than 20 nodes Interfaces have state: Unknown
Hello everyone, My whole network have more than 400 nodes. I have more than 20 nodes Interfaces have state: Unknown, but they are working fine now. Those state unknown interfaces reside in firewalls,...
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Custom Interface Details View Creation Bug in 11.5.2? Newly created Interface...
Perhaps I'm doing this incorrectly. Perhaps I've found a bug. Maybe there's a Hotfix to apply to fix it? But each time I create a new View and select Interface Details, the resulting page always...
View ArticleGranular 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...
View ArticleTest/Development Licenses
Disclaimer: I know that there are other threads on this but I wanted to update it in this new Idea space.I would really like to have Test/Development licenses for SolarWinds products, at least for the...
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Tips for Handling Repetitive Help Desk Tasks
Any Help Desk is going to have to handle repeat requests (hopefully not always for the same customer – although repeat requests from customers is definitely a metric worth tracking…). There are a few...
View ArticleGet with the flow… with NetFlow!
IT professionals are admittedly a prideful bunch. It comes with the territory when you have to constantly defend yourself, your decisions, and your infrastructure against people who don’t truly...
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How Good Are You at Sharing Services?
When CIO’s and key stakeholders were issued guidance on the implementation of IT shared services as part of a key strategy to eliminate waste and duplication back in 2012, it remained to be seen how...
View Article[thwack Feedback] Are you finding what you need?
This is the second in a weekly series of questions I am fielding with you, the community. This week we'd like to hear if you're finding everything you would expect to find on thwack. At a very high...
View Article[thwack feedback] You're a customer... What SolarWinds properties do you...
I'll be starting a weekly series of questions to gather some feedback about the community from the community. We're always looking for ways to improve and better understand the end-user experience....
View ArticleDefence in depth
Ever since I started working in IT and took an interest in the Information Security aspect, I have heard the term 'defence in depth' being bandied around, qualified to varying degrees. In short,...
View ArticleAre you interested in improved support for log file monitoring?
Hi All - The SAM team here at SolarWinds has been thinking about what we can do to provide our users more support for monitoring log files. If this is something you are interested in, we here on the...
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thwack Monthly (Mini) Mission - June 2014
The July Monthly Mission is now open! There will be no June mission, she said... No mission points or prizes, they said... Well, folks here I am correcting my statement with a "mini" monthly mission!...
View ArticleThe Two Faces of NetFlow
Enabling NetFlow will give you some insight on what your network actually carries -- Nicolas Fischbach in Black Hat conference Even though we discuss NetFlow in this article, the content also applies...
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TIME ZONES
Unless I'm mistaken, it appears there have been requests to add time zones into various SolarWinds tools since 2004. This feature is an absolute MUST HAVE. Our single Orion NPM server monitors nodes...
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Configuring SNMP Version 3 on AIX
It took me a while to get the right combination of AIX SNMP Version 3 settings that will work with Authentication & Privacy enabled for Solar Winds.Hopefully the steps below will help you get it...
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...
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