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Ability to choose number of phones monitored by VoIP and Network Quality Manager
There should be a way to choose the phones monitored by the VoIP and Network Quality Manager so that VNQM does not constantly fill the event logs stating that only so many of so many phones will be...
View ArticleEnergy Drinks
Reading on past lawsuits against Monster Energy and how several people died after allegedly just 1 or 2 energy drinks, made me wonder how many on average us "IT" people consume daily.
View ArticleShould a NCM Admin be able to access NCM settings if he/she is NOT a full...
Currently, NCM settings are only accessible to full Orion Admins. We are considering making them accessible also to users who are NCM Admins only and are interested in customer input.
View ArticleWhich of the 2014 monthly missions has been your favorite?
We know that SolarWinds works hard to stay involved with their community at thwack. Which of their inspired monthly missions is your favorite?
View ArticleUseful Alerts Help You Be Proactive
In previous weeks, I have talked about running a well managed network and about monitoring services beyond simple up/down reachability states. Now it's time to talk about coupling alerting with your...
View ArticleHow many messages per hour does your Kiwi Syslog Server handle?
The official line is that Kiwi Syslog server is supposed to handle a maximum of 2 million messages per hour. How many messages per hour are you pushing to your Kiwi Server? (If you have multiple...
View ArticleRemote Service Removal command line
Is there a command line argument to remove the DameWare service from a remote PC? As a policy we only have the DameWare MRC agent service installed when its being used, however, we have tons of...
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Thoughts on TV service. What makes the most sense?
I fought with the cable company this weekend after my "promotion period" of one year just expired and jacked my bill to nearly $200! I told them I am NOT paying $200/mo for TV and internet. Sooooooo, I...
View ArticleWhat do you think of Mcafee
Recently was arrested after a extradition attempt for allegations of a Murder Charge.
View ArticleWhat is the Future of Network Config and Change Management in the long term?
We would like to know your thoughts about the future of NCCM (not to be confused with NCM).Feel free to elaborate on your answer by adding comments.
View ArticleHow do you labelize or mark your IT equipment?
What do you use to mark your IT equipment?Is your company even caring about it? How do keep track of those IT asset? You use an serial asset number or just go by service tag? I'm curious to see what...
View ArticleWould you be willing to give us a copy of your Orion/NCM database for testing...
Having real customer data would be invaluable for (performance) testing. The current use case is Core-NCM database merge, but the same data can be re-used for many other tests.The data would be treated...
View ArticleHow much redundancy is enough for your environment?
Failover Engine requires a 1:1 relationship for each Orion instance or additional poller it protects. For example, in an environment with a primary Orion server and three additional pollers that...
View ArticleDo you want SolarWinds to provide you premium assistance with upgrade to NCM...
We are looking for customers who would like to upgrade their production NCM environment to 7.3 Release Candidate. Since upgrade to v7.3 may be a bit more complex than usually, we offer special...
View Articlehowto install SQLSERVER monitoring on solarwinds Orion Patform 2014.1.0 ?
we have installed a solarwinds but i am not sure if i should expect this system to monitor SQLSERVER instances. could someone with experience on this give some guidelines on how to install or explain...
View ArticleWhat is the primary reason your Orion server is down?
What goes up, must come down. That's a simple fact of life. However some downtime is expected/planned, while sometimes it's completely unintentional. Regardless of the reason, downtime in some...
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