Do you visit the thwackEDU forum?
As some of you might have noticed, there's a new educational space on thwack, called thwackEDU, This is an online library of articles, code, practical examples and much more, all from technical and...
View ArticleAlcatel-Lucent 9500 MPR
I am trying to add an Alcatel-Lucent 9500 MPR Microwave Radio to SolarWinds.It validates as OK, but does not disover any interfaces.Just curious if anyone reading this post had any success on adding...
View ArticleWhat We're Working On [WWWO] for Patch Manager beyond 2.0...
To receive updates on the Patch Manager roadmap, JOIN thwack and BOOKMARK this page. We recently released Patch Manager 2.0, which included support for Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows 8.1. We're now...
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Self-Paced Packet Inspection Training - Why You Need It (NOW!)
If you have been troubleshooting networks for any length of time (or hanging out on the SolarWinds Thwack GeekSpeak forum) it should be obvious that packet inspection is a technique well worth...
View ArticleI have toolset running and integrated on Orion server. Would be possible to...
I've read general information but I'm still not sure how to proceed with keys and licenses..
View ArticleHow do I monitor for Tomcat being down with JMX?
Sounds like a silly thing, but when the Tomcat app on the Linux server is down, SAM's JMX template just goes to Unknown and SolarWinds never sets the application to Down. All components getting...
View ArticleNCM config quick question
Hi New to NCM I like to get alert/report .. only when one part of the config is change but not other section ? Need to know if something with SNMP or SSH or ACL Routing is change ,but don't care...
View ArticleWanting to find devices not configured in NCM
Running NCM 7.3.2. On a previous version there was a screen where I could click on a vendor (Cisco) and I would be shown which devices were being managed by NCM. I cannot find that information in my...
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IT Blogger Spotlight: Christopher Kusek of PKGuild.com
A quick Google image search of Christopher Kusek will show you the most important thing you need to know about him: He’s yet to find a set of fake ears he doesn’t look great in! Of course, you might...
View ArticleMy Top 3 Patch Management Tools
Before we get into my list of patch management tools, we all have used WSUS and some of us have become proficient at SCCM, these tools aren't in my top 3 list... they don't even crack my top 10!...
View ArticleCisco Wireless Controller 5508 Netflow
We are successfully using NTA 4.1.0 with other data sources and have now configured our Cisco 5508 Wireless Controllers to export NetFlow to NTA and are seeing the following error: NetFlow Receiver...
View ArticleSolar Winds Alert integration to 3rd party managers
I basically want to send either targeted alerts or all alerts from my solarwinds installation to a 3rd party manager, specifically BMC Impact Manager. However what I am finding on the solarwinds side...
View ArticleProblems Enabling SSL Support when Accessing Orion
I have followed the directions on the link below to enable SSL but I am only getting a blank page when I visit the site. SolarWinds Knowledge Base :: Use CAC Web Authentication with Server 2008 Can...
View ArticleUnDP Table handling enhancement and more than two-column SNMP table UnDP's.
We need the ability to be able to properly handle tables, so if I have a table that has more than two columns,as is often the case for things being monitored that have more than 1 metric to measure,...
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How can I get my HelpDesk to run/update faster?
I have the Web HelpDesk running on a sever with 4 processors 16gb of memory and 100gb of HDD space. Every time I update a ticket or delete a ticket it takes a long time (10-20 sec) for the function to...
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Transfer Status Hung in 'Cancelling' Mode
I currently have several hung transfer status notifications happening. I have attempted to clear, restart server, sql modification but no luck.
View ArticleLog aggregation
Way back in the past I used to view logs after an event has happened. This was painfully slow, especially when viewing the logs of many systems at the same time. Recently I've been a big fan of log...
View ArticleSupporting the Vendor
Over the last three weeks my posts have focused around end users and remote support tools. This time I want to focus on vendors. In theory you should love your vendors that you work with, there are an...
View ArticleSupport for Cisco NBAR
Many customers have requested support for application recognition based on NBAR. Today NTA simply relies on port numbers, but by leveraging NBAR we would be able to more accurately measure traffic by...
View ArticleZTE CPU and Memory
Does anyone here able to poll CPU and Memory stats of a ZTE device? We are only able to poll interface and routing stats. ZXR10 ROS Version V4.08.32 ZXCTN 9008 Software, Version ZXCTN 9000 V2.08.32R3B96
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