Introduction to Audit Logging
Audit logs provide a record of past events. Audit records link an individual computer or user to actions taken on a system or in the physical world. Without proper I&A, the audit record is useless,...
View ArticleMonthly Mission is over, what are you doing on Thwack today?
I was doing some Solarwinds Orion clean up and fix today. I am searching Thwack for fixes and enhancements. What are you looking for on Thwack today?
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NCM-how to get daily email of who made what changes
Does anyone know how to get a daily email of who did what changes through NCM? I get daily change logs which highlight changes , but it doesn't show who made what changes. There's also an audit report...
View ArticleThe importance of baselining - and baselining often!
For the most part most database performance monitoring tools do a great job at real-time monitoring – by that I mean alerting us when certain counter thresholds are reached, such as Page Life...
View ArticlePowerShell support beyond v2?
I haven't tested this yet, but wondering if SAM supports PowerShell scripts beyond PowerShell v2? Microsoft has released a public preview of PowerShell v5 and it would be nice to start to leverage...
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Solarwinds not writing file to /tmp
I'm trying to run the Log Parser script on a log file but it not working correctly. I noticed that it's not writing to the /tmp or rather it attempts to do something but nothing happens. I get no...
View ArticleAppInsight for Hyper-V 2012 R2
Hyper-V 2012 R2 has come with some great enhancements to allow for better clustered hosts and replicating VMs from one host to another. However the Monitoring ability of these function are lacking. We...
View Articlediscovery scan ability to tag with Custom Attributes.
Request to have at the end of a network discovery the ability to tag with Custom Attributes. The helps eliminate the manual bulk editing and allows the company to use the dynamic query more efficiently...
View ArticleSAM Issue with Disabling Components
I just noticed and issue that if a component has triggered an Advanced Alert and you go in and disable the component the Alert does not clear and you have to manually go clear it. Has anyone else seen...
View ArticleFeature Request Export and Import Customized Views
All, Based on many client requests I have it would be nice to have the ability to export and import customized view configs so that if one has multiple separate Orion Instances it would would be easier...
View ArticleNetwork Configuration Management - an Introduction
First off let me introduce myself - My name is Josh Kittle, @ciscovoicedude on Twitter, and I'll be one of the Thwack Ambassador's for the month of June. I'm honored to have been selected to...
View ArticleNetwork Discovery enhancements
I like the new discovery filtering but the enhancement IMO was implemented in the wrong place. The Network Sonar Result Wizard should be moved to the front-end when creating a new discovery rather than...
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How to integrate SolarWinds Patch Manager with System Center Configuration...
Hi, We would like to integrate Solarwinds Patch Manager with CM 2012 but we are lost on how should this process has to take place. In looking at the documentation there are not good step by step...
View ArticleWLC 5508 Netflow v9 template
I have case with Cisco WLC 5508 running software version 7.4.110.0, I'm receiving " invalid V9 template with ID 259 from device" I found that the required flow template fields not matching NTA,...
View ArticleNPM True node status - Poll & Alert with BOTH ICMP & SNMP
Previous to NPM 10.7 you would poll a node via ICMP. While a node might be ping-able, that did not mean NPM was able to gather stats via SNMP. In other words, you would loose true visibility of your...
View ArticleWAN SLA availability by time zone & 7x24
Looking for an approach to being able to create a custom report that provides node availability for a given time period (typically a month) for both 7x24 but also a designated time period (7am - 5pm,...
View ArticleCreate visual separation in the custom field list; create a section label in...
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View ArticleNetwork Response Time
Hi, I found the training quite interesting. Have a question regarding a problem we recenlty faced in our organization that from a remote location users access multiple servers but complains slowness in...
View ArticleServer Configuration Compliance
It would be nice to have a Compliance or evaluation tool to baseline server configurations. If you take the NCM compliance and apply it to the server realm that would be a start. Just like in the...
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