layered maps with live links and zoomable pages
a very useful feature would be layered charts, each of the layers should produce distinct layers with links to the layer below/abovein the main map , users should be able to drill down through layers...
View Articlethwack Monthly Mission - December Edition
Well, December is here and you know what that means... 'tis the holiday season! December is also a huge milestone in our world as it marks a full year of the ever-so-popular monthly missions here on...
View ArticleLocal Worldmap repository for offline use
One of my clients can't use the worldmap feature since the Solarwinds Orion server and access is done on a network segment that does not access internet. The worldmap frame is then grayed out and you...
View ArticleNPM Worldmap - Return to default zoom level
I would love to have a button to reset the view of the map. It is easy to move it, but if you want to reset it to the default zoom value, the only way is to reload the page...
View ArticleWorldmap - Automatic update of GPS Coodinates
I would love to have a way to auto-update/fill GPS coordinates for some devices. We can poll GPS coordinates via SNMP. On every RF site, we have GPS receivers (TRAK or Spectracom brand) for our...
View ArticleAre You Taking Advantage of Cisco® NetFlow for Network Capacity Planning?
Network bandwidth capacity planning is all about balancing user performance expectations against capital budgets.Organizations try to control costs by investing in the minimum amount of bandwidth...
View ArticleAccess Control List Management Features
Enhancement to Configuration Manager that has a workflow something like this; Create ACL {For which group? - choose location, device,etc} -> Type of ACL { Wizard or create from template} ->...
View ArticleEnable Deletion of Multiple DNS records
Enable the deletion of multiple DNS records simultaneously and the corresponding PTR records.
View ArticleHow to load-balance Kiwi Syslog servers
I've got a set of 3 Kiwi servers sitting behind an F5, which I *thought* would effectively load balance the incoming syslog volume (I'm seeing around 5-8million messages per hour, and we haven't really...
View ArticleUDT poller logging improvements
a) UDT poller to report failed polls through Solarwinds Events so system administrators can tie the events to problematical nodes.Include some diagnostic information so the administrator can figure out...
View ArticleVlan management view in IPAM
We looked IPAM decision within two weeks and as you wrote below we can say you several feature request. First of all is it possible to create vlan management tool where we can create vlans without...
View Articlerebuild Orion engine from scratch with HTML5 core functionality
the current Orion engine is dated and lacks capability that other vendors have already released. products that sit atop Orion are affected for example , in NPM one can go down sub-menus on nodes to...
View ArticleCompare config against master template
I work for a company that has many remote sites that are all nearly identical in their network configuration. Basically the IP addresses in use at each site are different but the rest of the...
View ArticleContextual web resources
Ability to run contextual report directly from NPM node view - to show for how long ports have not been used on that specific device only.
View ArticleUDT force L2 or L3 poll
I have thousands of UDT jobs; the force poll for UDT jobs is buried in the UDT settings pages, you can only force one type of poll per device, then you have to wait for the page to refresh. I would to...
View ArticleIntegration with NPM Device Discovery
Integrate the UDT Device Tracker discovery and the NPM Device Discovery. Currently, devices and ports discovered in NPM must have a second UDT port discovery run manually, and newly discovered NPM...
View ArticleNode Outage Duration
I'd like to propose the calculation and retention of a Node Outage Duration metric and also mask this using a Service Hours profile. We currently use a SQL query to calculate Node Outage Durations...
View ArticleBetter scalability (more element support)
Our infrastructure is getting bigger everyday. In every 6 months I am being forced to buy a new polling engine license. Because single polling engine (server) supports maximum 12.000 elements (8.000...
View ArticleUnmanage Indefinitely
It would be nice to have a button to unmanage a node indefinitely, without having to select an end date.
View ArticleIntroducing AppInsight for Exchange - Server & Application Monitor 6.1 Beta 2...
In my previous blog post I introduced you to several cool new features we've been working on for the next release of SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor (SAM). From sustained status conditions...
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