Calling LEM Champions!
Are you a fan of SolarWinds Log & Event Manager? Looking for ways to earn more thwack points? We have urgent needs for all of you LEM champions. The feedback process will take approximately 45...
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Don't Panic and Know Where Your Logs Are
Information Security Event: An identified occurrence of a system, service or network state indicating a possible breach of information security policy or failure of safeguards, or a previously unknown...
View ArticleGroups to Worldmap
In the new NPM Worldmap, you can add multiple devices to a single location to the worldmap, but cant add a group. You need to make sure that all nodes are pointing at the single location and do not...
View ArticleSolarWinds Migration and update.
I'm in the process of migrating a couple of modules and SQL database to two separate windows 2008 servers.The approach i have chosen , is to first migrate the SQL and NPM servers with the current...
View ArticleAdd Creation Date column to Nodes, Interfaces, Volumes tables
There are many times we would like to know the date a node or interface was added to NPM. It's great node/interface changes are being logged in Events but this is not helpful for permanent historical...
View ArticleOn-Demand Approval Process
Put simply, I would like to see an option to initiate an on-demand approval process from an existing ticket, with an option to select the approver(s) from a list and have the approval request email...
View ArticleHow do you get around security at work?
I just had a brief discussion with a dev co-worker and we discussed this very topic. We also provided some examples showing that no matter what policies are in place, security is only as good as the...
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Node Management Flag (Y/N) also have Sub-flags to enable/disable Options
SolarWinds development team consider to incorporate sub-flags under Node Management option (Y/N). In an enterprise environment, enabling Node Management can add a reater risk if any member modify IP,...
View Articledevelopment map
I would love to see what the Webhelpdesk team is currently working on, what you guys have listed as a priority, and what is in the future for development. Right now everything is so closed off there is...
View ArticleNetwork Weather Maps
Solarwinds should add a new feature in to either the NPM or NTA product set to do network weather maps. Currently we use two products to monitor our network, Solarwinds and Cacti. Cacti is very...
View ArticleSampled sflow support (Juniper SRX Series)
Our internet router is Juniper SRX650. And we have 400+ Juniper SRX220 on our egde offices. Because all these devices are using SAMPLED SFLOW we are unable to use NTA. Please support sampled sflow on...
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FAQS linked to multiple request types
Allow FAQs to be linked to multiple request types. Currently FAQs are associated to only one request type. For certain request type structures in some organizations, this does not work well. We...
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NTA Traffic Direction (Source vs. Destination Host)
I'd like an explanation on the NTA traffic direction. From below, you can see two hosts - 10.10.100.165 and the xxxx.amazonws.com host. Now, from the looks of the arrows it appears that all traffic...
View ArticleNTA Alerts
I'm having issues figuring out how to create NTA alerts. Here is what I'd like to do: Create an alert that monitors a particular NetFlow source that looks for- Ingress traffic on a particular...
View ArticleSolarWinds Federal User Group - Washington, DC
Ready to step up your IT management game?Want to know how other federal agencies are solving IT challenges?Curious about SolarWinds newest products and features? Please join us on February 26 at the...
View ArticlePowershell Monitor: Where is statistic.message data stored
I have a custom powershell monitor that grabs ntp clock drift and I set message to whatever the configured NTP Source is. When i view the component, i see the message and statistic data. But when i...
View ArticleIs IIS 8 supported yet? If not, is there a way to make it work?
I've already tried using the IIS 7 connector, but it doesn't seem to want to start due to an error.
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Engineer's Toolkit intergration with NPM
I have been trying to use the Engineer's Toolkit and I have run into many issues with the right-click feature. The main one is that it doesn't work with a majority of the resource views. For example, I...
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thwack Monthly Mission - January 2014
Happy New Year everyone! The hustle and bustle of the holidays has come to an end and if you're anything like me, you're geared up to get back into the normal swing of things... It's time to start...
View ArticleHow to create array of arguments for Unmanage/Remanage? (C#)
I am trying to write a method for Unmanaging and Remanaging nodes in Orion, in C#. Using the CSClient example, I've been able to write a query Orion for a NodeID based on sysname. However, when I want...
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