[VIDEO] SolarWinds NPM - Your Complete Network Monitoring Solution
SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM), created by network engineers for network engineers, is a complete monitoring solution that provides you with the tools you need to work smarter, improve...
View ArticleHow to trim, remove, or truncate domain names discovered and displayed in NPM...
If you are unhappy with NPM displaying the FQDN information of your network equipment for any reason (e.g.: the domain section takes up too much space in your diagrams and documents), I followed this...
View ArticleSolarwinds Labs - One Stop Shop
Recently someone asked me where is a good place for Solarwinds Training? I thought about it for a few minutes and came up with "Experience". Luckily for us, Solarwinds, does not take a PhD to figure...
View Article[VIDEO] SolarWinds Lab #38: Get Your Monitoring Squeaky Clean for 2016
It’s the end of the year, you’ve used up your vacation (or didn’t get your request in as fast as the rest of the team) and you’re thinking about trying to catch up on social media or online groups that...
View ArticleWhat We're Working On - SolarWinds Patch Manager (Updated May 29, 2015)
(Updated following Patch Manager 2.1 Release - 5/29/2015) We recently released Patch Manager 2.1 (see: Announcing General Availability of Patch Manager v2.1 - Automated 3rd Party Patches & More!)...
View ArticleAutomatically balance nodes against multiple polling engines.
To give a little back, here's a script that I developed.PROBLEM:We have multiple people adding nodes to additional pollers, and they don't choose the one with the least nodes currently being polled....
View ArticleCisco ASR Showing 95% 98% Memory Used.
Since we are seeing very frequent issue with ASR Memory Consumption . Let me try to explain in a little details. Issue: Cisco ASR Showing 95 % / 98 % Memory Consumed. Troubleshooting :- When we...
View ArticleWhat We're Working on for NPM (Updated January 7th, 2016)
Since the release on NPM 11.5 we've been hard at working building the next round of exciting functionality and improvements in existing functionality. I'm pleased to share the following list of items...
View ArticleVertical listing of reference table in nodes details page using unpivot and...
A client asked for a way to use an reference table to pull values for a node. This particular reference table has a list of all SiteCodes for the nodes.One way of doing it is to just dump the values....
View Article[VIDEO] Noob's Cube: Systematic Voltage Recapitulation
Filmed before a live studio audience (NOT), Noob's Cube is a goofy sitcom for the techie crowd. The series features a day in the life of a "Noob" living out his first days on the job as a sysadmin. His...
View Article[VIDEO] The Most Incredible IT Man in the World: Episode #3
Training a computer to run by itself: Incredible. Teaching it to simultaneously toast pastries: Most Incredible. Follow the adventures of the Most Incredible IT Man in the World.
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