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Monitoring baseline & false positives during peak business demand
End-to-end monitoring and correlation of the data gathered from the entire stack is what matters. Even then, it's only useful if you have set a baseline and know what the normal state of your...
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Patching and Antivirus : Technology Doppelgangers?
As I am sitting here thinking about Windows Patching (I don't take my meds till 11am ), it strikes me that there are some real parallel threads among patching and Antivirus. They both seem to be a...
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Are you making the move to Windows Server 2012?
Interesting enough, most Windows administrators that I've talked to are immediately turned off by the user experience presented by Windows Server 2012. It’s a very different graphical interface on the...
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Why do you even bother patching?
So there are a bunch of reasons people patch their systems. In fact, there are probably more reasons people patch systems than why they wouldn't. (although there are some valid reasons NOT to patch...
View ArticleHow do you keep track of servers, applications, IP addresses?
Where I work we have a configuration management database, or CMDB. The term CMDB comes from the Information Technology Infrastructure Library, or ITIL. ITIL to some is a true four-letter word, but the...
View ArticleExtend Volume in Windows Server 2008 R2 with VMware
I used vSphere to expand the size of the virtual disk on one of our Windows Server 2008 R2 servers.When I went to expand the drive from within the OS per articles such as this oneHow to Extend a Disk...
View ArticleNOC Dashboard
My company moved from OpsView (Nagios) to Solarwinds recently. Opsview offered a nice rolled up View of all my nodes and services like attached and I find it perplexing that this isn't readily...
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Linux Drive Monitors not Accounting for Reserved Space
As I'm sure a lot of you are aware, net-snmp doesn't play nicely with the reserved space on some volumes. This results in a disparity between the readings for % Utilization inside Solarwinds and those...
View ArticleHow to create the UP / Down Status on Dash board for VPN IPsec Tunnels?
I need to show the Link UP \ Down Status with Green \ Red indication like the same what we are seeing in Node Status. i have Cisco ASA 5510 firewall and the same is added in to NPM. Pls help me to...
View ArticleOutlook 2010 Shared Calendar Search Not Working: Fixed
Issue Description: Manager A has shared their calendar with Employee B. Employee B can view and edit the shared calendar, but is no longer able to search the contents.Key Designation: When only the...
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The Observer Effect – Agent vs Agentless Monitoring
If you were a Star Trek fan like myself growing up, you might remember a funny device called the Heisenberg Compensator. It was used when transporting people to account for the affects of a theory...
View ArticleHow to configure a multi-homed Solarwinds Orion server to monitor isolated...
I want to start monitoring an isolated network within our infrastructure by activating a second NIC on our Solarwinds Orion server. I am not sure how to do this. When I configured and connected the...
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Are you making the move to Windows Server 2012?
Interesting enough, most Windows administrators that I've talked to are immediately turned off by the user experience presented by Windows Server 2012. It’s a very different graphical interface on the...
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What Is The Future of Application Delivery?
Every year seems to be met with an optimistic glow of it being the “year of the desktop”. By that, I mean that a large shift will push virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) into the lime light....
View ArticleHow are you interacting with your end users these days?
End Users have high expectations these days. In my experience for the last couple of years It has grown out of proportion. Things change because everyone brings in or works from home with their own...
View ArticleHow do You Monitor Solarwinds?
I'd like to find out what monitor schemes other people/shops use for their Solarwinds servers. Since many of us rely on Solarwinds products to tell us when our network, servers, SANs, etc. have...
View ArticleRemote Assistance and UAC
When using Remote Assistance to troubleshoot an issue with a Windows 7 userrunning with standard privileges we (the remote helper) are presented with ablack screen (and lose kybrd/mouse) whenever a UAC...
View ArticleUser v. Service Accounts
At the moment, all of my SolarWinds "admin" credential requirements are handled via a single user account with Domain Admin rights. The use of this account covers:Scheduled task execution (e.g....
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Orion SQL Performance/Problems
Hello all, Let me know if I am rehashing stuff here but after a ton of research and searching threw the forums I'm still a little unsure of how to perform proper database maintenance. Does this happen...
View ArticleHow to search for admi guides of earlier versions?
I am at loss to figure out such a simple thing. Google search, thwack search everything failed me so far. The official documentation link only points to the latest version. I am running NCM 7.0.2, can...
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