Access RSA Appliance via SNMP
Hello Thwack-Folks! I would like to retrieve some information of my RSA Appliance (am-7.1 SP4 P26).SNMP is activated and the IP adress of the polling server is added. MIB Tree starting OID I would like...
View ArticleHP Tools on Hyper-V Server 2012 to manage RAID
Hello... I have Hyper-V 2012 server and need to understand ways to manage RAID like HP tools, has anyone got experience on installing this on hyper-v 2012 server. Can anyone share instructions,...
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WSUS on Server 2008
I have a 2008 server configured with WSUS. I have a number of Windows 7 clients that will not check in and these clients report the Last Status as "Not yet reported." I have found documentation that...
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Monitoring across the stack?
In a previous post, byrona brought up a valid point:For our internal stuff we also apply the same process, use a canned template and modify as necessary. Internally we also use the application...
View ArticleCan 401 errors in HTTP:// or HTTPS:// be considered valid?
I'm building URL monitors for a client for both HTTP:// and HTTPS:// with credentials that are not on the server, so of course, they are failing with a "The remote server returned an error: (401)...
View ArticleWDS Slow TFTP PXE boot
Not SolarWinds related but hoping someone can help out Issue- When PXE booting, the TFTP transfer of the boot wim is very slow. After the boot wim is transferred the rest of the image deployment...
View ArticleEMC Data Domain and Storage manager support?
We are running SolarWinds Storage Manager 5.1.2 and would like to report on our DD650 and DD140 Data Domain models. I have opened a case with SolarWinds, but they tell me that this on the road map,...
View ArticleWhat features do you require in your helpdesk software?
Before selecting the right helpdesk software, I want to discuss some of the basic criteria I am using to select the right tool:Problem management - problem logging; problem identification; call...
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The SolarWinds SysAdmin Survey -- What do you think?
If you haven't already seen it, Denny LeCompte posted the results of our SysAdmin Survey over on The Whiteboard earlier this morning.Below is an infographic summarizing the results, and you can see the...
View ArticlePatching 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...
View ArticleSolarwinds exam
I pass the Solarwinds exam on Jan 2, 2014 how long does it take to receive the official certification with the verification &SCP code.
View ArticleRedis hit/miss rate application monitoring possible?
Hello, We have recently moved some systems to used Redis in favour of Memcache, for key -> value lookups. I notice you can monitor Memcahce and get things like "cache hit/miss rate". Is Redis in the...
View ArticleSolarwinds for Linux
Hi there I don't find any package for Linux/CentOS, does Solarwinds work other than windows? Thanks
View ArticleApplications with multiple Windows Services
I run an application, on about 60 servers, that uses two Windows Services. I'd really hate to use up 120 monitors for only 60 instances of the application. Is there anyway to monitor both services with...
View ArticleThe 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 ArticleAre 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...
View ArticleAlert manager not triggering on Exchange 2007-2010 Hub Transport Role Service...
Challenge for the masses. Running Core 2012.2.2 and SAM 5.5.0. We have determined one of the fastest ways for us to be notified that some one tagged with spamming trojans has gotten us blacklisted it...
View ArticleIs there a way to schedule and monitor the starting and stopping of services?
Is there a way to schedule a job to shutdown services across multiple servers, then trigger an external backup. When the backup is completed, we then want to restart the services in a particular...
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 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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