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Orion NPM Version 9 Has Arrived: Check Out the Newest Features!
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Announcing Orion Enterprise Operations Console - Unified Management for Distributed Networks
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Who Knows Orion: The Game Show for Geeks & Network Management Mavens
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New FREE Tool: Exchange Monitor Is Your Desktop Dashboard for Exchange Health
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Sneak Peek at SolarWinds New Certification Program - Give Us Your Feedback!
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SolarWinds Gets a New Look & So Can You... Get Your Free Temporary Tattoos While They Last!
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Need to Reset Your License?  The New License Manager Makes It Easy, Automated, and FREE!
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NetFlow Traffic Analyzer v3 Delivers Support for sFlow, J-Flow, and NetFlow v5 and v9!
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Tech Talk: SolarWinds and Riverbed Dish on WAN Optimization & Management
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See the Head Geek's Top Three Network Troubleshooting Tips
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Gartner IT Briefing: Getting Network Management Right - Tips, Tools, and Trends
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The Geek Has Spoken! See Head Geek Josh Stephen's On-Demand Webcasts Today!
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Welcome to Thwack!

A community site designed by network engineers for network engineers. With the help of a dedicated advisory board, we have developed this community site to provide SolarWinds users, and the broader networking community, with useful information, tools and valuable resources.

This Week in Thwack

June 30 - July 4, 2008

VERSION 9 IS HERE! Orion Network Performance Monitor v9 Offers a Universal Device Poller, Web-based Node Management, and More!
Orion Network Performance Monitor (NPM) Version 9 includes dramatic improvements in the ease with which new devices can be added to the monitoring database and in how Orion NPM is administered. We’ve also incorporated a host of other changes throughout the product to streamline Orion NPM’s usability and increase its usefulness in managing your network.
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WHO KNOWS ORION: The Game Show for Geeks & Network Management Mavens
Do you know Orion? See how your knowledge of network management stacks up in this gameshow designed to test how much you really know about diagnosing network issues and about SolarWinds Orion products. Put your IT thinking cap on and start the 5-minute show.
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ANNOUNCING ORION ENTERPRISE OPERATIONS CONSOLE:
Manage Your Network Universe with Orion EOC

Orion EOC provides a consolidated command center to monitor your entire enterprise network. It gives you unified visibility into remote Orion servers running Orion Network Performance Monitor (NPM) and its associated modules.Orion EOC’s WAN-optimized architecture scales as your network grows; in fact, with Orion EOC, you can monitor as few as several hundred network elements to well over one million elements by consolidating data from dozens of remote Orion server deployments.
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NEW FREE TOOL: Exchange Monitor Is Your Desktop Dashboard for Exchange Health
You asked and we delivered… meet our newest free tool: SolarWinds Exchange Monitor!  This free desktop dashboard continuously monitors Microsoft® Exchange servers to deliver real-time insight into Exchange services, mail queue sizes, and host server health. Version 1.0.1, released on June 13, 2008, fixes an issue identified in a small subset of early deployments and includes a couple of enhancements.
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SolarWinds Certification
SolarWinds will be introducing a SolarWinds certification program in the second half of 2008 and we want to invite you to sign up for early information on the certification program. Sneak peek benefits include helping to define an industry-recognized certification, getting early information on the program details, and even saving a few bucks on the test fees!
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SolarWinds Gets a New Look & So Can You... Temporarily
SolarWinds just debuted a new logo and, while it might not be big news, we’re proud of our new look. So proud that we want to share the new look with you, too!
Don the new logo in the form of a temporary tattoo – request them here while supplies last – and post your favorite pics of the applied tattoos on this Thwack forum!  We'll be handing out some Standard Toolsets - $199 value - to the best entries! Request Your Temporary Tattoos»

Gartner Webcast: “Getting Network Management Right: Tools, Tips and Trends”
Ready to re-evaluate your network management strategy to meet today’s demands? Want to hear about the latest innovations in network management? In just 30 minutes, you'll get the tools, tips, and trends you need to know from a leading Gartner analyst, SolarWinds Head Geek, and two of our leading customers from SunTrust Bank and Oceaneering.
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Member Spotlight

This month we're featuring Grant Sewell in our member spotlight. To see Grant's latest postings and user information, visit Grant's forum profile.

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