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For years I've been a big fan of Kiwi's tools . Their syslog server and router config tools are quick, powerful, and super geeky - right up my alley. Well, as of now, I can use them for free which is sort of like getting a second Christmas except the presents are way cooler... You can read the full story here . If you're not familar with these tools I highly suggest that you download them and try them out. There are free versions and licensed versions (you can download a free eval for the licensed versions) of both of the tools available and a description of the differences. Also, now...

I normally try to keep sales and marketing type stuff out of my blog but this information is pretty cool. The marketing team is giving away free copies of our LAN Surveyor Express (LSE) for the rest of the year (the next 2 days). You can get it here or go to the website to read more about it. LSE is a really nifty tool. Basically, you run it and LSE will do a complete layer 3 and layer 2 discovery of your network and will build a detailed topology map of all of discovered devices. The information is then exported direclty into Microsoft Visio so that you can view, edit, and save the drawings. Keeping...

Going to Networkers? I am looking to understand who is planning to attend Networkers in either Barcelona or San Francisco. I am thinking about having a Thwack community event... so let me know via this survey . Seen the Dashboard? If you have not seen it... get in on the action ! Personally I would like to wish you all Happy Holidays- I hope your time off is filled with laughter and friends!

As many of you know, I'm a HUGE fan of super heroes. Love the movies, comics, TV shows, costumes, toys, gadgets - you name it. Well, there's a great debate going on right now as to what actually qualifies someone as a super hero. It started with an argument about whether or not Spock is a super hero and has developed into much, much more... If you're as big a fan of super heroes as I am, you really can't afford not to chime in and make your opinion known on this debate. http://thwack.com/forums/p/12805/52718.aspx#52718 Flame on... Josh Follow me on Twitter

For the last week or so I've been neck deep in a project where I've had to investigate the capabiltiies and performance of the SNMP MIBs and SNMP agents of a couple of different types of devices from a handful of different vendors. Let me tell ya, this got complicated in a hurry. In some cases the MIBs were being written and I was literally testing them the same day and in some cases the SNMP agents were open source derivatives and had all kinds of weirdness going on. The sickest part is probably that this was more fun for me than the last vacation I went on. Yeah, I'm that geeky.....

Are you figuring out the new thwack? If not, we have a video that shows you everything that changed. Take a look! Like it? Tell us what you think on the Forum Feedback board! Is Josh correct? He thinks Mr. Spock is a Superhero. We disagree... vote on your choice !

This is the most exciting weekly update yet! As you can clearly see, we upgraded the site tonight. We hope you like the new design and find it easy to use. Beginning on Monday, we will have a video tour showing the new site features... so stay tuned. If you find any issues or have comments (we would love them) please post them on the Forum Feedback boards.

The dev team here at SolarWinds has just finished a new tech preview of the SolarWinds Dashboard and as of yesterday it's available to the public for download . This is a cool new application and sort of a new concept in network monitoring and diagnostics. You can play with the Dashboard for the next couple of months for free and I highly suggest that you check it out. As for me personally, I've been playing with alpha code for the dashboard for a few months now and I've sort of fallen in love with it. Part of why I like it is that there are tons of undocumented features that I've...