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  • Understanding how the Weather affects your Network

    Not too many years ago I ran a large network for the United States Air Force. For the first several years I was there we had an old copper-wire backbone and it was amazing to see the havoc that weather could wreak upon that network. Sometimes you practically needed scuba gear to go into those manholes and troubleshoot wiring issues. You could practically track where the storm was moving based upon the color changes on my maps within my NMS. Even today, with best in class technologies, weather can play a big role in network performance and reliability. One of the coolest things that you can do to...
    Posted to Geek Speak Blog by Josh Stephens on Mon, Feb 8 2010
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  • NCM - Inventory Report Web Views... See More in Fewer Pages

    One of life's small frustrations now has an easy fix. I exchanged emails with a customer who mentioned that it can be frustrating to page through pages and pages in the inventory report. If the view showed just a few more rows....it would be so much...
    Posted to Orion Product Team blog by christineb on Wed, Feb 3 2010
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  • Using a weather map as your background for your maps

    Technorati Tags: SolarWinds , SolarWinds Orion NPM , SolarWinds Orion , Network Atlas , Cisco Live , Cisco , Weather Map So I am sitting here in our European office trying to decide what to write on.  I was catching up on my thwack posts since I was in Barcelona last week for Cisco Live (aka Networkers) and have seen some discussions on thwack recently from some of you and I keep hearing about the Weather Map like we have on the online demo.   Hmmm seems like a great idea for a post!! I am going to describe this setup using 9.5 and above.  1. Using Network Atlas, create a new...
    Posted to Orion Product Team blog by bshopp on Tue, Feb 2 2010

  • Who wants another Free Tool?

    Network Config Generator : SolarWinds does it again! Download this free tool and in less time than it takes to say “C-L-I”, you can be running config templates that automatically configure both common and advanced network device features....
    Posted to Weekly Update by Dawn_L on Mon, Feb 1 2010

  • Orion IP SLA Manager - Get More Granularity With Your Operations

    What's an Operation? When building Orion IP SLA Manager 3.1, we implemented a couple of highly requested features around operation creation and configuration. First, let me address what I mean by 'operation.' This term has caused a little confusion, as it's used interchangeably with a few others. Some people refer to them as probes, others as tests, but they're all synonymous. Regardless of the term used, when we say operation, we mean the synthetic traffic generated from one Cisco IP SLA enabled device to another, usually measuring round trip time from source to target and...
    Posted to Orion Product Team blog by macnugetz on Fri, Jan 29 2010
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  • Orion Additional Polling Engine and Modules -- What do I buy for modules...Nothing because it’s now free!

    We’ve seen a lot of questions regarding how Orion modules and additional polling engines work so we wanted to quickly clarify what to buy and how to install additional pollers with the latest module versions. How it worked in the past: In the past, to...
    Posted to Orion Product Team blog by chris.lapoint on Thu, Jan 28 2010

  • SolarWinds Makes the Move to Storage

    Well, the news is out. The geeks from Tek-Tools have joined the team here at SolarWinds and as usual, I'm pretty freakin' excited. If you want the details you can go here , but in a nutshell - you asked and we're delivering. The need for comprehensive management of networks, systems, applications, storage, and virtualization has never been higher and with the addition of the Tek-Tools stuff we're stepping up to the plate to deliver. Just imagine us standing at the plate and pointing the bat out towards the bleachers - sort of like Babe Ruth in his prime - but that the bat is now...
    Posted to Geek Speak Blog by Josh Stephens on Wed, Jan 27 2010
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  • New SolarWinds Free Tool - Network Config Generator

    Sometimes doing things the hard way can get a bit tiresome. Don't get me wrong, I love the CLI. I love the God-like power that I feel when I'm sitting in front of a router and the entire team is standing behind me watching while I bring forth...
    Posted to Geek Speak Blog by Josh Stephens on Tue, Jan 26 2010

  • Finding What's Changed in Your Nightly Configuration Reports

    If you're like most of us, you have better things to do than go through your nightly config backup report looking for the devices that have changes. In fact, this has been brought up numerous times on thwack - here's one example . The good news is - there's a super easy way to solve the problem. Just select "Send config change details in a separate email" and you'll receive the whole job report as one email, and just the things that changed in a separate email. This option has been available in NCM since v5.5, but it's easy to miss so we wanted to bring it to your...
    Posted to Orion Product Team blog by christineb on Thu, Jan 21 2010
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  • Come see us at Cisco Live in Barcelona Next Week!!!

    Well, it's that time of year again. It's starting to feel like spring here in Austin Texas, the Super Bowl is only weeks away, the World Cup is only about 141 days, 5 hours, and 9 minutes away , and I'm packing for Barcelona for Networkers...
    Posted to Geek Speak Blog by Josh Stephens on Wed, Jan 20 2010

  • What is database maintenance and how do I use it?

    Technorati Tags: SolarWinds , SolarWinds Orion NPM , SolarWinds Orion Last week, the Head Geek and I did a webinar on Orion NPM product training.  Once of the common things that kept coming up was questions regarding database maintenance.  What is it?  How do I know if it is working right?  How do I customize it?  So I figured what better place to expand on this topic than the Orion product blog. First off, what is it? The formal definition: Database maintenance performs a series of data summarizations that help you optimize the size of your Orion database. Data summarization...
    Posted to Orion Product Team blog by bshopp on Tue, Jan 19 2010

  • How to find your firehose...

    I'm sure you've heard the term " drinking from the firehose " used to describe being fed information at an insane, maybe even overwhelming rate. For most people this is probably a bad thing, but for geeks like us sometimes it's just...
    Posted to Geek Speak Blog by Josh Stephens on Fri, Jan 15 2010

  • From EOC to Orion Server Non-Stop

    Gaining Direct Access to the Orion Console from EOC without a Login Screen Orion Enterprise Operations Console provides a console for aggregating data from multiple Orion servers. For instance, an EOC Top 10 lists includes nodes from different Orion servers into a single list. When the user clicks on one of those nodes, EOC launches the Node Details page for the target Orion…except for the first time you access that Orion web console is a given session. The first time you access a target Orion, the user is asked for login credentials for that Orion, which some users find really annoying. Why do...
    Posted to Orion Product Team blog by denny.lecompte on Thu, Jan 14 2010

  • How to backup ‘show vlan’ and other ‘show’ commands as Orion NCM configs

    NCM currently supports 2 config types per device: running and startup. However, you can backup many more things by using these config types as containers for storing other information (e.g., show commands, different firewall context configs, etc.). In...
    Posted to Orion Product Team blog by chris.lapoint on Wed, Jan 13 2010

  • A New Home for the Head Geek at SolarWinds - /geek

    In case you've been locked in a cave somewhere for the last couple of years and haven't noticed, here at SolarWinds we've been creating some great, free learning material for network engineers, network administrators, system administrators, and IT managers of all types. We've hosted and recorded dozens of webcasts, a myriad of videos, and several cool whitepapers among other things such as our Geek's Guides. To be honest, we've produced so much learning content that sometimes it's become hard to find the right content for the right situation. The answer - the new Geek...
    Posted to Geek Speak Blog by Josh Stephens on Sun, Jan 10 2010
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