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  • Dude, cut the cord already - Part Two

    As you may have seen, a couple of weeks ago my friend and fellow blogger Michael Morisy over at Tech Target wrote a great blog post on his views of why today's network technology doesn't support the all wireless office environment. You can go read what Michael had to say about it here . I happen to be of the opposite opinion - i.e. I do believe that in many cases organizations could save a lot of time, money, and even improve the customer experience by going all wireless. You can read more about my position here . As would be expected Michael came back with even more propaganda about how...
    Posted to Geek Speak Blog by Josh Stephens on Thu, Mar 18 2010
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  • Why Can’t I Add my Nodes to Orion IP SLA Manager?

    We get the occasional support call from customers having trouble adding nodes to Orion IP SLA Manager. They try to add the node, they see the spinner spin for a while, then they get taken back to the main page. What gives? As it turns out, the root cause...
    Posted to Orion Product Team blog by macnugetz on Thu, Mar 18 2010

  • Keeping Nodes in Sync: NPM and NCM

    You know that to have nodes appear in the NCM integration module, the nodes need to exist in both NCM and NPM. So, if you add nodes and/or change node properties in Orion, you'd like to have those changes automatically propagated to NCM. However, what you might not know is that you can easily set up a job to help you with this task. In the NCM application, go to Schedule -> Create New Job -> then choose "Import Orion Database." Once you have this set up, everything will stay in sync without your needing to bring up the NCM application (unless you want to manage specific config...
    Posted to Orion Product Team blog by christineb on Tue, Mar 16 2010
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  • A Series of Unfortunate Events: Using Orion’s Syslog Server to Monitor VMware Events

    In network management, events are bad news.  At least the ones you care about are.  You can spend your whole day sifting through various informational events, but most of the ones that need your attention are telling that something is wrong...
    Posted to Orion Product Team blog by denny.lecompte on Fri, Mar 12 2010
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  • Evolution, Justice, and the Art of Being a Geek

    I've mentioned it before, but The Big Bang Theory is one of my absolute favorite TV shows and if you're a geek like me you really ought to check it out sometime. Spoiler alert - if you watch the show I'm just about to discuss this week's episode... This week they did a bit where the guys had been following Adam West around Pasadena (hey, if you saw Adam West driving around town wouldn't you follow him?) and stumbled into a garage sale where they bought a box of miscelaneous items for $65. Among various other treasures was the One Ring . The one, single, remaining ring used in...
    Posted to Geek Speak Blog by Josh Stephens on Thu, Mar 11 2010

  • Easily adding double and triple gauges for Universal Device Pollers

    Technorati Tags: SolarWinds , Orion , Orion NPM , Universal Device Poller , SolarWinds Orion NPM I ran across another cool post that a member of the thwack community put together that I wanted to share with everyone.  lasher put together some new...
    Posted to Orion Product Team blog by bshopp on Tue, Mar 9 2010

  • Community works! - A simpler way to manage Orion email alerts

    First of all, mad props to byrona for sharing this tip with the community. I know there’s a lot of you already using this simplified email alert management trick, but I wanted to make sure to spread the word just in case. Here’s how it works. Instead of configuring static email addresses in the To: field of your Orion Advanced Alert notifications, use a variable (a.k.a macro). The value of this variable can be a custom property. In byrona’s case, he wanted to have emails sent to the “Primary Contact” or owners of each of the nodes in the event of an issue, so he created a custom property called...
    Posted to Orion Product Team blog by chris.lapoint on Thu, Mar 4 2010
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  • It's time dude, cut the cord already...

    Some things really are a matter of opinion. My buddy Greg Newman prefers spinnerbaits while I prefer to fish with plastic worms. My brother Zach prefers to shoot a pump gun while I shoot an over/under. And apparently my friend and fellow-blogger Michael...
    Posted to Geek Speak Blog by Josh Stephens on Thu, Mar 4 2010
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  • Windows Credentials and Microsoft DHCP Servers in Orion IPAM

    We get many, many questions on thwack regarding Windows credentials for adding a Windows DHCP server to IPAM.  There are few tips and tricks I will share that can make this process relatively painless.  First, let me explain why you need to enter Windows credentials in IPAM.  A Windows account is required to pull scopes from a Microsoft DHCP server.  This account has to be a member of one of the three following groups on the DHCP server: local Administrators, DHCP Users, or DHCP Administrators. IPAM uses this account to log into the DHCP server and to pull scopes you want to...
    Posted to Orion Product Team blog by macnugetz on Tue, Mar 2 2010
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  • Different Views for Different Devices

    One of the most appealing things about Orion is the ability to drill-down from high-level info into details.  You see something green or red on the screen, you click on it, you go to a view that has more details about the thing you clicked on. ...
    Posted to Orion Product Team blog by denny.lecompte on Thu, Feb 25 2010
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  • Understanding When to Deploy a Distributed Network Management Architecture

    Here at SolarWinds we offer a product called EOC - or Enterprise Operations Console. EOC is used when you want to deploy Orion in a distributed management architecture. Today I received a question about when you should think about deploying such an architecture so I thought I'd take a few minutes to write on the subject. Before we go into the reasons to deploy such an architecture we should agree on what exactly a distributed network manaement architecture is. For the purposes of this conversation, a distributed network management architecture is any NMS that has more than core. The core being...
    Posted to Geek Speak Blog by Josh Stephens on Thu, Feb 25 2010

  • Audible Alerts in NPM - aka - Wow - I didn't know it could do that!

    Did you know that NPM offers audible alerts? It sure does - and they are super easy to set up. You may find yourself wondering - now why in the world would I need that? Well, you might find yourself work, work, working away and be completely oblivious...
    Posted to Orion Product Team blog by christineb on Wed, Feb 24 2010
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  • Understanding the difference between NetFlow and IP SLA

    One of the most common things I'm asked to explain is the difference between Cisco IP SLA and NetFlow. At a glance, they have a lot in common: They're both supported on many Cisco devices (routers, swithes, firewalls, etc) They both can help you understand network performance, especially on the WAN Network management applications like Orion and the SolarWinds free tools support both All that said, the similarities mostly end there... NetFlow Let's for a moment group all flow technologies including NetFlow, JFlow, sFlow, and IPFix together and just call them "NetFlow" to keep...
    Posted to Geek Speak Blog by Josh Stephens on Mon, Feb 22 2010

  • CBQoS and NetFlow aren’t peanut butter and jelly for you?

    We believe that CBQoS and NetFlow go together like peanut butter and jelly, but several of you commented that it was frustrating that you had to enable NetFlow on the interface to drill down to see CBQoS data. Who are we to dictate how you like your CBQoS...
    Posted to Orion Product Team blog by chris.lapoint on Thu, Feb 18 2010

  • New look... Same great stuff!

    New thwack home page You might have noticed that the thwack home page is new today! We have added more content items and have made it a single click to get to your posts! What do you think?
    Posted to Weekly Update by Dawn_L on Tue, Feb 16 2010
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