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2 Sep 2010

Hey Chart, get in my Report! (Part 1)

by chris.lapoint
That was an old Austin Powers reference for those who missed it ;-) So, what do I mean by this? Well, a question we get asked all the time by customers is “How do I get the pretty charts I see on my Orion website into a report that I can send to my boss on a regular basis to make him/her happy?”. Seems like a reasonable request, right? But, before I dive into this topic, you’ll need to ask yourself...
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1 Sep 2010

Are You My Server? APM’s Application Discovery Process Explained

by denny.lecompte
Science and engineering types like to know things.  Knowing feels good, even when it lacks practical application.  It feels even better when it is practical.  With this axiom in mind, this post will explain Orion APM ’s Application Discovery process.  In the discovery wizard, you select a group of servers first: Next, you select a set of application templates .    With...
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31 Aug 2010

Are you afraid of the dark?

by bshopp
Alright, so I don’t mean afraid of the dark meaning no lights on in the room.  What I do mean is being in the dark if the server Orion is on fails due to a hard drive or OS failure (for example) and you have no visibility into monitoring your network. What do you do if this happens?  Sleep sound, my dear friend, we’ve got your covered with the new SolarWinds Orion Failover Engine.  The...
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30 Aug 2010

Adding Profiler Views to Orion

by bmrad
A lot of you are asking when Profiler and Orion are going to be integrated, and while I don’t have a date, you can see What We Are Working On . In the meantime, if you just have to have some Profiler goodness inside Orion, here is a way to do it. This is several steps long, and we are working to improve this process. I am assuming you are somewhat familiar with Orion navigation. NOTE: While this...
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24 Aug 2010

Request for feedback – multiple interfaces and UnDP on charts

by bshopp
In this prior blog post I outlined how you could put multiple elements in the same graph using the Universal Device Poller.  We have been having conversations with many of you on thwack about wanting to expand this to support additional use cases.  Based on that, I wanted to go ahead and do a post and give you a sneak preview into something we are working on.  Just as in our “What we...
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Welcome to Orion product blog, which is written by the product managers for the Orion product line. Here you'll find tips, tricks, news, and the occasional random thought about the Orion product family. We’re hoping for a dialog, not a monologue, so we strongly encourage comments on what we say and suggestions for topics.

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