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3 Feb 2010

NCM - Inventory Report Web Views... See More in Fewer Pages

by christineb
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 nicer as you could see much more on one screen.... but alas.... there's no setting for that. Well, actually there is, but it's a bit roundabout...
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2 Feb 2010

Using a weather map as your background for your maps

by bshopp
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...
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29 Jan 2010

Orion IP SLA Manager - Get More Granularity With Your Operations

by macnugetz
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...
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28 Jan 2010

Orion Additional Polling Engine and Modules -- What do I buy for modules...Nothing because it’s now free!

by chris.lapoint
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 extend the scalability of your main Orion Server, you would purchase an NPM Additional Polling Engine. Then, for each module installed on your main Orion...
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21 Jan 2010

Finding What's Changed in Your Nightly Configuration Reports

by christineb
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...
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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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