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Server Configuration Manager 1.1 is Now Available! Who Made the Change?
I'm very excited to announce that SolarWinds Server Configuration Monitor (SCM) 1.1 is now available for download! This release expands on SCM 1.0 capabilities, both giving more detail for each change...
View ArticleBracket Battle 2019: Recap Round 2
The Final Eight are upon us. It’s a little less clear this year whether any Cinderellas have made it into these final rounds as all of these superpowers seem a little Cinderella-y (WAY before she met...
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Getting more ThroughPut out of your Solarwinds Pollers
Getting more ThroughPut out of your Solarwinds PollersHave you ever wondered why there is plenty of system resources (CPU/Memory/Network/Disk) on your Solarwinds Poller box but still the throughput is...
View ArticleReal World Experiences of Hybrid IT – Part 6
As we head into the final post of this series, I want to thank you all for reading this far. For a recap of the other parts, please find links below: Part 1 – Introduction to Hybrid IT and the...
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THWACK Monthly Mission - April 2019
You unfurl the map – acquired at great personal cost – and determine the next step on your quest. There are pitfalls to avoid, traps to disable, and secrets to unearth. Behind each door lies another...
View ArticleChoosing Monitoring Tools for the SMB
Small-to-medium-sized businesses (SMBs) tend to get overlooked when it comes to solutions that fit their needs for infrastructure monitoring. There are many tools that exist today that cater to the...
View ArticleBracket Battle 2019 - Round Three Recap
Each day brings us one step closer to crowning this year’s winner. We are down to our final four, and another round of favorites have seen their runs come to an end. With the exception of just one...
View ArticleArming Against Attack: Three Strategies to Impede Foreign Hackers
By Omar Rafik, SolarWinds Senior Manager, Federal Sales Engineering Here’s an interesting article on defending against foreign hackers. If you give an IT pro the right training and tools, there’s no...
View ArticleImportant Actions After Cloud Migration
Cloud migration follows the same principles as any other complex task. With methodical planning and appropriate preparation, it can be a smooth and painless experience. While “divide and conquer” can...
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The Actuator – April 3rd
Welcome to April! We’ve hit the first quarter pole for the year. Time to check in with yourself on those 2019 goals you set back in January. There’s still time left in the year to get it done! As...
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DPA 12.1 with Anomaly Detection, Management API, and Alerting Improvements
I’m happy to announce the General Availability of Database Performance Analyzer (DPA) 12.1. This release focuses on deeper performance analysis and management of DPA through these cool new...
View ArticleI Have My Plates Spinning, Now Where’s My Crystal Ball? What We Can Expect...
In my final post in this series, I want to talk about some things that we have not touched on already and how it relates to what we’ve already discussed. First, let’s take a quick recap of what we’ve...
View ArticleBracket Battle 2019 - Championship Round
We have come to the end. The battles have been hotly-debated, hard-fought (not really) contests pitting what is, quite honestly, a pretty silly set of questionable skills against one another to...
View Articlecannot update custom properties on Appinsight for SQL node
I have an odd problem I haven't seen before. I added AppInsight for SQL for a server on my SAMS page. it comes up in the "unknown" section. So I went to the custom properties and added the information,...
View ArticleMust Have Tools for the Enterprise Data Center
Today’s data center is full of moving parts. If your data center is hosted on-premises, there’s a lot to do day-in and day-out to make sure everything is functioning as planned. If your data center is...
View ArticleHow Tech Innovations in the Public Sector Can Help the Greater Good
By Omar Rafik, SolarWinds Senior Manager, Federal Sales Engineering Here’s an interesting article from my colleague Sascha Giese on how tech inventions from the public sector can be used to better the...
View ArticleBracket Battle 2019: And The Winner Is...
And now, there is one left standing alone having vanquished foe after foe after foe after foe after foe after foe. (Six match-ups in all) In a battle of questionable skills and worthless superpowers,...
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The Actuator - April 10th
Hi there! While Tom is delivering a presentation for the Intelligent Cloud Summit here in Copenhagen, I've decided to get started on the Actuator for this week to free up his time for sightseeing...
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Troubleshoot Your Windows Task Scheduler Using Windows Server Log Files
Troubleshoot your Windows Task Scheduler in minutes.If you are responsible for managing your organization’s Windows servers, simply monitoring and managing your machines is a full-time job.Tools such...
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STORAGE RESOURCE MONITOR 6.8 IS AVAILABLE!
For those of you who didn’t know, Storage Resource Monitor 6.8 is currently available for download! This release continues our momentum of supporting new arrays that you all requested on THWACK® as...
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