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Raspberry Pi Says What? 3/14/15 9:26:53.589 #PiDay2015
I’ve had a few members ask about my silly Pi Day TwitterBot hack, and why someone would even want to do such a thing. The real answer is a geek compulsion, but the thinking went something like this:...
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Remote control: To self-host or not to self-host?
Remote control software is a huge benefit to all IT staff when troubleshooting an issue. There are big benefits for using a service provider to host this functionality for you. There are many reasons,...
View Article“Logfile Monitoring” – I Do Not Think That Word Means What You Think It Means
This is a conversation I have A LOT with clients. They say we want "logfile monitoring" and I am not sure what they mean. So I end up having to unwind all the different things it COULD be, so we can...
View ArticleRegular Checkups: Is your NMS still loved?
A finely-tuned NMS is at the heart of a well-run network. But it’s easy for an NMS to fall into disuse. Sometimes that can happen slowly, without you realizing. You need to keep re-evaluating things,...
View ArticleSomething Wicked this Way Comes. Bracket Battle III: The Villians.
Double double, toil and trouble… Something wicked this way comes. Our third annual Bracket Battle is upon us. Mwuh huh huh huh ha! On March 23, thirty-three infamous individuals begin the battle to...
View ArticleData retention policies: lessons learned & what stays on the boat.
What seems like a lifetime ago I worked for a few enterprises doing various things like firewall configurations, email system optimizations and hardening of Netware, NT4, AIX and HPUX servers. There...
View ArticleCustomer Benefits Survey for Server & Application Monitor
In October 2014, SolarWinds conducted a survey of 579 Server & Application Monitor Customers. Attached is presentation of the results. Key findings: After implementing Server & Application...
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When Good OIDs Go Bad: Customizing Device Pollers
In my last post, I spoke about different ways to Alert in NPM, pairing multiple features together to create powerful ways to create granular alerts and to really reduce on alerting noise. Well, that’s...
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DameWare - Active Directory Integration Sneak Peek
Coming off the release in December integrating DameWare into Web Help Desk, the team rolled straight into working on formal Active Directory integration as discussed here. With the product today, you...
View ArticleWhat does it mean to be a “Head Geek”?
I talk (“brag”) a lot about being a SolarWinds® Head Geek®. Everyone on the Head Geek team (Patrick Hubbard, Thomas LaRock, Kong Yang, Don Jacob, and Praveen Manohar) often gushes about how we feel...
View ArticleUser Device Tracker 3.2.1 Release Candidate now available!
User Device Tracker (UDT) 3.2.1 Release Candidate is now available in your SolarWinds Customer Portal. UDT 3.2.1 brings back ability to monitor new switches and routers without a need to do...
View ArticleServer & Application Monitor - What we're working on beyond SAM 6.2
Server & Application Monitor 6.2 included a boatload of great new features that are going to be difficult to top, but that isn't going to stop us from trying. Here is a sneak peek at just a few of...
View ArticleMoving Network Configuration Management Forward
Better Network Configuration Management promises a lot. Networks that are more reliable, and can respond as quickly as the business needs. But it’s a big jump from the way we've run traditional...
View ArticleIncident responders: Build or buy?
Incident responders: Build or buy?There is far more to security management than technology. In fact, one could argue that the human element is more important in a field where intuition is just as...
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Blogger Spotlight: Amit Panchal of Amit’s Technology Blog
Amit Panchal was one of the Virtualization Field Day 4 delegates we recently presented to in Austin and I got to thinking we should get to know our friend from “Blighty” a bit better. So, for this...
View ArticleBig brother is watching you
Management wants to be able to track employees productivity and their performance to use in periodic employee evaluations. Performance improvements can lead to keeping your job, bonuses, and pay...
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BETA NEWS: Database Application Performance Monitoring & End User Experience!
I told you I was saving the best for last and here it is! We're standing database performance analysis on it's ear by presenting it from the perspective of applications using your databases, otherwise...
View Article2015 Predictions and beyond, Stop telling me what’s happening, let me tell you!
We are a solid 3 months into 2015 at this point, the first quarter is nearly out, and subsequently we should start seeing the seeds or even some fruit of various ‘2015 Predictions’ by “industry” folks....
View ArticleThere will be blood...
That is it folks, the Mischievous round is done. Once again, I am personally devastated that the Doctor Who representatives (The Master and the Daleks) did not make it beyond the first round. Thanks to...
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