SRM Profiler v6.2.3 is Now Available
You can find the installation packages in your customer portal. This service release delivers various bug and security fixes. Further details can be found in the release notes.
View ArticleRed Light Fatigue
We've all been there. We look at the monitoring dashboard and see the collection of Christmas lights staring back at us. The hope is that they are all green and happy. But there is the occasional...
View ArticleSIEM’s Middle Way
I’ve recently been tasked with assessing the implementation of a log correlation product for an organization. I won’t mention the product name, but its consumption-based licensing model is infamous...
View ArticleKnowing vs Understanding
In IT, we search the Web constantly. Everything we need is literally at our fingertips, just an Internet query away. This is interesting because IT professionals tend to make a big deal of knowing...
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Four Years Straight -- NCM Wins Best Risk/Policy Management Solution
On March 1, SolarWinds® Network Configuration Manager (NCM) was recognized for being the Best Policy/Risk Management Solution by SC Magazine for the fourth straight year. Other finalists for this...
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Cisco Firepower NGFW: Should We Care?
Recently the Cisco Firepower Next-Generation Firewall was released and according to Cisco, it’s the “first fully integrated, threat-focused next-gen firewall with unified management.” It’s...
View ArticleCitizen Engagement and End-User Monitoring
Forget about writing a letter to your congressman – now, people are using tools like the web, email, and social media to have their voices heard on the state, local, and federal levels. Forward-looking...
View ArticleInfra-As-Code - Next Steps
Hopefully the series of posts over the past few weeks have been beneficial to others. I am hopeful that they have either confirmed your thoughts, confirmed your methodologies or maybe even opened your...
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Why is the Email Slow?
This is a common scenario in most organizations: end-users complaining of slow email performance. Sometimes all users experience it, or just a few people (maybe in a specific location, or just...
View ArticleUn-Acceptable
Larry Wall (creator of the Perl programming language) famously said, “Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.” In one...
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Bracket Battle 2016: Oh Captain! My Captain!
O Captain! My Captain! Our Journey’s just begun.Whether your ship sails the high seas or galaxies, votes will say who won.Featuring captains Crunch, Kangaroo, Sparrow, Kirk, & everyone in...
View ArticleFive characteristics of advanced network monitoring
As federal technology environments become more complex, the processes and practices used to monitor those environments must evolve to stay ahead of -- and mitigate -- potential risks and challenges....
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Your Intro to NCM Connector for Cisco Smart Net Total Care
Recently, Cisco® added a collection of Smart Services reports to Smart Net Total Care™. The new Smart Net Total Care reports rely on current information about your network devices and how they are...
View ArticleQ2 2016 SolarWinds User Groups: Seattle, WA and Atlanta, GA
Folks - we are vigorously pulling together our Q2 SWUG stops and we're coming for YOU Seattle, Washington and Atlanta, Georgia! We have a very limited set of dates to work with so I wanted to get the...
View ArticleExpert Series Class - March 31st - AppStack & Troubleshooting SAM Component...
We have a 2 hour course offered next week on March 31st from 11AM CT, hosted by Kong Yang, Head Geek and Wiliam Muhle, Support Application Engineer. This live course is limited to 200 people, but it...
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Virtualization Manager Sizing Guideline
Not all virtual environments are alike, the default out-of-the-box configuration of the virtual appliance is not necessarily best suited to environments of all sizes, and those particularly large...
View ArticleConvention Recap: CiscoLive Berlin
Cisco Live Europe (CLEUR), hosted in Berlin this year, marked my second foray into the world of all things Cisco® as SolarWinds® Head Geek®. I’m here to testify that it did NOT disappoint! The...
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2016 IT Resolutions: It's Part Of The Program!
One of the resolutions that any IT professional should make and stick to for 2016 is to learn a programming language. Before anyone starts shouting and telling me that they aren't going to be a...
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Bracket Battle 2016: Round 1 Recap
We started in uncharted waters with this bracket battle, and unfortunately it was not smooth sailing for everyone in the Swabbie round. Personally, I’m a little shocked that Captain Hook was among the...
View ArticleFinding the Problem in Your Application Stack
When a mission-critical application experiences an outage or severe performance degradation, the pressure on the agency and its information technology (IT) contractors to find and fix the problem...
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