Re: Helpdesk War Story
Thanks for GPO's. They help me keep users from sawing off the limb they are standing on.
View ArticleRe: Winning The Loser's Game of Information Security
I agree with wbrown. This is why we're constantly learning new technologies and developing new techniques/methods/processes - trying to stay ahead of the curve. I also have to agree with the statement...
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Team, Need suggestion on the licensing part for NPM.I have a campus network with almost 2300 Alcatel 48 port Switches (Edge) and some 40 Cisco 6500 Chassis. ( DS, Core, Border, Server farm)Thus if i...
View ArticleRe: the server disk monitors problems
They are WMI and from the virtual server from the VMware servers. The severs have been changed the volume space from VMware.
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Re: Universal Pollers data Slow into Database
Thanks Cahunt I logged the case with support and eventually got my answer.It was a problem in the way NPM 10.5 handled Multicast Monitoring, it filled up MSMQ and essentially blocked information from...
View ArticleRe: Helpdesk War Story
I still remember that day a few years ago. It was at 5 PM on a Tuesday and all the sudden my team received hundreds of alerts of devices down. Within a minute, people from different groups stormed to...
View ArticleRe: Winning The Loser's Game of Information Security
Charles Galler That's a nice setup. Mac OS X allows, say, laptop to act as an AP for internet sharing. The problem is that it can't disable SSID broadcast. So, I got an Airport Express and turned it to...
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When hurricane Ike came through Houston it knocked out most of the power. The next day we had to go to the Data Center the next day and get it back online. We did, but it was days later before any of...
View ArticleRe: Helpdesk War Story
I have done something like that before. On the podcast I mentioned one person restated this "Admit nothing, deny everything, and make counter accusations". Someone told him that after they just broke...
View ArticleDRS Remote Service Install Schedule
I know I am able to use DRS to install the DWRCS service on remote computers in a batch job, however is there any way that this job can be scheduled to periodically install the service on all computers...
View ArticleRefresh Rate based on users in Solarwinds
Hi All, Is it possible to set different webconsole refresh rate for different users in Solarwinds?. Any reply would be highly appreciated. Thanks,Aneesh
View ArticleRe: Netflow for 6506E on NTA 3.11.0
Thanks jswan, I am getting the error that template is not matching. What can i do else to match that template .
View ArticleRe: SAM 6.1 Beta 4 Now Available
Hi Jeremy,I have received an email from you which states that "We also do not support upgrades from beta to beta, or beta to RC/GA." Does it mean I cant upgrade from Beta to RC/GA at all even if its...
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Re: SAM 6.1 Beta 4 Now Available
Server & Application Monitor 6.1 Beta 4 installation went well in a standalone setup..I have tried to upgrade SAM in my test lab which has lot of other solarwinds module but got an error that NPM...
View ArticleIssue with "Use Latest Baseline Thresholds"
On some of the performance counters when I've tried to set it to "Use Latest Baseline Thresholds" I get an error saying "Thresholds could not be calculated. Standard deviation is zero."Others seem to...
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Re: Mobile Admin Support for Blackberry 10
Hi babayaga, Unfortunately, due to the increasingly uncertain future of Blackberry as a viable platform, native Blackberry 10 HANDSET (Z10/Q10/etc.) support is no longer on the roadmap for MA. As...
View ArticleRe: NPM and NTA
Thank you so much jswanThis I got but still my question do I need to add nodes such as computers and users so I can monitor the bandwidth or all I need are just the router and the switches. I only...
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