One of the things that is really great about Orion is that you can be up and running in under an hour with a basic setup. For the most part a small team doesn’t want to spend a lot of time fussing around with the monitoring tools. Set it and forget it. I sometimes work […]
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Alerting Best Practices Once you have your software installed and a few nodes added to your inventory the next stop is going to be alerting. It’s great to have a dashboard with pretty green lights, but unless the system can let you know when something’s gone awry it won’t be very useful unless you’re looking
SolarWinds API, Part I This is the first post in a series I’ll be writing about using the REST API to get information out of SolarWinds (and make changes!). We’ll start with a basic query and go from there. Enter: Postman Before we write a single line of code we need to make sure that
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If you are taking advantage of the many helpful and powerful modules SolarWinds has to offer, it’s time to make sure you are taking steps to secure your products as well as your environment. I work with a lot of diverse clients and companies and the one thing many of them have in common is
In Part One of this series we looked at some of the basic terminology used in the tech world. Going forward in the series we will take a deeper dive by focusing on a specific topic. Since it seems to be common practice to prematurely blame the network for most issues and unexpected outages, I
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I recently saw a question pop up on the SolarWinds community forum, Thwack, asking if the SolarWinds database could be virtualized. It absolutely can and I would say these days it is becoming increasingly rare for people to dedicate a physical host to their monitoring database. Despite how common it is to do, one of
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Getting Started – Setup Isn’t it nice when you get a new software solution and all you have to do is open it up and answer four or five questions and off you go? The problem is you are probably setting up some small widget app on your phone or a piece of software that
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Recently, Loop1 Systems has had the opportunity to play as an active participant in the Beta program for the next gen release of the All New High Availability (HA) product for Orion. For those of you whom have struggled with designing or using past products sponsored by SolarWinds, I think you are going to be
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Learning IP addressing was a little traumatic for me. All that math, bit boundaries, network vs. host portion of the addresses, and on and on. So when it came to learning SNMP, I wasn’t looking forward to untangling something that looked like this called an Object Identifier (OID): 1.3.6.1.4.1.2.1.13.1.1.7.6.1.8 Thankfully I learned that if I
Technical Jargon Decrypted – Part 1 Technology and its use of jargon can be confusing and frustrating, especially for new users (newbies). Understanding the terminology early on will help lessen these feelings and improve the overall user experience from the start. While starting from the most basic level and building a foundation, each post will
