So in reference to monitoring data center ports, Solarwinds provides a wonderful feature that lets you monitor but not monitor the data center access ports. Confusing? It's called the unplugged feature. What this does is allow NPM to capture stats when it's up and wait to capture stats when it's down. But wait, you say, isn't that normal operations? The unplugged features squelches the alarms that would normally trigger on an interface down. So you can monitor for patterns of usage and not be bombarded by monitoring spam for devices that might be taken down for maintenance or the dreaded Microsoft OS update. So if you are network nerd and you just care about network related alarms and not server or user related alarms but still want to provide performance analysis for those elements, then unplugged is your solution.
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