Bump for my 2 feature requests from back as far as 2009.
I see Solarwinds adding all sorts of new bells and whistles to V11, yet the basic functionality of their product is not being looked at.
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Simple things like Manage Nodes seems to be ignored in favour of new features.
2 Examples:
I want to see all interfaces which are down in the Manage Nodes interface:
I select "Show Interfaces", but there is no Group by: Interface Status available, only Node Properties.
So trying to delete down interfaces is an impossible job.
The old orion system manger used for managing nodes allowed one to view all interfaces by status, which would make selecting interfaces to delete a cakewalk.
In addition, using the search function in the Node Manager does not allow searching by interface status, which would allow one to remove down interfaces.
Also the search function does not honour any "Group By" selections, so one is not able to search within a predefined group.
This is a basic function which should be part of NPM, but has never been implemented.
The headings for any Custom Property in my Manage Nodes page use the following syntax:
Nodes Custom Properties <CP Name>
I have a CP named "Region". It is a 2 letter field, but yet in order to display it in the Manage nodes page I need a column wide enough to display the whole name.
I have to scroll horizontally thousands of pixels to view all my CPs if I want to use them for sorting.
And of course when one scrolls far to the right, the node name is lost in the viewing pane.
In my mind, these are very basic functions that are used every day by SW users, and should be addressed by Solarwinds as useability issues with their core product before considering adding new features, especially when this functionality existed in previous versions and was removed in newer versions.
Unless you have used the older versions, you would never know how easy it was to perform basic functions like this using the Win32 app.
When one must manage over 3000 nodes and 65K interfaces. these types of issues result in 100's of hours of additional time spent compared to the older versions. I am in the process of an upgrade from an older version to NPM10.7 and this is really impairing my ability to complete the migration in a timely manner.
Basic product stability and functionality must come before new features.
Function over form wins in my book every time.
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