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Re: Orion NPM Architecture, Speed, and SQL
Good tips for sure. We've thought about moving the web front-end for a while now... just haven't gotten to it yet.
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One other thing that I found was to make sure your roll up is happening. I had something break once in the nightly roll-up, and it was a month or two till I noticed it. So it was an extra month or...
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First of all, thanks for the mention As to your questions: * What SQL version and architecture are you using (separate database, named instances, etc.)? - SQL 2008 Standard x64 using MS Failover...
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I wish we had more control on the BYOD segments.We have 3 main groups using the BYOD segments: 1) patients with XBOX, tablet, etc, 2) doctors with tablets, smartphones, etc, and 3) everyone else...
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Hi,I'm not sure if either of you figured this out yet, but I had the same problem. Thanks to 'orionfan's suggestion, I figured out that the user you have running the tasks as needs to log into the...
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We use SQL 2008 Standard on a dedicated sserver. This server is running with 15K SAS 6Gbps Hard Drive, 48GB RAM and 24 cores. Only Solarwinds Named Instances will ever be on this SQL Server.I do not...
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Sept 18, 1pm CT: SolarWinds Lab - Orion Performance Tuning in a Virtualized Environment
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I spent some quality time at an agency that acted more like a university when it came to Internet access and traffic filtering. Actually, make that IT in general. PhDs would rotate in for a few years...
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Just uped my sql server to 24GB of ram from 12gb, It helped a bit. SQL Specs: Web server specs:Sometimes the site is quick,but for the most part it is fairly slow According to appinsight:...
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I work in a research environment so I understand that mentality and I don't necessarily disagree with it. My personal preference is a completely open network with full packet capture at the egress...
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We monitor all switches, routers and wireless devices. Basic monitoring consists of up/down status. As mentioned groups can reduce the amount of emails we get for 1 particular event. From there, I have...
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I think we are in the same situation as you zackm, cell phones are about the only non-work devices that people bring to work. We also have the added benefit of being a service provider so we have so...
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Having fast hardware and storage throughput is also part of our strategy as many others have also suggested. We also use a separate dedicated web server and also try not to overload the platform...
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Luckily (QoS-wise) we are entirely a Cisco shop and have been able to rely on auto-QoS for the switch configuration. So far this has been sufficient and we haven't required any additional management...
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I have worked at a couple of places where the BYOD policy was to just have those device on a guest wireless segment. It worked out fine for the most part because the actual productionnetwork was...
View ArticleRe: Tell Us If You Think That MS Lync Is Going to Own The Corporate VoIP!
We have a fairly large enterprise with a multitude of VOIP installations including solutions from Cisco, Nortel, Avaya and NEC. We have deployed Lync and are currently using its VOIP and desktop...
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It's now occurring to me that, if you really want to dig into performance problems with your SQL server, you could always point SAM at it and load up the SQL performance counters. Could be a quick way...
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That looks like a lot of memory. Is your db server hosting more than the Orion NPM database? Are they VMs? Might want to look through Resource Monitor on your SQL server to find out how much memory...
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Its a physical box dedicated to just solarwinds (I hijacked a old exchange mailbox server ) I did remove the thwack web parts. The part that gets me is sometimes its really fast. Just the other day we...
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