Testing NetFlow with Ubiquiti
Finally, I can get that NetFlow goodness from my Ubiquiti Dream Machine I’ve always wanted.
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Building my Orion Server [Scripting Edition] – Step 3.1
Let’s forget all about my previous step 3. For the sake of argument, step 3 is dead, long live step 3.1! Any script should be a living, breathing document which gets updated as needed. In this case, it was needed. Why would I burn such a good script to the ground? Well, to be blunt,…
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Speeding up multiple SolarWinds Orion Products Installations
I stumbled across an article called Install Orion products in unattended or silent mode that made me so happy because I install new Orion servers about 4 times a month. There are only so many time I want to click “Next,” “Next”, “Finish” in any given day. So, since I do this so often, I wanted…
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Building my Orion Server [Scripting Edition] – Step 3
I’m keeping this original post active for historical reference, but you should not use the below, since I have an update: Step 3 is dead. Long live step 3.1 This is it. The endgame. Here I’ll give you the final steps in configuring my server. We started with creating the virtual machine then moved to…
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Building my Orion Server [Scripting Edition] – Step 2
In Step 1 of this series, I showed off the PowerShell scripts that I use to create a new Orion Server VM on Hyper-V. Now we are on to configuring the disks. As before, we have a boot drive and 4 additional drives which will contain various data files. We first need to bring the disks…
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Building my Orion Server [Hyper-V Scripting Edition] – Step 1
This is part 1 of a multi-part post on updates that I’ve made to How I Build an Orion Server. Primarily, it will be three parts. If you have VMware, I’ve also got a script edition for that as well. Building my Orion Servers in Hyper-V Configuring the disks on the VM after OS install…
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(Not) Home Lab Setup
Everyone in the #vDM30in30 challenge seems to be spouting off about their home labs. Before I moved to Austin, I had a home lab. It was a half-rack on the floor with 3 servers and two mass storage arrays coupled with a wiring cabinet on the wall with a cable modem, firewall, router, and switch. …
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Scripting SolarWinds VMan Deployment
Virtualization Manager 7 has just been released – Analyze the Past, Fix the Present, Prepare for the Future It’s pretty epic with some great new features, but I’m going to concentrate on the deployment of the virtual appliance (vApp) itself.
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How I Build an Orion Server
UPDATE: There’s an updated version of this post now available for scripters. I’ve posted several times about how I personally build my SolarWinds Orion Servers. For this post, I’ll just discuss how I setup a Main Polling Engine on a Windows 2012 R2 Server.
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