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28 Nov 2007
Well, the Thanksgiving break is over and I'm back in the office after being sick for a few days so I reckon it's time to get back to work... I'll probably post some details about the crazy goose hunting trip I took last weekend and how I ended up sick as it's a good story and worth sharing. Anyhow, I've been talking to some customers lately about their implementations of traffic prioritization and/or traffic filtering and I ran across some interesting concepts/trends. First off, it seems that most people fall into one of two camps - they either try to filter out...
19 Nov 2007
Well, I'm back in the office from vacation just in time for a short work week (couldn't have planned that better). In case anybody's curious, I've spent the last week chasing pheasants across Western Kansas and had a blast. Greg (a.k.a Sparky) one of our senior architects and Dan (a.k.a LT) our most senior tech support lead accompanied me and we had a blast. Here' a quick pic... We're doing our 2008 budget planning right now, so if there are any really cool or especially important things that you're looking for from SolarWinds that you haven't already...
15 Nov 2007
Hi, I’m Joel Dolisy, chief architect for SolarWinds; over the next few months I’ll try to provide insight of what’s happening in the engineering side of the house. As Josh mentioned a few weeks ago I’m researching the types of failover scenarios we need to support in Orion, and how those relate to the existing hot-standby polling engine strategy. As usual, the complexity of the solution depends on the level of failover support that the product needs to operate under. Claiming that a solution is fail safe is actually a complicated problem to solve and involves the interaction of different...
8 Nov 2007
I'll be out on vacation bird hunting in Kansas starting tomorrow for about 10 days. Wish me luck and I'll see you when I return... Josh p.s. Don't be surprised if some dude with a Belgian accent adds some content while I'm gone. That's Joel our chief architect :)
8 Nov 2007
I'm curious to see how many of you are utilizing diffserv vs. RSVP in your QoS implementations. Personally, I've found diffserv to be more flexible and generally easier to implement but I wouldn't necessarily count myself as an expert on RSVP. Are there any RSVP users out there? Not sure how many of you are doing it, but you can use the Orion NetFlow application to monitor traffic levels via QoS. This feature is new as of the last couple of months, but has been helpful in some of the testing I'm doing. Also, since I've been doing some research on QoS lately I...





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