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Excerpt: <rant> Solarwinds Orion NPM is an okay tool, but when it comes to managing anything other than Cisco switches and routers, it’s very meh. It takes very little effort to get devices like that monitored to the fullest extent, but when it comes to something like a storage array, you really have to make tweaks until your fingers bleed to get the minimal monitoring functionality out of it. Even then, it doesn’t seem to perform at maximum capabilities, and misses some very fundamental reporting features. On top of that, whenever I try to google anything related to solarwinds, I get this…
KICLet: A Poison Named Solarwinds
July 27, 2012 by 5 Comments
KIClet: Sub-Optimal Fibre Channel Path Selection
July 12, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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Excerpt: The SAN I’m currently working with connects a pair of Netapp FAS3270 filers running ONTAP 8.0.2 7-Mode. If you’re running VMware ESXi in your environment in front of a Fibre Channel SAN, path selection is discovered more or less in a first-come-first-served fashion. I got this message on my Netapp filer: FCP Partner Path Misconfigured: Host I/O access through a non-primary and non-optimal path was detected. Since the LUNs mounted by ESXi were residing on the A-side filer, the paths going through the B-side filer would just be sent over the partner link to the A-side, which is less efficient than going directly through A….
KIClet: Microphone troubles with Lenovo W520
July 11, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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Excerpt: I came across this the other day and wanted to share. For some reason, Windows by default decided to enable the “audio enhancements” feature on my new Lenovo Thinkpad w520. This caused my microphone to essentially be unusable – I was in several webex meetings and each time everyone said I was completely garbled and not even close to being able to understand me. After a little poking around, I found this: As shown above, go to audio settings and then to the properties of your microphone, then disable the box that says “Enable audio enhancements”. Your audio will then sound much better….
