MVPs Podcast

Mark, Jez & Holger on the Pro's & Con's of Agent vs Agentless collection in and outside of SolarWinds Orion. Sadly this episode got corrupted due to some technical issues, so we are missing the first 30 minutes aired time. Sorry all ;) Mark: Thwack - @m_roberts / Twitter - @ProsperonMark Jez: Thwack - @silverbacksays / Twitter - @JezMarsh Holger: Thwack - @HerrDoktor / Twitter - @HolgerMundt Main Topic: Agents vs Agentless Follow Up Deploy SolarWinds Agents Portapocalypse - WMI Demystified Non Domain Admin for WMI Skynet Grumpy Cat - Podcast Edited by Thwack MVP David Smith @dgsmith80

Paul, Matt, Zack and Jeremy cut through the topics of keyboard purchases, semi-mandatory custom properties, and inside-baseball about podcasting. Jeremy asks the team for help about a work situation. This is just like a sitcom! Paul: Twitter - @radioteacher Zack: Twitter - @zackm Matt: Twitter - @usagemayvary Jeremy: Twitter - @jeremyxmentzell | Web - jeremyxmentzell.org Follow Up SWQL-Functions Optimus Keyboard Zack's Logitech K800 Jabra Speakerphone with mute ability Main Topics: Mandatory Custom Properties Subtopic: Toxically Avenging Mindfulness Stockholm_syndrome Hurry up and wait Workplace Politics Throwing the Elephant: Zen and the Art of Managing Up Go the F**k to Sleep Afterthoughts: What was the first computer you had access to? Apple IIe Tandy 1000 RL MAI Basic Four Star Trek 1971 Video Game (Written in BASIC) Floppy disk The Fellowship of the Ring Audiobook What happened to Matt?!?!

Mark, Holger, & Jez inform the audience on what Brexit is and why you should care. They then go deep on what today's modern data centers consist of and finish up slinging arrows of alert knowledge right into your brain matter. Mark: Twitter - @ProsperonMark Holger: Twitter - @HolgerMundt Jez: Twitter - @JezMarsh Brexit European Union (EU) GDPR Data Sovereignty Article 50 Facebook Outage (USA Today) Integrate Orion & Slack

Nick, Kevin & Zack run down some 90's nostalgia that leaked into their professional lives, state some brutal truths about being in the "monitoring lyfe," and give thanks to community gains. Nick: Twitter - @nickzourdos Zack: Twitter - @zackm Kevin:Twitter - @kmsigma | Web - kmsigma.com Follow Up Sherwood Forest Faire Zootzu Firefly Eureka Top Gear Gargoyles Talespin Main Topic: Upgrades New GA: DPA 12.1 SAM 6.8 SRM 6.8 VMAN 8.4 Kevin's Build Scripts RevoUninstaller SWUG Atlanta Agenda Feature Request - Orion Dark Theme What is NetFlow Perfstack Perfstack Custom Colors 90s Windbreaker Limoncello Rocco's Impostor Syndrome ELI5 Volkswagon Vanagon

Zack, Matt, Kevin and Jeremy assemble to talk about presenting on the road, alert procedures and concepts, configuring hardware for performance, and the costs of…lots of things. Kool Aid Man - https://media.giphy.com/media/JqpbEVBmryvN6/giphy.gif Duff Man - https://media.giphy.com/media/xT5LMSxyc8kpzT5dYs/giphy.gif Twitter Handle - @mvpspodcast Forecast - @MarcoArment Kevin’s Blog Links - http://blog.kmsigma.com/2017/02/06/building-my-orion-server-step-1/ Game Day Exercising - https://stripe.com/blog/game-day-exercises-at-stripe “Tech Debt” - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_debt Clearing ‘default email’ - https://support.solarwinds.com/Success_Center/Network_Performance_Monitor_(NPM)/Knowledgebase_Articles/Clear_all_fields_in_Configure_Default_Send_Email_Action_page Used Volvo - https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/classic-cars/videos/a31719/1982-volvo-glt-turbo-motorweek/ TNG Anomaly - DPA: https://support.solarwinds.com/Success_Center/Customer_Service/Knowledgebase_Articles/Database_Performance_Analyzer_12_1_Anomaly_Detection_Powered_by_Machine_Learning_And_Other_Cool_Stuff_-_Webinar AvenueQ - http://www.avenueq.com/#home Yip Yip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_trSIBCgF0 Jeremy bought all of these - https://s3.amazonaws.com/demand-gen/2019/22-February/1000x1000.jpg

Our heroes Matt, Jez, & Nick go down on the farm to discuss how all it’s silos migrated into IT teams and how to get rid of them no matter what role you find yourself in. Twitter! Jez Marsh - @JezMarsh Nick Zourdous - @nickzourdos

Matt, Zack, Kevin and Jer attempt to have a discussion about soft skills that ultimately goes off the rails in spectacular fashion. SWUG - SolarWinds User Groups (SWUG) | THWACK Agile - Agile software development - Wikipedia Plex Server SAM Template - https://thwack.solarwinds.com/docs/DOC-192237 Dogfooding - Eating your own dog food - Wikipedia Amish - Amish - Wikipedia Rocco’s - Rocco's Grill - Italian restaurant in Bee Cave, Texas Leon’s Advanced Reporting - https://thwack.solarwinds.com/thread/124791 Riker’s Trombone - http://previously.tv/star-trek-tng/william-t-riker-and-the-trombone-of-mystery/ Twitter! Kevin - @KMSigma Zack - @zackm Jer - @jeremyxmentzell