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Let the Orion Platform Do the Heavy Lifting | Using the Orion API for Fun and Profit: Session 2

Continuing the discussion from the previous THWACK Livecast about letting the Orion® Platform products automate your work, we’ll be stepping away from the web console and start digging into the SolarWinds Orion Application Programming Interface (API). The power of the Orion API is in its flexibility. If you want to unmanage or mute devices to coincide with your change management windows, or do bulk actions on devices, or even add devices to monitoring from nothing more than an IP address, it can be done with the API.

Professional Services Automation (2022 Guide)

Professional services automation can radically transform the potential of your organization. By tapping into the power of workflow automation solutions, you can accelerate critical business processes and reduce the need for team members to complete tedious and repetitive tasks. If you want to get more done with less, workflow automation is the answer. For a professional service business, ensuring your workforce spends as much time as possible on client-facing tasks is critical to success.

December/2021 - CVE-2021-44228: Log4Shell Remote Code Execution Mitigation

This post will be updated over the next several days. Recently, a Remote Code Execution vulnerability was discovered in the Apache Log4J library. This vulnerability, which is tracked in CVE-2021-44228, dubbed Log4Shell, allows attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected systems. While HAProxy Enterprise, HAProxy ALOHA, and other products within the HAProxy Technologies portfolio are not impacted by this (they do not use the Log4J library at all), you can use them to block the attack.

Getting started with Process Killer attacks

Modern applications come in a variety of forms–monoliths, microservices, serverless functions, and containers to name a few–but at the heart of all of these are processes. Processes are the fundamental unit of execution that we use to run programs, and although we need processes to run our applications, software engineers rarely think about them.