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PocketNOC blog — operational guidance for network engineers running SolarWinds Orion.

• Handling a 3am Orion alert from your phone
  2026-05-24

  The actual workflow when an Orion alert wakes you up. What to check in the first 60 seconds, what to defer to the laptop, and how to make the call without a desktop session.

• Hello, world.
  2026-05-24

  First post from the PocketNOC content engine. Confirms the registry, renderer, and sitemap wiring work end to end.

• An on-call runbook template for SolarWinds Orion
  2026-05-24

  A practical template for the runbook your on-call rotation needs but probably doesn't have written down — escalation, response timing, common Orion-specific gotchas, and the handoff at end of shift.

• Secure remote access options for SolarWinds Orion
  2026-05-24

  Comparing the practical options for reaching your SolarWinds Orion server from a phone — corporate VPN, Cloudflare Tunnel, Tailscale, ZeroTier, WireGuard. Tradeoffs and recommendations.

• SWIS query performance best practices
  2026-05-24

  Practical guidance for writing SWIS / SWQL queries that don't punish your Orion server. Indexing, joins, filtering, and the patterns that scale to hundreds of nodes without bringing the polling engine to its knees.