I wish I had a better understanding of doing just that. This program feel vastly different than the other SolarWinds products I've used.
But on a plus side I did manage to get my problem resolved and it was just about what you have done, except I didn't do it. The Dev team over at SolarWinds managed to write me up a new connector, gave me instructions on how to upload it and … with a tech support call managed to get the switches using it. I'm still confused as to how this all works but what your saying makes sense, all that connector does is filter out information. This new connector doesn't do any of that, just posts the raw data. With that said I'm guessing I've increased my events from say 10 a week per switch to around 10k, well below what my system can handle but we shall see as I start increasing what is sent. That procedure, well that's an entirely different subject
For those having the same problem, I wish I could give you a step by step on how to resolve this but it required getting the connector from SolarWinds