SolarWinds Orion Network Performance Monitor
eBook - ePub

SolarWinds Orion Network Performance Monitor

  1. 336 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

SolarWinds Orion Network Performance Monitor

About this book

In Detail

Orion Network Performance Monitor is a scalable, easy-to-use, cost-effective network monitoring system that provides a complete overview of network environments by monitoring performance and availability. Orion NPM enables you to be proactive in detecting, diagnosing, and resolving network issues and outages and has the benefit of supporting hundreds of types of server, OS, and network vendors including Cisco, HP, Microsoft, Linux, Motorola, Brocade, Foundry, and more.

Orion NPM is a well-known product and is used by thousands of public and private companies, educational institutions, and government entities for network monitoring. In "SolarWinds Orion Network Performance Monitor" you will learn how to install, implement, and manage Orion NPM to ensure you maintain an efficient, healthy, and performant network.

In this book you will start with an overview of the constituent features of Orion NPM. Leading you through installation and configuration this book will help you set up a flexible and dynamic monitoring solution.

With Orion NPM in place the book will then take you on a journey through essential Orion NPM and network monitoring concepts and practices. You will cover device management, learning how to use the Network Sonar Wizard, as well as adding devices manually.

Turning from novice to pro, you will then be introduced to the core of network monitoring with Orion NPM. You will learn about monitoring Windows and Linux solutions as well as Virtual Servers. You will then master wireless networks and virtual networks. You will then learn how to set up and edit alerts to make network monitoring more efficient and less time-consuming. You will also learn how to develop reports and network maps as well as essential administrative techniques.

Approach

This book is written in a friendly manner written by an expert with numerous years of practical experience utilizing SolarWinds Orion NPM as a network monitoring solution.

Who this book is for

This book is for systems administrators, system analysts, and systems engineers who are tasked with installing and implementing a network performance monitor. Knowledge of basic network concepts is required.

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Information

Publisher
Packt Publishing
Year
2013
eBook ISBN
9781849688482
Edition
1
Topic
Computer Science
Subtopic
Computer Networking
Index
Computer Science

SolarWinds Orion Network Performance Monitor

Table of Contents

SolarWinds Orion Network Performance Monitor
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more
Why Subscribe?
Free Access for Packt account holders
Instant Updates on New Packt Books
Preface
What is Orion NPM?
How Orion NPM monitors your network
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Installation
System requirements
Windows Server setup
Internet Information Services (IIS)
Microsoft SQL Server
SQL Server setup
Service accounts
Installing SQL Server 2008 R2 Express
Configuring the SQL Server services
Verifying SQL Server authentication settings
Configuring the Windows Firewall
Installing SolarWinds Orion NPM
Summary
2. Orion NPM Configuration
Orion Configuration Wizard
Orion Website Administration
Authentication and access
Changing the default Admin password
Disabling the Guest user account
Manage Accounts overview
Creating individual user accounts
Adding Active Directory user accounts
Adding Active Directory security groups
Account permissions
Setting thresholds
Orion NPM licensing
License tiers
Extending and increasing NPM licensing
Upgrading Orion NPM from an evaluation license
Licensing, best practices
Overview of the dashboard
Website notifications
HOME tab
Summary page
Groups page
Top 10
Events
Alerts
Syslog
Traps
Message Center
Reports
thwack
Custom Summary
Training
NETWORK tab
NPM Summary
Network Top 10
Wireless
VSAN
Overview
Virtualization Summary
Summary
3. Device Management
Discovery Central
Network discovery
Using the Network Sonar Wizard
SNMP credentials
VMware user credentials
Windows user credentials
Network
Subnets
IP Ranges
Specific Nodes
Discovery Settings
Frequency and scheduling
Next steps
Adding nodes
Adding nodes from a Scheduled Discovery
Including nodes
Discovery Ignore List
Manually adding nodes
Add Node wizard
Polling
Polling methods
Interface statistics
Node & Group Management
Nodes
Groups
Dependencies
Interface configuration
General
Bandwidth
Polling
Custom Properties
Dependencies
Credential libraries
SNMP credentials library
Windows credentials library
VMware credentials library
Summary
4. Network Monitoring Essentials
Monitoring basics
Map
All Nodes and All Groups
All Triggered Alerts
Event Summary and Last 25 Events
Search nodes
Custom
Customizing views
Manage Views
Add New View
Views by Device Type
Menu bars
Editing Resources
Customization
Color Scheme
External Websites
Routers and Firewalls
Switches
Wireless
Wireless controllers and access points
Wireless clients
Summary
5. Network Monitoring II
Server monitoring
Configuring Windows servers
Configuring the Windows Firewall
ICMP
WMI
SNMP
Configuring WMI
Configuring SNMP services
Enabling SNMP services in Windows Server 2003
Enabling SNMP services in Windows Server 2008
Enabling SNMP services in Windows Server 2012
Configuring the SNMP agent in Windows Server
Configuring Linux servers
Configuring the SNMP daemon
Monitoring servers in Orion
Virtualization monitoring
Virtualization summary
VSANs
Cisco UCS
Universal Device pollers
Creating an individual poller
Creating a transform poller
Exporting and importing pollers
Exporting pollers
Importing pollers
Summary
6. Setting Up and Creating Alerts
Orion NPM alerts
Alert acknowledgement
Preconfigured alerts
Configuring basic alerts
Building a basic alert
Configuring advanced alerts
Testing alerts
Summary
7. Producing Reports and Network Mapping
Understanding reports
Running reports from the dashboard
Running reports from Report Writer
Customizing reports
Creating new reports
Adding reports to a page view
Working with the Report Scheduler
Network maps
Network Atlas overview
Building network maps
Applying maps to Orion dashboard views
Summary
8. Maintenance
Service management
Database maintenance
Database Manager
Creating a database backup schedule
Manually backing up the database
Restoring the database
Database clean-up
License management
Using the SolarWinds License Manager tool
Polling engines
MIB database updates
Migrating Orion NPM
Moving the Orion database
Duplicating the Orion database
Configuring the new Orion NPM server
Moving an Orion NPM installation
Configuring the new Orion NPM installation
Re-assigning polling engines
Copying custom reports
Migrating Orion NPM licensing
Summary
A. Documentation and Su...

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