SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor : deployment and administration : an intuitive guide to implementing and calibrating SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor with minimum hassle / Justin M. Brant.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brant, Justin M.

Series:

Community experience distilled

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer networks--Security measures.

Computer networks.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (116 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Other Title:

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor

Place of Publication:

Birmingham : Packt Publishing, 2013.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Brant Justin: Justin M. Brant has over 15 years of IT industry experience. As an adolescent, he was mentored by his grandfather Edgar J. Reynolds, a retired Naval Oceans Systems Center (NOSC) Electronic Engineer, who trained him on systems such as Apple II, Macintosh Plus, and Windows 2. x. His grandfather's guidance led to a position at Datel Systems, where he began his career in the IT industry. Shortly thereafter, Justin and his brother Gregory created Blue Sun Design LLC, a consulting group focused on the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Framework, designed to support small to medium-sized business networks. He later joined the Biomedical Research Institute of America Institutional Review Board (BioMed IRB) as the Network Administrator, where he maintained the IT infrastructure consistent with FDA regulations for electronic records and patient confidentiality. Presently, Justin is the Technical Support Manager at Integrated Default Solutions (IDSolutions), where he manages a team of five help desk technicians supporting 1, 300 enterprise users nationwide. His position is multifaceted, involving network support, strategy, design, transition, and operation. His primary responsibilities include refining processes and security measures through developing and maintaining the IDSolutions Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) manual. In addition, he is the in-house specialist for the ShoreTel PBX & ECC VoIP system.

Summary:

A concise and practical guide to using SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor. If you are an IT professionals ranging from an entry-level technician to a more advanced network or system administrator who is new to network monitoring services and/or SolarWinds SAM, this book is ideal for you.

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Deployment Strategy; Enabling and configuring SNMP on Windows; Installing SNMP service on Windows; Assigning SNMP community string on Windows; Enabling and configuring WMI on Windows; Enabling WMI service on Windows; Creating an Active Directory service account for WMI; VMware host monitoring prerequisites; Enabling and configuring SNMP; Method 1 - enabling and configuring SNMP via Secure Shell; Method 2 - enabling SNMP on ESXi 5.1 or prior via the console

Creating a service account for VMHostEnabling and configuring SNMP on Cisco devices; Enabling and configuring SNMP on a Cisco switch; Enabling and configuring SNMP on a Cisco router; Summary; Chapter 2: Installing and Configuring SolarWinds SAM; Installing SolarWinds SAM; Configuring SolarWinds SAM; Network Sonar Wizard; The SNMP page; The VMware page; The Windows page; The Network page; The Discovery Settings page; The Discovery Scheduling page; The Network Sonar Results Wizard page; Application Discovery; Active Directory integration; Creating a Security Group for SolarWinds SAM

Creating a service account for SolarWinds SAMAssigning a Security Group to SolarWinds SAM; Summary; Chapter 3: Customizing SolarWinds SAM; Manually adding nodes; Adding servers and devices; Adding VMHosts; Adding application monitors to nodes; Discovery Central; Network Sonar Discovery; Application Discovery; Removing nodes and disabling polling; Removing a node from SolarWinds SAM; Disabling a node from data polling; Removing an application monitor; Disabling an application monitor from polling; Promoting nodes; Classifying nodes; Creating custom properties; Applying custom properties

Managing groupsCreating groups; Modifying groups; Defining dependencies; Backing up your customizations; Summary; Chapter 4: Events, Traps, and Alerts; Reviewing events; Adjusting events log retention; Utilizing SNMP traps; Understanding SNMP functionality; Setting SNMP traps on Windows; Enabling Windows SNMP Trap service; Configuring Windows SNMP Service for traps; Converting Windows events to SNMP traps; Setting SNMP traps on Cisco devices; Testing and reviewing SNMP traps; Reviewing SNMP traps in Orion web console; Reviewing SNMP traps in the Orion Trap Viewer; Managing alerts

Reviewing and modifying alertsForwarding alerts to e-mail; Summary; Chapter 5: Syslog, Reporting, and Network Atlas; Utilizing Syslog; Understanding Syslog; Forwarding Syslog on common Cisco devices; Enabling and configuring Syslog forwarding on Cisco firewall; Enabling and configuring Syslog forwarding on a Cisco switch; Testing and reviewing Syslog data in SolarWinds SAM; Utilizing reporting; Running reports; Creating reports; Scheduling reports; Orion Network Atlas overview; Creating a network map; Adding network maps to the Orion web console; Summary; Appendix: Troubleshooting

Installation issues

Notes:

"Community experience distilled"--Cover.

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 10, 2014).

ISBN:

9781783551026

178355102X

OCLC:

863822859