SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor : Deployment and Administration电子书

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor: Deployment and Administration

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SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor: Deployment and Administration

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Deployment Strategy

Enabling and configuring SNMP on Windows

Installing an SNMP service on Windows

Assigning an SNMP community string on Windows

Enabling and configuring WMI on Windows

Enabling a 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

Part 1 of 2 – enabling SSH on ESXi 5.1 using vSphere

Part 2 of 2 – enabling and configuring SNMP using PuTTY

Method 2 – enabling SNMP on ESXi 5.1 or prior via the console

Creating a service account for VMHost

Enabling and configuring SNMP on Cisco devices

Enabling and configuring SNMP on a Cisco switch

Enabling and configuring SNMP on a Cisco router

Summary

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

The Devices page

The Volumes page

The SAM Import Settings page

The Import Preview page

Application Discovery

The Select Applications page

The Enter Credentials page

Active Directory integration

Creating a security group for SolarWinds SAM

Creating a service account for SolarWinds SAM

Assigning a security group to SolarWinds SAM

Summary

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 groups

Creating groups

Modifying groups

Defining dependencies

Backing up your customizations

Summary

4. Events, Traps, and Alerts

Reviewing events

Adjusting events log retention

Utilizing SNMP traps

Understanding SNMP functionality

Setting SNMP traps on Windows

Enabling a Windows SNMP Trap service

Configuring a Windows SNMP Service for traps

Converting Windows events into SNMP traps

Setting SNMP traps on Cisco devices

Testing and reviewing SNMP traps

Reviewing SNMP traps in the Orion web console

Reviewing SNMP traps in the Orion Trap Viewer

Managing alerts

Reviewing and modifying alerts

Forwarding alerts via e-mail

Summary

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

A. Troubleshooting

Installation issues

Orion web console issues

Problems with IIS

DNS issues

SolarWinds services

Restarting the Network Sonar Wizard

SNMP polling issues

Confirming settings

The SNMP tab missing on a Windows server

WMI polling issues

Windows firewall may be blocking WMI

Windows User Account Control may be interfering with WMI

Steps for Windows Server 2008 R2

Steps for Windows 7

Configuring WMI at the local computer level

WMI Administrative Tools

Index