
An overview of SolarWinds, how it works and what it does different than any other monitoring tool.How it allows us to view the real time statistics of your network directly from web browser.
In this lecture you learn about:
what is a monitoring tool?
Why a monitoring tool needed into any organization?
What does SolarWinds do as a monitoring tool?
Why SolarWinds better than any other monitoring tool?
In this lecture you will see a basic and high level of SolarWinds architecture. And also you will learn about different components of Orion. Along with this you will learn about their workflow. Also you will learn a basic idea about different modules e.g. NPM, NCM, NTA & SAM.
In this lesson, you will be learning below concepts of NPM:
How Orion works?
What is NPM?
Why NPM Module needed in SolarWinds?
How Orion NPM does devices on-boarding of network devices in SolarWinds?
How does NPM Monitors devices in Orion web console?
What is netpath in Orion NPM?
Universal Device Poller (UnDP) in NPM
In this lecture you will learn below topics of NCM Module:
What is NCM Module in SolarWinds?
Why NCM in SolarWinds?
Key features of SolarWinds NCM
How does SolarWinds NCM work?
What is a baseline?
What is Real time change detection feature?
What are the NCM device templates?
How to create custom device templates?
What are NCM Jobs?
In this lecture you will learn below topics of NCM Module:
What is NTA?
How to setup a device for flow monitoring in NTA?
How NTA works?
In this lecture you will learn below topics of SAM Module:
What is SAM Module in SolarWinds?
Why SAM module needed?
How SAM works ?
What are templates and component monitors in SAM?
How monitoring happens in SAM module?
In this lecture you will learn below topics of VNQM Module:
What is VNQM in SolarWinds?
How SolarWinds VNQM works?
What SolarWinds VNQM does?
Key features of SolarWinds VNQM?
What are Quality of Service and IP SLAs in SolarWinds VNQM?
What are the IP SLA Operations in VNQM?
In this lecture, you will learn about one of the core concepts of SolarWinds i.e. Polling engines.
Also You will learn about:
What is polling engine?
How does it works?
How many types of polling engines are the in SolarWinds?
Key features of polling engines.
Also some the connectivity best practices.
In this lecture, You will learn one of another important concept i.e. Polling Methods.
Available polling methods
How these polling methods work?
How to use them during on-boarding of devices in SolarWinds.
During this lecture, You will learn about below:
What is an OID?
How OIDs are being used by custom poller?
How you understand OIDs?
During this lecture you will understand about below:
What is a MIB?
How MIB is being used in SolarWinds?
How MIB database is maintained in SolarWinds?
How to use MIB browser tool?
In this lecture you will learn about below topics:
What is an UnDP in SolarWinds?
Define a custom statistics to monitor
Ability to supervise more than just network status, availability, bandwidth, and errors.
Monitor virtually any statistic that your network devices can record
In this lecture you will learn all these below:
How pollers are used to poll different types of data?
There are default pollers and custom pollers.
The default values for the Status Polling page are
In this lecture you will learn all these below:
What is a node?
How nodes are getting monitored in SolarWinds?
What all pollers are applied on the nodes?
Polling settings of nodes?
In this lecture you will learn all these below:
What is an interface in SolarWinds?
How does interfaces are getting monitored in SolarWinds?
What all metrics collected for interfaces?
How interface monitoring is useful in SolarWinds?
Interfaces alerting in SolarWinds
Identify and troubleshoot an interface that has a problem
Interface polling settings
In this lecture, you will about all these below topics:
What is SAM templates in SolarWinds?
What's the meaning of a template in SolarWinds terminologies?
What are the custom templates in SAM?
How to create a custom template?
How does templates help in SolarWinds SAM monitoring?
In this lecture, You will understand about below topics:
What is SMTP protocol?
What is an SMTP server?
Why SMTP configuration needed in SolarWinds?
What if you don't configure SMTP servers in SolarWinds?
How to do configuration of SMTP server in SolarWinds?
In this lecture, You will learn about below topics:
What is Syslog?
What is Syslog in SolarWinds?
How to perform Syslog messages monitoring in SolarWinds?
How Syslog server works?
In this lecture you will learn about SNMP Traps as below:
What are traps?
What is traps in SolarWinds?
What trap messages are needed in SolarWInds?
What is trap viewer in SolarWinds?
In this lecture you learn about SolarWinds Licensing Model:
NPM licensing model
License as per number of monitored elements
Other products license along with NPM
Difference between Perpetual license vs Subscription license
In this lecture you learn about which prerequisites should be attempted before planning for SolarWinds Deployment:
Servers Provisioning
Ports requirements
Setup download
Create MS SQL servers for SolarWinds database as per best practice
Internet access to SolarWinds and database server
Internet access to all the SolarWinds servers for downloading binaries, syncing license and performing pre-checks
Disable Antivirus on all the SolarWinds server
Firewall port opening for SolarWinds communication
License procurement
Enabling of SNMP RO configuration on Network devices
Enabling of Netflow on all the network devices in case of Netflow installation
Enabling Network configuration management on all the network devices for which NCM needs to be enabled
In this lecture you learn about below about ports requirement:
Which all ports must be opened before planning for SolarWinds deployment.
Explanation about each port e.g. which port does what?
Which protocol, directions, encryption, process/services used by these ports etc
In this lecture you will understand about the hardware requirements for SolarWinds deployment:
Understand which all types of environment scenario.
Understand about the Server roles ,Operating System, CPU, RAM and HDD should used.
In this lecture you will step by step installation SolarWinds product. Also you will learn about the best practices to follow about SolarWinds installation. What are the different types installation available during running the SolarWinds Installer.
During this summary lecture, discussed about your learning an overview of solarwinds architecture. In the first section you learned about solarwinds major modules concepts and in the second section you heard about solarwinds workflow concepts and in the third section you learned out the solarwinds deployments concepts and best practices.
With SolarWinds IT Operations Management solutions, This course will help you to make a base of learning SolarWinds expert administration from core concepts of different modules and also you will learn about how to plan your SolarWinds deployment in your organization. This course will make monitoring concepts more clear. Also it will provide you an insight of the tool. Below are the topics that will be covered during this course with detailed information. Please go through each section of the course for getting better understanding of the course.
You will learn SolarWinds Orion NPM, NCM, NTA, SAM and VNQM modules in detail with best practices to be followed.
You will learn about SolarWinds core concepts of Polling methods and engines also you will learn the concept of MIBs and OIDs. Along with this you will understand the concepts of UnDP (Universal Device Pollers).
Understand the concept of default pollers available in SolarWinds deployment for all the nodes getting added into SolarWinds.
You will also learn about Nodes concepts along interface details in SolarWinds.
Getting to know about SAM ( Server and application monitor) templates along with creation of custom templates depending on different types of monitoring requirements.
Understand the concept of SMTP server and its usage information in SolarWinds based on different requirements.
Getting to know about Syslogs and SNMP traps concept being used in SolarWinds. Also learn about Trap viewer tool and how its being used in case of any requirements to set up traps monitoring to SolarWinds web console.
Learn in detail about SolarWinds Licensing model to plan licensing requirements as per your organization monitoring needs.
Learn in detail about the SolarWinds tool deployment planning.
Understand the deployment prerequisites of SolarWinds in your production environment.
Also learn about ports and Hardware requirements for your environment based your organization needs.
Please complete the full course to gain most out of it. Also you will get great pace of learning and you will not regret taking this course.
As this course is mainly focused on core concepts of SolarWinds hence you will not find labs in this course.
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Already working on to create another full course for lab oriented course. But from this course you will understand main concepts of SolarWInds.
In the end of the course, please go through the quiz test which is designed based on the lectures.