SolarWinds NPM Course Network Monitor NTA/NCM/ SCP-500/ Lab

Compare the lightweight trial install with a single server and SQL Express to the standard install with separate Orion and SQL Server, which improves performance but requires SQL Server licensing.

Configure SolarWinds Orion using the configuration wizard to set up SQL database, IIS settings, and services; test authentication, create a new database, and discover devices in the console.

Integrate sophos xg into your lab by importing primary and auxiliary images in Gns3 and configuring for SMP or syslog testing while monitoring VPN connections in the solarwinds npm course.

Learn how SolarWinds NPM detects, diagnoses, and resolves network issues in real time, with hardware monitoring, an infrastructure map, and wireless performance metrics for access points, controllers, and clients.

Understand how Windows management instrumentation enables detailed monitoring of Windows systems, offering properties, events, and methods. Compare WMI with SNMP, noting Windows-only support and higher overhead.

Identify object identifiers and MIB files, see how unique IDs address device status, and apply the universal device poller to monitor uncommon devices with custom values.

Perform network discovery in SolarWinds Orion, add devices by IP range or AD synchronization, configure SNMP credentials, import nodes, and monitor interfaces, disks, and memory.

Browse a node added to NPM to inspect its status, hardware health, CPU, memory, latency, and topology, including service tag, last poll, IPs, and interface details.

Learn to monitor a Windows server in Orion using the NPM module, enabling snmp, configuring a read-only community, testing connectivity, and selecting resources like status, response time, and CPU/memory.

Configure snmp on FortiGate and Mikrotik firewalls, setting community public, host IP address of the Orion server, enable snmp agent, select queries and traps, and specify trap targets and generators.

Create an alert for interfaces labeled critical with transmit percent utilization above 75%, using SolarWinds alert management, and configure paging or sms, email, status changes to critical, and escalation.

Use quality of experience (QoE) to determine if issues come from the network or the application. Deploy network and server packet analysis sensors to monitor response times and specific apps.

Configure netpath in SolarWinds NPM by deploying probes to monitor end-to-end paths from source to destination. Assess latency, packet loss, hub performance, and visibility beyond the firewall.

Explore how SolarWinds high availability ensures near-zero downtime by automatic failover of polling and alerting to a secondary Orion server, with optional cloud failover and customizable rules.

Deploy a high availability SolarWinds NPM setup by installing a second Orion server, creating a high availability pool with a virtual IP, and enabling failover.