Practical Training for SolarWinds SAM

Name: Practical Training for SolarWinds SAM
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Independent lessons for Server and Application Monitor: installation, monitoring, templates, alerts and reports.

Created byYaz Bekkar

Last updated 10/2026

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What you'll learn

Explain the server and application monitoring tasks demonstrated using SAM.
Install and configure SAM and its required database in a learning environment.
Create alert rules and dependencies in the Orion console to reduce redundant alerts.
Explain how to deploy additional polling engines for distributed monitoring.
Review monitoring concepts with independent study exercises; this course does not award vendor certification.
Configure high availability for a SAM monitoring deployment.
Add monitoring components to collect information about server status.
Navigate SAM monitoring views and interpret server and application performance data.
Learn about different types of Polling Engines
Create Custom Templates for Custom Applications
Monitor Your Linux Servers
Monitor servers using WMI, SNMP, WinRM, PowerShell and agents.

Course content

16 sections • 37 lectures • 4h 38m total length

Introduction to this independent SAM course0:48
Introduction to this practical course, independently created and taught by Yaz Bekkar for users of SolarWinds® Server & Application Monitor (SAM) software. The course is not affiliated with, sponsored by, endorsed by, authorized by, or produced by SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC.
Overview of Server & Application Monitor (SAM)6:15
Learn how SolarWinds server and application monitor (SAM) tracks on-prem, cloud, and hybrid apps, pinpoints root causes, uses 1200+ templates, and provides real-time, agentless insights.
Introduction1:52
In this lesson, I introduce how Server & Application Monitor (SAM) is used for server and application monitoring.

Requirements for installing SAM7:12
Explore SolarWinds SAM requirements for installing server and application monitoring on the Orion server, covering supported operating systems, hardware, SQL Server databases, and deployment options.
Installation SAM (Lightweight Install) /SQL Express8:19
How To Install SAM if You intend just to test it
Installation SAM Using SQL Server (Prod Environment)12:49
Follow my demonstration of installing and configuring SAM with a SQL Server database.

What is WMI?3:00
WMI, or Windows management instrumentation, enables detailed monitoring of Windows devices with properties, events, and methods, offering deeper diagnostics for large Windows networks.
Explore server and application monitoring in SAM15:41
Discover SolarWinds SAM offers rapid monitoring of servers and applications via the Orion console with over 300 templates for Windows, Linux, and Unix, including SQL, Oracle, and MongoDB databases.
How To add nodes and Apply Templates10:34
Learn To Add your nodes directly after the installation
Monitor Linux14:17
Learn to monitor Linux hosts by installing the Linux agent, validating credentials, and configuring templates, thresholds, and polling to collect CPU, memory, and disk metrics.
Deploy Agents To Monitor Servers1:34
Deploy an agent for a managed service by navigating settings and group management, selecting deploy agent, and choosing the autodidact agent type as recommended.
Server or Agent Initiate Communication6:05
Configure server or agent initiated communication in SolarWinds SAM, add agents, set polling policies, manage secrets, and enable manual or automatic agent deployments.
How To Edit Components Template3:26
Learn how to manage application component status in Solarwinds SAM, delete components to achieve green status, and work around template editing limits by creating a new template.
Performance Analyzer (Perfstack)5:18
Explore the performance analyzer (Perfstack) to monitor CPU, memory, and response time, create custom views with real-time polling, and share or export your dashboards.
Quality of Experience (QoE)9:52
Explore how quality of experience (QoE) combines network and application data to determine if issues arise from network or SQL database, using metrics like application and network response times.

Create and customize maps in the Orion console5:42
Explore how to build and customize Orion maps for active directory in SolarWinds, drag-and-drop components, visualize connections with latency and packet loss, and monitor related entities with saved views.
Manage Users Account in Orion7:22
Create and manage Orion user accounts using SQL database, Windows Active Directory, or groups. Assign access to reports, alerts, and views, and control process explorer and event viewer permissions.

Manage Alerts that are installed out of the box and Learn to create a custom one16:07
You can receive alerts about application response times. Learn to manage alerts configured by default and learn to create custom alerts. Everything explained step by step
How to Setup Alerts using SQL or SWQL Scripts2:32
Learn to set up and manage alerts in SolarWinds SAM using SQL or SWQL scripts, including creating custom alerts, inserting scripts, and configuring time-based conditions.
How To Create Dependencies5:00
Example: dependency can be used to limit an alert, which is then triggered only for the router that goes down, and not when a monitored device is unreachable because the router is down.

Requirements

Basic Knowledge of Windows Server OS

Description

Practical, independent training for users of SolarWinds® Server & Application Monitor (SAM) software, created and taught by Yaz Bekkar. This course is not affiliated with, sponsored by, endorsed by, authorized by, or produced by SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC.

In this course, I demonstrate how to install and configure SAM and use its monitoring tools in practical server and application administration examples. You will follow lessons on monitoring Windows and Linux servers, interpreting performance metrics, and investigating the relationships between applications and infrastructure.

The demonstrations cover installation requirements, database setup, node discovery, monitoring templates, agents, and polling methods. You will learn how WMI, SNMP, WinRM and PowerShell relate to the examples shown in the lessons. I also explain how to create custom templates, manage user accounts, build maps, and use monitoring views to investigate problems.

Additional lessons explore alert rules and dependencies, reports, remote collectors, additional polling engines, and high availability. The course includes examples involving virtual machines and cloud resources. The emphasis is on understanding the configuration choices and administrative tasks demonstrated in the videos, then applying those concepts to your own learning environment.

This course is intended for IT administrators, infrastructure engineers, technical support professionals and learners interested in server and application monitoring. Basic familiarity with Windows Server will help you follow the demonstrations.

Any exam-preparation lessons and practice questions are independent study exercises, not official examination materials. This course does not award SolarWinds Certified Professional certification, and it does not guarantee an exam result. A Udemy course completion certificate is not a vendor certification.

SolarWinds and the SolarWinds product names referenced in this course are trademarks of SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC or its affiliates. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. These names are used solely to identify the software and subjects taught in this independent course.

Who this course is for:

IT Engineer
Infrastructure Engineer
Administrator
IT Managers
Technical Leader
Cloud Administrator
Technical Support
Help Desk

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Course content

Introduction3 lectures • 9min

Installation & Requirements3 lectures • 28min

Start Monitor your Servers & Application9 lectures • 1hr 10min

Configure monitoring components in SAM2 lectures • 8min

Orion Maps & Users Account2 lectures • 13min

Orion Remote Collectors (ORC) & Additional Polling Engines (APE)2 lectures • 14min

Smart Alerts3 lectures • 24min

Reports in Orion1 lecture • 11min

Monitor VMware or Hyper-V1 lecture • 10min

Monitor Cloud Instances in SAM1 lecture • 5min

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