SOLARWINDS NPM TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION
A hands on course providing a solid foundation on network management using
SolarWinds. The course specifically focusses on SolarWinds Orion Network
Performance Monitor. The course starts with configuring agents and device
discovery, onto exploiting SNMP with SolarWinds and then Alerts, reports and
customisation of menus, views and maps.
WHAT WILL YOU LEARN
* Discover devices using Solarwinds.
* Use Solarwinds.
* Poll and monitor devices using Solarwinds.
* Create Alarms and reports.
* Diagnose faults using Solarwinds.
SOLARWINDS NPM TRAINING COURSE DETAILS
* Who will benefit:
Technical staff working with Solarwinds.
* Prerequisites:
None.
* Duration
2 days
SOLARWINDS NPM TRAINING COURSE CONTENT
* Getting started with SolarWinds
What is SolarWinds, Products, ICMP, WMI, SNMP. Installing SolarWinds.
Hands on Connecting to SolarWinds, configuring users and groups, using
SolarWinds.
* Device discovery with SolarWinds
Manual discovery, automatic discovery, controlling IP discovery, polling,
thresholds.
Hands on Adding ICMP only, SNMP and WMI nodes. dependencies, groups.
* Agents
Configuring Cisco devices for SNMP support, communities, traps, syslog. MIBs,
SNMPv3, obtaining MIB information. Universal device poller.
Hands on MIB browser, MIB walking, syslog. Message center.
* Using SolarWinds
The home page, Views, changing views, adding views.
Hands on Views and menu customisation. Server monitoring.
* Alerts
Filters, acknowledgements, notes. Basic alert configuration, Advanced alert
configuration.
Hands on Configuring alerts.
* Reports
Creating reports, on demand reports, scheduled reports, customising reports,
adding reports to views. Standard reports.
Hands on Performance reports. Graphs.
* Maps
Orion Network Atlas, the background, adding objects, connect now, applying to
views.
Hands on Customising a map.
* Administration
Backups, the database.