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.