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    SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor : Deployment and Administration
    SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor : Deployment and Administration
    SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor : Deployment and Administration
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    SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor : Deployment and Administration

    By Justin M. Brant

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    A concise and practical guide to using SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor.If you are an IT professionals ranging from an entry-level technician to a more advanced network or system administrator who is new to network monitoring services and/or SolarWinds SAM, this book is ideal for you.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPackt Publishing
    Release dateDec 16, 2013
    ISBN9781783551026
    SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor : Deployment and Administration

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      SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor - Justin M. Brant

      Table of Contents

      SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor: Deployment and Administration

      Credits

      About the Author

      About the Reviewers

      www.PacktPub.com

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      Preface

      What this book covers

      What you need for this book

      Who this book is for

      Conventions

      Reader feedback

      Customer support

      Errata

      Piracy

      Questions

      1. Deployment Strategy

      Enabling and configuring SNMP on Windows

      Installing an SNMP service on Windows

      Assigning an SNMP community string on Windows

      Enabling and configuring WMI on Windows

      Enabling a WMI service on Windows

      Creating an Active Directory service account for WMI

      VMware host monitoring prerequisites

      Enabling and configuring SNMP

      Method 1 – enabling and configuring SNMP via Secure Shell

      Part 1 of 2 – enabling SSH on ESXi 5.1 using vSphere

      Part 2 of 2 – enabling and configuring SNMP using PuTTY

      Method 2 – enabling SNMP on ESXi 5.1 or prior via the console

      Creating a service account for VMHost

      Enabling and configuring SNMP on Cisco devices

      Enabling and configuring SNMP on a Cisco switch

      Enabling and configuring SNMP on a Cisco router

      Summary

      2. Installing and Configuring SolarWinds SAM

      Installing SolarWinds SAM

      Configuring SolarWinds SAM

      Network Sonar Wizard

      The SNMP page

      The VMware page

      The Windows page

      The Network page

      The Discovery Settings page

      The Discovery Scheduling page

      The Network Sonar Results Wizard page

      The Devices page

      The Volumes page

      The SAM Import Settings page

      The Import Preview page

      Application Discovery

      The Select Applications page

      The Enter Credentials page

      Active Directory integration

      Creating a security group for SolarWinds SAM

      Creating a service account for SolarWinds SAM

      Assigning a security group to SolarWinds SAM

      Summary

      3. Customizing SolarWinds SAM

      Manually adding nodes

      Adding servers and devices

      Adding VMHosts

      Adding application monitors to nodes

      Discovery Central

      Network Sonar Discovery

      Application Discovery

      Removing nodes and disabling polling

      Removing a node from SolarWinds SAM

      Disabling a node from data polling

      Removing an application monitor

      Disabling an application monitor from polling

      Promoting nodes

      Classifying nodes

      Creating custom properties

      Applying custom properties

      Managing groups

      Creating groups

      Modifying groups

      Defining dependencies

      Backing up your customizations

      Summary

      4. Events, Traps, and Alerts

      Reviewing events

      Adjusting events log retention

      Utilizing SNMP traps

      Understanding SNMP functionality

      Setting SNMP traps on Windows

      Enabling a Windows SNMP Trap service

      Configuring a Windows SNMP Service for traps

      Converting Windows events into SNMP traps

      Setting SNMP traps on Cisco devices

      Testing and reviewing SNMP traps

      Reviewing SNMP traps in the Orion web console

      Reviewing SNMP traps in the Orion Trap Viewer

      Managing alerts

      Reviewing and modifying alerts

      Forwarding alerts via e-mail

      Summary

      5. Syslog, Reporting, and Network Atlas

      Utilizing Syslog

      Understanding Syslog

      Forwarding Syslog on common Cisco devices

      Enabling and configuring Syslog forwarding on Cisco firewall

      Enabling and configuring Syslog forwarding on a Cisco switch

      Testing and reviewing Syslog data in SolarWinds SAM

      Utilizing reporting

      Running reports

      Creating reports

      Scheduling reports

      Orion Network Atlas overview

      Creating a network map

      Adding network maps to the Orion web console

      Summary

      A. Troubleshooting

      Installation issues

      Orion web console issues

      Problems with IIS

      DNS issues

      SolarWinds services

      Restarting the Network Sonar Wizard

      SNMP polling issues

      Confirming settings

      The SNMP tab missing on a Windows server

      WMI polling issues

      Windows firewall may be blocking WMI

      Windows User Account Control may be interfering with WMI

      Steps for Windows Server 2008 R2

      Steps for Windows 7

      Configuring WMI at the local computer level

      WMI Administrative Tools

      Index

      SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor: Deployment and Administration

      SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor: Deployment and Administration

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      Credits

      Author

      Justin M. Brant

      Reviewers

      Sam Namiq

      Jeremy D. Phillips

      Acquisition Editors

      Vinay Argekar

      Edward Gordon

      Commissioning Editors

      Neil Alexander

      Subho Gupta

      Technical Editors

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      Project Coordinator

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      Proofreader

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      Indexer

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      Production Coordinator

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      Cover Work

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      About the Author

      Justin M. Brant has over 15 years of IT industry experience. As an adolescent, he was mentored by his grandfather Edgar J. Reynolds, a retired Naval Oceans Systems Center (NOSC) Electronic Engineer, who trained him on systems such as Apple II, Macintosh Plus, and Windows 2.x.

      His grandfather's guidance led to a position at Datel Systems, where he began his career in the IT industry. Shortly thereafter, Justin and his brother Gregory created Blue Sun Design LLC, a consulting group focused on the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Framework, designed to support small to medium-sized business networks. He later joined the Biomedical Research Institute of America Institutional Review Board (BioMed IRB) as the Network Administrator, where he maintained the IT infrastructure consistent with FDA regulations for electronic records and patient confidentiality.

      Presently, Justin is the Technical Support Manager at Integrated Default Solutions (IDSolutions), where he manages a team of five help desk technicians supporting 1,300 enterprise users nationwide. His position is multifaceted, involving network support, strategy, design, transition, and operation. His primary responsibilities include refining processes and security measures through developing and maintaining the IDSolutions Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) manual. In addition, he is the in-house specialist for the ShoreTel PBX & ECC VoIP system.

      I would like to dedicate this book to my grandfather, Edgar J. Reynolds, for being ahead of his time and sparking my interest in technology. I would like to thank Fred Fox and Gary Shkedy, Executive Directors at BioMed IRB, who were pivotal mentors regarding IT health care security regulations; also, David Brassfield, Amelia Cline, Jeremy Phillips, Petersan Jean-Pierre, Troy Muncy, Sam Namiq, and Syneca Horton, for supporting this project as technical reviewers and advisors, and my mother Vicki Aznoe, for encouraging me to continuously write. In addition, I would like to thank the Packt Publishing team for their excellent ongoing communication and constructive feedback.

      About the Reviewers

      Sam Namiq is a highly motivated and knowledgeable

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