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

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.

Learning path

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