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SolarWinds Orion Network Performance Monitor

By : Joseph J Dissmeyer, Joseph Dissmeyer
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SolarWinds Orion Network Performance Monitor

By: Joseph J Dissmeyer, Joseph Dissmeyer

Overview of this book

Orion Network Performance Monitor is a scalable, easy-to-use, cost-effective network monitoring system that provides a complete overview of network environments by monitoring performance and availability. Orion NPM enables you to be proactive in detecting, diagnosing, and resolving network issues and outages and has the benefit of supporting hundreds of types of server, OS, and network vendors including Cisco, HP, Microsoft, Linux, Motorola, Brocade, Foundry, and more.Orion NPM is a well-known product and is used by thousands of public and private companies, educational institutions, and government entities for network monitoring. In "SolarWinds Orion Network Performance Monitor" you will learn how to install, implement, and manage Orion NPM to ensure you maintain an efficient, healthy, and performant network.In this book you will start with an overview of the constituent features of Orion NPM. Leading you through installation and configuration this book will help you set up a flexible and dynamic monitoring solution.With Orion NPM in place the book will then take you on a journey through essential Orion NPM and network monitoring concepts and practices. You will cover device management, learning how to use the Network Sonar Wizard, as well as adding devices manually.Turning from novice to pro, you will then be introduced to the core of network monitoring with Orion NPM. You will learn about monitoring Windows and Linux solutions as well as Virtual Servers. You will then master wireless networks and virtual networks. You will then learn how to set up and edit alerts to make network monitoring more efficient and less time-consuming. You will also learn how to develop reports and network maps as well as essential administrative techniques.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
SolarWinds Orion Network Performance Monitor
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Switches


Switches are always the first point of contact for each device in your network, so if there is an issue, you want to be the first to know about it. Monitoring switches in Orion NPM is similar to monitoring routers, but with a few additional requirements.

When opening the Node Details View page for a switch in Orion NPM, you will find that all of the modules for monitoring a router are included here as well. You can view the response time and packet loss data, CPU and memory load, and more. However, the All Interfaces on the Selected Node may be your most important module when monitoring a switch. The All Interfaces on the Selected Node module displays all of the interfaces that are being monitored by Orion NPM. Take a look at the following screenshot:

There are two types of ports being monitored in this example. The first is a Proprietary Virtual interface type and the second is an Ethernet type. The first interface type is actually an EtherChannel port on the switch. Any type of...