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SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor: Deployment and Administration

By : Justin Brant
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SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor: Deployment and Administration

By: Justin Brant

Overview of this book

As a network or system administrator, your primary responsibility is to ensure high availability of all managed IT services. There are a number of monitoring tools available; but these can be complicated and expensive, and may only monitor certain areas of your network. SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor is an intuitive, all-encompassing, yet cost effective, enterprise-level network monitoring service. A concise and practical, hands-on guide that will teach you how utilize SolarWinds SAM. It provides step-by-step tutorials to walk you through every feature, while teaching you how to tailor the product to your own network environment. This book will guide you through equipping your network devices and servers for SolarWinds SAM utilization. It will provide a sequential, hands-on overview of the product, and is suited for networks of all sizes, ranging from small businesses to larger enterprises. You will learn how to populate SolarWinds SAM with nodes, then classify and group nodes to tailor the product to your network environment. By doing so, you will benefit from key features such as automated alerts, traps, and reports. Each feature is explained in a practical and useful manner via tutorials and real-world examples to help you start monitoring your network quickly and efficiently, while keeping security implications in mind by applying enterprise-level best practices.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Classifying nodes


This procedure explains how to assign pertinent information to nodes, such as a device name, physical location, and/or the priority of the device. We recommend thoroughly labeling and categorizing all nodes to reflect your network environment; this will be beneficial later during administration, reporting, alerting, and so on. To a certain extent, this also empowers SolarWinds SAM to act as an asset management service for production servers, devices, and applications.

Creating custom properties

This tutorial explains how to create a custom property that will include a drop-down list with information related to your organization. In this example we will create an Address custom property.

Tip

It is beneficial to take a well-planned and methodical approach when designing your custom properties structure. At this point, more work now means less work later, and greater overall SolarWinds SAM functionality.

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