Chapter 3. Device Management

It is very rare that you will find two IT administrators very much alike. Most of us are like night and day; we are all very different in many ways. Every administrator has their own preferences on how they want to manage and monitor their network. Some prefer to maintain God-like control over their environment and micromanage every aspect of their network, especially when deciding who, what, when, and where to monitor their devices; while others prefer to utilize automation tools to help them easily stay on top of changes and additions to their network. Thankfully, SolarWinds has acknowledged this fact and provides several methods and processes for administrators to manage and monitor their network using Orion NPM.

This chapter is all about how to manage your network nodes in Orion NPM. We will talk about how to add nodes to Orion NPM using both automated and manual processes, how to change monitoring configuration settings, how to edit Orion NPM's polling methods...