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SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor: Deployment and Administration

You're reading from   SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor: Deployment and Administration Ensuring high availability for your IT services can be problematic, but with this tutorial on SolarWinds SAM it suddenly becomes a lot more feasible. It's the perfect primer for one of the most intuitive, enterprise-level monitors around.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783551019
Length 116 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Justin Brant Justin Brant
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Chapter 3. Customizing SolarWinds SAM

After deploying SolarWinds SAM, nodes that were missed during the Network Sonar Wizard (NSW) should be manually added. You may decide to monitor everything network wide, or for bandwidth conservation you may choose to exclude the low priority nodes. Therefore it may be necessary to remove, disable, or demote nodes.

By now it should be clear that Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) is not the preferred method for polling, because it does not empower SolarWinds SAM to poll inclusive data. For that reason it is recommended to promote applicable ICMP nodes to SNMP or WMI. Remember that SolarWinds SAM uses SNMP and WMI in conjunction with ICMP, meaning that promoted nodes will not exclude status, response time, or packet loss polling data.

To ensure service levels are met through high availability and overall awareness of IT services, all nodes should be classified, prioritized, and grouped. Classifying or grouping nodes by type will also assist in asset...

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