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...