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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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Utilizing SNMP traps


SNMP traps are beneficial for choosing a specific node event type, and then consolidating it within the Traps page of the Orion web console and the Orion Trap Viewer application. SNMP traps authorize nodes to send specified events immediately when they occur without waiting for SolarWinds SAM to reach out and poll the node. This can help save bandwidth and ensure that SolarWinds SAM is not flooded with uninformative information.

This section will cover the basic mechanisms behind SNMP and how to empower Windows servers and Cisco devices to utilize SNMP traps, and will conclude with examples of how to test and then review triggered traps.

Understanding SNMP functionality

SNMP exchanges messages between SolarWinds SAM and SNMP enabled nodes. The various message types are explained as follows:

  • GET and GET-NEXT: This permits SolarWinds SAM to request a specific variable (that is, information) from a node.

  • SET: This permits SolarWinds SAM to request a change to the value of a...

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