SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor: Deployment and Administration. Ensuring high availability for your IT services can be problematic, but wi

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor: Deployment and Administration. Ensuring high availability for your IT services can be problematic, but wi - Opis

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. Spis treści:
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor: Deployment and Administration
Table of Contents
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor: Deployment and (...) więcej Administration
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Deployment Strategy
Enabling and configuring SNMP on Windows
Installing an SNMP service on Windows
Assigning an SNMP community string on Windows
Enabling and configuring WMI on Windows
Enabling a WMI service on Windows
Creating an Active Directory service account for WMI
VMware host monitoring prerequisites
Enabling and configuring SNMP
Method 1 enabling and configuring SNMP via Secure Shell
Part 1 of 2 enabling SSH on ESXi 5.1 using vSphere
Part 2 of 2 enabling and configuring SNMP using PuTTY
Method 2 enabling SNMP on ESXi 5.1 or prior via the console
Creating a service account for VMHost
Enabling and configuring SNMP on Cisco devices
Enabling and configuring SNMP on a Cisco switch
Enabling and configuring SNMP on a Cisco router
Summary
2. Installing and Configuring SolarWinds SAM
Installing SolarWinds SAM
Configuring SolarWinds SAM
Network Sonar Wizard
The SNMP page
The VMware page
The Windows page
The Network page
The Discovery Settings page
The Discovery Scheduling page
The Network Sonar Results Wizard page
The Devices page
The Volumes page
The SAM Import Settings page
The Import Preview page
Application Discovery
The Select Applications page
The Enter Credentials page
Active Directory integration
Creating a security group for SolarWinds SAM
Creating a service account for SolarWinds SAM
Assigning a security group to SolarWinds SAM
Summary
3. Customizing SolarWinds SAM
Manually adding nodes
Adding servers and devices
Adding VMHosts
Adding application monitors to nodes
Discovery Central
Network Sonar Discovery
Application Discovery
Removing nodes and disabling polling
Removing a node from SolarWinds SAM
Disabling a node from data polling
Removing an application monitor
Disabling an application monitor from polling
Promoting nodes
Classifying nodes
Creating custom properties
Applying custom properties
Managing groups
Creating groups
Modifying groups
Defining dependencies
Backing up your customizations
Summary
4. Events, Traps, and Alerts
Reviewing events
Adjusting events log retention
Utilizing SNMP traps
Understanding SNMP functionality
Setting SNMP traps on Windows
Enabling a Windows SNMP Trap service
Configuring a Windows SNMP Service for traps
Converting Windows events into SNMP traps
Setting SNMP traps on Cisco devices
Testing and reviewing SNMP traps
Reviewing SNMP traps in the Orion web console
Reviewing SNMP traps in the Orion Trap Viewer
Managing alerts
Reviewing and modifying alerts
Forwarding alerts via e-mail
Summary
5. Syslog, Reporting, and Network Atlas
Utilizing Syslog
Understanding Syslog
Forwarding Syslog on common Cisco devices
Enabling and configuring Syslog forwarding on Cisco firewall
Enabling and configuring Syslog forwarding on a Cisco switch
Testing and reviewing Syslog data in SolarWinds SAM
Utilizing reporting
Running reports
Creating reports
Scheduling reports
Orion Network Atlas overview
Creating a network map
Adding network maps to the Orion web console
Summary
A. Troubleshooting
Installation issues
Orion web console issues
Problems with IIS
DNS issues
SolarWinds services
Restarting the Network Sonar Wizard
SNMP polling issues
Confirming settings
The SNMP tab missing on a Windows server
WMI polling issues
Windows firewall may be blocking WMI
Windows User Account Control may be interfering with WMI
Steps for Windows Server 2008 R2
Steps for Windows 7
Configuring WMI at the local computer level
WMI Administrative Tools
Index O autorze: Justin M. Brant has over 15 years of IT industry experience. As an adolescent, he was mentored by his grandfather Edgar J. Reynolds, a retired Naval Oceans Systems Center (NOSC) Electronic Engineer, who trained him on systems such as Apple II, Macintosh Plus, and Windows 2.x. His grandfather's guidance led to a position at Datel Systems, where he began his career in the IT industry. Shortly thereafter, Justin and his brother Gregory created Blue Sun Design LLC, a consulting group focused on the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Framework, designed to support small to medium-sized business networks. He later joined the Biomedical Research Institute of America Institutional Review Board (BioMed IRB) as the Network Administrator, where he maintained the IT infrastructure consistent with FDA regulations for electronic records and patient confidentiality. Presently, Justin is the Technical Support Manager at Integrated Default Solutions (IDSolutions), where he manages a team of five help desk technicians supporting 1,300 enterprise users nationwide. His position is multifaceted, involving network support, strategy, design, transition, and operation. His primary responsibilities include refining processes and security measures through developing and maintaining the IDSolutions Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) manual. In addition, he is the in-house specialist for the ShoreTel PBX & ECC VoIP system. mniej