Cover -- Copyright -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Deployment Strategy -- Enabling and configuring SNMP on Windows -- Installing SNMP service on Windows -- Assigning SNMP community string on Windows -- Enabling and configuring WMI on Windows -- Enabling 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 -- 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 -- Chapter 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 -- Application Discovery -- 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 -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 4 : Events, Traps, and Alerts -- Reviewing events -- Adjusting events log retention -- Utilizing SNMP traps -- Understanding SNMP functionality -- Setting SNMP traps on Windows -- Enabling Windows SNMP Trap service -- Configuring Windows SNMP Service for traps -- Converting Windows events to SNMP traps -- Setting SNMP traps on Cisco devices -- Testing and reviewing SNMP traps -- Reviewing SNMP traps in Orion web console -- Reviewing SNMP traps in the Orion Trap Viewer -- Managing alerts -- Reviewing and modifying alerts -- Forwarding alerts to e-mail -- Summary -- Chapter 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 -- Appendix: 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 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.