I decided to test out the second option which involves deploying an agent into the Windows OS. Perhaps a future version will let users deploy a stripped down Linux box / OVA, instead? Oh well, let’s move on.
It’s a bit of a bummer that you’d have to SPAN traffic into a Windows box, but given that SolarWinds doesn’t sell switches, I suppose there’s few other ways to get to the flow data. Deploying an agent into a Windows server / workstation to monitor traffic Option 2 – Use the Windows agent to gather networking data. Using a SPAN port to sniff network traffic Option 1 – Use a SPAN port (mirror port) to pull data from a network device. There’s two options to get this configured. Deep Packet Inspectionīut what about Deep Packet Inspection (DPI)? Good question. If you don’t see an interface pop up right away, it may take a minute. Manage that node!Īdd any interfaces that are missing. Next, click on the List Resources button in the node’s management box. If you’re not using the wizard, just head over to Settings > Node & Group Management > Manage Nodes and find your switch node (or add it). I ended up adding my HP V1910 switch and all its various interfaces to NPM. NPM will draw upon your existing nodes and can be configured to discover and poll additional objects. Once NPM is done installing, browse to the standard home page for Orion and make sure a new Network tab has appeared. There’s also an option to use a standalone database or install the products onto different servers, but I wanted to consolidate them both into one. If you want the full integration experience that SAM and NPM have to offer as a combined product, it makes sense to use the same database. Hey, other vendors out there: all software should be this simple to install, take notes!
Because of this, the installer wizard is ridiculously simple. I already have Server and Application Monitor (SAM) installed, so I decided to install NPM into the same server and use the same back end database. Up, Up, and Awayįrom an installation and configuration perspective, there wasn’t much to do.
Wanna see it in action? Great! Let’s put on our magic homelab hats (you did bring your magic homelab hat, right?) and dive right in. New to this version is Deep Packet Inspection and a Quality of Experience dashboard. Here it is a few months later and I get to do it all over again, this time with their Network Performance Monitor (NPM) product as it hits version 11. The results were published in a post entitled New SolarWinds Virtualization Manager 6.1 Creates Voltron-Like Monitoring and the experience was a lot of fun. Some time ago, I had the distinct pleasure of working with the SolarWinds team as they rolled out a new version of the Virtualization Manager (VMan) product.
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