SolarWinds Orion Modules
SolarWinds Orion Modules
Overview:
Organizations of all sizes have complex IT environments that make managing IT challenging.
SolarWinds design its products to be powerful and easy to use, and many are built on a common technology
platform, the SolarWinds® Orion Platform, enabling you to implement their products individually and grow as you
need. They’re highly scalable, and our integrated network and systems performance data is combined from multiple
parts of the tech stack to provide a single, unified, application-centric view and experience.
The below are their modules which are based on license:
Network:
1) NPM Summary [Default, provides information of CPU/Network Devices/Interfaces through SNMP Polling)
a)
b)
c)
d)
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f)
g)
h)
i)
List of devices based on Vendor
All Wireless Heatmaps
All the Active Alerts
Top 10 Multicast Traffic (Group Summary)
List of All VLANs
Interface (High) Utilization
List of Switch Stacks
List of All VRFs
Hardware health overview (UP/Critical/Warning/Undefined)
2) Wireless (AP, Heatmap location)
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
f)
g)
Access Points
IP Address
LWAP (Light Weight Access Points)
Standalone Access Points
SSIDs (Secure Set Identifier)
Channels
Clients
We can group them using Vendor/Model/Wireless Controllers/SNMP
3) Netpath Services
Network Topology from Source Network to ISP Network to Destination Network
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4) Load Balancing
a) F5 Load Balancers and Other Load Balancers
b) Associated VIP (Virtual IP)
c) Pool Members
5) Network Top 10 (Top Talkers Details)
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
f)
Interfaces/Access Points/Clients/Network Nodes by current Response Time
Top 10 Interfaces based on Traffic and Utilization
Top 10 Nodes by Packet Loss
Top 10 Nodes by Memory used
Top 10 Nodes by Average CPU used
Volumes by disk space used
6) VSANs (Storage Network Virtual)
a) Nodes
b) Traffic
c) Fiber Channels Reports
7) Network Overview (Dashboard)
a) Network Node (Devices)
b) Interface Status
Applications:
1) SAM Summary (Server & Application Monitor)
a)
b)
c)
d)
OS (Operating System) Details
Server Warranty
Application with Problems
Down Applications (Health of Appliances/Servers)
2) Top 10
a) Top 10 Servers based on Traffic and Utilization/Packet Loss/Memory/Cpu
3) Windows (Servers)
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a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
f)
Physical & Virtual
Application based
CPU Utilization
Memory Utilization
Response Time
Statistic Data
4) Linux (Servers)
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
f)
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Physical & Virtual
Application based
CPU Utilization
Memory Utilization
Response Time
Statistic Data
IIS
Active Directory (AD)
Exchange Servers
SQL Servers
Apps
Virtualization:
1) VMWare
a)
b)
c)
d)
Memory Utilization
vSphere Network Utilization
Assets/Inventory Summary
VMWare/VCenter Hosts with Problems
2) Hyper-V
a)
b)
c)
d)
Microsoft Hyper-V – Memory Utilization
Network Utilization
Asset/Inventory Summary
Hyper-V Hosts with Problems
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Tool Set:
1) All Tools
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Trace Route
Interface Monitor
CPU Monitor
Memory Monitor
Response Time Monitor
2) Trainings
We may get some training materials From SolarWinds Orion Portal
3) Thwack Community
This is a Forum for SolarWinds Orion on Internet/Cloud. It has the following things
a)
b)
c)
d)
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h)
i)
Documentation
Training Videos
Product Blog
Webcast & Events
Feature Request
Context Exchange
User Experience
Beta Version
Release Candidate
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NetFlow:
1) NTA Summary (NetFlow Traffic Analyzer)
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
f)
2)
3)
4)
5)
Top 50 NetFlow Sources by % Utilization
Top 10 End Points (Router & Switch)
Top 10 Conversation
Top 10 Applications
Top 10 Countries
NetFlow Sources
Conversations (Source & Destination IP address & Port Details)
End Points (Edge Devices – example – Routers)
Transmitters
Protocols
a) Top 5 Utilized Protocols like TCP/UDP/ESP/GRE/ICMP
6) BGP
a) Top 5 Autonomous Systems Utilization
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9)
10)
11)
Apps [Applications]
Countries
Receivers
IP Groups
TOS (Type Of Service)
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Configs:
1) Configuration Summary
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b)
c)
d)
e)
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g)
h)
i)
j)
k)
Node List (Network Devices List)
EOS (End Of Support) Devices
Policy Violations
Policy Report
Security Audit
Firmware Vulnerabilities
Backed up/Non-Backed up
NCM Events
Running Config
Startup Config
Configuration Changes (Last 100 Changes)
2) Configuration Change Templates
a) To create Configuration Templates for various Configuration Changes & Activities
b) Using On Thwack – Will be connected to Cloud/Internet to get the various templates on Orion Community
Forums
3) Jobs
a) To create configuration jobs for any kind of configuration changes & activities
b) To add/modify/delete/execute any kind of Commands
4) Firmware
There is an option provided by SolarWinds to upgrade the Firmware of the Network Devices
5) Configuration Management
a)
b)
c)
d)
Download/Upload/Compare/Execute Scripts
Update the Inventory
Transfer Status
Inventory Status
6) Reports
a) Report based on Auditing
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b) Syslog Tracking
7) Compliance
a) Compliance Report based on HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996)
b) Compliance Report based on PCIDSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard)
8) EOS (End of Support)
a) End of Support based Reports
b) End of Sales based Reports
c) Time Scheduled – Report on End Of Support & End Of Sales
Alerts & Activities:
1) Alert name/IP Address/Node Name Triggered date & time/Acknowledge by Ack Or Not/Categorization
2) Events
a) Kind of Logging
b) Filter Devices
c) Time
d) Type
3) Syslog
We can use Orion as a Logging Server.
Classification: Critical/Error/Warning/Notice/Information/Debug/Emergency/Alert
4) Traps
Kind of MIB (Management Information Base)/ OID (Object Identification) based Traps
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