SolarWinds Knowledge Base

Doing More with Less… Product Features, Strategies, and Ideas to Weather Tight Budgets

Link: http://www.solarwinds.com/resources/webcasts/doing-more-with-less.html

Your agency or department is probably facing the tightest budget ever… and while budgets are decreasing, demands only continue to increase. The only solution? Do more with less. In this webinar we will cover ideas, strategies, and product features designed to help you get the most from your IT investment. Also during this webcast we’ll demonstrate how each of these technologies is used and discuss the data made available through them.

Creating High Availability and Fault Tolerant Environments using SolarWinds Failover Engine

Link: http://www.solarwinds.com/resources/webcasts/creating-high-availability-and-fault-tolerant-environments-using-solarwinds-failover-engine.html  

IT Management tools have transitioned over the years from nice-to-have, point solutions to mission critical applications. From VoIP to email to POS transactions, every IT system requires 24 X 7 robust management. Join us as we discuss the SolarWinds Orion Failover Engine and how it can help you maintain 100% Orion IT management coverage through a variety of outage situations. 

The Basics of Virtualization Management

Link: http://www.solarwinds.com/resources/webcasts/geek-speak-the-basics-of-virtualization-management.html

Learn about the key areas you to need to know to effectively manage your virtual deployment. Join SolarWinds Head Geek Josh Stephens as we discuss the changes that these Virtual Environments have caused and how they affect management best practices.

Synthetic End User Monitor Sneak Peek

Link: http://www.solarwinds.com/resources/webcasts/synthetic-end-user-monitor-sneak-peek.html

SolarWinds Synthetic End User Monitor (SEUM) offers a powerful and affordable solution for monitoring business-critical web transactions from the end-user’s perspective. SEUM’s simple and flexible architecture allows you to automatically test internal and external applications from the locations that are important to you. If you have been interested in transaction monitoring, but stayed clear due to cost, complexity or lack of depth of some solutions--you don’t want to miss this! SEUM is transaction monitoring the SolarWinds way – affordable, feature rich, easy to install, easy to use, and easy to understand!

Regulatory Compliance with SolarWinds Log & Event Manager

Link: http://www.solarwinds.com/resources/webcasts/regulatory-compliance-with-solarwinds-log-event-manager.html

Logs have to be analyzed. Regulations around compliance and security such as CIP (Critical Infrastructure Protection), FISMA, and HIPAA require it. And let’s face it, log analysis is just a good practice.

During this webcast we discuss the challenges of using log management for real-time operational performance monitoring, compliance, and security. Learn what it takes to deliver a comprehensive view of the network and correlate the massive amounts of data to proactively respond to issues at network speed with SolarWinds Log & Event Manager.

NPM & APM Level 1 Customer Training

Link: http://www.solarwinds.com/resources/webcasts/npm-and-apm-level-1-customer-training.html

This 60 minute training session on Orion Network Performance Monitor (NPM) and SolarWinds Application Performance Monitor covers optimizing hardware configurations for Orion, installation, discovery, and base configuration, configuring reports and alerts, and leveraging the information that Orion provides.

Managing Virtualized Environments End-to-End – From Virtual Servers to Physical Storage

Link: http://www.solarwinds.com/resources/webcasts/managing-virtualized-environments-end-to-end.html

Managing a virtualized infrastructure requires visibility across all layers of your environment – from VMs down to the physical systems and storage that supports them. Please join SolarWinds for an integrated product demonstration of the new Virtualization Manager and Storage Manager products and learn how to achieve success in these environments. Learn how to identify VMware performance bottlenecks and get recommendations to fix hot spots across shared memory, CPU and storage resources, take capacity planning to the next level by factoring storage and network IO into your capacity plans, pinpoint and resolve physical storage performance and capacity bottlenecks, use Virtualization Manager’s new Time-Travel feature to troubleshoot historical problems, manage VM I/O contention on your storage and its impact on meeting SLAs, and forecasting shared storage capacity issues proactively.

We’ll demonstrate best practices and technologies from SolarWinds that help to conquer these challenges and ensure success in these environments.

WAN Analysis Best Practices and Technologies

Link: http://www.solarwinds.com/resources/webcasts/wan-analysis-best-practices-and-technologies.html

WANs or Wide Area Networks are some of the most important networks that we manage today. WANs make up the connections that link our sites together, connect us to the internet, and are usually the ones that cost us the most money. As a result, we’re always trying to increase WAN performance and optimize our investments in this area.

During this webcast we’ll discuss best practices and technologies for analyzing WAN optimization and performance. Some of what we’ll discuss will include:understanding flow based technologies like NetFlow, jFlow, SFlow, and IPFIX, leveraging Cisco IP SLA, measuring performance through WAN optimization technologies and load balancers, best practices for leveraging all of the previous items.

Also during this webcast we’ll demonstrate how each of these technologies is used and discuss the data made available through them.

5 Complications of Virtualization - And How to Avoid Them

Link: http://www.solarwinds.com/resources/webcasts/5-complications-of-virtualization.html

Please join industry analyst JP Garbani, Vice President and Principal Analyst from Forrester Research, and Bob Quillin, SolarWinds’ senior director of Product Marketing, for an informative webinar on overcoming five common complications faced during virtualization deployment.

JP will detail where IT teams are hitting major roadblocks in their virtualization deployments and how to avoid these complications: the “bricklayer” approach to consolidating servers, workload conflicts that lead to performance and capactiy issues, misconceptions about virtualization capactiy management, wasted resources due to lack of virtual inventory, and virtualization stall.

Advanced Tactics for Application & System Management: Part 2

Link: http://www.solarwinds.com/resources/webcasts/part-2-advanced-tactics-for-application---system-management.html

In Part 1, we discussed the different management protocols and methods that are used to manage, monitor, and measure application and system health and performance. If you missed Part 1 (Managing Application Servers in Today's Compute Environments) you can watch the recorded version here.

During part 2 we'll dive deeper into some of these technologies and demonstrate how they are commonly used within management applications. Specifically we’ll be discussing: leveraging RPC and WMI to monitor Windows PerfMon counters & statistics, using user experience monitors and synthetic transactions to validate application availability and response time, and integrating NetFlow statistics to enhance visibility of application usage and performance.

Virtualization Manager 4.0 Sneak Peek

Link: http://www.solarwinds.com/resources/webcasts/virtualization-manager-4-0-sneak-peek.html

Virtual environments are complex, dynamic and built upon shared pools of resources - management tools built for the physical era are not sufficient for the virtual journey towards Private Cloud Computing.  New management challenges have emerged with virtualization adoption around assuring performance, capacity, reporting, and chargeback.  How do you find a powerful solution to all these new challenges without breaking the bank?

Join SolarWinds for a sneak peak webcast of our upcoming Virtualization Manager 4.0 release where we’ll show you how to take your virtualization initiative to the next level.

SolarWinds User Device Tracker: A Sneak Peak

Link: http://www.solarwinds.com/resources/webcasts/solarwinds-user-device-tracker-a-sneak-peek.html

We spend a lot of time in the network world keeping track of data, hostnames, and IP addresses. Everything we could want to know is only a few mouse clicks away, except perhaps where our devices are physically located. User Device Tracker bridges the gap between the network and the physical world. It sniffs out each device on each switch port, just waiting to let you know where something is, or where something was. Tracking down a rogue device or anything naughty on your network has never been easier. Historical data shows you where a device was last seen, so you can find that long lost laptop. Switch capacity and utilization is consolidated for easy viewing. Come and see what SolarWinds User Device Tracker can do for you!

Managing Storage in Virtualized Environments

Link: http://www.solarwinds.com/resources/webcasts/managing-storage-in-virtualized-environments.html

VM sprawl, dynamic workloads, unpredictable I/O patterns, shared resource pools, and private clouds are making storage management a nightmare. During this webcast we discuss the challenges IT organizations are finding as they fight new bottlenecks and performance dynamics in their growing Virtual Environments.  Some of what we cover includes: best practices for storage management as VMware deployments grow, pinpointing and resolving new physical storage performance and capacity bottlenecks, managing the VM I/O blender effect and its impact on meeting SLAs, and forecasting shared storage capacity issues proactively.

Effective Management of VMware Environments

Link: http://www.solarwinds.com/resources/webcasts/effective-management-of-vmware-environments.html

Learn about the common pitfalls you will encounter as you progress on your Virtualization journey towards Private Cloud computing.  Join SolarWinds Head Geek Josh Stephens as we discuss the changes these Virtual Environments have caused and how they affect management best practices. Some of what he’ll cover will include:best practices for management as you progress on your Virtualization journey,identifying and resolving performance and capacity bottlenecks, conquering the inevitable VM sprawl that will arise, preparing for management of your private cloud. We will also demonstrate key technologies from SolarWinds that help to conquer these challenges and ensure success in these environments.

IP Address Management Best Practices

Link: http://www.solarwinds.com/resources/webcasts/ip-address-management-best-practices.html

Given all of the challenges IT departments face today, managing your IP address space should not be one of them. Join SolarWinds Head Geek Josh Stephens as he explores best practices for managing your IP address space and some of the ... pitfalls that come with doing it the old fashioned way, spreadsheets!

Managing Application Servers in Today's Compute Environments

Link: http://www.solarwinds.com/resources/webcasts/managing-application-servers-in-todays-compute-environments.html

The traditional application server has been deconstructed and redefined. Components of today’s applications run on distributed systems which have been virtualized across clusters of physical hosts that sharing network bandwidth to storage and other resources. Additionally, today’s hyper-dense computing environments, made possible by innovations by companies such as Cisco, EMC, and VMware, have placed more servers per square foot in our data centers than ever before.

Network Configuration Management Best Practices

Link: http://www.solarwinds.com/resources/webcasts/network-configuration-management-best-practices.html

During this webcast we’ll demonstrate best practices for network configuration management – managing the configurations of routers, switches, firewalls and other network infrastructure devices. We’ll also demonstrate the top 5 network configuration management tasks using the SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM).

Some of what we’ll discuss and demonstrate will include: backing up the configurations of all of your routers, switches, and firewalls; setting up automated configuration management jobs; configuring and using real-time config change detection; managing configurations against policies for compliance.

Customer Training: Orion NPM 10.1 - New Features

Link: http://www.solarwinds.com/resources/webcasts/customer-training-orion-npm-10-1-new-features.html

Learn about some of the new features that are now available in Orion NPM v10.1. Don’t let the .1 release fool you—this version incorporates some of the network performance monitoring capabilities most frequently asked for by the SolarWinds community. Topics include: complete Active Directory® authentication integration, dynamic service groups and dependencies, multi-object stacked charts, PDF export of reports and views, and mobile device aware alert management.

This webcast is best suited for Orion Network Performance Monitor users.

Disaster Recovery & High Availability Concerns Within Your Network & Systems Management Strategy

Link: http://www.solarwinds.com/resources/webcasts/disaster-recovery-and-high-availability-concerns-within-your-network-and-systems-management-strategy.html

Understanding the differences between disaster recovery and high availability and the design constraints of each are an important part of any systems architecture or design. During this webcast we’ll discuss: design considerations for highly available systems; understanding disaster recovery planning; design considerations for network and systems management; and the impacts of DR/HA on network operations.

Customer Training: Profiler Storage, Server and Virtualization, Level 1

Link: http://www.solarwinds.com/resources/webcasts/customer-training-profiler-storage-server-and-virtualization-level-1.html

An exclusive and complimentary customer training session on Storage Profiler and Virtual and Server Profiler, most beneficial to new and current users of the Profiler product suite. This training session covers how to get the most out of your Profiler installation and how to ensure that your organization can see a quick ROI from the product.