is very famous for its monitoring and remote management solutions (Dameware). In this article, we will talk about updates to the Orion Solarwinds monitoring platform version 2020.2 (released in June 2020) and invite you to a webinar. Let's talk about the tasks to be solved for monitoring network devices and infrastructure, monitoring flow- and span-traffic (and span Solarwinds can also do it, although many are surprised), monitoring application software, managing configurations, managing address space and about real cases of implementing this product in Russian customers β first of all, in organizations of the banking and oil and gas industries.
We will hold the webinar on August 19 at 10 am together with the distribution company Axoft.
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And below under the cut you will learn about the latest release of Solarwinds 2020.2. At the end of the article there will be a link to an online demo.
The Orion Solarwinds platform consists of various modules for monitoring and control. Each of the modules received an expansion of functionality, support for new devices and protocols appeared.
Network Performance Monitor (NPM) 2020.2
Monitor up to 1 items on a single instance of the Orion platform. Compared to version 000, which limited the maximum number of items to 000, there was a 2018.2% increase in performance. In addition, the speed of the cold start of the system has increased: version 400 on the left, version 000 on the right. You can learn more about performance improvements at on the Solarwinds blog.
Solarwinds views have been improved: create and customize text boxes, labels or layouts, add custom icons, add shapes, dynamic backgrounds, bulk administration, and improved timeline experience. For more information about the dashboard improvements, see .
The functionality for creating custom dashboards has been upgraded. Views can now be created based on the SWQL query language. Detailed information on solarwinds.
Simplify the upgrade process: pre-upgrade capability, upgrade plan reports, automate upgrades with the Orion SDK. Read more at .
Improving the impact of the state of disk volumes on the status of the parent infrastructure element (node). Now not only the status (available / not available) affects, but also the state of disk space utilization. You can also configure what exactly will affect the status of the node. Details on .
Solarwinds has developed a special SDK based on PowerShell scripts for loading language packs into the system. Maybe someday support for the Russian language will appear in Solarwinds. More on .
Network Traffic Analyzer (NTA) 2020.2
This module has been improved in terms of support for traffic recognition from VMware Virtual Distributed Switch (VDS) and integration with the Solarwinds IP Address Manager module. Now a little more.
Traffic analysis is essential for understanding how the loads on virtual infrastructure elements are connected and interact with each other. VDS support helps you evaluate the impact of migration and determine the load in terms of traffic that is generated on other virtual machines, as well as identify dependencies on external network services.
VMware Virtual Distributed Switch switches data exchange between hypervisors and it can be configured to export data via the IPFIX protocol.
After setting up the sending of Netflow traffic, data will begin to appear in the Solarwinds interface. To learn how to configure VMware VDS to send traffic to the collector, see on the Solarwinds blog.
Improved integration with IPAM allows you to reuse already created IP groups, describe the exact conditions for sending a notification that refer to application traffic with IP groups or specific endpoints.
Applications can also be described using IP groups, and the application will be identified in the notification. Learn more about integrating with IPAM at .
Network Configuration Manager (NCM) 2020.2
The most important update is the possibility of simultaneously updating the firmware of several devices at once.
Another update is the emergence of a built-in base with Cisco devices in EOL and EOS status. Read more in .
IP Address Manager (IPAM) 2020.2
The focus of this release's updates was on user experience and functionality.
Both the IPAM module and the NTA have facilities for creating and working with IP groups, that is, collections of endpoints or subnets that refer to groups of endpoints. Now the received traffic can be characterized in terms of an IP group. Learn more about updates to IPAM at .
User Device Tracker (UDT) 2020.2
Support for Cisco Viptela technology has been added and bugs have been fixed. Read more about UDT updates in .
VoIP & Network Quality Manager (VNQM) 2020.2
This release introduces support for IPSLA operations from the Cisco Nexus Data Center Switching Center. For IPSLA operations that are preconfigured on the Cisco Nexus 3K, 7K, and 9K switches, VNQM will detect them and start monitoring. VNQM does not include the ability to create new operations on devices. The supported operations are listed below.
Depending on the platform and specific operation, some of them are interrogated via the command line. For Cisco Nexus switches, current CLI credentials must be provided. Please note that IPSLA operations are not supported on Nexus 5K series switches.
After setting up the collection of data on transactions, the data will appear in the interface. Read more about VNQM updates in
Log Analyzer 2020.2
The main improvement is the addition of the ability to parse flat log files. This analytics can be used when investigating the causes of emergency situations. For more information about Log Analyzer updates, see .
Server & Application Monitor (SAM) 2020.2
Pollers appeared in SAM, which can be tied to monitoring objects, they are already . With the help of pollers, you can collect data from PaaS, IaaS, local and hybrid infrastructures. Pollers connect via REST APIs to target systems: Azure, JetBrains, Bitbucket, Jira and others. The screenshot below shows an example of an infrastructure map discovered using a standard template for Office 365 and a poller template for Azure AD.
To display the collected data in Solarwinds SAM, ready-made views are provided:
The next improvement is the expansion of the number of monitoring objects that the Solarwinds installation supports, now it is 550 components or 000 nodes (depending on the type of Solarwinds licenses).
In SAM 2020.2, some monitoring templates have been updated, for example, for JBoss and WildFly.
SAM 2020.2 is Nutanix Ready Certified, which allows you to install SAM on a Nutanix AHV hypervisor and use the Nutanix REST APIs to work with AHV.
The update installation wizard has appeared. With it, you can plan the upgrade and conduct a test installation.
Solarwinds has also appeared in the AWS App Store. Azure already has it.
To learn more about updates in the SAM module, see .
Virtualization Manager (VMAN) 2020.2
An important update to this module is the addition of support for visualization on Nutanix infrastructure maps.
Starting with version 2020.2, VMAN monitors storage metrics at all levels of the Nutanix environment, from the cluster and host level to individual virtual machines and datastores.
For more information about VMAN updates, see .
Storage Resource Manager (SRM) 2020.2
Added support for NetApp 7-Mode health monitoring, increased support for collecting metrics from Dell EMC VNX/CLARiiON array controllers, and added FIPS compliance. For updates to the SRM module, see .
Server Configuration Monitor (SCM) 2020.2
Added the ability to audit database changes.
Auditing of the following databases is supported out of the box: MS SQL Server (31 element), PostgreSQL (16 element) and MySQL (26 element).
And one more improvement - there was a control of file attributes.
Updates to the SCM are described in more detail in .
Web Performance Monitor (WPM) 2020.2
The new version has an integration with a tool for recording transactions . Pingdom is also part of Solarwinds. Learn more about WPM updates at .
Database Performance Analyzer (DPA) 2020.2
Added support for PostgreSQL deep analysis. Analysis is supported for the following database types:
- Standard PostgreSQL
- EDB Postgres Advanced Server (EPAS)
- Including the Oracle Syntax option
- Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL
- Amazon Aurora for PostgreSQL
- Azure DB for PostgreSQL
Support for the following types of certificates for interacting with the database has been added:
- PKCS#12 (*.pf2 or *.pfx)
- JKS (*.jks)
- JCEKS (*.jceks)
- DER (*.der or *.cer)
- PEM (*.pem, *.crt, *.ca-bundle)
DPA module updates are described in more detail in .
Enterprise Operations Console (EOC) 2020.2
The product has improved view types.
Learn more about EOC module updates at .
These are all the improvements we wanted to talk about. If you have any questions, you can call us or ask them through the form . And don't forget for the upcoming webinar.
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