SolarWinds has recently released a number of new versions of our products, with more to come. These slides from our interactive Federal webinar showcased the latest products & features of most interest to Federal customers demonstrated by our Federal Sales Engineer team.

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SolarWinds Federal Webinar:
Technical Update & Demo of New Features
Ed Bender, Lead Federal SE
ed.bender@solarwinds.com 410-286-3060
Trent Sherman, Federal Database SE Specialist
Octavio Alvidrez, Federal SE

2. New Product Versions and Key Features Covered Today
» Database Performance Analyzer (DPA) v9.0
» IP Address Manager (IPAM) 4.3 Sneak Peek
» User Device Tracker (UDT) 3.2 Sneak Peek
» NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) 4.1 Sneak Peek
» Web Performance Monitor (WPM) 2.1
» Storage Manager (STM) v5.7
» DameWare® 11.1 Sneak Peek
» Web Help Desk® (WHD) 12.2 Sneak Peek
» Breaking News: Common Criteria Update
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3. Database Performance Analyzer (DPA) v9.0 New Features
» Additional database support
 We expanded our supported database versions to cover IBM® DB2® 10.5, Microsoft® SQL Server® 2014, and single-tenant
Oracle® 12c.
» New views
 We added a new view: Storage I/O. See the effects of storage latency and throughput performance on SQL response time.
You can monitor and correlate both current and historic data.
» Analyze SQL query and get performance advice
 You can now analyze individual SQL queries from the SQL tab and receive advice regarding what you can do to optimize
your queries.
» Files and Drives tabs for Microsoft SQL Server
 We added Files and Drives tabs to Microsoft SQL Server instances. These tabs work the same way they do for Oracle
instances. Requires Microsoft SQL Server 2005 SP2 or later.
» Alerting improvements
 You can now create alerts based on resource metrics such as CPU utilization, memory usage, and others.
 Specify blackout periods for alerts on the new Alert Blackouts tab.
» Baselines for resource charts in the Trends view
 Resource metric charts now have a Show Baseline option if viewing a time slice of 24 hours or less. The shaded area of
the baseline represents the normal range and the dark line represents the average. Resources have to be monitored for at
least 24 hours before a baseline can be calculated for it.
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4. Database Performance Analyzer (DPA) v9.0
Demo of new features
Trent Sherman, Federal DPA SE Specialist
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5. IP Address Manager (IPAM) v4.3 New Features
» Automatic integration with User Device Tracker (UDT)
 "Who" is connected to the IP Address?
 When were they connected?
 is that a wireless user, what's the port and user name?
» IP Address conflicts visualization
» IPAM API improvements
» Multiple DHCP IP Address Reservations
» Support for SQL 2014
» And a reminder of the IPv6 features added to IPAM 4.2 in August:
 IPv6 address discovery
• Including IPv6 address auto-assignment to defined IPv6 subnets
 ICMPv6 ping to IPv6 hosts
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6. User Device Tracker (UDT) 3.2 New Features
» UDT 3.1 came out in September and included:
 Port Discovery performance improvements (2x performance improvement)
 Port Discovery moved to Network Sonar Discovery process
 Vendor ID to MAC Address mapping and visualization
» UDT 3.2 is a rapid release to primarily improve integration with IPAM 4.3
 IP Address conflict detection
• Has both an operations focused “reliability and availability” use case
• And also an Information Security centric use case of detecting potentially rogue devices through IP
Address conflict detection and history
» UDT and IPAM together have detailed “forensics data” about what is currently
plugged into your network and what has been plugged in historically
 Tighter integration provides faster visibility and quicker resolution
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7. IP Address Conflict Detection (IPAM 4.3 & UDT 3.2 Integration)
» IP Address conflicts visualization
» Improved UDT Integration to see what Switch and Switch
ports have the conflicting IPs
» Click on the IP Address to drill in…
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8. IP Address Conflict Details (IPAM 4.3 & UDT 3.2 Integration)
» New visualization of Conflict
includes:
 Type of conflict
• Static – Static
• Dynamic – Static, etc…
 Current UDT connection data (device
and port or WiFi SSID.
 UDT History of MAC and Port
connectivity
 History of IP Address Assignment to
MAC (who was first)
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(IPAM 4.3 & UDT 3.2 Integration)

9. NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) 4.1
» NTA 4.1 RC3 is available now to current customers
 64-bit Windows® OS Required
 If upgrading from NTA 3.x, we recommend first upgrading to NTA 4.0
• NTA 4.0 is a significant architecture change – do some planning before upgrading
» NTA 4.1 new features include:
 Improved support of flow Sampling
 Integration with UDT to quickly identify devices using high bandwidth
 Flow Storage Database (FSDB) capacity and performance data
 8-bit TOS support
 Improved historical application update speed
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10. NTA 4.1 Flow Sampling improvements – Automated detection
» Automatic sample rate recognition improvements:
 Now works even when vendors do not include certain RFC required fields to communicate their
sampling rate.
 Although this change applies to all vendor's it mostly applies for Juniper devices.
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11. NTA 4.1 Flow Sampling improvements – Manual override
» Added support for manual sample rate configuration.
 Clicking on the Edit button
 Enter a manual sampling rate
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12. NTA 4.1 Integration with UDT 3.2
» Quickly identify switch and switch port
of a device using lots of bandwidth:
 Click on NTA Endpoint
• IP Address or Hostname
 Drill into new Netflow Endpoint page with
integrated UDT data for that Endpoint
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13. Web Performance Monitor (WPM) 2.1 New Features
» Transaction Recorder Conditionals
 Handle variance in web pages like surveys, security questions, pop-ups and so on
 Ability to cover different scenarios for web application behavior
» Custom Properties for Transactions and Recordings
 Create dynamic groups, reports, filter or group by custom properties your transactions
 Build role-based dashboards easier
» Improved Integration with SAM and NPM
 Ability to create dependencies between Transaction and Application
 Ability to create dependencies between Transaction and Node
 New resources in Transaction Details page with list of Nodes and Applications
 New Transactions sub view in Node Details page
 New Transactions sub view in Application Details page
 Ability to create dependencies between Locations and Nodes
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14. Web Performance Monitor (WPM) 2.1 Demo of
key new features
Octavio Alvidrez, Federal SE
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15. Storage Monitor (STM) 5.7, 5.7.1 and 5.7.2 New Features
» User defined LUN Grouping – Performance Charts
» STM Health Status Overview – All at a Glance
» Improved Chart Performance & Data Visibility
» Fast VP Support
» Trending on thin pools for VMAX®
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16. Storage Manager (STM) 5.7.x Demo of key new
features
Octavio Alvidrez, Federal SE
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17. DameWare 11.1 Sneak Peak
» Integration with WHD 12.2
 Launch MRC from WHD with one click in WHD
 Record technicians remote session (MRC) data into WHD ticket
 Improves productivity of Windows System Administrators even more
» Details of the integration “how it works” can be seen here:
 https://thwack.solarwinds.com/community/solarwinds-community/product-blog/
blog/2014/10/16/whd-122-and-dameware-111-beta-available
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18. Web Help Desk (WHD) 12.2 Sneak Peak
» Asset Reporting
» Asset Reservations Reporting
» Integration with DameWare
» New FAQ UI
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19. WHD 12.2 and DRS 11.1 Sneak Peek Demo of
key new features
Octavio Alvidrez, Federal SE
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20. Q&A
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Contact Us
Call: 877-946-3751
Email: federalsales@solarwinds.com
Email our Government Reseller DLT: solarwinds@dlt.com

21. More on SolarWinds
» Watch a short demo video: http://www.solarwinds.com/sedemo
» Download a free trial: http://www.solarwinds.com/downloads/
» Visit our Federal website: http://www.solarwinds.com/federal
» Call the SolarWinds Federal sales team: 877-946-3751
» Email federal sales: federalsales@solarwinds.com
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