SolarWinds Federal User Group 2016 - SolarWinds Network Management Products Update

SOLARWINDS® NETWORK MANAGEMENT
PRODUCTS UPDATE
2016 FEDERAL USER GROUP
JEFF STEWART
PRODUCT STRATEGIST
SOLARWINDS
© 2016 SOLARWINDS WORLDWIDE, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

• Review of recent SolarWinds Network Management releases...
• Context reminder
• Troubleshooting today’s network (using the SolarWinds portfolio)
• Recent product enhancements
• Is it the network or the application? – Network Performance Monitor (NPM) 11.5
• Monitoring and troubleshooting, BYOD support, and QoE enhancements – NPM 11.5
• Improved reporting, alerting, compliance and auditing; 2-level approvals; leverage NIST
National Vulnerability Database (NVD) – Network Configuration Manager (NCM) 7.4
• Demonstration
• What we’re working on
• What we’re thinking about
• Questions?
AGENDA

• USERS are demanding
quality of experience as
they connect from anything,
anywhere…
• …through a NETWORK of
more dynamic and complex
infrastructure, traffic, and
topologies
• …to APPS running in more
dynamic and abstracted
systems architectures
CONTEXT REMINDER
VISION
SiSi
L2 Switch
Data Center
On Premises
or Co-located
V
M V
M
IaaS
“Elastic” capacity”
Internet
Branch
office
Branch
office
V
M
L
BV
M V
M
SaaS Application
Application
Internet /
Leased WAN
(ISP/telco-supplied)
SWITCH

NET “STACK” TROUBLESHOOTING
• Is it REALLY the network?
• Is it a latency or reachability issue?
• Is it a bandwidth or QoS issue?
• Did somebody change something?
• Is it an IP conflict or IP Provisioning
Issue?
WHERE WE ARE TODAY
Network Performance Monitor (NPM)
with Deep Packet Analysis
Network Configuration Manager (NCM)
and Log & Event Manager (LEM)
IP Address Manager (IPAM) &
User Device Tracker (UDT)
NetFlow Traffic Analyzer
(NTA)
VOIP & Network Quality Mgr. (VNQM) &
Engineer’s Toolset
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NETWORK PERFORMANCE MONITOR V11.5
– IS IT THE NETWORK OR THE APP?
DEEP PACKET INSPECTION-BASED ANALYSIS OF THE TRAFFIC
QoE Dashboard
(includes unlimited
free sensors)
Is it the Network or
the Application?
Other
Voice & Network Quality Mgr. (VNQM)
& Engineer’s Toolset
Network Performance Monitor (NPM)
& NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA)
Network Configuration Mgr. (NCM)
IP Address Mgr. (IPAM) &
User Device Tracker (UDT)
Traffic categorization by:
• Risk level
• Productivity

NETWORK PERFORMANCE MONITOR 11.5
• Wireless Heatmaps
• Floor plan import and scaling
• Coverage analysis
• Theoretical (circle)
• How each access point sees other
access points (no need to manage them)
• Signal sample from workstation (no need
to manage them)
• Automatic discovery of workstation from
access point
• Automatic positioning of workstation
based on triangulation from multiple
access points

• Quality of Experience - now with Application Discovery
• No need to define applications to “sniff” anymore
• Still need to manage the workstations to sniff traffic for (ICMP management OK)
• Create reports and receive alerts on:
• Users using cloud storage? (e.g., exfiltration to Dropbox®)
• Unwanted URL being used (BOTNET…)

• New Alert Actions - change custom property / manually change node status
• Web-Based Alerting - migration to web interface (e.g., Win32® Adv. Alert Manager)

• Tons of usability improvements
• Perform bulk edits, test / simulate actions, import / export / etc.
• Migration from legacy alert system, SQL still possible
• Sophisticated options
• Rich scheduling options to avoid alerts during scheduled maintenance periods
• Multi criteria alerts (e.g., combine node and app)
• Actions can change value of a Custom Property (out of service flag, trigger
another alert)
• "Play Sound" or "Text to Speech" on local workstation
• Preview # of expected Alerts: don’t spam the team, reduce the noise!
WEB-BASED ALERTING

• Capacity forecasting
• "How many days before I run out of disk
space/CPU/bandwidth?"
• Poll duplex settings and alert on possible mismatches
• Based on setting mismatch when both interfaces
are managed
• Based on analysis of error counters when only 1
interface avail. (e.g., SP connection)

• Improved hardware health polling –
different "sensor" can be configured per
device instance
• Track and report on interface downtime

• Mandatory custom properties
• Custom properties store non-
technical info (e.g., org,
contract, location, names)
• Mandatory properties make
processes and automation
more reliable
• Automated and dynamic
dependency mapping to reduce
alert noise
• Topology-based (CDP, LLDP)
• TraceRoute

• Automatic Geo Location
(syslocation attribute)
• Automatic aggregation based on
zoom-level

• Miscellaneous Web UI and usability improvements
• 2-level Configuration Management Approval
• PCI compliance improvement
• Optional or 1-level
NETWORK CONFIGURATION MANAGER 7.4
(1) Config Change
Requester
(2) First
approver
(3) Second
approver
(4)

• Improvements of Compliance Report engine (remediation)
• Auditing improvements
• Track username transferring configs, executing NCM jobs
• Track username changing device config and triggering real-time change detection (syslog)
• Automation: New out of the box configuration change templates for Cisco® iOS® and
Juniper® Junos® devices

• Store device templates in the database and Web Wizard for device templates

• Report vulnerabilities for Cisco iOS
• Consuming the NIST NVD database in a SCAP*-compliant manner (limited to Network)
* Not a Security Content Automation Protocol
(SCAP)-validated tool

• Daily refresh of the NIST
NVD database content
(http://nvd.nist.gov/download.cfm)
- online installs
• Daily checks
• Off-line installs supported
• Download a NIST XML
feed

• PCI, DISA STIGs, and NIST FISMA reports
now ship with NCM
• Off-line systems
• Download Updates to NCM’s compliance
policies from thwack®
• Follow DISA guidance from this posting
• Follow FISMA/NIST/RMF guidance from
this posting
NETWORK CONFIGURATION MANAGER
CONTINUOUS MONITORING FOR POLICY COMPLIANCE AND AUDITING

• Network Performance Monitor
• New look and feel (UI enhancements)
• Deep visibility into F5® load balancers
• Monitoring for Cisco Switch Stacks
• Increased scalability and performance
• ServiceNow® integration
Disclaimer:
SolarWinds considers various features and functionality prior to any final generally available release. As such, comments given in this forum are
not (nor should they be interpreted to be) a commitment from SolarWinds that it will deliver any specific feature or, if it delivers such feature, any
time frame when that feature will be delivered. SolarWinds is always trying to improve and enhance its products. All discussions herein are
based upon product team current interests, and product team plans and priorities can change at any time.
WHAT WE’RE WORKING ON

• NetFlow Traffic Analyzer
• UI enhancements and integration
• Cisco NBAR2 support
• Network Configuration Manager
• Native F5 support
Disclaimer:
SolarWinds considers various features and functionality prior to any final generally available release. As such, comments given in this forum are
not (nor should they be interpreted to be) a commitment from SolarWinds that it will deliver any specific feature or, if it delivers such feature, any
time frame when that feature will be delivered. SolarWinds is always trying to improve and enhance its products. All discussions herein are
based upon product team current interests, and product team plans and priorities can change at any time.
WHAT WE’RE WORKING ON

WHAT WE’RE THINKING ABOUT

TODAY
SiSi
L2 Switch
Data Center
On Premises
or Co-located
V
M V
M
IaaS
“Elastic capacity”
Internet
Branch
office
Branch
office
V
M
L
BV
M V
M
SaaS Application
App
Internet /
Leased WAN
(ISP/telco-supplied)
SWITCH

TOMORROW

QUESTIONS?
POST THEM TO OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT THWACK® GROUP AT:
HTTP://THWACK.COM/GOVERNMENT
OR EMAIL
FEDERALSALES@SOLARWINDS.COM

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• Learn More:
• Visit our Federal website: http://www.solarwinds.com/federal
• Watch a short demo video: http://www.solarwinds.com/sedemo
• Download a free trial: http://www.solarwinds.com/downloads/
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