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SolarWinds Government and Education Webinar: Optimizing the Orion Platform
- 1. @solarwinds Optimizing the Orion® Platform Government and Education Webinar August 8, 2019
- 2. @solarwinds 2 Speaker Introduction Arthur Bradway Sr. Federal Sales Engineer arthur.bradway@solarwinds.com 703.386.2673 (office) © 2019 SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. All rights reserved.
- 3. @solarwinds 3 • SolarWinds overview • Orion Platform overview and architecture • Orion Web Console • Upgrading Orion Platform products • Platform maintenance and other suggestions • Additional resources • Demonstration • Q&A Agenda © 2019 SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. All rights reserved.
- 4. @solarwinds 4 SolarWinds at a Glance 1. Customers are defined as individuals or entities that have an active subscription for our subscription products or that have purchased one or more of our perpetual license products since our inception under a unique customer identification number. We may have multiple purchasers of our products within a single organization, each of which may be assigned a unique customer identification number and deemed a separate customer. 2. IDC defined Network Management Software functional market, IDC’s Worldwide Semiannual Software Tracker, April 2019. 3. Source: Gartner, Market Share Analysis: ITOM: Performance Analysis Software, Worldwide, 2017. July 9, 2018. (AIOps/ITIM/Other Monitoring Tools Software Market). SolarWinds term, Systems Management, refers to the AIOps/ITIM/Other Monitoring Tools Software Market Taxonomy referenced in the Gartner report. All statements in this report attributable to Gartner represent SolarWinds interpretation of data, research opinion or viewpoints published as part of a syndicated subscription service by Gartner, Inc., and have not been reviewed by Gartner. Each Gartner publication speaks as of its original publication date (and not as of the date of this presentation). The opinions expressed in Gartner publications are not representations of fact and are subject to change without notice. #1 in Network Management2 300,000+ customers in 190 countries1 50+ IT management products 22,000+ MSPs serving 450,000+ organizations Every branch of the DoD, and nearly every civilian and intelligence agency 150,000+ registered members of THWACK®, our global IT community Founded in 1999 More than 2,500 employees globally Austin, TX, headquarters Herndon, VA, government office 30+ offices globally Leader in remote monitoring and management #4 in Systems Management3 Growing security portfolio 499 of Fortune 500® © 2019 SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. All rights reserved.
- 5. @solarwinds 5 Building Great Products That Simply Work Is at Our Core © 2019 SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. All rights reserved. End User-Driven Product Strategy With a Constantly Growing OfferingFocused on Ease and Efficiency Geekbuilt.® Roadmap driven by end-users and products developed by IT Professionals who understand today’s IT environment Massive User Community 150K+ registered THWACK members; in 2017, THWACK averaged over 7,000 daily unique visitors 22K+ MSPs access the MSP Institute and Customer Success Center Solve clearly identified problems Orion® Platform Hybrid IT management Application Management Affordable full-stack monitoring for hybrid and cloud-native IT environments SolarWinds MSP Remote monitoring and management platforms, backup, and email security Easy to try, find, and buy Ready to use Security Security, simplified
- 6. @solarwinds 6 Our Approach to ProductOurCorePrinciplesNotableExamples Simple and powerful Deliver complete visibility for hybrid IT Grow with our customers Enable application- centric management •Quick value after install •Seamless UX across product portfolio •Native support of the major on-premises and public clouds •Unified, integrated experience •Start small, solve the first problem, and be ready for the next •Add new capabilities quickly • AppStack™ – manage the entire app, not just components • PerfStack™ – real-time troubleshooting across the modern app and infrastructure stack • NetPath™ – manage the network, not just elements • Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring – AWS® and Azure® infrastructure monitoring •Support management of traditional and modern apps • Network Insight™ – deep visibility for the modern network stack across performance and configuration • AppInsight™ – deep visibility for packaged application performance • Increased scale – support for 400,000 NPM elements in a single instance • Simplified multiproduct installer – single installer to automatically resolve upgrade and install dependencies © 2019 SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. All rights reserved.
- 7. @solarwinds 7 SolarWinds Orion Platform Architecture © 2019 SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. All rights reserved. Products built on the Orion Platform Network Performance Monitor NetFlow Traffic Analyzer Network Configuration Manager IP Address Manager VoIP & Network Quality Manager User Device Tracker Log Analyzer Web Performance Monitor Server & Application Monitor Server Configuration Monitor Virtualization Manager Storage Resource Monitor Products integrated with the Orion Platform Database Performance Analyzer Application Performance Monitor Patch Manager Engineer’s Toolset™ Add-on products for scalability Additional Polling Engines Additional Web Server High Availability Enterprise Operations Console
- 8. @solarwinds Orion Platform Primary Web Server, Main Polling Engine, and Common Services Orion Platform-wide features: Discovery, Device Monitoring, Intelligent Alerts, Reports, Events, Syslog, SNMP Traps, Maps, and API 8 Logical view of our platform architecture SolarWinds Orion Platform Architecture Toolset real-time trouble shooting PM Windows patch update management DPA database performance monitoring Flow Storage DB MS SQL 2016+ Orion DB MS SQL 2016+ Additional Web ServerAdditional Polling Engine High AvailabilityAdd-ons Enterprise Operations Console Products Integrated with the Orion PlatformSNMP v1, v2c, v3 Windows® WMI VMware® API Agents – Windows, Linux®, Unix®, AIX®, ARM NTA IP flows NPM interfaces, wireless, UCS… NCM configuration management network security IPAM IP address management UDT port monitoring network security VNQM VoIP monitoring SAM server & application monitoring SCM system & application configuration monitoring VMAN virtual monitoring & management - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - LA log management SRM storage monitoring & capacity planning WPM web application performance monitoring APM application performance monitoring © 2019 SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. All rights reserved. Log DB MS SQL 2016+
- 9. @solarwinds 9 Simplest deployment scenario SolarWinds Simple Orion Platform Deployment © 2019 SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Scales to: • 12,000 network elements • 10,000 component monitors • 50,000 flows per second • 20+ concurrent users
- 10. @solarwinds 10 Monitor and manage more IT devices Orion Data Collection With Additional Polling Engines © 2019 SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. All Rights Reserved. This configuration, with multiple additional polling engines, can scale to: • 400,000 network elements • 150,000 component monitors • 300,000 flows per second • 20+ concurrent users (can scale higher with additional web servers) • Up to 100 additional polling engines can be installed locally or remotely
- 11. @solarwinds 11 Enterprise Operations Console (EOC) © 2019 SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Automated high-level situational awareness EOC can collect, display, and alert on real-time operational status of IT devices monitored by Orion servers and can scale to: • Up to 100 remote or local Orion servers can be monitored by an EOC • 1,000,000 total elements (network, server/application) EOC with multiple Orion servers
- 12. @solarwinds 12 Enterprise Operations Console (EOC) © 2019 SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. All Rights Reserved. • Consistent with the Orion Platform architecture • Utilize core options, such as Additional Web Servers and High Availability • Cross-platform features like PerfStack • Recent Releases • Increased scale (2.2) • Improved performance (2.2) • Improved and updated UI (2.1) • Enterprise summary tiles (2.1) • Enterprise top 10 and groups (2.1) • PerfStack dashboard (2.1) *Note: No upgrade path from EOC 1.6.x to EOC 2.0. Although both versions can run in tandem, EOC 2.0 requires a fresh install on a new server.
- 13. @solarwinds 13 Supports more concurrent web users Scaling the Orion Platform for More Concurrent Users © 2019 SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. All Rights Reserved. This configuration scales to: • 40 concurrent users • 20+ on Orion server • 20+ on Additional Web Server • Each Additional Web Server adds 20+ concurrent users with good performance • Load balancers (not pictured) can be helpful at distributing the workload
- 14. @solarwinds 14 Monitor and manage with High Availability Orion Platform with High Availability © 2019 SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. All Rights Reserved. • Automatic failover • Main polling engines • Additional polling engines (APE) • HA pools with virtual IP addresses • Instant notification and alerting • Customizable rules • Real-time monitoring Region 2Region 1 Standby Server Pool #2 Standby Orion Server Server Pool #1 Region 2Region 1
- 15. @solarwinds 15 Deploy to Microsoft® Azure® and AWS® • Host main Orion server and database server at the same location • AWS and Azure deployment types • Cloud (main Orion server and database in the cloud) • Starting with Orion Platform 2019.2, you can deploy the database to Azure SQL DB • Hybrid (APE in the cloud; main Orion server and database on-premises) • Hybrid (main server and database in the cloud; APE on-premises) • Requirements • AWS Deployment Guide • Azure Deployment Guide © 2019 SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
- 16. @solarwinds 16 Additional Polling Engines in the cloud; main Orion server and database on-premises Orion Platform Hybrid Deployment Example 1 © 2019 SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
- 17. @solarwinds 17 Main Orion server and database in the cloud; Additional Polling Engine on-premises Orion Platform Hybrid Deployment Example 2 © 2019 SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
- 18. @solarwinds 18 Orion Web Console • License Orion Platform products • Evaluate Orion Platform products • Activate, upgrade, assign, migrate, and synchronize licenses for Orion Platform products • Discover and add network devices • Manage devices, group objects, and mirror network dependencies • Administrative functions • Customize the Orion Web Console © 2019 SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
- 19. @solarwinds 19 Centralized Orion Upgrades • Centralized upgrades was introduced in Orion Platform 2018.4 • Supports upgrade of the primary Orion server and scalability engines • Success Center: Install Centralized Upgrade Primary Server • THWACK product blog: Centralized Upgrades Walkthrough • Centralized Main Polling Engine upgrade feature added in 2019.2 • All reachable scalability engines are upgraded • No need to RDP to each server • Success Center: Orion Installer 2.1 feature- Centralized Upgrades © 2019 SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
- 20. @solarwinds 20 Orion Platform Maintenance Tips • Authentication/role-based access • Local Orion accounts • Active Directory® users • Active Directory groups • Last time data polled, polling engines, and elements • Website speed slowness areas to check • Network Sonar Wizard Discover new devices on your network so everything is being monitored • Orion diagnostic and poller checker Confirm platform settings and server response times, and verify device polling information © 2019 SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
- 21. @solarwinds Orion Platform Discovery • NOC view and dashboard Configure to display your most important information • Network Atlas Update topology data and platform maps to support your staff in visualizing issues • Role-based access Configure and update so on-duty IT users have necessary rights © 2019 SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 21
- 22. @solarwinds 22 Orion Platform Suggestions • NOC view and dashboard Configure to display your most important information Set up view limitations • Maps 2.0 Leverage intelligent mapping enhancements to improve visualization • Network Atlas Update topology data and maps to support your staff in visualizing issues • PerfStack Build custom charts and embed them into your dashboard • Configure the Orion Web Console to use SSL • Enable FIPS © 2019 SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
- 23. @solarwinds DEMO 23© 2019 SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. All rights reserved.
- 24. @solarwinds Additional Resources • Visit the Success Center for an optimization guide, release notes, upgrade guides, training materials, and documentation Orion Platform Optimization Guide https://support.solarwinds.com/success_center Customize the Manage Nodes / Entities view in Orion Manage devices in the Orion Web Console • Watch a video on Centralized Upgrades • Visit the Customer Portal to manage or upgrade software and access Upgrade Advisor https://customerportal.solarwinds.com • Visit Virtual Classrooms for live and on-demand classes at fundamental and intermediate levels https://customerportal.solarwinds.com/virtualclassrooms • Read a blog on Orion Maps 2.0 • Visit the Resource Center for whitepapers and tech tips https://www.solarwinds.com/resources • Watch SolarWinds Lab™ https://thwack.solarwinds.com/community/solarwinds-lab © 2019 SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. All rights reserved.
- 25. @solarwinds Q&A 25 Call government sales: 877.946.3751 Email your sales team: federalsales@solarwinds.com governmentsales@solarwinds.com educationsales@solarwinds.com © 2019 SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. All rights reserved.
- 26. @solarwinds 26 Let Us Know How We Can Help You • Visit our THWACK government group: http://thwack.com/government • Watch a short demo video: http://demo.solarwinds.com/sedemo/ • Download a free trial: http://www.solarwinds.com/downloads/ • Visit our government website: http://www.solarwinds.com/federal • Call government sales: 877.946.3751 • Email SolarWinds federal government sales: federalsales@solarwinds.com • Email SolarWinds state and local government sales: governmentsales@solarwinds.com • Email SolarWinds education sales: educationsales@solarwinds.com • Follow us on LinkedIn®: https://www.linkedin.com/company/solarwinds- government © 2019 SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. All rights reserved.
- 27. @solarwinds 27 THWACKcamp 2019 • THWACKcamp™ is a two-day virtual event held October 16 – 17 attended by thousands of IT pros around the world • Save the date and visit www.thwackcamp.com for more details; registration for this free event is open now © 2019 SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
- 28. @solarwinds The SolarWinds, SolarWinds & Design, Orion, and THWACK trademarks are the exclusive property of SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC or its affiliates, are registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and may be registered or pending registration in other countries. All other SolarWinds trademarks, service marks, and logos may be common law marks or are registered or pending registration. All other trademarks mentioned herein are used for identification purposes only and are trademarks of (and may be registered trademarks) of their respective companies.
Editor's Notes
- Proposed timeline- SolarWinds overview (5) FITARA overview (5) Improving your FITARA scorecard (18) IT tools consolidation Modernize and consolidate Improve compliance Additional resources (2) Demonstration (25) Q&A (5)
- We are simplifying the Orion Server instances on the bottom of slide; Orion Servers require a SQL Server, and potentially a NetFlow Storage Database.
- New release details from release history- 06.06.19 – Enterprise Operations Console 2.2 Increased Scale Support for up to 100 SolarWinds Orion Platform instances Improved Performance Increased web performance by 35%, significantly reducing page load times 08.14.18 – Enterprise Operations Console 2.1 Improved and Updated UI Improved Enterprise Environment Summary to allow for additional flexibility when customizing views, and unique controls for on-demand filtering; examples include Orion® Site Status, Site Filter, and Enterprise Nodes widgets Enterprise Summary Tile Enhancements These tiles are now individual widgets and include an Advanced Entity Filter; this allows users to take advantage of unique and granular filtering controls, without the need to understand SWQL Enterprise Top 10 and Groups Enterprise Top 10 page provides quick insight into critical status, problem areas, and hotspots Enterprise Groups view lets users pinpoint group status, alerts, and events from all configured groups across their deployments New PerfStack™ Widgets in EOC PerfStack dashboard gives EOC users the ability to troubleshoot and correlate metrics across the entire distributed environment; saved projects to be displayed alongside other resources on any dashboard
- Mention heartbeat between orion servers, and APEs; polling engine data goes directly to SQL database
- Your main Orion server and your Orion database server should be hosted at the same location, either both servers are on-premise or both are in the cloud. Hosting the main Orion server and database servers separately is not recommended due to connectivity concerns. Regardless of deployment location, it is important the main Orion server and Orion database are hosted on different servers. Cloud (main Orion server and database in the cloud) SolarWinds recommends this deployment when your monitored environment resides mostly in the cloud, and you have a good understanding of how much computer capacity you require to monitor your environment. Hybrid (Additional Polling Engines in the cloud; main Orion server and database on-premise) Use this deployment type when the majority of your monitored networks are on-premise or if your hybrid environment is geographically diverse and use different availability zones. You can also deploy agents to your nodes in the cloud to reduce the amount of data transferred within the Virtual Machine instance - and from the Virtual Machine instance - to your main Orion server. You will need to create a virtual private network (VPN) tunnel between the Additional Polling Engine (APE) in the Azure VM instance and your main Orion and Orion database servers. Hybrid (Main server and database in the cloud; APE on-premise) This deployment is recommended when your monitored environment includes a significant number of on-premise devices, or if you are migrating your infrastructure to the cloud. Requirements (see guide) Azure instances required for additional databases Some Orion Platform products, such as NTA or Log Analyzer, use additional databases. For more details, see Databases used by SolarWinds modules.
- Launch the Orion Web Console using either of the following methods: Start Orion Web Console in your SolarWinds Orion program folder. Launch a browser and enter http://ip_address or http://hostname, where ip_address is the IP address of your Orion server, or where hostnameis the domain name of your Orion server. Enter the user name and password, and click Login. See Configure automatic login for details about login options.
- 12.4.18 – Orion Platform 2018.4 Centralized upgrades Automatically upgrade additional polling engines, additional web servers, and High Availability servers directly from the Orion Web Console; upgrades run in parallel, which can dramatically reduce the time required to upgrade large deployments