Federal Webinar: Technical Update on the Best New Features of our Most Popular Products

SolarWinds® Technical Update:
the Best New Features
Ed Bender
Lead Federal SE
ed.bender@solarwinds.com 410-286-3060

© 2013 SOLARWINDS WORLDWIDE, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

New Product Versions and Key Features Covered Today
» Network Performance Monitor (NPM 10.6)
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Web Based Reporting Tool
UnDP on Maps
VMAN integration
New World Map

» Network Configuration Manager (NCM 7.2)
 Web interface for Job Scheduling
 End of Sales/End of Life for network devices

» NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA 4.0)
 Architecture change for dramatic improvements in performance and data retention
 Web Based Reporting tool

» Server & Application Monitor (SAM 6.0)
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Integration with Virtualization Manager (VMAN 6.0)
AppInsight for MS SQL
Server Asset Inventory
Disk IO Performance metrics for Processes and Services

» Firewall Security Manager (FSM 6.6)
 New Orion® interface for FSM


Other Fed Specific Features
» Network Performance Monitor (NPM 10.6)
 Route monitoring improvements (including Multicast Route Monitoring)

» Network Configuration Manager (NCM 7.2)
 Elimination of “Windows® Task Scheduler” due to DISA STIG compliance

» NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA 4.0)
 Forensics capability dramatically improved with NTA 4.0 due to significant increase in data
retention.

» Server & Application Monitor (SAM 6.0)
 Server Asset Inventory includes software installed on machines
 Integration with Web Help Desk® can automate discovery of Assets and population of Assets in
Web Help Desk ticketing system.

» Firewall Security Manager (FSM 6.6)
 STIG audit report is configurable

NPM – Web Based Reporting
» Web based reporting UI with new "out of the box" reports with charts
 Reports that substitute legacy/old reporting and add possibility to show historical charts
 TOP xx reports that show charts and detailed information about interfaces and nodes and
wireless on the same page. Custom SWQL/SQL.


NPM – UnDP on Maps with Thresholds
» UnDP on maps with thresholds


NPM – New Worldwide Maps (OpenStreetMaps Engine)
» Capability to display the status of nodes or an aggregated group of nodes over
dynamically updated street data.


NPM – Integration with VMAN

Visibility into
Datastore Capacity
and Performance


NPM 10.6 Demo

Network Performance Monitor 10.6
Demo


NPM 10.6 – Other New Features
» Syslog/Trap Rules Improvement (Drag & Drop, Import/Export)
» Node Unmanaged Functionality Improvements
» Multicast Support for HP® devices


NCM 7.2 Enhancements
» Continue moving functionality from Win32® client to Web UI
 Job management (Windows Task Scheduler not used anymore)
 Config management (edit, delete, set baseline, import from file)
 Possibility to test device login credentials

» End-of-Life information management
 Suggestions for Cisco® and Juniper®, possibility to enter custom data
 Customizable reporting; new resource on summary page

» Multiple global connection profiles
 Define multiple connection profiles (device credentials, protocol, port etc.)
 NCM will try which of the predefined connection profiles works for a device (configurable per
device)

» The execution of Config Change Templates can be scheduled

NCM 7.2 Enhancements (Continued)
» Change Approval System enhancements
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Approved requests to be executed at specified date/time
Approved requests to be returned to requestor for execution
Requesters can see a history of what they requested and was approved
Approvers can see a history of what they approved

SNMPv3 -- Support of AES-256 encryption
Device support (Palo Alto Networks®, Brocade®)
Config Change Template Extensions: 'delay' command, string <-> number conversion
Support for database encryption using MS SQL TDE


NCM 7.2 Demo of New Features

Network Configuration
Manager 7.2 DEMO

NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA 4.0) Update
» Architecture change allows dramatic improvements in performance and data
retention
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Alleviates SQL overhead from NTA on the Orion DB
Allows for much longer raw data retention
Scalability increased
Deployment flexibility

» Web Based Reporting tool
 Same reporting tool as with NPM
 “Legacy Reports” are not going away


NTA 4.0 – Architecture in a 64bit Environment
Installation cases
1. One server (evaluation)

2. Remote SQL & Flow Storage
(Recommended Deployment)

1. Remote SQL server
(embedded Flow Storage)

NTA 4.0 Scalability Notes
» Architecture change allows dramatic improvements in performance and data
retention
 Alleviates SQL overhead from NTA on the Orion DB
 Allows for much longer raw data retention
• New Flow Storage allows us to store flows with 1 minute granularity for whole retention period (30 days
by default)

 Significantly better performance compared to same amount of data on NTA 3.11 with Microsoft®
SQL
• Better load times on NTA resources / reports.
• NTA is capable to process more flows per seconds

 Distributed and Scalable architecture

» Web Based Reporting tool
 Same reporting tool as with NPM
 “Legacy Reports” are not going away

Server & Application Monitor (SAM 6.0)
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Integration with Virtualization Manager (VMAN 6.0)
AppInsight for MS SQL
Server Asset Inventory
Disk IO Performance metrics for Processes and Services
Real-Time Event Log Viewer
Threshold Baseline Calculator
Web Based Reporting (sound familiar yet?)


SAM 6.0 Demo

Server & Application Monitor 6.0
DEMO


Firewall Security Manager (FSM 6.6)
» FSM Overview
 Analyzed firewall configs and logs to isolate redundant, covered and unused objects
 Models how a new rule, or change to an existing one, will impact your firewall policy
 Simplifies firewall troubleshooting and change management for your multi-vendor layer 3 network
devices
 Automates security audits using over 120 customizable, out-of-the-box checks based on standards
from NSA, NIST, SANS and more

» FSM Orion Integration
 Summary Page
 Tree View
 Report overview
• Security Audit
• PCI Compliance

 ACL/NAT Rules view
 Network Objects view

FSM Orion Integration

FSM Orion Integration
•Summary Page
•Tree View
•Report overview
•Security Audit
•PCI Compliance
•ACL/NAT Rules view
•Network Objects view


FSM 6.6 Demo

Firewall Security Manager 6.6 DEMO


Other Products with New Features
» Quick overview of key new features in other network monitoring products:
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User Device Tracker (UDT 3.0)
VoIP & Network Quality Manager (VNQM 4.1)
IP Address Manager (IPAM 4.0)
Network Topology Mapper (NTM 2.0)


UDT v3 Enhancements
» Whitelisting
 Set up a white list of devices based on MAC address, IP address, or hostname

» Trap Notifications
 Get connectivity information in "real time"; receive an alert when a device not on whitelist
connects to the network

» Users on Watch List
 Add users to the Watch List; receive an alert when a watched user connects

» Domain Controller Config Wizard
 Facilitate collection of user login information by configuring appropriate logging level on
Windows Servers®


UDT v3 Enhancements (Continued)
» Port Shutdown
 Remotely shutdown a compromised device port

» New Alert
 Get an alert when an endpoint port changes

» New Report on Wireless Endpoints
» Groups
 Add UDT ports to groups

» Virtual Route and Forwarding (VRF)
 Poll devices for VRF data

» Support of Windows Server 2012


What‘s New in VNQM 4.1
» VoIP & Network Quality Manager can already monitor your WAN quality using IPSLA
operations and Call Details Record for VoIP troubleshooting
» Cisco MGCP PRI and PRI Trunk utilization monitoring
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Real VoIP utilization monitoring on Cisco PRI Gateways
Detailed data distribution UI
Trunk utilization charts
Historical VoIP & data utilization statistics for gateways
Call issues summary per gateway


View Your VoIP and Data Utilization for a Gateway or Trunk


IPAM as DHCP, DNS and IP Address Management &
Configuration Tool
» IPAM strategy is to offer you a unified and multivendor tool for end to end IP
Address Management
» What IPAM already does:
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IP Address scanning, IP Subnets utilization reporting
Cisco (ASA including), Microsoft DHCP services management
Microsoft and BIND DNS management
IP Address Conflict detection


What Are We Working On?
» IPAM is currently in 4.1 Beta phase – you may try!
 http://thwack.solarwinds.com/groups/orion-ip-address-manager-beta

» Adding support for missing DHCP options, new UI, generic approach
» ISC DHCP Management – manage your scopes, groups, see pools
» More OOTB reports with charts – adoption of the new Orion reporting


Network Topology Mapper (NTM 2.0)
» What is Network Topology Mapper
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Discovers & Map your network (replaces LANsurveyor®)
Provides L2 & L3 Network Maps
Provides raw network reports
Export network diagrams to Microsoft Visio®, Network Atlas, PDF and PNG

» New Features
 Network Atlas/NPM import and export of maps
 Integrated with Engineers Toolset
 Microsoft Hyper-V® Mapping

NTM

NPM

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Q&A
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Email: federalsales@solarwinds.com

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