Government and Education Webinar: Optimize Performance With Advanced Host Monitoring

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Optimize Performance With
Advanced Host Monitoring
Government and Education Webinar
April 27, 2021

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Speaker Introductions
© 2021 SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. All rights reserved.
Arthur Bradway
Sales Engineer, Advisory
arthur.bradway@solarwinds.com
703.386.2673 (office)

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Agenda
• SolarWinds overview
• Host monitoring challenges
• Advanced host monitoring
with SolarWinds®
• Demonstration
• Additional resources
• Q&A

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SolarWinds at a Glance
1. IDC defined Network Management Software functional market, IDC’s Worldwide Semiannual Software Tracker, October 15, 2020.
2. Gartner, Market Share Analysis: ITOM: Performance Analysis Software, Worldwide, 2019. June 17, 2020. (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.
3. 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.
#1
in network
management1
320,000+
customers in 190
countries3
60+
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 3,200
employees globally
Austin, TX headquarters
Reston, VA, government office
30+ offices globally
Leader
in remote monitoring and
management
#3
in systems
management2
Growing security
portfolio
499 of the
Fortune 500®

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What Is SolarWinds ITOM?
IT operations management. Simplified.
IT Ops
On-Premises Public Cloud
Service Management
IT
Security
Database Performance Management
Network Management
Infrastructure Management
IT Security
DevOps
Private Cloud
Wherever IT
sits
All things IT Whoever
manages IT
performance
Application Performance Management

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Host Monitoring Challenges
• Monitoring hybrid systems
• Tracking resource usage
• Monitoring application performance
• Virtual machine management
• Web application performance management
• Server configuration management
• Database performance management

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Advanced Host
Monitoring

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Monitoring Hybrid Systems
• SAM provides in-depth details about application health no
matter where they’re deployed, so you can achieve critical
visibility into key performance metrics
• The PerfStack™ dashboard lets you compare different
types of data side-by-side, which helps generate insights
• Links: Data - Demo - Resource
With SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor (SAM)

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Monitoring Applications With SAM
Orion
Server
and SQL
database
Server &
Application
Monitor
Database
Performance
Analyzer
Single
Pane of
Glass
SolarWinds Solution Polling Method Where the Application Lives
Optional
VPN
On-
premises
AWS®
Google®
Azure®
Private
cloud
SNMP
Agents
API

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Tracking Resource Usage
• SAM includes capacity planning features to help you evenly distribute disk, memory,
CPU, and host usage
• Monitor server capacity and resource usage for server capacity planning
• Forecasts show which servers are nearing critical thresholds
• Pinpoint what’s straining your host and troubleshoot issues before they affect end-user
experience
• Optimize server and hardware resource investments through right-size resource
allocation
• See what’s causing server resource contention by tracking the resources being
consumed from applications running on physical and virtual servers
• Gain visibility into server capacity issues

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Digging Into Performance
• SAM includes over 1,200
application monitor templates
to help speed up the
troubleshooting process
• Use these templates to better
understand the availability
and current performance of
applications, so you can
focus on what needs fixing

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Using Specialized Features
• SAM comes equipped with specialized features to make
hosted server monitoring easier and more intuitive
• The AppStack™ dashboard highlights performance issues by
showing relationships between apps on the host
• AppInsight™ features even more templates to help you monitor
servers like Microsoft Exchange, IIS, and SQL Server

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Virtual Machine Monitoring and Management
• VMware, Hyper-V, and Nutanix
• Performance information
• Virtualization sprawl
• Recommendations to help rightsize the environment
• Capacity planning
• AppStack and PerfStack integration
With SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)

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Monitor Web Application Performance
• See if the website’s services are running
• Detailed metrics around load time
• Monitor the transactions from multiple locations
• Alerting
With SolarWinds Web Performance Monitor (WPM)

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Monitor Server Configurations
• Detect changes to your Windows and Linux servers
• Hardware and software changes
• Application changes to IIS and MS SQL Server
• Via scripts to monitor changes
• Compare changes over time
• Correlate change information to the performance information
With SolarWinds Server Configuration Monitor (SCM)

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Monitor Database Performance
• Cross-platform database support
• MS SQL Server / Azure SQL Database
• PostgreSQL
• MySQL
• Wait time analysis
• Index and query tuning advisors
• Anomaly detection
With SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer (DPA)
• MariaDB
• Db2
• SAP ASE

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DEMO

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Additional Resources
• Advanced host monitoring use case page
• Host capacity planning use case page
• Product pages
• SAM
• VMAN
• WPM
• SCM
• DPA
• Feature pages
• PerfStack
• AppStack
• AppInsight
Let us know how we can help you

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Q&A
Call government or education
sales:
877.946.3751
Contact federal sales:
federalsales@solarwinds.com
Contact state and local
government sales:
governmentsales@solarwinds.com
Contact education sales:
educationsales@solarwinds.com

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Register here.
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Register here.

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Contact Us
• 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
• 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/government
• Follow us on LinkedIn®: https://www.linkedin.com/company/solarwinds-
government
Let us know how we can help you

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THANK
YOU

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