1 00:00:00,820 --> 00:00:09,520 So our network is working, so we've integrated the NPM VM with our GNS 3 topology, we've 2 00:00:09,520 --> 00:00:11,110 tested IP connectivity. 3 00:00:12,910 --> 00:00:23,980 So now we can connect to NPM and login, so URL to use is localhost:8787 or alternatively 4 00:00:23,980 --> 00:00:25,750 the hostname of your PC. 5 00:00:26,940 --> 00:00:33,510 The default username is Admin the default password is no password, in other words, blank that's 6 00:00:33,510 --> 00:00:40,650 shown here, and you can change that by going to settings, manage accounts. 7 00:00:41,250 --> 00:00:47,610 I'm going to login with those default values and now we can start our network discovery. 8 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:49,200 So I'm going to click start. 9 00:00:51,610 --> 00:01:00,370 We can discover devices by using a small subnet such as /24 or by specifying individual IP addresses. 10 00:01:00,910 --> 00:01:09,070 I'm going to add a range of addresses so 10.1.100.1 to 10.1.100 11 00:01:09,460 --> 00:01:10,300 .3. 12 00:01:13,250 --> 00:01:14,180 I'm gonna click next. 13 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:18,040 I'll make this a bit bigger, so it's easier to read. 14 00:01:21,730 --> 00:01:27,820 Next, we're told that NPM can check all notes currently polling with agents for updates by selecting 15 00:01:28,750 --> 00:01:34,660 by selecting this option, all notes currently polling via an agent will be pulled for updates. 16 00:01:35,350 --> 00:01:41,560 The setting is helpful when using scheduled discoveries to keep agent updates current. 17 00:01:41,830 --> 00:01:44,050 So I'm going to select that option and click next. 18 00:01:45,520 --> 00:01:53,820 Do we want to log in to ESXI so we can poll VMware and add our vCenter or ESX credentials? 19 00:01:53,830 --> 00:01:54,790 I'm going to click next. 20 00:01:55,940 --> 00:02:03,320 Now, by default SNMP or simple network management protocol will use a public and private community 21 00:02:03,320 --> 00:02:05,490 value for accessing devices. 22 00:02:06,140 --> 00:02:07,580 Now we configured 23 00:02:08,949 --> 00:02:09,550 our routers. 24 00:02:13,460 --> 00:02:21,770 So show run pipe include SNMP with a community value of NPM, so we need to add a new credential 25 00:02:21,770 --> 00:02:22,100 here. 26 00:02:25,670 --> 00:02:28,220 The value is going to be NPM, 27 00:02:30,120 --> 00:02:39,000 click add so there it is, click next, we can add Windows credentials if we want to allow solar 28 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:47,150 winds NPM to collect C.P.U memory and volume data from Windows servers that don't support SNMP. 29 00:02:47,550 --> 00:02:47,970 For now 30 00:02:47,970 --> 00:02:48,930 I'm not going to do that. 31 00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:49,950 I'm going to click next. 32 00:02:51,360 --> 00:02:57,630 We asked how we would like to set up what to monitor so manually set up monitoring of the devices are 33 00:02:57,630 --> 00:03:02,580 discovered automatically monitor based on my defined monitoring settings. 34 00:03:04,390 --> 00:03:08,440 I'm going to leave it at the default of manual, click next. 35 00:03:10,610 --> 00:03:17,000 Now, at any point, you can go back through the wizard, so at the moment I'm at discovery settings, 36 00:03:17,030 --> 00:03:20,180 I could click back to go to monitoring settings. 37 00:03:21,740 --> 00:03:27,080 So as an example, I might want to include devices that respond to pings alone. 38 00:03:29,730 --> 00:03:30,420 Click next. 39 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:33,960 Details of my discovery are shown here. 40 00:03:34,340 --> 00:03:36,590 I'm going to accept the defaults and click next. 41 00:03:37,670 --> 00:03:44,330 I'm asked how often I want to do the polling that could be hourly, daily, or other options. 42 00:03:44,340 --> 00:03:46,100 I'm going to select once only 43 00:03:46,730 --> 00:03:49,570 and I want to run the discovery right now. 44 00:03:49,580 --> 00:03:51,380 So click discover, 45 00:03:51,980 --> 00:03:57,950 the discovery process is then started and you can see here that three notes have been discovered. 46 00:03:59,510 --> 00:04:02,600 You can see the overall progress indicator. 47 00:04:04,330 --> 00:04:11,160 So at this point, three routers were discovered and one Windows 7 workstation was discovered, click 48 00:04:11,260 --> 00:04:11,680 next. 49 00:04:13,480 --> 00:04:18,220 Now, which interfaces should be monitored by default, up interfaces are monitored. 50 00:04:19,300 --> 00:04:27,040 The port mode of trunk access or unknown is going to be monitored and physical, virtual, and unknown 51 00:04:27,040 --> 00:04:28,630 interfaces are going to be monitored. 52 00:04:29,880 --> 00:04:33,270 We can see a list of interfaces, so as an example, 53 00:04:34,460 --> 00:04:41,000 on router 1 FastEthernet 0/0 is up, but FastEthernet 1/0 is down. 54 00:04:41,900 --> 00:04:46,400 So my various interfaces, including serial interfaces, are shown here. 55 00:04:47,810 --> 00:04:55,160 Other interfaces are also listed, such as null zero, as well as the loopback interfaces of the devices. 56 00:04:56,260 --> 00:05:02,560 As an example, show IP interface brief on router 1 shows a list of interfaces. 57 00:05:03,550 --> 00:05:08,590 So you can see the FastEthernet interfaces and serial interfaces. 58 00:05:10,990 --> 00:05:20,020 So that interface information has been picked up by the solarwinds NPM application, click next on my 59 00:05:20,290 --> 00:05:29,260 PC, I can view RAM virtual memory, fixed disk space, and other options. Here's the import preview so we 60 00:05:29,260 --> 00:05:30,820 can decide what we want to import. 61 00:05:30,970 --> 00:05:36,310 I'm going to import my routers as well as the Windows machine, and you can see that information is 62 00:05:36,310 --> 00:05:39,940 now being imported into the database. 63 00:05:40,510 --> 00:05:41,950 The import has finished. 64 00:05:42,070 --> 00:05:43,360 So I'm going to click finish. 65 00:05:45,260 --> 00:05:47,690 So going to my dashboard's summary. 66 00:05:49,520 --> 00:05:58,430 I can see that I have three Cisco routers, router 1, router 2, and router 3. 67 00:06:01,440 --> 00:06:08,640 An unknown device has also been picked up, that is the additional IP address on my local Windows PC. 68 00:06:10,110 --> 00:06:15,690 I can also see that I have issues connecting to Google.com as an example. 69 00:06:17,780 --> 00:06:20,120 So let's click on one of the routers, router 1. 70 00:06:22,300 --> 00:06:29,350 You can see the note is up, can see the IP address, machine type description, and other information 71 00:06:29,590 --> 00:06:31,240 about the router. 72 00:06:32,300 --> 00:06:41,470 Including, as an example, interface utilization, that's how you get NPM integrated with a GNS 3 network, 73 00:06:42,110 --> 00:06:47,810 not only is NPM a very powerful application and we'll look at some of the features as we go through the 74 00:06:47,810 --> 00:06:55,160 course, but it also helps you learn practically simple network management protocol and the management 75 00:06:55,160 --> 00:06:57,890 of network devices using a management station.