Understanding network management protocols is an important part of your job as a network engineer and
is also important within the role of doing network management, network management protocols are also
a key part of the solar wind's product.
In other words, solar winds, management tools make use of management protocols to manage network devices.
This video will provide an overview of how network management applications leverage network management
protocols.
Wel'l also described the different types of network management protocols that are available and then
explain the most common protocols. When discussing network management protocols
We need to think about three main things.
Before we talk about that, we'll look at how Orion leverages network management protocols and which
types of protocols are leveraged for different types of monitoring solutions. Splarwinds
Network Performance Monitor does both Fault monitoring as well as performance monitoring. For fault management
Most network management systems, including solarwinds, use ICMP or PING to detect whether a device
is up or down.
It's as simple as the network management system or NMS sending out a ping request and waiting for
a ping response.
If the ICMP response isn't returned, the NMS assumes that the device is down. Now in Orion
it works slightly differently in that if a response isn't returned, Orion places the nodes in a mode
warning stage, which means that Orion is going to do a fast poll of the device to verify that it's really
down.
NPM or Orion, by default, will monitor the device in a fast polling mode for 120 seconds before it notifies
you that the device is down.
This is configurable under advanced settings in the NPM system manager.
Monitoring for faults on subelements like interfaces and volumes is done differently as it's done via
SNMP or simple network management protocol.