ARCHIVE: Basic Solarwinds Read Only Access
This is a document to help you get started navigating Solarwinds for performance monitoring and system resources investigations as a read only user.
Accessing Solarwinds :
- VPN to Rice VPN
- From any browser connect to https://solarwinds.net.rice.edu
- Login using Rice SAML
Locating any monitored system using Search:
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In the upper right-hand corner of the Rice, Solarwinds websight click on the magnifying glass icon. You can search full or partial results of hostname or ip address. Once entered press the return
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A listing of all matches should appear, just to the right under Generic select "Entity" then "Node". This should narrow the search down to only systems or VM nodes.
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Click on the system (if there is more than one) you wish to evaluate.
Information on the system:
The screen will display information about the system under headers such as
- Triggers
- Availablity
- Resource Loads (CPU, Disk, Memory, Network)
- Events (logged events, errors, triggers etc..)
- Forcasts (projections of resource exhaustion based on utilization trends)
Performance Analyzer:
- Look for the Performance Analyzer in the display and click on it. This will take you to a new web page for digging into performance issues.
- Look at the default items shown. If you do not see a resource you may want to evaluate, look in the upper left-hand corner of the screen for ">>" and click on it. This will open up the Metric Pallete. You can drag and drop monitored resources for the system you are reviewing into the right-hand side of the page. If this is something you want to keep, save the view at the top right.
- Use the time frame editor to look for events during a specific epoc when an error occurred.
- You can export results if you need to share them with a vendor.
Built-in Dashboards:
- You can also look at information about systems and their dependencies using the built-in Dashboards for information about VM hosts and guests, networking, and other items.
- Review Active Virtual Alerts
- Refer to the Virtualization Storage Summary to find information about the host and guest disk IOP latency and other resources.