Discover and add network devices

After you install SAM, identify the devices you want to monitor and add them to the SolarWinds Orion database. There are several ways to do this, including

• Use the Discovery Wizard (also called the Network Sonar Wizard) to detect a large number of devices across your enterprise, and then add discovered devices with the Network Sonar Results Wizard.
• Add nodes by querying your Active Directory domain controller
• Add individual nodes on the Manage Nodes page.

To learn more, review the following Orion Platform Administrator Guide topics:

• Discover your network with the Discovery wizard
• Add nodes using Active Directory
• Automatically add discovered nodes
• Add discovered devices
• Add a single node for monitoring
• Choose polling methods
• Import nodes from a list of IP addresses
• Manage scheduled discovery results
• Manage devices in the Orion Web Console
• Group objects and mirror network dependencies

This section also includes the following topics:

• Promote a node from ICMP to SNMP monitoring
• Promote a node to WMI monitoring

When finished adding and configuring devices, you can start Discover applications in your environment.