Discover your environment

After you install SolarWinds SAM, you can identify the devices you want to monitor, and add them to the SolarWinds Orion database.

• To automatically discover and add a larger number of devices across your enterprise, use the Network Sonar Discovery and Network Sonar Results Wizards.
• To add individual objects for monitoring, add single nodes using Node Management in the Orion Web Console.

After adding application servers, review the following topics in this guide:

• What should I monitor in SAM?
• Discover your servers and applications in SAM
• Add discovered servers and applications to SAM

To learn about the following topics, see the Orion Platform Administrator Guide:

• Add nodes using Active Directory
• Choose polling methods
• Import nodes
• Manage scheduled discovery results
• Minimize SNMP processing load during Discovery
• Group objects and mirroring network dependencies