- Release Notes
- Install or Upgrade
- Orion Platform Products Installation and Upgrade Guide
- About installing or upgrading Orion Platform products and scalability engines
- Prepare to install or upgrade Orion Platform products
- Install Orion Platform products in a new environment
- Install or upgrade products in an existing Orion deployment
- Perform a centralized upgrade of the primary Orion server and all scalability engines
- Options for upgrading your Orion deployment
- Install an Additional Polling Engine, Additional Web Server, or HA server
- Upgrade older Orion Platform product versions
- Troubleshoot an Orion Platform product installation
- Scalability Engine Guidelines for SolarWinds products
- Deploy SolarWinds Orion Platform products to Amazon Web Services
- Deploy SolarWinds Orion Platform products to Microsoft Azure
- Reasons to Upgrade Orion Platform Products from a 2012 Infrastructure
- Orion Platform Migration Guide
- Migrate SolarWinds Orion products to a new server using the same IP and hostname
- Migrate SolarWinds Orion products to a new server with a new IP or hostname
- Migrate the SolarWinds Orion SQL database to a new server
- Migrate the SolarWinds Orion SQL database from Microsoft SQL Server on premise to Microsoft Azure SQL Database and the other way round
- Migrate the NTA Flow Storage database to a new remote server
- Migrate the NTA Flow Storage database from a remote server to the local disk
- Migrate the NTA Flow Storage database to another disk drive on the same server
- Upgrade the Orion SQL Server without migration
- Orion Platform Products Installation and Upgrade Guide
- Administer
- Administrator Guide
- Orion Platform features
- How Orion Platform products work
- License Orion Platform products
- Discover and add network devices
- Discover your network with the Discovery Wizard
- Add nodes using Active Directory
- Credentials for Active Directory discovery
- Automatically add discovered nodes
- Advanced discovery in the Orion Platform
- Add discovered devices to the Orion Platform
- Add a single node for monitoring to the Orion Platform
- Choose the polling method to use in the Orion Platform
- Import nodes to the Orion Platform from a list of IP addresses
- Manage scheduled discovery results in the Orion Platform
- Minimize SNMP processing load during discoveries in the Orion Platform using the Discovery Ignore List
- Manage devices in the Orion Web Console
- Stop monitoring devices
- View node data in tooltips
- Edit node properties
- Change the polling method for a node
- Promote a node from ICMP to SNMP monitoring
- Change polling engine node assignments
- View the resources and statistics monitored on a node
- Suspend collecting data for monitored nodes
- Poll and rediscover devices immediately
- Calculate node status
- Status rollup mode
- Group objects and mirror network dependencies in the Orion Web Console
- View events, alerts, traps, and syslogs in the Orion Web Console Message Center
- Monitor hardware health
- Monitor Cisco UCS devices
- Monitor cloud instances and VMs
- Add the first cloud account to the Orion Platform
- Explore cloud instances and VMs on the Cloud Summary page
- Configure cloud accounts for the Orion Platform
- Cloud service polling overview
- Throttling overview
- Manage your cloud infrastructure
- Find cloud account credentials
- Configure cloud monitoring settings
- Access the Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring Settings page
- Add another cloud account
- Manage cloud accounts
- Edit cloud account properties
- Choose cloud instances and VMs to monitor
- Perform actions against cloud instances and VMs
- Manage a cloud instance or VM as an Orion Platform node
- Remove a cloud account
- Edit retention settings for cloud-related statistics
- Edit global thresholds for cloud monitoring
- Create cloud application monitors and templates
- Manage cloud monitoring alerts
- Troubleshoot cloud monitoring
- Troubleshoot cloud monitoring with PerfStack
- Monitor containers
- Monitor virtual infrastructure in the Orion Web Console
- Monitor Quality of Experience metrics
- Monitor devices with SolarWinds Orion agents
- Agent settings
- Agent communication modes
- Agent deployment
- Deploy an agent with the Add Node wizard
- Deploy an agent to a monitored node
- Deploy an agent manually to a Windows computer
- Deploy an agent manually to a Linux/Unix-based computer
- What kind of credentials do I need to install a Linux agent
- Mass deploy an agent on Windows
- Deploy a Linux/Unix agent using a repository
- Deploy with a Gold Master Image
- Deploy a Windows agent with Patch Manager
- Prerequisites for deploying agents on Windows Core Servers
- Deploy Windows agents in the cloud
- Manually deploy a Windows agent on Amazon Web Services
- Automatically deploy a Windows agent on Amazon Web Services
- Automatically deploy a Windows agent on Microsoft Azure
- Agent management
- Edit agent settings
- Track your polling method
- View the status of agent plug-ins
- Edit agent settings in the Control Panel
- Connect to a previously installed agent
- Migrate agents from one Orion instance to another
- Use a group policy to migrate agents
- Redeploy agents from the Orion Web Console to a monitored node
- Change the agent communication mode
- Change the agent port
- Agent polling method
- Monitor Syslog messages
- View Syslog messages in the Orion Web Console
- View syslog messages in the Syslog Viewer
- View and clear Syslog messages in the Syslog Viewer
- Search for Syslog messages in the Syslog Viewer
- Define the number of messages displayed, message retention, and the displayed columns in the Syslog Viewer
- Trigger alerts when receiving specific Syslog messages
- Syslog alert actions
- Forward syslog messages
- Syslog message priorities
- Monitor SNMP traps
- View SNMP traps in the Orion Web Console
- View SNMP traps in the Trap Viewer
- View current traps in the Trap Viewer
- Search for traps in the Trap Viewer
- Define how many traps to display, if you want to refresh the traps view, trap retention, and the information displayed in the Trap Viewer
- Configure Trap Viewer filters and alerts
- Available trap alert actions
- What is a Trap Template?
- Integrate an Orion Platform product with ServiceNow
- Troubleshoot environmental issues with Performance Analysis dashboards
- Use alerts to monitor your environment
- Alert preconfiguration tasks
- Configure the default information in the email action
- Best practices and tips for alerting
- Navigate to the Alert Manager
- Add an SMTP server
- Create new alerts to monitor your environment
- Set alert properties
- Define the conditions that must exist to trigger an alert
- Define the conditions that must exist to reset an alert
- Schedule when an alert monitors your environment
- Define what happens when an alert is triggered
- Define what happens when the alert is reset
- Review the alert's configuration
- Reduce alerting noise
- Commonly created alerts
- View triggered alerts in the Orion Web Console
- Remove alerts from the Active Alerts list
- Test alert triggers and actions
- Modify multiple alerts or share alerts
- Build complex conditions
- Manage alert actions
- Available alert actions
- Change a custom property
- Create a ServiceNow incident
- Dial a paging or SMS service
- Email a web page to users
- Execute an external batch file
- Execute an external Visual Basic script
- Failover to a backup server with High Availability
- Log the alert message to a file
- Log the alert to the NPM event log
- Change the resource allocation of a virtual machine
- Delete a snapshot of a virtual machine
- Move a virtual machine to a different host
- Move a virtual machine to a different storage
- Pause a virtual machine
- Power off a virtual machine
- Power on a virtual machine
- Restart a virtual machine
- Suspend a virtual machine
- Take a snapshot of a virtual machine
- Play a sound when an alert is triggered
- Restart IIS sites or application pools
- Send an SNMP trap
- Send a GET or POST request
- Send a syslog message
- Send an email or page
- Manually set a custom status
- Use the speech synthesizer to read alerts
- Log an alert to the Windows Event Log on a specific server
- Share alerts with other SolarWinds products
- Manage Orion Web Console user accounts
- Create users
- Change account passwords
- Enable users to authenticate through LDAP
- Authenticate users with SAMLv2
- Define what users can access and do
- Restrict user access to network areas by applying limitations
- Set default menu bars and views for users
- Limit users to specific network areas
- Configure automatic login
- Manage Orion Polling Engines
- Administrative functions of the Orion Web Console
- Manage the Orion Web Console
- Customize the Orion Web Console look, views, settings, charts, and maps
- Customize the look
- Add custom properties to node popovers
- Create, delete, modify, or restrict views
- Create new views
- Add resources and columns to views, and define subviews
- Optimize views for TV screens or mobile devices
- Limit objects on a view
- Use a view as a template
- Delete views
- Specify views for device types
- Resource configuration examples
- Add external website views
- Create custom summary views
- Orion Web Console and chart settings
- Customize charts in the Orion Web Console
- View monitored objects on maps
- Display nodes in the Worldwide Map of Orion Nodes resource
- Network Atlas
- Install Network Atlas
- Start Network Atlas
- Create network maps
- Add objects on a map
- Connect objects on maps automatically with ConnectNow
- Connect objects on maps manually
- Reshape map links
- Configure display of connections on maps
- Determine interface status in connections
- Specify interfaces that determine the status of connections on maps
- Display interface performance in map links
- Add a background
- Save maps
- Open maps
- Disable the wireless heat map poller
- Set a floor plan as the background
- Set the wireless heat map scale
- Add wireless access points
- Improve the accuracy of wireless heat maps by taking samples of the signal strength on real devices
- Troubleshoot wireless heat maps
- Advanced mapping techniques
- Zoom in and out of a map
- Create nested maps
- Display the status of child objects on maps, and change metric thresholds
- Add independent map objects and floating labels
- Change the appearance of map objects
- Paste custom icons from the Windows clipboard
- Add custom icons from graphics files
- Customize the width, color, and line styles of network links in maps
- Customize labels
- Customize the page which opens when you click on a map object in the
- Link or embed maps in web pages using the map URL
- Customize map tooltips
- Import Network Atlas maps into Orion EOC
- Map import requirements and configuration
- Import maps into Orion EOC
- Troubleshoot importing maps into Orion EOC
- Set when a map is displayed as Up on parent maps using the Up status threshold
- Display restricted nodes for users with account limitations
- Advanced map layouts
- Position map objects
- Display grid
- Align map objects
- Distribute map objects
- Arrange map objects according to a layout style
- Display Network Atlas maps in the Orion Web Console
- Orion Maps
- Create and view reports
- Predefined reports
- Modify an existing web-based report
- Create a new web-based report
- Customize a web-based report layout
- Add content to a web-based report
- Add a custom chart or table to a web-based report
- Restrict who can access reports
- Generate reports on a schedule
- Export reports
- Modify legacy reports in Report Writer
- Report Writer Preview Mode
- Report Writer Design Mode
- Create and modify reports in Report Writer
- Report Writer General Options tab
- Report Writer Select Fields Options tab
- Report Writer Filter Results Options tab
- Report Writer Top XX Records Options tab
- Report Writer Time Frame Options tab
- Report Writer Summarization Options tab
- Report Writer Report Grouping Options tab
- Report Writer Field Formatting Options tab
- Customize report headers and footers with Report Writer
- Allow access to restricted Report Writer reports
- Export reports from Report Writer
- Extend monitoring with custom monitors
- Management Information Base (MIB)
- Monitor custom statistics with Universal Device Pollers
- Define a custom statistic to monitor
- Select nodes or interfaces to poll a custom statistic
- Transform poller results
- Create pollers by duplicating and adjusting pollers
- Import UnDP pollers
- Export UnDP pollers
- Temporarily suspend collecting statistics for pollers
- Specify thresholds to get notified when values polled by UnDPs exceed a level
- View Universal Device Poller statistics in the
- View UnDP status on maps
- Cannot find OIDs? Update the SolarWinds MIB Database
- Manage unique devices on the network with Device Studio
- Device Studio technologies
- Create pollers in Device Studio
- Define object identifiers (OIDs) manually
- What is the SNMP Get type?
- What is a formula?
- Formulas used for transforming Device Studio poller results
- Test Device Studio pollers
- Monitor devices using thwack community pollers
- Why is Orion unable to connect to thwack?
- Assign Device Studio pollers to monitored devices
- Scan monitored objects to verify the match of OIDs
- Access remote nodes
- Optimize your Orion Platform environment
- Troubleshoot deployment health automatically
- Get to know your monitoring environment
- Devices to monitor and data you need
- Optimize polling engines
- Optimize the data you retain in the database
- Optimize Orion Web Console
- Don't forget about system maintenance
- Collect diagnostics from the Orion Web Console
- High Availability in SolarWinds products
- Orion Platform Third Party Software List
Log in to the Orion Web Console
This topic applies to all Orion Platform products.
- Launch the Orion Web Console using either of the following methods:
- Start Orion Web Console in your SolarWinds Orion program folder.
- Launch a browser and enter
http://ip_addressorhttp://hostname, where ip_address is the IP address of your Orion server, or where hostname is the domain name of your Orion server.
- Enter the user name and password, and click Login.
See Configure automatic login for details about login options.