Documentation forSolarWinds Platform Self-Hosted

Create network maps for the SolarWinds Platform in Network Atlas

This topic applies only to the following products:

SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted

DPAIM — EOC — NAM — NCM — NPM — NTA — SAM — SRM — UDT — VMAN — VNQM

Network Atlas is deprecated. SolarWinds recommends that you start using Intelligent Maps in the SolarWinds Platform Web Console to display maps of physical and logical relationships between entities monitored by the SolarWinds Platform products you have installed.

Additionally, you can import Network Atlas maps to Intelligent Maps.

Before you start creating maps, prepare a map management strategy. Consider the following recommendations:

  • Map only static objects. If objects move, you need to adjust their location on maps, and it is difficult to keep maps up-to-date.
  • Build maps to match the column width of your SolarWinds Platform Web Console views. Rescaling maps in views results in distorting of icons and texts.

To create a network map:

  1. Start the Network Atlas in the SolarWinds program folder.
  2. Provide your SolarWinds Platform Web Console credentials.
  3. If you are launching Network Atlas on the local computer, type localhost into Address. If you are starting Network Atlas on a remote computer, provide the IP address of the main polling engine.
  4. Click Connect.
  5. Click Network Map in the Create New section.

A new empty network map will open in the Network Atlas.

Customize the map: