Server & Application Monitor Getting Started Guide

Current version: SAM 6.9.1

Updated: 7/12/2019

This guide will take you from setting up SAM to full implementation, including customization. You should install SAM with the SolarWinds Orion Installer before using the SAM Getting Started Guide.

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• Get started with SAM
  • Learn about SAM and start exploring the SAM environment.
  • Get started with SAM
  • How SAM works
  • Understand how SAM uses agents
  • Navigate your environment
  • Explore SAM widgets
• Discover
  • Identify the servers and applications you want to monitor and add them to the Orion Web Console.
  • Discover your environment
  • What should I monitor?
  • Discover your servers and applications
  • Add discovered servers to SolarWinds SAM
• Set up monitoring
  • Learn about monitoring your SAM environment.
  • Set up monitoring in your SAM environment
  • Use AppInsight for IIS to monitor an IIS server
  • Monitor your operating system
  • Monitor hardware health
  • Monitor cloud instances and VMs
  • Introduction to AppStack
  • Investigate application performance with Perfornance Analysis
• Explore alerts and reports
  • Manage and use alerts, and then set up reports.
  • How alerts work
  • Work with preconfigured alerts
  • Create a custom alert
  • How reports work
  • Run a preconfigured report
  • Create a SAM custom report
• Work with templates
  • Explore how to use SAM templates to automate monitoring in your environment.
  • Work with templates
  • Understand the application/template relationship
  • Create a template for a custom application
  • Share application monitor templates in THWACK
• Set thresholds
  • Learn how to set up global and local thresholds.
  • Set thresholds in SAM
  • Edit a global threshold
  • Edit an application template threshold
  • Edit a local component monitor threshold