Discover your environment with SAM

After deploying SAM, identify elements in your environment that you want to monitor and add them to the SolarWinds Platform database, as described in the following topics:

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

You can add traditional physical servers, AWS EC2 instances, Azure VMs, Nutanix clusters, applications, and other items (for example, external websites) as nodes to be monitored.

• To automatically discover and add a large number of items, use the Network Sonar Discovery and Network Sonar Results Wizards.   See this video: Create a Manual Discovery Job. /archive/sw-videos.htm?uuid=u7w927pngq&title=Create a Manual Discovery Job
• To begin monitoring an individual item, add a single node.   See this video: Adding Nodes Manually. /archive/sw-videos.htm?uuid=x8i6birj47&title=Adding Nodes Manually