Orion
Orion Best Practices
Orion offers many advantages to streamline efficiency in your IT management. We recommend implementing automation rules. For example:
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Analysis of keywords in the tickets created via Orion - this will:
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Streamline ticket assignment
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Avoid breaches in SLA’s
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Prioritize tickets
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Orion provides detailed information on IT infrastructure such as networks, servers, applications and databases
Dependency Mapping
Currently available only in the Enterprise Plan - You can automatically detect and import Orion asset and dependency data into SolarWinds Service Desk.
This allows you to:
- Align Orion asset and dependency data with IT service management processes
- Auto-populate configuration data from Orion into the CMDB
- Accelerate root cause analysis by attaching Orion configuration and dependency data to incidents and problems
Use cases for Dependency Mapping:
- Configuration Management
- Auto populate the CMDB
- Ensures CMDB is maintained up-to-date
- Change Management
- Improve change planning by understanding the impact and risks of potential changes
- Troubleshooting
- Quickly analyze and diagnose root causes of Orion issues
- Investigate and rapidly resolve Orion issues
Benefits
Below are a few examples of the benefits you reap from integrating Discovery and Orion Dependency Mapping:
- Enhancement service management by aligning Orion assets and dependencies with IT service
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Enhancement change management while improving impact and risk analysis with visibility into resolve Orion issues by attaching Orion configuration and dependency data.
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You will be introduced to additional Integration options later in this document or click here to jump to the Integrations section for further details.