solarwinds network performance monitor best practices

This allows for you to properly poll sites across the globe using a central installation if you so choose. Because of this QoS and Traffic Shaping can be greatly controlled from the 1st hop to the last.

With MPLS you can direct traffic from Site to Site to ride dierctly on your providers core infrastructure, and never leaving out to the INET to get to the next hop.

MPLS is great for Layer 2 connectivity from Site to Site branches across large geogrphical locations. Using labels to route traffic instead of Long Address routing. I like to think of MPLS as a protocol that rides the boundaries of being a Layer2 and Layer3 protocol. MPLS takes out the 'what if' on Network Latency and what path you will travel each time as opposed to the open INET and whichever BGP route shows to be more viable at that time. I would give you a word of caution if your sites aren't connected through MPLS. Thanks for any information (and especially experience) that you can provide. We have about 1600 interfaces here in the Americas presently, with perhaps half of that being added in EMEA.

I'm not sure these assumptions are correct - but that's why I'm reaching out to the community. The easiest way to get a single pane of glass for all global IT staff would be to implement EOC, while standing up an separate Orion server and SQL backend in Europe or Asia (or both). If we place an additional polling engine in Europe for our current installation it would still have to communicate data to our SQL box here (not a great idea over a finite WAN link), so that's probably not best.Ģ. General assumptions I have at this point are the following:ġ. My task now is to discover the best method - hopefully from both a price and performance standpoint - of extending the visibility of Orion into EMEA for our business. We stood up our NPM/SAM/NTA installation some months ago for monitoring and managing the Americas network and our European peers were very excited about the Solarwinds products. This week some of our European colleagues came for a visit to collaborate, streamline and standardize design, and generally compare notes about how we can best do things as a global company moving forward (I'm part of a group responsible for the Americas).

Solarwinds network performance monitor best practices