Greetings fellow Thwackers!
I've got an odd question considering how in depth that we've used Orion thus far. Regardless, we'll dive right in.
We have a very big environment monitored by a pair of Orion NPM Servers (one Primary & one Additional Poller) polling a total of 6566 elements. We've never really setup the VNQM portion properly. We do it some times and rip the stuff back out after a while. The Solarwinds Suite is more "owned" by the networking team, and only a few of us (not me) have a deep understanding of the Voice/IPT elements. I want to set it up "right" this time. Here's our situation:
Our Data Centers (in regards to Call Managers) are built like this:
Core Switch --> Edge Switch --> Virtual Switch --> Call Managers
All of our offices are configured to the WAN like this:
Core Switch --> WAN Router 1 / Outside Interface --> MPLS Cloud (Provider 1)
--> WAN Router 2 / Outside Interface --> MPLS Cloud (Provider 2)
We are also migrating to SIP as a voice solution, so we have to deal with those features as well.
Some offices still have the old PRI-based phone systems, so they are configured like this:
Core Switch --> IPT Router / Outside PRI 1 --> Voice Provider
/ Outside PRI 2 --> Voice Provider
... ...
/ Outside PRI X --> Voice Provider
I have another monkey wrench to throw in any answers, but my main questions are:
- What devices do we select within the Infrastructure Selection Screen?
- I know that since ALL traffic goes through the Core Switches, we'll want them in there, but what about the WAN Routers?
- Do we also need to include the interfaces?
- How may devices are too many devices?
- Why is the list sorted so oddly? (this last one is just for me).
Thanks,
--KMSigma
Orion Core 2012.1.1
SAM 5.2.0
IPAM 3.0
NCM 7.0.2
NPM 10.3.1
NTA 3.10.0
UDT 2.5.0
IVIM 1.4.0
VNQM 4.0
P.S. - If you want to know about the monkey wrench, we are also running TelePresence in dozens of sites and that traffic is even MORE important than the baseline Voice traffic.
