I am new to Solar winds tool. So can anyone please guide me what are things to be considered as a part of everyday Health Check monitoring of Solar winds.
That's a pretty broad question.
If your looking to monitor the health of your Solarwinds installation it will be typical things like disk space, memory, etc. Be sure to watch carefully the growth of the database and percentage of completed polling. Much of this can be addressed through the polling intervals that you set - obviously the more you are monitoring and the more frequently you poll the more data and resources you are going to use up. You want the data gathered to be meaningful, but not so granular that its just a waste of resources and bogs down your system.
If you are looking for general monitoring guide lines start small and build. I see a lot of people that want to monitor anything and everything and then gather so much data that it's overwhelming and/or no one seems to care. First make sure that you monitor that everything important is up - Servers, network devices, etc. Then determine what you need to know about each device to know that it is healthy. Servers, CPU, memory, disk space, etc. Network appliances, CPU and some will allow monitoring hardware health.
Before going much further consider what you would want alerts for - be careful it's easy to get overloaded and then the alerts begin to get ignored. Build the alerts based upon what your team wants and get their buy in as you move along. (One thing that I've found in getting buy in, as silly as it sounds, is to use some html and color in your email alerts to make them attractive - some of the out of the box alerts are boring and cluttered and people begin to find them too busy to cull through the emails to determine what needs attention - like I said, silly, but you need to do what it takes to make the team take actions on the alerts)
As your monitoring gets honed out you'll find that there will be a lot of things that have been happening in your environment that you were unaware of - for example just how many servers are tight on drive space. Build "punch lists" for your team to knock off some of this low hanging fruit so that they can see wins early on.
The two best things you can do for yourself is to dedicate time every day to poke around and tweak your Solarwinds solutions, it doesn't have to be a lot of time, but as you get used to it the software will reveal it's real power for you.
Second, dedicate time - at least a few minutes - each day to peruse Thwack. The resources are great, the information is great and the community is one of the best I've ever seen online.
Thanks a lot Richard for your inputs
You're very welcome. I've been working with this product for almost 4 years so if you ever have questions just post them on Thwack or ask me directly.
