Need to configure linux servers

Hello,

I am new to solarwinds.

All I am trying to do it put all the linux servers together in a spot and be able to monitor them and if required reboot and/or shut down.

Right now it is under different vendor name (such as net-snmp or unknown) or different machine type. They are just scatters everywhere and cannot do much.

All the linux servers have snmp running. Please advise and/or provide direction.

I was wondering if I need to login from server itself and configure on Orion Universal Pollers or is there different way of doing it.

Or is solarwinds not compatible with linux server at all?

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FormerMember

Solarwinds NPM does not support Linux boxes. You can view the specifications here. Click requirements to see what is needed.

http://www.solarwinds.com/network-performance-monitor.aspx

FormerMember

Sorry, they do not support the installation of NPM, you should be able to use SNMP to monitor them, you just need the credentials to log into a Admin account. If not, you can use ICMP pings to check if the node is up or not. I am also a newbie to this but that is how I had to monitor our 2003 server until we change it out; using IMCP.

joe.tran

As long as your Linux servers will respond to SNMP get-requests, you can follow the how to on getting the Vendor to show up correctly: No More Net-SNMP Nodes

Best of luck and welcome to Thwack!

rjg5050

OK so to set the record straight Solarwinds supports the monitoring of Linux servers... now to "organize" them as you have asked I would suggest using a custom property until you get all the devices configured and reporting back to you as net-snmp which is where you will find all of them eventually... so create a custom property (name it whatever you like), create a value that you can select in the custom property (perhaps Linux) and then create a dynamic group based on that custom property and value of Linux and then all those devices will show up under that grouping..

The admin guide has pretty good instructions on the custom property piece...