Can Solarwinds NPM & SAM monitors IER Printer, FIDS Screen, KIOSK, UPS ?
Any information much appreciated.
NPM and SAM will monitor anything that lets them get information. It starts with ICMP ping, and SNMP. If you can ping it and the device has SNMP to send traps or read communities, then it can be tracked in Orion (Orion is the common platform that NPM and SAM use, included when you purchase it). Other data can be pull from WMI for windows devices, or API's for web enabled devices that allow access. With most monitoring tools the limit to what you can monitor is not specific to the tool, but the device getting monitored. Once you know how your devices provide information for monitoring, adding them to Orion or any other tool is typically not too hard.
Basic monitoring protocols are ICMP(Ping), SNMP, WMI(Windows), Agent, API which used by SolarWinds. So if your device has a network interface (IP) you can monitor the availability via ICMP. Most of the IP enabled devices comes with SNMP. Eg: APC UPS ( You can monitor various details like battery status, power status, remaining battery capacity) . Also if the device has SNMP running but the required monitoring are not discovered, then you can create custom polling via UnDP where you can get a specific SNMP OID to monitor.If the device is running on windows, you can monitor it via the WMI by assigning SAM template.
