Using SAM to verify server service are running after migration.

jdoug

Dev team is creating a rotating mock test production environment. The machines will be clones of their production master's 100 VM's. Machines could come over in groups of 10-20.

Currently they are manually checking to see if services/apps on servers are working on the clone. This is taking away resources and we want to automate it.

We need SAM or something else Orion Platform can verify the following services on multiple servers as they are powered on:

Services to be tested:
Ping, FTP, SFTP,SMB ,RDP, SQL/QSL, http/https, domain login, As2.

WMI should be doing the polling of the windows  machines, some 2008, 2012, 2016, 

Anything else that WMI can provide by default to ensure a server is up and running would be great. 

 

The need here to make sure when the box is migrated, that basic services are started and running. example If  RDP has failed on 6 boxes, want to know this. 

How would I automate sam (agentless) able to do these test as new machines are added. Add machines manually to orion  would probably be counter productive given the large number of servers. port checks are fine, not need to have user accounts login except for WMI which will have a domain account for logging into each server. 

 

Thanks 

marlief22

Hey there, 

The workflow that you want is as follows: 

1. Use Network Discovery to regularly and automatically add servers to SolarWinds as they are migrated. You can use an OU in AD to limit it. documentation.solarwinds.com/.../core-automatically-add-discovered-nodes.htm

2. Use a dynamic query groups to automatically group these devices together based on machine type, IP range, and properties you want. https://support.solarwinds.com/SuccessCenter/s/article/How-to-Create-Groups-Using-Dynamic-Queries-Video?language=en_US

3. Use SAM to create a template that does all these checks. Ping is done automatically when added, for the rest port monitor is recommended: https://support.solarwinds.com/SuccessCenter/s/article/How-to-monitor-ports-with-SAM?language=en_US

4. Assign the SAM template to the dynamic group created in 2., so that all those machines will be monitored by the template in 3. documentation.solarwinds.com/.../sam-assign-template-to-group-learn-more-sw1010.htm

5. Create dashboards/alerts/reports/what have you with your new monitoring data documentation.solarwinds.com/.../sam-customizing-sam-application-summary-views-sw2422.htm

Hope that helps, let me know if any questions. 

Kind regards,

Marlie Fancourt | SolarWinds Pre-Sales Manager

Prosperon Networks | SolarWinds Partner since 2006

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