Policing the police

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Good afternoon all, 
 
 I have been pondering the idea of using my SolarWinds to monitor SolarWinds. My question is this a good idea? I could use an agent or WMI so alerts could be generated in the event of an issue. Or is this all covered by the my deployment pages? 
 
 Thanks 
 Nick

adam.beedell · Accepted Answer

You should do this My deployment page works well, but it doesnt tell you if you're not looking 
 It's a really healthy exercise to go through actually 
 
 I recommend making a dash, putting your components on it, tracking stuff like: WMI port in use count 
 Alerts per time 
 Total active alerts 
 Elements per poller 
 unknown SAMs per day 
 Failed email send events 
 CPU 
 Mem 
 Host CPU 
 Host Mem 
 Active DB AG node if using that 
 Website response time 
 Login with SAML button presence 
 Nodes not responding 
 Nodes not responding per poller -> P2 Alert off this 
 etc etc

adam.beedell · Answer

In addition, it can be good to setup a keepalive thing in your ticketing system, like send a ticket that's auto-resolved every 5 minutes, and if it's not received send a P2 
 Also, there's some SAM packages OOTB for monitoring solarwinds, these are a great place to start

Policing the police

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