In this webinar, our SolarWinds sales engineer discussed new SolarWinds® products and features that are of interest to our federal, state, local, and education customers. Our sales engineer discussed and demonstrated the 2019.4 releases, consisting of Access Rights Manager, Security Event Manager, and the Orion® Platform enhancements, including Server & Application Monitor, Virtualization Manager, Server Configuration Monitor, Network Performance Monitor, Enterprise Operations Console, and more.
During this interactive webinar, attendees learned about:
Access Rights Manager
Updated dashboard
Create users and mailboxes in Office365®
Security Event Manager (formerly Log & Event Manager)
UI updates
Customizable email templates
Orion Platform enhancements
Azure® VM and SQL Database Managed Instance support
Orion Map enhancements
GER and JPN localization
Native SolarWinds Service Desk integration
Orion Product Enhancements
Server & Application Monitor- improved API support; Nutanix hardware health
Virtualization Manager – Nutanix hardware health
Server Configuration Monitor – Linux® server and application support
Network Performance Monitor – Device Views (technical preview)
NetFlow Traffic Analyzer – Cisco® Meraki® flow support
Database Performance Analyzer – Updated DB support, table tuning best practices, updated alerts and API
VoIP & Network Quality Manager – updated VoIP system support
Enterprise Operations Console – Improved workflow and authentication
Log Analyzer – Orion Log Viewer replaces legacy Syslog and Traps
Storage Resource Monitor – EMC CLARiiON controller and Data Domain support
Other product enhancements
Web Performance Monitor
Network Configuration Manager
User Device Tracker
IP Address Manager
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Notas del editor
[please note that we changed the name of from Systems Management (SysMan) to IT Operations Management]
Proposed timeline-
Intro and release overview (slides 1-5) 5
Release detail slides (slides 6-18) 15
Demonstrations 30
Q&A 5
New version format: Easily align product compatibility and highlight age of installed versions compared to what’s available (not mentioned in slides other than on this summary slide)
Benefits:
Help eliminate customer confusion by answering questions, including:
What module is compatible with one another?
If I want to evaluate a new module, which version do I need to work with my setup?
Improve clarity on the age of a release, with goal to drive upgrade motion
New versioning scheme will indicate the real ‘gap’ between a version deployed and the latest available
Deployment options: support for Azure Marketplace
In-Product Evaluation: Customers can download and install directly from the web console (internet access required) (not mentioned in slides other than on this summary slide)
Benefits
Increase cross sell and attach
Accelerate time to value
Reduce sales friction
Improve customer awareness
Simplified ability to allow users to easily evaluate other Orion Product Modules via the Orion web console
Requires internet access
Custom URL (e.g. email, customer portal, etc.) launches dialog within product for one or more recommended modules
Example: /ui/ha/deployment/update?suggested=nta,ncm
After selecting desired module(s), the products will be downloaded and installed
Download, installation, and configuration takes roughly 30 minutes
During installation, Orion is inaccessible to end users
Improved localization support for German and Japanese (not mentioned in slides other than on this summary slide)
NPM:
We released real-time polling for PerfStack in a previous Orion Platform release. Now NPM users can add real-time polling widgets for CPU load and memory utilization to dashboards. (not mentioned in slides other than on this summary slide)
Device Views we will look at these in more detail on the next slide
NTA:
Meraki Flow Support: Meraki’s implementation of flow inhibited the common bandwidth hogs use case. NTA can now visualize traffic data on the interfaces.
We’ve also built a new CBQoS interfaces page with simpler, more direct navigation
[Customers] Web Performance improvements across the NetMan portfolio (not mentioned in slides other than on this summary slide)
[don’t review all the details here or you won’t have much to say on the individual slides]
03.12.19 – Server & Application Monitor 6.8
AppInsight™ for Active Directory®
Provides deeper visibility into Active Directory performance and replication across your environment
Cisco® Universal Computing System (UCS) support
Extends UCS monitoring functionality and provides hardware heath insight via UCS Manager
03.12.19 – Virtualization Manager 8.4
Near real-time monitoring, alerting, and correlation of events on VMware® environments
Helps identify rogue virtual machines before they become sprawl
Cisco Universal Computing System (UCS) support
03.12.19 – Storage Resource Monitor 6.8
Dell® Compellent and HPE 3PAR support
Gain greater visibility with next-generation array support
Kaminario support
Monitor your Kaminario devices, including K2 arrays
03.12.19 – Server Configuration Monitor 1.1
“Who made the change” detection
Find out who made the change to the configuration of your servers and applications
PowerShell™ support
Extend server profiles using PowerShell scripts
Entity Library enhancements
Filter and refine your entity list based on any property.
Bulk-select entities to add them to the canvas.
Quickly identify contextual relationships through the entity library without leaving the editor.
Bulk Administration
Multi-select from the canvas to move or delete multiple objects in groups.
Undo and redo options within the Editor.
Custom Images
Add custom images and backgrounds to enhance the map.
Manual Topology Connections
Define topology between any two entities directly from the Map Editor.
Customizable map refresh rate
From the Advanced Configuration Settings, specify the map refresh rate - in minutes - for the Orion Maps Viewer and Widgets.
Powered by the Falcon installer- would be great if we had a video of this and can add a link and put it up on SLP
BYOL license model
Provisioning delays for needed servers can significantly delay an Orion deployment, and introduces the risk of never deploying it at all
Customers unable to upgrade on-premises databases, whether due to cost or other issues, are blocked from upgrading to newer versions of Orion
Customers want to run a staging Orion deployment to trial new capabilities, test upgrades, and for backup/failover purposes
Device Views (NPM): Contextual interface views by device, with the ability to filter by status.
Limited to a few devices (Cisco Catalyst 2960; Juniper EX2200 series and EX3300 series)
Not a key differentiator
Demos nicely to demonstrate how we present large amounts of data in a visual manner
Device Views (NPM): Contextual interface views by device, with the ability to filter by status.
Limited to a few devices (Cisco Catalyst 2960; Juniper EX2200 series and EX3300 series)
Not a key differentiator
Demos nicely to demonstrate how we present large amounts of data in a visual manner
Device Views (NPM): Contextual interface views by device, with the ability to filter by status.
Limited to a few devices (Cisco Catalyst 2960; Juniper EX2200 series and EX3300 series)
Not a key differentiator
Demos nicely to demonstrate how we present large amounts of data in a visual manner
Nutanix Support (SAM): SAM now supports Hardware health (fan, temp, disk...) for Nutanix servers joining Dell, HP, IBM, Cisco USC hardware health. This is the same feature supported by VMAN.
API Poller (SAM): API poller used to gather performance metrics and status from web-based workloads
Nutanix Support (SAM): SAM now supports Hardware health (fan, temp, disk...) for Nutanix servers joining Dell, HP, IBM, Cisco USC hardware health
API Poller (SAM): API poller used to gather performance metrics and status from web-based workloads
Nutanix Support (SAM): SAM now supports Hardware health (fan, temp, disk...) for Nutanix servers joining Dell, HP, IBM, Cisco USC hardware health
API Poller (SAM): API poller used to gather performance metrics and status from web-based workloads
Let’s highlight the key benefits users will now experience when using the Chromium web recorder.
[new product announced this quarter]
Instructions: Do a quick high level demo (don’t deep dive technically) spend upto or less than 5 minutes doing the demo.
Highlight: vSAN, Container, and Maps correlation