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Migrating an Orion Platform Product Installation
This video demonstrates the steps to successfully migrate your Orion installation. Additional walk-through guides with prep information and checklist instructions are in the Related Resources section.
Managing Existing Alerts
This video (5:35) demonstrates how to set up user permissions and provides best practices on which permissions should be enabled for administrators and users.
Managing Discovery Jobs and Performance
In this video (6:12) you will learn how to discover new devices, interfaces, applications and servers in your environment on an ongoing basis. You can create as many separate discovery jobs as you’d like and it’s usually a good idea to split up your discovery jobs if you have a large environment to scan. Learn best practices for breaking up discovery jobs, and scheduling discovery jobs.
How to Integrate ServiceNow with the Orion Platform
View this video (8:06) to see a demonstration on how to enable the integration between your Orion Platform product and ServiceNow.
MIBs and OIDs
This video (2:02) will begin a discussion on using Universal Device Pollers by focusing on MIBs and OIDs, what they are and what they are used for.
Installing the Orion Platform Agent
This video demonstrates how to install agents used with Orion® Platform products on both Linux and Windows devices.
How to Install NPM and Other Orion Platform Products
This video will help you install Orion Core products in your environment.
How to Install an Additional Polling Engine
This resource provides a video that can teach more about installing additional polling engine. This information is for the Orion Platform version 2016 and above. Products on this Orion Platform version include Network Performance Monitor (NPM) 12.0 and later and SAM 6.2.4 and later.
Demonstration on Upgrading NPM (10.4 to 12.0)
In this video we will show you the steps for upgrading an older version of Network Performance Monitor.
Deep Packet Inspection
This video (3:33) will walk you through the deployment of SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor's deep packet inspection sensors.