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Question 1

You receive a number of alerts on high traffic utilization from several interfaces. When you view the Orion Web Console, you find that traffic utilization has returned within normal ranges. Traffic utilization spikes every now and then and you don’t usually consider it a problem. How should you modify the alert definitions so that it fires only when high utilization is sustained for 10 minutes or more?

Answer 1

Configure the alert to trigger only when traffic utilization is sustained for 10 minutes

Question 2

You are required to report on hourly average response time of the last 60 days. How should you configure your data collection and summarization parameters to meet these requirements without unnecessarily using database size?

Answer 2

Summarize detailed data into hourly data after 30 days, summarize hourly data into daily data after 60 days

Question 3

You want to create a Custom Poller, but first, you want to check if other NPM users have also created a poller you could use. What resource should we use?

Answer 3

Thwack Community Pollers

Question 4

Agents are available for what OS(s)?

Answer 4

Windows, Linux, AIX

Question 5

You are working on a critical device and would like to have its own set of threshold for CPU Load and Memory usage apart from the Orion general threshold. The Orion general is set to 80% for CPU Load and 80% for Memory usage before your devices are set to Critical but we do like to have a lower value on your critical device. How can we achieve this?

Answer 5

We can set it up on the node level and select override Orion general threshold, select CPU Load and Memory and enter the desired values.

Question 6

How can you ensure that the trigger action will behave as intended when creating an alert

Answer 6

Click on the Simulate on the assigned trigger condition

Question 7

You have configured an alert to trigger when your device reaches high CPU load. You can see that NPM is showing high CPU load but is not firing the alert. Which is likely causing the alert to not fire?

Answer 7

The alert trigger condition is too high

Question 8

If you want to stop getting alerts but continue to get ping and statistics results for a device, what do you do?

Answer 8

Set the device to muted for the duration in question.

Question 9

In Orion Maps, what should you enable in the List of Resources page, to activate the monitoring and be able to map the devices, statuses, connections or connection speeds?

Answer 9

Layer 2
Layer 3

Question 10

How should you visually represent service level agreement (SLA) interface utilization thresholds within the NPM Web Console?

Answer 10

Define SLA as a custom property in the SolarWinds database and populate it with the correct SLA values

Question 11

What account type is independent of any local or Active Directory account or group?

Answer 11

Orion Individual Account

Question 12

How do you enable the Network Insight for Palo
Alto Site-to-Site VPNs and GlobalProtect VPN sub
views?

Answer 12

Enable polling of Palo Alto devices monitored
in NPM via the Palo Alto REST API

Question 13

How do you configure Automatic Geolocation in the
Worldwide Map?

Answer 13

Configure Latitude and Longitude custom
properties and enable Automatic Geolocation

Question 14

You want link statuses to be displayed on a map you are creating in Network Atlas. How do you accomplish this task?

Answer 14

Edit the link line and select the appropriate router interface

Question 15

How do we ensure that only the SolarWinds Platform server can initiate communication to the SolarWinds Platform agent?

a. The agent retains a copy of the public Orion certificate obtained during provisioning. Passive mode uses this to authenticate the server.
b. The Server and Agent perform three-way handshake
c. The Agent uses token-ring to authenticate to the Orion Server

Answer 15

a. The agent retains a copy of the public Orion certificate obtained during provisioning. Passive mode uses this to authenticate the server.

Reference: https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/orionplatform/content/core-agent-requirements-sw476.htm

https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/orionplatform/content/core-certificates-and-the-agent-sw395.htm

Question 16

Under normal operating conditions, SolarWinds Platform agent monitoring consumes how many percent in terms of the resources than what would be consumed by monitoring the same node agentless.

Answer 16

less than 1% more resources than what would be consumed by monitoring the same node agentlessly.

Reference: https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/orionplatform/content/core-agent-requirements-sw476.htm

Question 17

Which of the following Situations is Agent most beneficial?

Polling hosts and applications behind firewall NAT or proxies.
Secure, encrypted polling over a single port.
Support for low bandwidth, high latency connections.
Polling nodes across domains where no domain trusts have been established.

Answer 17

Polling hosts and applications behind firewall NAT or proxies.
Secure, encrypted polling over a single port.
Support for low bandwidth, high latency connections.
Polling nodes across domains where no domain trusts have been established.

Question 18

How much memory does an Agent typically consume?

Answer 18

10 - 100 MB, depending on the number and types of jobs.

Reference: SolarWinds Platform agent resource consumption
https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/orionplatform/content/core-agent-requirements-sw476.htm#Target

Question 19

You are creating an alert for a Universal Device Poller (UnDP). Which of the following trigger condition helps you target the custom poller you want?

Answer 19

A trigger condition where the custom poller Unique Name is equal to the name of your UnDP

Question 20

You receive a number of alerts on high traffic utilization from several interfaces. When you view the Orion Web Console, you find that traffic utilization has returned within normal ranges. Traffic utilization spikes every now and then and you don’t usually consider it a problem. How should you modify the alert definitions so that it fires only when high utilization is sustained for 10 minutes or more?

Answer 20

Configure the alert to trigger only when traffic utilization is sustained for 10 minutes

Question 21

The Web Console has multiple _____(s) with multiple _____(s) which display information about your ______(s).

Answer 21

-Views, Widgets, Entities

Question 22

While attempting to add a device to Orion for monitoring, you find that Orion can communicate with the device for latency measurements, but is not able to pull data such as CPU load or interface traffic. What should you verify first?

Answer 22

that you have the correct SNMP community string for the device

Question 23

While monitoring your network with Orion NPM, you notice that several of the devices in your remote offices periodically go into a “warning” state, but then quickly go back into an “up” state. While the devices are in “warning” state, the users at those sites report normal operations. What is the most likely cause of this occurrence?

Answer 23

During network congestion, ICMP Packets are being dropped

Question 24

Which two variables are used in the calculation of Percent Utilization?

Answer 24

configured bandwidth
bps

Question 25

You notice that several routers are showing an increase in CPU and memory utilization that is starting to concern you. What will likely happen if this trend continues?

Answer 25

Latency through the routers will increase

Question 26

Over the course of 24 hours, a node was sent 200 ping requests in an effort to monitor its availability.Of those 200 ping requests there were:100 responses of less than 10ms50 responses of greater than 20ms50 requests with no responsesWhat was the availability of that node during this period of time?

Answer 26

75%

Question 27

Orion is displaying a device as “down” and is unable to communicate with the device via ICMP. However, you are able to ping that device from the command-line on the Orion server. Orion is displaying other devices as being “up”.What is a possible cause of this issue?

Answer 27

ICMP messages with content in the payload portion of the packets are being blocked

Question 28

While isolating a bandwidth issue in NPM, you discover that the percent utilization for an interface is over 100%.What is a possible cause?

Answer 28

It is configured with the wrong interface speed

Question 29

You want to get an alert when disk space used on a server exceeds 90%, but you will not consider the problem fixed until the space used drops below 60%.You want to get an email when the problem occurs, but you also want an email when the problem is fixed. While the problem remains unfixed, you want the alert to stay active in the Orion NPM Web Console. If you create an alert with a trigger condition such as “Volume Space Used is greater than 90%,” you will get an email when the initial problem occurs.What is the next step that is required to accomplish this goal?

Answer 29

add a Reset Condition like “Volume Space Used is less than 60%”

Question 30

Which limitation does the Orion NPM Advanced Alert Engine place on trigger and reset actions?

Answer 30

unlimited trigger actions and unlimited reset actions

Question 31

You want to monitor a specific device attribute that Orion NPM does not support by default. Which type of content should you download from the Thwack Content Exchange?

Answer 31

UnDP

Question 32

An Orion NPM user wants to be able to make changes to the resources as they view them on the Orion Web Console. What must be done to the user’s account?

Answer 32

Allow View Customization must be enabled

Question 33

Your network has a few critical devices on the other side of a WAN link from your Orion server. If the router (name = “target”) connecting Orion to the remote site goes down, you do not want alerts about those devices.How should you configure Orion NPM Alert Suppression within the Advance Alert Engine to achieve your goal?

Answer 33

suppress alert when all of the following apply: Node Name is equal to “target” | Node Status is equal to “Down”

Question 34

When you look at utilization graphs for a given interface, they show greater than 100% utilization. Which interface configuration change will correct this issue?

Answer 34

Increase custom bandwidth

Question 35

You have created a new account in the Orion NPM website that requires that only nodes that contain the string ‘Core’ in their hostname should be seen.Which two steps should you take in Orion NPM to accomplish this?

Answer 35

set the pattern to Core
add an Account Limitation based on Node Name Pattern

Question 36

You need to write a report that shows network response time on an hourly basis for the past 30 days. When you try to set the summarization setting in the report to hourly, you get a reporting error. What is a possible cause of this issue?

Answer 36

Hourly data are being summarized into weekly data after 15 days

Question 37

As your Orion NPM deployment grows, you need to add pollers to the system, but due to budgetary constraints, you are unable to do so. What should you do in the short term to allow you to add a few more elements?

Answer 37

adjust polling intervals

Question 38

What would cause an NOC user’s account to stay logged in indefinitely?

Answer 38

using Account Manager to disable timeout on the NOC user