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This provides visibility into storage issues, mail queues, mailbox database status and growth, events, and critical processes and services.

AppInsight For Exchange

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To support AppInsight for Exchange, Starting in SAM 2020.2.6, use _____ as the minimum PSLanguageMode setting in PowerShell on target servers.

RestrictedLanguage

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Ture or False:

You cannot edit component monitors in the AppInsight for Exchange template to exclude or include specific databases.

TRUE

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What template should you consider to monitor specific databases, and not the entire Database Availability Group (DAG)

Exchange templates

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Default Name of Appinsight for exchange

Microsoft Exchange.

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This is an AppInsight application that you can use to monitor your IIS environment to identify IIS server, website, and application pool performance issues.

AppInsight for IIS

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What would be the reason you would want to disable dynamic AppInsight for SQL component monitors

If you are aware of an ongoing issue (for example, high index fragmentation of a database) which will increase false-positive alerts and logs.

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For Appinsights for SQL,

Why is it that the following component monitors cannot be disabled

Database Files
Top Tables for Database
Top Indexes for Database.

The following components support related Top XX widgets, so they cannot be disabled.

Reference: https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/sam/content/sam-editing-the-appinsight-for-sql-template-sw1285.htm

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What is the default Polling Frequency for Appinsights for SQL template?

300 seconds

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What is the default Polling Timeout for Appinsights for SQL template?

1200 seconds

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Per the SAM licensing model, when using AppInsight for SQL in an environment with a component-based SAM license, How may component monitors count against your licensed number of component monitors per SQL instance.

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How does AppInsight for SQL discover SQL Server instances?

it uses TCP connections to discover SQL Server instances so you may see messages about named pipes that are triggered when SAM connects to SQL Server.

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This is an unavoidable characteristic of any relational database management system (RDBMS) with lock-based concurrency. On SQL Server, This occurs when one Server Process ID (SPID) holds a lock on a specific resource and a second SPID attempts to acquire a conflicting lock type on the same resource.

Blocking

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This performance counter shows the ratio of SQL Recompilations to SQL Compilations. SQL Recompilations should be less than 10% of SQL Compilations.

Recompilations/Compilation

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This performance counter shows the ratio of SQL Recompilations to SQL Compilations. SQL Recompilations should be less than 10% of SQL Compilations.

Recompilations/Compilation

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Indicates the percentage of pages found in the buffer cache without having to read from disk

Buffer Cache hit Ratio

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Do AppInsights Templates support Solarwinds Windows Agents?

Yes

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AppInsight for Exchange works only with , what role? This is used for data storage.

Mailbox Role

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With Component-based Licensing, The AppInsight for IIS template uses a flat rate that consumes how many licenses?

30 licenses per assigned application monitor

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True or False:

If using a component-based SAM license, AppInsight applications consume licenses at flat rates.

TRUE

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The following statistics have global thresholds that apply to each node monitored in the SolarWinds Platform, by default except for:

Average CPU load
Disk Usage
Percent memory Used
Percent Packet Loss
Response Time
HWH

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HWH

This will prevent you from receiving duplicate alerts that stem from a single network event

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Establishing Dependencies

https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/orionplatform/content/core-best-practices-and-tips-for-alerting-sw968.htm

How would you setup an alert to trigger when the Adobe Acrobat Update Service in a Windows machine is Down? You are monitoring the service via Windows Service Monitor in SAM

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Set the Scope as “Only following set of objects” with these settings: Component “is equal to” with a value of Adobe Acrobat Update Service
set Trigger as: Component > Status > “is equal to” > Down
Set Trigger as: Node > Status > “is not equal to” > Down

What protocols does SAM leverage to poll Asset Inventory data from VMWare ESXI/ESX

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VMWARE API, Common Information Model (CIM)

True or False: If you change a configuration setting or component monitor at the template level, all application monitors based on that template are affected. For example, if you adjust a threshold for a component monitor, that change is applied to the same component monitor in all application monitors based on the template.

TRUE

How many nodes can a template be assigned to?

Unlimited

True or False: Changing the configuration setting or component monitors at the template level afffects all application monitors based on that template

TRUE

You can assign this SAM application monitor template to a node to test the ability of a DNS server to respond to a record query, and measure its responsiveness.

DNS User Experience https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/sam/content/sam-dns-user-experience-sw4442.htm

What are the two options for creating new templates

1. Create component monitors using the Component Monitor Template Wizard and add them to a new template. 2. Create a fresh template without component monitors.

Will Any future changes to a component setting made at the template level affects that node's component setting for that application?

When importing templtes to Solarwinds SAM, what should be the file extension of the XML file?

.amp-template

When importing templtes to Solarwinds SAM, what should be the file extension of the XML file?

.amp-template

What templates are not updated automatically during upgrades to avoid overwriting custom changes made to standard templates

AppInsight templates

AppInsight for Exchange works only with the Mailbox Role. All other Exchange servers running different roles should use the what application monitor template to monitor them

Exchange application monitor templates

What are the 2 Communication modes for Solarwinds Agent in SAM?

Server-Initiated and Agent-Initiated

Any communication between your SolarWinds Platform server or additional polling engines and the agent is initiated by the SolarWinds Platform server itself. To allow communication from the SolarWinds Platform server, the firewall service running on the monitored device or the network firewall must allow incoming connections through port 17790. If the agent is configured to use another port, update the firewall rules to allow incoming connections from the other port.

Server-Initiated

This communication method is also known as an active agent. In active mode, there are no listening ports on the agent. Any communication between your SolarWinds Platform server or additional polling engines and the agent service is initiated by the agent service itself. Update your firewall rules to allow outgoing connections through port 17778 to enable communication between the agent and the SolarWinds Platform server.

Agent-Initated

Solarwinds Agent is supported on what following OS?

Windows, LInux, AIX

This communication method is most useful when the agent is installed on a network separated from your SolarWinds Platform server by one or more NAT devices, and you have no easy way to connect the two.

Agent-Initiated

How can you import a template?

Filesystem or THWACK

TRUE OT FALSE: Agents run independently of the SolarWinds Platform server and can monitor hosts even if a network outage occurs. For up to 24 hours, an agent can continue running and all polled data remains cached on the agent. When connectivity is restored, the agent uploads collected statistics to the SolarWinds Platform server, filling in gaps in charts.

TRUE

TRUE or FALSE: When working with application monitor templates, agentless polling executes locally on the Main Polling Engine (which may be the SolarWinds Platform server) or an Additional Polling Engine (APE), by default.

TRUE

What data is subject to statistical baseline calculation?

CPU Load, Percent Memory Used, Response Time, Percent Loss Interface Utilization and Percent Disk Usage

By default, baseline calculations are based on data collected during how many days. Node baseline calculations are performed daily, and interface baseline calculations are performed weekly on Sunday.

7 days

By default, baseline calculations are based on data collected during how many days. Node baseline calculations are performed daily, and interface baseline calculations are performed weekly on Sunday.

7 days

What information can you found from Asset Inventory subview?

System Information, Processors, memory, Network Interfaces, Logical Volumes

What information can you found from Asset Inventory subview?

System Information, Processors, memory, Network Interfaces, Logical Volumes

How is an application’s status determined?

if an application has a down component, the application status is down if an application has a warning component, the application status is warning if an application has a critical component, the application status is critical if an application has an unknown component, the application status is unknown Else, the application status is up

TRUE or FALSE: If you have a node-based SAM license: Each node with at least one API-monitored metric counts as a managed SAM node.

TRUE

WinRM is the default transport method for WMI-based component monitors Starting SAM 2020.2, WinRM is the default transport method for WMI-based component monitors that gather data from target nodes for component monitoris A fallback mechanism automatically switches to legacy RPC/DCOM polling, if necessary. Component that use WinRM require a single open port: What ports should be opened?

5985 (HTTP) or 5986 (HTTPS)

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