Troubleshooting Solarwinds Network Paths
I attended a Webinar recently that explained how to troubleshoot Solarwinds network paths. The following is a summary of my notes. In this session, Solarwinds exposes a new concept: Network Path troubleshooting. Here are my notes: Without an NMS, the Mean Time To Repair (MTTR) a networking issue is about 4.6hr. 2hr of them is dedicated to finding what component is guilty The network evolved from having the datacenter in the center of our network to having the Internet in the middle. Legacy network architecture – copyright by Solarwinds New network architecture. The red lines are the network paths- copyright by Solarwinds The network devices form many paths. But when an issue occurs, how can we determine the critical path? Monitoring is an ongoing collection of metrics. It’s not a task you do when a trouble ticket is raised. Solarwinds is working on an application project called Network Path Troubleshooting. It is an app built for each network path. For each network path, the...