Understanding network management protocols is an important part of your job as a network engineer and
is also important within the role of doing network management network management protocols are also
a key part of the solar wind's product.
In other words solar winds management tools make use of management protocols to manage network devices.
This video will provide an overview of how network management applications leverage network management
protocols.
We'll also describe the different types of network management protocols that are available and then
explain the most common protocols when discussing network management protocols.
We need to think about three main things before we talk about that.
We'll look at how Orion leverages network management protocols and which types of protocols are leveraged
for different types of monitoring solar wind's Network Performance Monitor does both fault monitoring
as well as performance monitoring for fault management.
Most network management systems including solar winds use ICMP or ping to detect whether a device is
up or down.
It's as simple as the network management system or in a mess sending out a ping request and waiting
for a ping response.
If the ICMP response isn't returned then a mess assumes that the device is done.
Now I know Ryan it works slightly differently in that if a response isn't returned.
Orion places the nodes in a mode warning stage which means that Orion is going to do a fost pull of
the device to verify that it's really down NPM or Orion by default will monitor the device in a fast
polling mode for 120 seconds before notifying you that the device is down.
This is configurable under advanced settings in the NPM system manager monitoring for faults on sub
elements like interfaces and volumes he's done differently as it's done via is an MP or simple network
management protocol.