SolarWinds

Overview

SolarWinds provides multi-vendor network, server, and application monitoring software for small and medium-size environments.

SolarWinds Monitor products collect and store statistics from target devices in a Microsoft SQL Server database (SolarWindsOrion), which Axibase Collector queries every 5 minutes to offload incremental data into Axibase Time Series Database for long-term retention and operations analytics.

Requirements

  • SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor 6+

Installation Steps

Import SolarWinds JDBC job

Configure SolarWinds Database Connection

  • Open the Data Sources > Databases page and select the solarwinds database.
  • Provide connection parameters to the target SolarWindsOrion database as displayed below:

  • Execute test query to check the connection:
SELECT 1
  • Query result must be Query OK.

Verify Job Configuration

  • Open the SolarWinds job.
  • Set Data Source to solarwinds.

  • Choose one of target ATSD instances if your Collector instance is connected to multiple ATSD servers.
  • Save the Job.
  • Open each configuration, click Test, and review the output. See Data Queries below.

Schedule the Job

  • Open the JDBC Job page and click Run for the SolarWinds job.
  • Ensure that the job status is COMPLETED and Items Read and Sent commands are greater than 0.

  • If there are no errors, set job status to Enabled and save.

Verify Metrics in ATSD

  • Log in to ATSD.
  • Click the Metrics tab and filter metrics by prefix sw.*.

Viewing Data in ATSD

Metrics

Properties

Entity Groups

  • solarwinds-base
  • solarwind-vmware-vm
  • solarwind-vmware-host
  • solarwind-vmware-cluster

Portals

  • SolarWinds Base Portal

  • SolarWinds: VMware VM
  • SolarWinds: VMware Host
  • SolarWinds: VMware Cluster

Data Queries

Data queries that offload recent metrics and properties.