Good afternoon,
Now that we have a fully functional monitoring and alerting solution in place with solarwinds, i have been tasked with making a load of new views / dashboards for people ranging from IT bods to management. I've used Solarwinds a lot of the last 3 years, but one of the areas that i find hard to grasp is making the information it gathers available 'at a glance' and being able to combine information from interfaces, nodes and applications onto 1 page.
So my question i suppose is, how do you do it? do you use all of the standard views, or have you built up custom views and linked them all together?
I plan to base my views on the services we provide, so one view would need (for example)
- Exchange server CPU / Memory
- Interface traffic / traffic drops etc
- Some App insight data
on another view, i would need to have aggregate data for multiple interfaces on one chart - what is the current best way of doing this?
Any other hints and tips would be useful, i will also be pulling in data from other areas (splunk, custom sites etc) so any tips that you have would be great!
Thanks