SolarWinds SCP Network Performance Monitor (NPM) SCP-NPM Exam Questions

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Question 1

Retention policies require you to keep Syslog messages in the database for 9 days before you can discard them. Syslog messages from 8 days ago are missing.

What is likely the issue?



Answer : B

By default, Orion NPM retains Syslog messages in the database for seven days before discarding them. This means that any Syslog messages older than seven days are deleted from the database and cannot be viewed or searched in the web console. To change the default Syslog retention period, you need to modify the Database Settings on the Orion Polling Settings page in the web console. You can also use the Database Manager tool to manually delete or archive Syslog messages from the database.Reference:SolarWinds SCP Study Aid - NPM, page 19;NPM Administrator Guide, page 111.


Question 2

You need to push a SolarWinds agent to 20 Windows servers across your network. How can you accomplish this? Select all that apply.



Answer : A, B, C


Question 3

You inherit an environment with NPM and begin to receive High Traffic Utilization alerts from interfaces. When you view the alert, the issue is resolved. How do you modify NPM to receive fewer false alerts?



Answer : A

High Traffic Utilization alerts are triggered when the interface's received or transmitted percent utilization exceeds a specified threshold. However, this may not reflect the actual network congestion, as traffic spikes can occur momentarily and then subside. To avoid false alerts, you can configure the alert to trigger only when the traffic utilization remains high for a sustained period, such as 5 minutes or more. This way, you can filter out the transient traffic peaks and focus on the persistent issues that affect the network performance.Reference:

How do I create a high transmit percent utilization alert to monitor interface bandwidth

Trouble with High receive percent utilization alert

How alerts work


Question 4

You use NPM to monitor a set of physical servers. The server team decides to virtualize these servers using VMware. Which part of your virtual infrastructure will NPM no longer be able to monitor?



Answer : B

https://support.solarwinds.com/SuccessCenter/s/article/VMAN-and-IVIM-feature-comparison?language=en_US


Question 5

The Universal Device Poller retrieves management data in which format?



Answer : A

The Universal Device Poller (UnDP) is a feature of SolarWinds NPM that allows you to create custom monitors for almost any statistic provided by SNMP based on its Management Information Base (MIB) and object identifier (OID). An OID is a unique identifier for a variable that can be polled or set via SNMP. The UnDP retrieves management data in the OID format from the devices that support SNMP. The other formats (WMI, XML, ANSI 1) are not used by the UnDP.Reference:

Monitor custom statistics based on OIDs with Universal Device Pollers

NPM Universal Device Pollers


Question 6

You can import Universal Device poller files from the UnDP application directly into Device Studio to create custom pollers.



Answer : A

https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/orionplatform/content/core-importing-mib-pollers-sw512.htm


Question 7

You can display Palo Alto firewalls on Orion Maps.



Answer : B

Orion Maps 2.0 supports displaying Palo Alto firewalls as network devices, along with their interfaces, zones, policies, and traffic data. You can also view the firewall status, alerts, and events on the map. To add a Palo Alto firewall to an Orion Map, you need to have Network Insight for Palo Alto enabled in NPM, and discover the firewall using SNMP and API polling.Reference:Orion Maps 2.0, New Alerting, and Palo Alto Networks Monitoring - SolarWinds Lab Episode #77,SolarWinds Lab Episode 77: Orion Maps 2.0, New Alerting, and Palo Alto Networks Monitoring - Orange Matter, Network Insight for Palo Alto Networks in NPM


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