Implementing Solarwinds - absentee-neptune/Senior-Capstone GitHub Wiki

Pre-setup:

  • Created a SolarWinds account
  • Waiting for the student availability option to be verified by the company
  • Began the download for Solarwinds

Setup:

  • Downloaded the Solarwinds Orion Software
  • Began the install on minimum, The maximum a student account can provide
  • Waited for the install to finish 6~ hours
  • Entered the account information for the Solarwinds account
  • Browsed to Network Discovery and scanned the network for available machines
  • Enabled the NPM client on the software using the student account.
  • Opened a listener on the machine to create a traffic catcher

These steps in the setup allows the capstone team to look at the traffic divided by service and gain information about what threats could enter the network.