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.