NPM

NPM practice questions, page 3 of 4, with answer review and explanations.

Question 11

Users report that NPM performance is slow when managing devices through the Orion Web Console. You verify the SNMP trapping is responsible for the poor performance. How do you resolve this issue?

  1. Add the devices as managed nodes to cut down on the trap messages received
  2. Point the devices to a trap manager and filter unwanted messages before forwarding remaining traps to the Orion Platform
  3. Reduce the number of days SNMP messages are kept in the SolarWinds Trap Viewer
  4. Add an Additional Web Server to handle the load of users accessing the NPM Orion Web Console

Question 12

How can you ensure the trigger actions you set on an alert will work?

  1. Use the Database Manager to trigger and test the alert
  2. Simulate a performance interruption on a network device to test the alert trigger
  3. Click Simulate on the assigned trigger action
  4. Test the alert from within Alert View of the Web Console

Question 13

The Universal Device Poller retrieves management data in which format?

  1. OID
  2. WMI
  3. XML
  4. ANSI 1

Question 14

You’re troubleshooting a complex network issue and need to build a comparison of several metrics across multiple devices and SolarWinds products to identify the problem. What feature can you use?

  1. PerfStack
  2. Network Insight
  3. NetPath
  4. AppStack

Question 15

You can import device-specific MIBs into the SolarWinds MIB Database, but you cannot import UnDP pollers based on OIDs from device-specific MIBs.

  1. True
  2. False