The Network Engineer’s Guide to Doing More with Less, Streamline Systems, Patching, VoIP, IP Management, and More

The Network Engineer’s Guide to
Doing More with Less
FIVE TIPS FOR ADDING EXTRA HANDS
WITHOUT HIRING AN EXTRA BODY
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SMBs Aren’t
Hiring, so
More is
Expected
from YOU
The Bad News: Only 26% of SMBs
responding to a recent survey planned to add
IT head count*
The Good News: SMB IT budgets were going
up
The Result: You probably won’t get to
delegate your workload… but you may have
some extra budget
When you need to do more with less,
there are ways…
* Spiceworks® The State of SMB IT, November 2012
!

Spend Less
Time on the
Phone – Fix
Problems
Before They
Impact Users
1
Tired of getting
“My email is down!”
support calls?
Monitor your infrastructure and
make proactive adjustments
before you hear from end-users.
Use the right monitoring tools to
stay ahead of the game. Are you in
charge of servers? The virtual
infrastructure? Time to expand
your views?

Monitor the
Phones
Get the Right Tools to
Monitor Key Systems
Since the phone system has
become yet another IT
responsibility, it’s time to get a
VoIP-specific monitoring tool.
Don’t leave it to the NMS, be sure
you have the right tools to
proactively identify issues before
users come calling (remember slide
1?)
2

Consolidate
Your
Inventory
How many different devices
& platforms do you
support?
Simplify your workload by
consolidating hardware, OS, and
applications.
Streamline your inventory now to
save yourself tons of time later when
troubleshooting, applying
upgrades, and managing patches.
3

Automate
Patching of
3rd-Party
Apps
46% of respondents said it
takes 3+ hours to research,
script, and test 3rd-party
patches*
Use your time more wisely! Centralize
your patch management process
without complicated scripting.
Use an automated patch
management tool to boost
productivity and save yourself hours
of work.
* SolarWinds survey, SysAdmin Revealed!, November 2012
4

Automate: Stop The
Manual Processes
Manually handling IP address management takes time you simply
don’t have and can lead to mistakes you can’t afford to make.
52% of IT infrastructure pros said that IT provisioning was second
only to networking as their most time consuming task.*
Automate IP address management and get back that time and
those orphaned IPs!
* ROI for IPAM Solutions in Small-Mid Sized Enterprise Environments EMA , June 2013
5

Demo
VNQM, IPAM, SAM
SolarWinds® software helps you do more with less, saves you
valuable time, and makes your job easier.
*

What People Are Saying About SolarWinds
Time-Saving Applications
“VNQM is one of the best tools since VoIP was introduced! I am able to track down VoIP
issues, jitter, MOS, latency, etc in 0 seconds flat!”
--bspencer63, thwack
“VNQM allows us to monitor our VoIP links and resolve issues before the customer can report
it.”
Webbster, thwack
Patch Manager seemed to have the lowest barrier to entry and learning curve for the
functionality we desired. We refer to the reporting constantly, entire plants that didn't have
any update system now do, 3rd party programs are up to date resulting in NO malware
infections on 600+ computers since implementation. We currently update/deploy 23 non-
Microsoft ®programs through Patch Manager.
dougr, thwack

What People Are Saying About SolarWinds
Time-Saving Applications
“When asked if we took away the SolarWinds IP Address Manager and had the team go back to doing
everything manually in spreadsheets, there was a long pause, followed by the response, ‘There would
be mutiny.’”*
Healthcare Company, EMA Whitepaper
IPAM: “While improved operational efficiency is the most apparent benefit, the unexpected
advantage in aiding to troubleshoot a DHCP problem was extremely valuable. Also, the complete and
accurate count of each and every IP device touching the network provided a level of detail that was
missing previously. With this additional knowledge, the provider is able to resolve issues more quickly
when they do occur.”*
Healthcare Company, EMA Whitepaper
We have been using Solarwinds Orion® SAM for URL monitoring only and that URL monitoring was
mostly just up/down checking. But we recently had a Linux server that we couldn't install a
monitoring agent on but needed to be monitored (mostly log file type monitoring), so we put the
server in both NPM and SAM, NPM handled the server stats such as CPU, HDD, and MEM while SAM
monitors the log files using the Keyword/Phrase Monitor. What was once a "Dang it! How are we
going to monitor this server the way they want!" turned into "SW Orion SAM is awesome!“
th3cap3, thwack
* ROI for IPAM Solutions in Small-Mid Sized Enterprise Environments EMA , June 2013

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