Solarwinds Advanced Training
Scale, secure and integrate SolarWinds across a multi-site enterprise with high availability and a governed upgrade path. Learn Solarwinds through a clear Foundation to Advanced path, with hands-on labs, live cohort options, certification support and full LMS access.
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Self-paced video subscription
Billed yearly at ₹9,996. This includes all four levels, complete LMS access for one year, plus 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools access.
- All four Solarwinds levels in one price.
- 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools included, even when subscribing to one course.
- Best fit for learners who want full-library access and flexible progress.
Live & Interactive session
Instructor-led cohort, max 8 to 10 hours, with demos, labs, Q&A, assignments and practical review.
- Live small-batch cohort from soon.
- Interactive discussion and lab troubleshooting.
- Recommended for teams that need guided implementation.
1:1 Live training
The same agenda, taught one-to-one by the trainer. Start immediately, without waiting for the next batch. Max 8 to 10 hours, one-to-one.
About Solarwinds Advanced Training.
Understand where Solarwinds fits in modern software delivery, what this level covers, and how the program builds practical confidence step by step.
Program overview
Solarwinds is taught as a practical technical skill for modern engineering, operations and platform teams. The course explains where the tool fits, how it is used in real delivery environments, and how learners can apply it through guided practice.
This DevOpsSchool Solarwinds program is built for working professionals who want usable skills instead of only conceptual exposure. The training emphasizes live examples, workflow clarity, operational controls and progressive skill depth from Foundation to Advanced.
Private Solarwinds training for delivery teams, platform groups and engineering organizations.
DevOpsSchool provides corporate Solarwinds training for teams that need faster adoption, workflow standardization, administrative control, integration guidance and governance-ready rollout. Private batches can be aligned to development practice, release workflow, access model, maturity level and internal tooling.
- Private online or classroom delivery for engineering teams
- Aligned to Solarwinds usage maturity, admin depth and collaboration patterns
- Useful for rollout, migration, governance and workflow consistency goals
- Can be tailored for developers, administrators, DevOps teams and leadership stakeholders
Why teams use DevOpsSchool
DevOpsSchool combines live demonstration, practical workflow discussion, implementation-oriented examples, and strong post-session learning support. That makes the training more usable for real teams than generic slide-led courses.
Choose any level. The page still shows the full progression.
Foundation, Essential, Intermediate and Advanced are presented as one linked training flow. Self-paced buyers get all levels by default, even if they start from only one course page.
Instructor-led, self-paced and corporate delivery options.
Compare delivery format, duration, level access and batch style. Fees are shown only in the top decision panel and once again after the agenda.
| Duration | Mode | Level access | Batch |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 to 10 Hrs. max | Live & Interactive | Advanced | Public batch |
| 8 to 10 Hrs. max | 1:1 Live training | Advanced | Starts immediately |
| 1 year LMS access | Self-paced video | All 4 levels | Anytime access |
| 5 Days | Corporate | Solarwinds Advanced Training | Private team batch |
What learners should be able to do after Solarwinds training.
The outcomes are written for practical delivery teams: developers, DevOps engineers, release engineers, administrators and technical leads.
Monitor networks and servers
Deploy SolarWinds to monitor network devices, servers, applications and logs from one console.
Act on the right alerts
Build tuned alerts, reports and dashboards that help teams find and fix problems faster.
Run SolarWinds at scale
Automate, secure, scale and integrate the platform for enterprise operations.
Why this skill, what you will achieve, and who should attend.
Use this section to decide whether the course matches your role, current experience and expected Solarwinds responsibilities before reviewing the detailed agenda.
Why Solarwinds matters
- Solarwinds helps teams standardize a critical part of their software delivery, infrastructure, automation or operations workflow.
- It gives learners a repeatable way to move from basic usage to confident execution in team and enterprise environments.
- For DevOps and platform teams, Solarwinds becomes more valuable when connected with automation, governance, monitoring and delivery practices.
- Teams using Solarwinds effectively reduce ad-hoc execution and move toward consistent engineering standards.
Objectives
- Understand Solarwinds concepts, architecture, terminology and operational usage patterns.
- Learn practical configuration, workflow design, access controls, team usage and quality practices.
- Apply Solarwinds in real delivery workflows using automation, integrations, traceability and governance patterns.
- Build practical confidence to use Solarwinds for individual, team and organizational use cases.
Pre-requisites
- Basic computer literacy and familiarity with software development workflows.
- Helpful but not mandatory: introductory DevOps, cloud, automation or software delivery awareness.
- No deep programming background is required for the Foundation and Essential levels.
Who this course is for
- Developers, administrators and engineers who need practical Solarwinds usage skills.
- DevOps engineers, release engineers, SREs and platform teams managing delivery standards.
- Engineering leads and technical managers responsible for workflow quality, access controls and governance.
- Corporate teams migrating to or standardizing on Solarwinds.
Small-batch live training starts every month.
Weekday batches start on the 1st and weekend batches on the first Saturday of every month. One-to-one (1:1) training can start immediately; corporate sessions are scheduled on demand.
Weekend live batch
Starts on the first Saturday of every month. Weekend sessions with demos, labs and Q&A; max 10 learners.
Weekday live batch
Starts on the 1st of every month. Weekday sessions for working professionals and distributed teams; max 10 learners.
Ask advisorAgenda depth up to the selected level.
This page shows the learning flow from Foundation through Advanced. Each level adds to the previous one, and the agenda stops at the current page level. Day counts are for corporate (day-wise) delivery; live online batches cover the same agenda in max 8 to 10 hours.
Foundation Level: SolarWinds Platform architecture and installationDay 1
- Overview of SolarWinds: introduction to the SolarWinds Platform (formerly Orion) and its architecture
- Key SolarWinds modules and their functionalities: NPM, SAM, NCM, NTA, IPAM, VMAN and Log Analyzer
- Platform components: main polling engine, web console, SQL Server database and additional polling engines
- System requirements and installation process: server sizing, SQL Server, the installer and licence activation
- Setting up the SolarWinds environment: service accounts, firewall ports, user accounts and roles
- Configuring SolarWinds for first-time use: Configuration Wizard, credentials and polling intervals
- Polling methods: ICMP, SNMP v2c and v3, WMI and agent-based polling
- Network Sonar Discovery: discovering devices by IP range or subnet and importing nodes
- Exploring the SolarWinds web console: summary pages, node details, menus and settings
- First health view: node status, response time, packet loss and up or down states
Essential Level = Foundation + Network performance monitoring, alerting and reportingDay 2 · 2 days cumulative
- Network performance monitoring: what Network Performance Monitor (NPM) measures and how polling works
- Configuring and managing nodes and interfaces: add, edit, unmanage, mute and custom properties
- Setting up network performance monitors: CPU, memory, interface utilisation, errors and discards
- Network Insights for deeper visibility: Cisco ASA, Cisco Nexus, F5 BIG-IP and Palo Alto devices
- NetPath and PerfStack: hop-by-hop path analysis and correlating metrics on one timeline
- Groups and dependencies: logical groups, parent-child dependencies and alert suppression
- Best practices for monitoring network performance: polling intervals, baselines and thresholds
- Customising alerts and notifications: trigger and reset conditions, email, SNMP trap and script actions
- Configuring advanced alert thresholds: dynamic baselines, sustained conditions and time-of-day schedules
- Creating custom reports and dashboards: Modern Dashboards, web-based reports and report scheduling
- Built-in reports: availability, top-N utilisation and inventory reports and adapting them to your needs
- Hands-on lab: practical exercises on network performance monitoring and alerting
Intermediate Level = Essential + Servers, applications, logs, security and automationDay 3 · 3 days cumulative
- Server monitoring with SolarWinds: introduction to Server & Application Monitor (SAM)
- Configuring server monitoring: assigning application monitors and component monitors to nodes
- Monitoring server health and performance metrics: CPU, memory, disk, services, processes, hardware health
- Application monitoring for critical business applications: AppInsight for SQL, IIS and Exchange
- Monitoring web applications and databases: HTTP and HTTPS monitors and SQL query monitors
- Application Performance Monitor (APM) heritage in SAM: component monitor types and thresholds
- Log management and analysis: SolarWinds Log Analyzer overview, configuring log sources and parsing logs
- Alerts for log events: rules on syslog, SNMP traps and Windows events that trigger platform alerts
- Advanced troubleshooting techniques: correlating data from multiple sources and problem identification
- Security monitoring with SolarWinds: concepts, configuring security alerts and network security best practices
- Automation and scripting: repetitive tasks, SolarWinds API and SDK (SWIS, SWQL) and PowerShell scripts
- Optimising SolarWinds performance: minimising resource usage, regular maintenance tasks and updates
- Real-world scenarios and case studies: use cases, group discussion on challenges and shared best practices
- Final hands-on lab: scenarios combining security monitoring, automation and performance optimisation
Advanced Level = Intermediate + Scale, high availability, security and enterprise integrationDays 4-5 · 5 days cumulative
- Scaling the platform: additional polling engines, polling capacity and scalability engine guidance
- High availability: SolarWinds HA pools for the main and additional polling engines
- Database at scale: SQL Server sizing, data retention settings and database maintenance
- Enterprise Operations Console (EOC): federated views across multiple SolarWinds instances
- Network Configuration Manager (NCM): config backups, change detection, compliance policies and firmware updates
- NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA): flow sources, top talkers, application traffic and CBQoS
- IP Address Manager (IPAM): subnet management, DHCP and DNS integration and IP conflict detection
- Hybrid and cloud monitoring: Virtualization Manager, AWS and Azure monitoring, Hybrid Cloud Observability
- Platform hardening: least privilege, SAML single sign-on, HTTPS, patching and lessons from the SUNBURST incident
- Role-based access: account limitations, team-specific views and audit events
- ITSM and chat integrations: ServiceNow incident integration, alert webhooks, Microsoft Teams and Slack
- Upgrades and migrations: upgrade planning, moving to new servers, database migration and SaaS observability options
- Capstone: design and roll out a monitoring architecture for a multi-site enterprise
Choose live training or a full year of self-paced access.
If someone buys Foundation, Essential, Intermediate or Advanced as self-paced video, the price stays the same and access is granted to all four levels by default.
Self-paced video subscription
Billed yearly at ₹9,996. This includes all four levels, complete LMS access for one year, plus 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools access.
- All four Solarwinds levels in one price.
- 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools included, even when subscribing to one course.
- Best fit for learners who want full-library access and flexible progress.
Live & Interactive session
Instructor-led cohort, max 8 to 10 hours, with demos, labs, Q&A, assignments and practical review.
- Live small-batch cohort from soon.
- Interactive discussion and lab troubleshooting.
- Recommended for teams that need guided implementation.
1:1 Live training
The same agenda, taught one-to-one by the trainer. Start immediately, without waiting for the next batch. Max 8 to 10 hours, one-to-one.
- Start immediately: no waiting for the monthly batch.
- One learner, one trainer: full attention on your questions.
- Sessions planned around your working hours.
- Your pace, with examples from your own projects and tools.
Method of training and assessment.
The course emphasizes practical demonstration, hands-on labs and assignment-based validation instead of passive lecture-only learning.
| SL | Method of training and assessment | Weightage |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Understanding the problem space | 5% |
| 2 | Concept discussion | 10% |
| 3 | Live demo and walkthrough | 25% |
| 4 | Lab and hands-on exercises | 50% |
| 5 | Assignments and evaluation | 10% |
Labs, exercises and real workflow practice.
Every level moves from explanation to hands-on practice, review and troubleshooting.
Install and discover a lab network
Install the SolarWinds Platform with SQL Server, run a Network Sonar Discovery against a lab subnet and review the imported nodes in the web console.
Network monitoring with smart alerts
Monitor routers, switches and interfaces, build an alert with sustained thresholds and email actions and publish a Modern Dashboard for the network team.
Monitor and automate a server estate
Monitor Windows and Linux servers and a SQL Server with SAM, add log alerts with Log Analyzer and bulk-update custom properties using a PowerShell SWIS script.
Highly available multi-site design
Add an additional polling engine and an HA pool, back up device configs with NCM and connect alerts to a ServiceNow incident integration.
Solarwinds is taught as part of a working delivery ecosystem.
You learn where the tool sits in the wider engineering workflow, not in isolation.
Core foundations
Terminology, concepts, architecture and the operating model behind the tool.
Workflow traceability
Map practical work to tasks, approvals, documentation and delivery visibility.
Automation and integration
Use Solarwinds with validation checks, automation hooks and delivery workflows.
Governance controls
Operate with permissions, approvals, policy checks and production-safe workflows.
How your practical work is assessed.
Your certificate is backed by labs, assignments, capstone thinking and completion evidence.
Assignments
Level-specific assignments verify setup, configuration, workflow quality and operating discipline.
Hands-on validation
Learners are expected to complete practical usage, automation and troubleshooting exercises.
Completion record
Certificate issuance is tied to demonstrated participation, practical completion and course-level coverage.
Led by Rajesh Kumar and the DevOpsSchool practitioner network.
Training is grounded in practical DevOps, SRE, security, release and platform engineering experience with real enterprise delivery context.
Earn a DevOpsSchool Solarwinds certificate.
Completion includes a digital certificate with credential details, practical assignments and a learning record aligned to the selected Solarwinds level.
Certificate verificationCertificate of Completion
Solarwinds Advanced Training
Unique credential ID, verifiable online
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Used by developers, DevOps engineers, release leads and engineering managers.
Private batches are available for teams that want the same agenda aligned to their own tools and workflows.
Why this Solarwinds path is different.
The value is not only one course. The subscription unlocks the full learning ecosystem for one year.
| Feature | DevOpsSchool Solarwinds Training | Typical short course |
|---|---|---|
| Levels | Foundation, Essential, Intermediate, Advanced | Single generic syllabus |
| Self-paced access | All four levels plus 20+ courses and 50+ tools | Usually one course only |
| Live training | Demos, labs, Q&A and assignment review | Often lecture-heavy |
| Certificate | DevOpsSchool completion certificate | Varies by provider |
Questions learners ask before joining.
Does Foundation cost less than Advanced?
No. Self-paced pricing is intentionally the same because access includes all four levels by default.
What is included in the yearly subscription?
One year of complete LMS access, all four levels for the selected course, plus 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools access.
Can corporate teams request customization?
Yes. The live format can be aligned to team tools, governance requirements, workflows and internal delivery standards.
What is the recommended sequence?
Foundation → Essential → Intermediate → Advanced. The agenda is designed so each level builds on the previous one.
Talk to DevOpsSchool before choosing the batch.
Use this support section for batch questions, corporate planning, LMS access clarifications, or guidance on which Solarwinds level fits your team.
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