This getting started guide assumes that you have:

If you need assistance with your evaluation, contact Prerequisites If you evaluate SolarWinds NTA on a Windows Server operating system, you can easily convert your evaluation license to a production license by obtaining and applying a license key. The evaluation version of SolarWinds NTA is a full version of the product, functional for 30 days. If you need implementation help, contact our Support team.Įvaluators: To evaluate SolarWinds NTA, download a free 30-day evaluation. Access your licensed software from the SolarWinds Customer Portal. Minimum system requirements used during evaluation are not sufficient for a production environment.

Depending on your workload, getting started with SolarWinds NTA should take you one day or less.Įxisting customers: Follow the recommendations in this guide to ensure your system capabilities are appropriate and your production environment is sized correctly. Use SolarWinds NTA to monitor interface-level network bandwidth and traffic patterns over the course of months, days, or minutes.Įnsure your long term success with SolarWinds NTA by following the guidelines described in this guide. Identify consumers of interface bandwidth.Ĭhange the threshold for Top Talker alerts, identify top talkers after the bandwidth utilization alert is triggered, and use the Flow Navigator for forensic analysis. Understand what protocols NTA supports, review flow environment best practices, and enable a device to send flow data to SolarWinds NTA.

Use the SolarWinds Platform Installer to prepare the environment and install SolarWinds NTA.įor NTA to analyze your bandwidth utilization, you need to discover the devices and add them to SolarWinds Platform for monitoring. This guide takes you from installation to implementation and includes the following sections:

Welcome to the SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) Getting Started Guide.

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