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Cheryl Nomanson, SolarWinds staff technical trainer, provides a comprehensive overview of SolarWinds architecture and scaling options for self-hosted deployments. She explains the centralized deployment model starting with a single SolarWinds server that handles polling, web console, and database connections. The presentation covers key scaling indicators including polling thresholds that warn users at 85% capacity and alert at 100%. She demonstrates how to add up to 100 polling engines per server and additional web servers to handle more concurrent users.

SolarWinds Network Topology Mapper (NTM) helps you automate network discovery and mapping, saving man hours. With a variety of discovery methods like SNMP, CDP, ICMP and WMI, NTM helps you have an up-to-date map of all your routers, switches, firewalls, servers, desktops, and workstations. SolarWinds Network Topology Mapper enables you to export the maps to a variety of formats including Visio, PNG, Network Atlas and PDF for easier documentation. With NTM, you can have up-to-date network diagrams to comply with PCI, HIPAA and other regulatory requirements.

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With a variety of discovery methods like SNMP, CDP, ICMP and WMI, SolarWinds Network Topology Mapper helps you have an up-to-date map of all your routers, switches, firewalls, servers, desktops, and workstations. Featuring industry standard symbology for network nodes, NTM supports multiple options for map alignment with improved Etherchannel support and representation, ability to create multiple maps from a single scan and many more.

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