SolarWinds NPM Certification Practice Questions & Answers

Question 6 of 93

When a router monitored by NPM reboots, the interface indexes statuses change to unknown in NPM. What do you do after you remove the unknown interfaces?

A.

Update the NPM internal ID numbers

B.

Manually update the interface indexes

C.

Rum a list of resources on that node and add the interfaces with the updated index IDs

D.

Run the Configuration Wizard to update the interface indexes

Question 7 of 93

After you create an NPM report with custom charts for availability and response time metrics, you schedule the report and add an action to export it. But you cannot export it as an Excel file. What is the likely reason?

A.

You must link the report with a URL in an email action to run live in the web console

B.

Excel file formats are not supported

C.

The custom charts only support a PDF export

D.

You do not have the permissions to export the report

Question 8 of 93

How do you assign users access to select reports?

A.

Create the reports while logged in as each user and set permissions

B.

Use custom properties and account limitations to control report access

C.

Configure the report and add a Report Limitation. Assign the limitation to users who need access to the report

D.

Save the reports in different sub-directories and set the permissions for each user

Question 9 of 93

Retention policies require you to keep Syslog messages in the database for 9 days before you can discard them. Syslog messages from 8 days ago are missing.

What is likely the issue?

A.

Database compaction runs weekly

B.

Default Syslog retention period is seven days

C.

Default Syslog web filter is seven days

D.

Detailed records are summarized after seven days

Question 10 of 93

You created a Universal Device Poller (UnDP) but cannot find an OID in the MIB tree. How do you resolve this issue?

A.

Restart the Universal Device Poller

B.

Update the MIB database

C.

Rediscover the node via Network Sonar Discovery

D.

Add the node to NPM for monitoring