Promoting nodes
As mentioned throughout this book, we recommend promoting your ICMP (ping-only) vital nodes to SNMP or WMI. Furthermore, you may want to change an SNMP node to WMI, or vice versa.
Remember that WMI takes roughly five times the bandwidth when compared to SNMP; but it provides some additional Windows-specific polling data. That said, WMI will not provide certain data that SNMP offers, such as the interface information. You have to decide for yourself if WMI is right for your environment; testing both SNMP and WMI is a good idea.
Note
Be cautious when changing polling methods from SNMP or WMI because you will lose all historical data that SolarWinds SAM previously gathered!
The following procedure explains how to promote an ICMP node ...
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