Challenge
A growing multi-site organization needed to modernize and expand its infrastructure monitoring capabilities to improve visibility, performance management, and operational resilience across its distributed IT environment.
ClearBridge provided a Senior SolarWinds Deployment Engineer to deploy and optimize the SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted Platform. The environment supported 7 sites and planned to expand to 13 locations, increasing complexity across networking, wireless infrastructure, servers, security devices, and remote connectivity.
The organization faced several operational challenges:
- Limited centralized visibility across expanding infrastructure environments
- Increasing complexity in managing network, server, firewall, and wireless performance
- Need for proactive alerting and observability enhancements
- Supporting reliable VPN connectivity and performance for 150+ remote users
- Ensuring scalability as additional sites and monitored devices were added
- Strengthening reporting, performance analytics, and access controls across the monitoring platform
The infrastructure included a broad mix of enterprise technologies across each site, including:
- Palo Alto firewalls
- Cisco switches and wireless access points
- Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers
- InfoBlox appliances
- Windows, Linux, SQL, virtual, and physical servers
- OpenGear remote access devices
Our client required an experienced consultant capable of architecting, deploying, automating, and optimizing a scalable observability solution while minimizing operational disruption.
Solution
Our Senior SolarWinds Deployment Engineer led the implementation and optimization of the SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted Platform across the organization’s distributed infrastructure.
Our consultant worked closely with IT and infrastructure teams to design a scalable monitoring framework that supports current operations and future growth initiatives.
Key project deliverables included:
- Installing and configuring SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted Platform
- Deploying comprehensive network monitoring across all sites
- Configuring wireless infrastructure monitoring for Cisco access points and controllers
- Implementing server and operating system monitoring across Windows, Linux, SQL, and virtualized environments
- Establishing firewall monitoring and performance visibility for Palo Alto devices
- Enhancing observability capabilities with advanced alerting, dashboards, and reporting
- Supporting VPN connectivity monitoring and performance analysis for remote users
- Automating deployment workflows and optimizing monitoring processes
- Configuring scalability improvements to support expansion from 7 to 13 sites
- Strengthening platform security and role-based access controls
- Troubleshooting and optimizing infrastructure performance across network and server environments
The deployment focused on creating a centralized, proactive monitoring ecosystem to improve operational awareness and accelerate issue resolution.
Impact
The SolarWinds deployment significantly improved infrastructure visibility, operational efficiency, and scalability across the client’s growing environment.
Results Included:
- Centralized monitoring across a distributed multi-site infrastructure
- Improved network, wireless, firewall, and server visibility
- Enhanced proactive alerting and incident response capabilities
- Increased performance insights for remote VPN connectivity
- Improved scalability to support future site expansion
- Faster troubleshooting and reduced operational downtime
- Strengthened reporting and infrastructure analytics capabilities
- Improved platform security and access management controls
- Streamlined operational workflows through deployment automation
By implementing a scalable, optimized observability platform, our client strengthened its ability to proactively manage infrastructure performance while supporting continued organizational growth and remote-workforce demands.
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