Summary

Congratulations! SolarWinds Orion Network Performance Monitor is now installed and ready for initial configuration. In this chapter we talked about the hardware and server requirements, we walked through an entire SQL Server 2008 R2 Express installation from scratch, configured the Windows Server operating system, configured Windows Firewall settings, and we walked through the SolarWinds Orion NPM installation process.

In the next chapter, we will address Orion NPM's first-time setup using the Setup Wizard.