Ease of use is good, interface is above average, and saving my score is 1000 out of 10įor me there is only one real things that gets me with NPM. It offers WMI, SNMP and ICMP monitoring as well as the agent which gives you several flavors to monitor equipment.
#SOLARWINDS NETWORK PERFORMANCE MONITOR SLX WINDOWS#
The Agent for servers installs on Windows and Linux and is SO EASY. You can label your undefined items so they mean something to you. When there is no identified MIB, you can create your own. Detailed level for switch ports and routers, Cisco UCS, HP, DELL, and the list goes on and on. You have details and i mean details about every server, switch, I even have my consumable good inventory vending machines monitored with NPM. Allows you a near single pane of glass approach to you network. Must have tool.Ĭomplete network monitoring tool. Pricey but worth its weight in (insert item here). There's an opportunity for the vendor to maybe decouple reporting capabilities to a BI module which can be deployed on an independent server, and maybe use for it a read only replica of the production DB. This tasks will also consume a lot of resources. Reporting capabilities are sort of buggy, specially when exporting complex and large reports. The licensing model is not the best for a service provider scenario and it seems like the vendor doesn't even consider this option. SolarWinds provides a very complete ecosystem of network monitoring and management tools with seamless integration. It possesses a very robust engine to configure thresholds, events and actions, so you can get the proper reaction to different events. It's support for different monitoring mechanisms (snmp, wmi and agent) provides adaptability to mostly any network. In the world of enterprise network monitoring, NPM has one of the shortest learning curves, its web GUI is very inutitive and you can start monitoring your assets almost immediately. When complemented with other products from the same vendor, it provides maybe 95%, since there's always something than need a specialized tool. It can use some improvements, but still, in 8 years we've been using NPM on a service provider scenario, it has solved about 80% of our customers requirements for network monitoring. Via a cutting-edge, customizable Web console, Orion gives you a unified view into the performance of thousands of nodes and interfaces on your network, serving up detailed metrics like availability, bandwidth utilization, and interface traffic for routers, switches, servers, and any other SNMP-enabled devices.NPM is a very reliable and powerful network monitoring tool Orion can be installed and collecting data in literally minutes. Plus, it doesn't take a team of consultants and months of unpleasant surprises to get Orion up and running. Orion also measures performance SLAs for key services across the network infrastructure, so that you can hold service providers to their promises. Providing extensive visibility into the health of network devices, servers, and applications, Orion ensures that you have the real-time information you need to keep your systems running at peak performance all the time. Orion is a comprehensive fault and performance management platform that scales with the exponential growth of your network and expands with your network management needs.