The SolarWinds - Orion Network Performance Monitor (NPM) allows you to swiftly identify, analyze, and settle network outages as well as performance problems.
Management software has never been so reliable as the network-centric views are designed to convey the vital data which you need most. With Orion NPM’s ease of use, you get to spend your valuable time on
network management and not supporting your network monitoring tool.
Key Features:
- Observes and evaluates real-time, high-detail, network performance data for routers, servers, wireless access points, switches, and all other SNMP-enabled devices.
- Makes light work of network issue analysis with top 10 views of your global network and drill down maps.
- With do-it-yourself deployment this system has you up and running in under an hour.
- Scales to accommodate growth and management needs with a hot standby engine, multiple polling engines, and additional web servers.
- Enabling of advanced alerts for linked events, continual conditions and complex amalgamations of device states.
- Observes the energy usage of Cisco EnergyWise-enabled network devices and presents visual policies which control energy expenditure.
- Comprehensive set of modules that extend management capabilities to NetFlow traffic analysis, IP SLA monitoring, IP address management, network configuration management, and application and server performance.
Orion NPM version 10.0 provides the following new features and enhancements:
- Scheduled Discovery
Thanks to the arrival of scheduled discovery, you are now able to automatically execute routine network discoveries at any time of day. By making use of the Network Sonar Wizard, you’re able to schedule discoveries to take place whenever it best suits your network management requirements. - VMware vSphere Monitoring
This edition of Orion NPM adds the capability to observe VMware vSphere installations by utilizing the VMware API to augment ESX/ESXi server information accessible to SNMP polling. - Syslog and Traps
This list of Syslog and Traps features has been incorporated into this edition of Orion NPM:
* Making use of the regular Orion ${vbName1} and ${vbData1}variable format, trap flexible binding names and value pairs are now obtainable as alerting and message variables.
* The creation of custom trap alerts is now possible with the Trap Viewer which allows you to use pattern matching.
* Orion NPM node variables are now available for use in Syslog and trap alerts.
* Syslog and trap alerts now respect unmanaged node status.
* Orion NPM is now able to alter the status of an interface based on the content of a trap message.
* Forwarded Syslog messages may now be configured to retain the IP address of the original message source.
* Forwarded Syslog messages may also be configured to spoof network packets using WinPCap 3.0+. - Orion Product Team Blog
Remain in contact with the team which brought you the products in the Orion family. Users are invited to follow the Orion Product Team Blog on thwack, which is the SolarWinds online user community. There you’ll be able to view posts from the Orion developers and product managers enabling you to learn about extending and optimizing your Orion installation, to best meet the needs of your network. - Product Update Notifications
Regular, automatic notifications of updates will now be delivered to you through your installed Orion monitoring and network management applications in the Orion Web Console. Product updates from SolarWinds can include upgrade opportunities, service packs, and hotfixes. - ConnectNow
Utilizing topology information, which is collected during network discovery, the ConnectNow application in Orion Network Atlas can automatically draw lines between map objects which are directly linked (Layer 2) on your network. - Other Features in this Release
The following features have also been included in this version of Orion NPM:
* Windows Server 2008 R2 is now officially supported.
* Improvements to Events, Syslog, Traps, and Web Node Management views have improved overall Orion Web Console performance.
* Network Atlas performance has been enhanced, allowing accelerated loading of larger numbers of maps.
* Network Sonar Discovery has been improved to better handle the full discovery of nodes with large numbers of interfaces.
* The Orion Web Console user interface has been improved with the inclusion of module-specific tabs and breadcrumbs for more intuitive navigation.
* The Database Maintenance utility has been improved to run maintenance tasks more efficiently.
* The ability to post a URL using HTTP GET or HTTP POST methods as an alert action has been added.
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