Overview

Orion NPM enables you to quickly detect, diagnose, and resolve network outages and performance issues. It offers network-centric views that are designed to deliver the critical information you need most. And Orion NPM is the easiest product of its kind to use and maintain, meaning you will spend more time actually managing networks, not supporting Orion NPM.

Features

Performance & Fault Management

• Monitor network performance indicators, such as bandwidth utilization, packet loss, latency, errors, discards, and quality of service for any SNMP-enabled devices
• Monitor disk space, CPU load, and memory utilization on network devices
• Conduct detailed performance monitoring and analysis of network elements
• Hover over a network object to see additional details about the object including status, IP address, machine type, and percent loss.

Intuitive Point-&-Click Interface

• Quickly and easily identify issues with the Orion Network Performance Monitor (NPM) highly intuitive, web-based interface
• Cstomize and view data in graphs, tables and lists
• Remotely view and administer network devices across your enterprise
• Do-It-Yourself Deployment
• DIY Deployment gets you up and running in less than an hour
• Save time, money, and headaches

Advance Alerting

• Define device dependencies
• Configure network alerts for correlated events (alert if X and Y are true)
• Set up network alerts for sustained conditions (alert if Y is true for more than 5 minutes)
• Escalate network alerts automatically
• Ensure you don’t receive unnecessary alerts and prevent floods of useless messages
• Enterprise Scability
• Scale from 50 to more than 100,000 network elements with a hot standby engine, multiple polling engines, and additional web servers
• Accommodate network growth and changing network performance management needs
• Consolidate information from multiple Orion Network Performance Monitor (NPM) deployments using Orion Enterprise Operations Console (EOC)

Integrated Wireless Poller

• Quickly find rogue access points (APs) and view their corresponding SSIDs, channels, and number of active clients
• Group wireless devices into several categories, including controllers, wireless type, vendor, machine type, status, and location
• Monitor access points and their corresponding client details including client names, signal strengths, IP addresses, MAC addresses, and an Rx/Tx summary
• Search for any wireless monitoring criteria, including access points, client names, and IP addresses
• Monitor a real-time Top 10 list of wireless APs with the largest number of clients
• Access over 15 out-of-the-box wireless reports, including wireless availability, average and peak number of clients, and rogue access points over varying time frames

Universal Device Poller

• Create a custom MIB poller to monitor any SNMP-enabled device
• Collect detailed information stored in device MIB table
• Monitor virtually any statistic available on networked devices
• Combine and transform polled MIB values
• Import and export custom MIB pollers

Community Content Exchange

• Obtain new resources from Thwack, SolarWinds online community, directly through the Orion NPM interface
• Augment the built-in capabilities of Orion NPM with this assistance of a global community of network engineers

Network Atlas

• View your network logically by floor, building, department, or geographic location
• Create custom maps remotely from your desktop quickly and easily, with drag-and-drop simplicity
• Monitor real-time performance statistics based on location

Cisco EnergyWise Monitoring

• Report on energy consumption and savings over specific time periods
• Graphically compare maximum power consumption vs. current power consumption across all of your EnergyWise-enabled devices
• Preview EnergyWise policies using an intuitive energy management calendar
• VMWare Virtualization Monitoring
• Monitor VMware® ESX host servers and guest virtual machine instances
• Track virtual machine (VM) availability and performance, including key metrics such as CPU, memory, disk space, and network bandwidth
• Monitor key VirtualCenter statistics to ensure that your virtualization environment is running smoothly
• Automatically discover, identify, and monitor new virtual machines added to any VMware ESX Server
• Leverage out-of-the-box VM reports
• Maintain VM performance using built-in alerts to receive instant notification of VM-related issues

ReportWriter

• Access over 60 built-in network reports
• Customize built-in network reports with a few simple mouse clicks
• Provide your executives with custom network reports, giving them the relevant data they want
• Automate network report generation so that you can go home early
• Project future network performance trends and capacity needs

Custom Property Editor

• Create custom groups or use a predefined list to track and report on business and network information by business unit or function
• Track additional business and network information, such as asset tag numbers or a carrier’s circuit number
• Improve the ability to report on network data that is important to your specific organization
• Role-Based Access Control
• Create accounts by department or based on a user’s role
• Customize accounts to display specific types of network data
• Increase internal security

Unpluggable Port Mode

• Avoid unnecessary visual notifications and alerts when users undock or shutdown their PCs
• Monitor infrastructure ports for up/down status while bypassing up/down notification for user ports
• Customize views based on your organization's requirements
• Format page views to meet your needs
• Create multiple views by department or by user

Customizable Web Views

• View your favorite websites, including trouble ticket systems, as an embedded page within Orion NPM
• Network Sonar
• Launch automatic scans from a web console
• Follow a simple three-step process to add new devices to your network
• Ensure your network devices are imported, regardless of vendor

SNMP Trap & Syslog Viewer

• Receive, process, forward and send Syslog and SNMP trap messages
• Set up alerts based on Syslog and SNMP trap messages
• Filter messages on severity/facility rules

Open Architecture

• Leverage an open MS SQL database
• Rely on Windows-based polling engines
• Utilize industry-standard MIBs