Is it your favorite way to spend your time? No way! Is it necessary? Absolutely! Backing-up, changing and tracking your configuration can be painstaking, time consuming, and error prone without the right software at your side. Orion NCM delivers affordable, easy-to-use config management that can be used standalone or integrated with Orion Network Performance Monitor (NPM) to provide an enterprise-wide, unified, intuitive view into your networkwork health and performance. You’re going to love having a complete solution that accelerates the configuration of your network, and troubleshooting and ensures a stable, high-performing network—no matter how large or small.

Orion NCM simplifies managing network configuration files in multi-vendor network environments with a highly intuitive web interface that offers point-and-click simplicity and easy access to configuration data. Plus, it continuously monitors device configurations and provides immediate notification of configuration changes to help you resolve problems before they impact users.

You can quickly fix issues without having to manually Telnet or SSH into devices to change network configuration parameters. Orion NCM also makes it easy to generate and analyze network compliance reports to confirm that your devices are meeting regulatory and corporate standards.

Network Configuration Management Highlights:

Comprehensive Change Management

• Simultaneously modify configurations, change community strings, update ACLs, and block MAC addresses across many devices
• Receive real-time alerts when network configuration changes occur to protect against and quickly respond to unauthorized, unscheduled, or erroneous changes
• Use the wizard-like interface in config change templates to quickly and easily execute advanced config changes—no scripting expertise required
• Integrate NCM data into NPM alerts—include the last config changes, or trigger an action to run a script or backup the running config
• Share config change templates with one-click import or export to or from the Solarwinds^® online community, thwack

Robust Policy Reporting

• Detect configuration policy violations to ensure compliance with federal regulations and corporate standards including:
  • PCI, HIPAA and SOX
  • Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) STIG
• Report on config policies and violations down to the interface level
• Minimize syntax errors by testing rules against the config prior to implementation
• Share config change policies across your organization or with Solarwinds^® online community, thwack, with one-click import or export

Network Device Management

• Quickly troubleshoot network issues with immediate visibility into the cause-and-effect relationship between network configuration management errors and network performance
• Schedule automated backups of all device configurations in complex network environments
• Backup devices with start-up, running, baseline or custom configuration file types ENHANCED
• Create custom config types and use as containers for storing show commands, config variations and many more
• Instantly inventory network device hardware with just a few mouse clicks, using out-of-the-box inventory reports—and the latest version is over 8X faster! ENHANCED
• Comprehensive IPv6 support ENHANCED
• Enable network devices for Cisco® EnergyWise energy management and activate specific EnergyWise policies on capable network devices

Powerful Network Configuration and Change Management Has Never Been So Affordable!

Today, network change and configuration management products have to be stable, secure, and scalable, while reducing errors and offering visibility into the entire change process. Orion Network Configuration Manager (NCM) delivers a robust configuration management feature set that accomplishes all this and more!

	Config Change Templates Easily execute advanced config changes using a wizard-like interface & simple variable inputs. View more »
	Multi-vendor Device Support Manage your heterogeneous network with out-of-the-box support for devices from leading hardware vendors. View more »
	Real-time Change Notifications Receive real-time alerts when configurations change, giving you more control, instant visibility, and improved security.View more »
	Integration with Orion NPM Execute config management actions from Orion NPM alerts.View more »
	Automatic Config Backups Schedule and automatically backup network device configurations on a regular basis for routers, switches, firewalls, access points, and more. View more »
	Bulk Change Management Simultaneously change a community string, modify an access control list, or block a MAC address across 10 or 10,000 devices. View more »
	Policy Violation Detection & Reporting Ensure configurations comply with federal regulations and internal standards; easily remediate policy violations. View more »
	LUCID Web Interface Quickly isolate and diagnose network configuration problems with a web interface that is Logical, Useable, Customizable, Interactive, and Drill-down. View more »
	Inventory Reports Generate a detailed network inventory of all managed devices, including serial numbers, port details, IP addresses, and more. View more »
	Remote Firmware and IOS Transfers Perform remote IOS/firmware updates in real time or schedule them to run at a future time from a single console. View more »
	User Roles, Permissions & Activity Tracking Protect against unauthorized network configuration changes & ensure compliance with regulations, such as HIPAA & PCI. View more »
	Configuration Comparisons & Rollback Discover how Orion NCM enables you to identify & repair unauthorized & failed network configuration changes. View more »
	Network Discovery Automatically scan your entire network and import discovered devices into the Orion NCM database for fast and easy deployment. View more »
	Cisco® EnergyWise Configuration Management Enable Cisco EnergyWise network devices for energy management and activate specific EnergyWise policies on the network. View more »
	Engineer’s Toolset Integration Integrate with Solarwinds® Engineer’s Toolset for “right-click” access to your favorite network management tools. View more »
	Configuration Archive Archive your configuration, inventory, and policy data within a secure Microsoft® SQL Server database. View more »
	Global Configuration Search Track down a specific configuration or node in seconds by performing a global search directly from the Orion NCM web console. View more »
	Community Content Exchange Share resources with the Solarwinds® community to quickly extend your configuration management to new devices types. View more »
	Device Import Wizard Quickly migrate to Orion NCM by importing existing device data from a database or other config management solution. View more »
	SOX Compliance Management  Ensure configurations comply with SOX and other regulations and internal standards; easily remediate policy violations.  View more »
	Support for FISMA, NIST, & DISA STIG Compliance Perform network configuration policy management on devices throughout your IPv4 & IPv6 networks. View more »

What's New in Orion Network Configuration Manager

6.1

Orion Network Configuration Manager (NCM) v6.1 incorporates many of the product enhancements and features that customers said they wanted in a 21st-century configuration management solution.

Version 6.1 of Orion NCM delivers enterprise-level capabilities that are typically reserved for five- and six-figure network configuration and change management (NCCM) deployments – but at a highly affordable four-figure price! We hope that you will love the new features we've built into the product, including:

• Enhanced Policy Reporting:
  - Report on config policies all the way down to the block level
  - Integrated Orion web interface and workflow
  - Ensure that rules work as expected by testing against the config prior to implementation
  - Reuse reports and leverage community policy reports via import and export functionality
• With one-click, import or export config change templates to or from thwack, the Solarwinds^® online community
• Enhanced support for IPv6 configs
• New Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) STIG compliance report (available on thwack)
  
• Over 8X improvement in device inventory performance
• Create custom configuration file types for greater flexibility

6.2

• Config change templates - execute common config management tasks without writing scripts
• Enhanced integration with Orion NPM - manage & receive alerts on configuration, fault, & performance through a single web console
• New compliance, security & administration features - adhere to compliance mandates such as PCI, SOX, and HIPAA
• Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) compatibility

Orion Network Configuration Manager System Requirements:

Documentation

Datasheets & Guides

• Orion NCM Datasheet
• Implementing SNMPv3r1
• NCM AdministratorGuide
• Orion NCM Quick Start Guide
• Solarwinds^® Port Requirements
• Orion NCM VPAT-1210

Case Studies

• Case Study: FiberCloud
• Case Study: Smart City Networks
• Case Study: UniGroup
• Case Study: USMC chooses Solarwinds^®
• Case Study: Agilisys
• Case Study: 335th Signal Command
• Case Study: EMA