NPM Highlights:

Comprehensive Network Monitoring Software

Simplify Your Monitoring

Orion NPM network monitoring software makes it easy to quickly detect, diagnose, and resolve performance issues within your ever-changing corporate or data center.

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Solarwinds^® network engineers pooled all of their “what ifs” to design Solarwinds^® NPM.

• Monitors, tracks the up/down status, and analyzes real-time, in-depth, performance statistics for routers, switches, wireless access points, servers, and any other SNMP-enabled device.  Learn More
• An intuitive user interface works the way you think by providing device-by-device drill down and detailed system information on network devices.  Learn More

With one-hour, do-it-yourself deployment, you’ll be monitoring immediately.

Solarwinds^® Orion NPM enables you to quickly detect, diagnose, and resolve network performance problems and outages.

Network performance monitoring has never been so powerful & easy to use. Download a fully-functional, free 30-day trial and start monitoring in less than an hour.

Orion NPM Network Monitoring Software

Get Powerful Performance Management at an Affordable Price!

• Delivers detailed monitoring and analysis of performance data
• Automatically discovers devices and shows performance statistics in real time via dynamic network maps
• Includes out-of-the-box dashboards, alerts, reports, best practice thresholds, and more

Automated Discovery & Mapping

• Periodically scans your network for changes and prompts you to monitor new devices.  Learn More
• Displays your environment pictorially and enables you to visually track performance statistics in real time.  Learn More

Intelligent Alerting

• Allows you to quickly view the status of your core IT services and data center through refined alerting and data center monitoring.  Learn More
• Delivers alerts on real issues by enabling advanced network alerting dependencies.  Learn More

Scalable, Extensible, and Easy to Deploy

• Scales to accommodate growth and enterprise network management needs.
• Works with other Solarwinds^® products to extend management capabilities to NetFlow traffic analysis, IP SLA WAN monitoring, IP address management, network configuration management, user device tracking, and application and server performance.
• Deploys in less than an hour with do-it-yourself deployment   Learn More

Robust Network Reports

• Customizable, out-of-the-box network reporting delivers insight into the health of your network.  Learn More
• Share performance data with stakeholders who don’t have a Solarwinds^® NPM login.  Learn More

Orion NPM delivers a robust feature set that enables you to manage corporate and data center network performance and availability, while improving IT efficiency.

	Availability & Performance Management Perform detailed monitoring & analysis of performance data from routers, switches, servers, & other SNMP-enabled devices. View more »
	ConnectNow™ Network Mapping Drag & drop network devices onto custom network maps to automatically view connections between devices. View more »
	Conditional Group Dependencies Focus your attention on real problems with intelligent network alerts based on parent and child dependencies. View more »
	Dynamic Service Groups Group devices by virtually any category and roll up network performance and service level status by location, business center, or any other grouping. View more »
	LUCID Web Interface For Network Monito Simplify troubleshooting with a Web interface that is Logical, Useable, Customizable, Interactive, and Drill-down. View more »
	Virtual Infrastructure Virtualization Monitoring from vCenter™, to the data center, to clusters, to ESX hosts, to the virtual machine - all from a single Web console. View more »
	Message Center Streamline troubleshooting by viewing alerts, syslog data, events, traps and other messages in a single pane of glass. View more »
	Cisco Unified Computing System Support Manage your Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) components utilizing a single unified view of your data center health View more »
	Do-It-Yourself Deployment Download, install, & deploy Orion Network Performance Monitor in less than an hour using three simple steps. View more »
	Data Center and Corporate Scalability Scale Orion to accommodate data center and corporate network growth with a Failover Engine, polling engines, additional Web servers, & Orion Enterprise Operations Console (EOC). View more »
	Advanced Network Alerting Quickly configure alerts & escalate alerts automatically to quickly respond to issues. View more »
	Integrated Wireless Poller Monitor wireless thin & autonomous access points alongside wired devices. View more »
	Universal Device Poller Create a custom poller to monitor any SNMP-enabled device, collect detailed data from MIB tables, & monitor virtually any statistic available on network devices. View more »
	Mobile Views From Android, Blackberry, iPhone, & More Monitor your network performance from popular mobile Web browsers including: iPhone®, Blackberry®, and Android™. View more »
	Report Writer Generate network performance reports using out-of-the-box templates that can be customized with a few mouse clicks; automate report creation & distribution. View more »
	Automated Network Discovery Schedule scans from an easy-to-use, web-based discovery wizard. View more »
	Microsoft Active Directory™ Integration Leverage your existing Microsoft® Active Directory® user accounts to provide Orion login credentials. View more »
	Unpluggable Port Mode Configure user ports to prevent unnecessary alerts when users undock or shutdown their PCs. View more »
	VSAN Monitor and Reporter Get ahead of any VSAN performance issues with real-time, threshold- based alerting and create reports to share VSAN health. View more »
	Cisco EnergyWise Monitor Measure, report, & reduce the energy consumption of any device connected to an EnergyWise-enabled Cisco® switch across your enterprise. View more »
	Open Architecture Leverage an open Microsoft® SQL Server database, Windows®-based polling engines, industry-standard MIBs, & common protocols to monitor network performance. View more »
	Availability Monitor Monitor network device & interface availability, & receive alerts when a device or interface is experiencing performance issues. View more »
	Performance Monitor Monitor performance indicators, such as bandwidth utilization, packet loss, latency, errors, discards, & QoS for SNMP-enabled devices. View more »

What's New in Orion NPM

10.1

Orion Network Performance Monitor (NPM) v10.1 extends dynamic management to corporate data centers of all sizes - simply and affordably. New Features include:

Version 10.1 Highlights:

• Dynamic Service Groups
• Conditional Group Dependencies
• VSAN Monitoring
• Message Center for Network Troubleshooting
• Cisco® Unified Computing System™ (UCS) Support
• Mobile Network Monitor Views For Android™, Blackberry®, iPhone® and More
• VSAN and Fibre Channel Monitor and Reporter
• Microsoft® Active Directory® Integration
• Meru Networks® Wireless Support
• Stacked Interface and UNDP Charting
• LUCID™ Interface for Network Monitor
• Report Improvements

10

Orion NPM Version 10 now makes managing dynamic network easier than ever.

Version 10 Highlights:

• ConnectNow™ Topology Mapping
• Virtual Data Center Monitor
• Automated Discovery
• Redesigned Menu Navigation
• Syslog and Trap Improvements

9.5

Version 9.5 brought wireless directly to the core Orion at no additional cost, supporting thin access points and controllers.

Version 9.5 Highlights:

• Integrated Wireless Poller
• Cisco EnergyWise Monitor
• Network Atlas
• Unpluggable Port Mode
• Network Sonar

System Requirements for Orion NPM:

Hardware
CPU	Dual processor, 3GHz
Memory	3 GB
Hard Drive	20 GB
Software	Minimum Requirements
Operating System	Windows® 2003 & 2008 Server (32-bit or 64-bit) including R2, with IIS installed, running in 32-bit mode
.Net Framework	Version 3.5 or later
Database	SQL Server® 2005 SP1 Express, Standard, Enterprise SQL Server 2008 Express, Standard, or Enterprise, or SQL Server 2008 R2

Orion NPM Screenshots

Various screenshots of Orion Network Peformance Monitor. Click on the images to scroll.

Documentation

Datasheets & Guides

• Orion NPM Datasheet
• Orion Administrator Guide
• Orion Administrator Guide (.zip)
• Orion QuickStart Guide
• Orion Server Migration Guide

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