SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor

Features

• Availability & Performance Management - Perform detailed monitoring & analysis of performance data from routers, switches, servers, & other SNMP-enabled devices to ensure peak network performance
• ConnectNow Network Mapping - Drag & drop network devices onto custom network maps to automatically see the connections between devices & view real-time performance statistics
• Point-&-Click Network Monitoring Interface - Quickly & easily identify network issues across your enterprise with a highly intuitive web-based interface that can be customised to meet the needs of your organisation
• Virtual Datacenter Monitoring - Monitor virtual machine performance, VMware host server health, & critical vCenter Server statistics to ensure your virtualised datacenter is running smoothly
• Do-It-Yourself Deployment - Download, install, & deploy Orion NPM in less than an hour using three simple steps that eliminate the need for consultants & prevent headaches
• Enterprise Scalability - Scale Orion NPM to accommodate network growth with a hot standby engine, multiple polling engines, additional web servers, & Orion Enterprise Operations Console
• Advanced Network Alerting - Quickly configure alerts for correlated events, sustained conditions, & complex combinations of device states; escalate alerts automatically to quickly respond to issues
• Integrated Wireless Poller - Monitor wireless thin & autonomous access points alongside wired devices, leveraging award-winning alerts, reports, & Top 10 lists
• 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
• Community Content Exchange - Leverage the expertise & custom resources created by thousands of network engineers through integration with thwack, SolarWinds online community
• Network Report Writer - Generate network performance reports using out-of-the-box templates that can be customised with a few mouse clicks; automate report creation & distribution
• Automated Network Discovery - Schedule network scans from an easy-to-use, web-based discovery wizard to identify new network devices & ensure you are monitoring all of your critical equipment
• Custom Property Editor - Create custom groups or use a predefined list to track & report on business & network information by business unit or function
• Role-based Access Control - Establish unique accounts & specify which types of information are displayed for a particular department, group, or user, providing an increased level of security
• Unpluggable Port Mode - Configure user ports to prevent unnecessary alerts when users undock or shutdown their PCs, while continuing to monitor infrastructure ports for up/down status of critical devices
• Customisable Web Views - Quickly & easily customise the web interface & modify page formats, toolbars, & resources to best suit the needs of your organisation
• SNMP Trap & Syslog Viewer - Set up alerts & quickly troubleshoot network performance issues with the ability to receive, process, forward, & send Syslog & SNMP trap messages
• Cisco EnergyWise Monitoring - Measure, report, & reduce the energy consumption of any device connected to an EnergyWise-enabled Cisco switch across your enterprise
• Open Architecture - Leverage an open Microsoft SQL Server database, Windows-based polling engines, industry-standard MIBs, & common protocols to monitor network performance
• Network Availability Monitoring - Monitor network device & interface availability, & receive automatic alerts when a device or interface is experiencing performance issues
• Network Performance Monitoring - Monitor performance indicators, such as bandwidth utilisation, packet loss, latency, errors, discards, & QoS for SNMP-enabled devices.