

If this is the first system you install and you don’t have anything else, you will get some WOW effect. Out of the box it has several reports and in the webinterface you will have the famous TOP10 block (or area’s). If you are using the trial edition, it will install with the SQL Express edition. Orion NPM installs within 60 minutes (or even faster). If you have a device and the MIB is not included you can ask for a MIB update or you can use custom OID polling to retrieve specific values from a device. Orion will pull out CPU, Memory, Network traffic and disk utilization. Windows servers that have SNMP enabled can be monitored based on the Host Resource MIB RFC 1213. The integrated MIB collects a very wide range of devices. Orion NPM is a network monitoring system based on central polling of SNMP devices. Also included is NetPath that provides an end tot end path to diagnose problems. In this SolarWinds Orion NPM review we have tested version 11.5 and have included the experience of version 12.01 Version 12 has a more flexible discovery engine.

Drill down of maps is possible.ĭiscussed in this SolarWinds Orion NPM review One of the key benefits (and selling success) of Orion is that it has a flexible (visual) map that can be integrated into the web-console.

It installs on a Windows server and requires IIS. A Polling engine, Alerting Engine, Webserver, Reporting Engine and a database. Orion NPM has all the traditional architecture components that we would expect from a network performance management system. In this SolarWinds Orion NPM review we have tested version 11.5 and 12.01 The latest version is 12.1
