What is SolarWinds Orion Network Performance Monitor?

SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) is a powerful and affordable network monitoring software that enables you to quickly detect, diagnose, and resolve network performance problems and outages. Speeds troubleshooting, increases service levels, and reduces downtime.

How do I configure Network Performance Monitor?

Open your Log Analytics workspace, and select the Overview tile. Select the Network Performance Monitor tile with the message Solution requires additional configuration….Configure the capabilities you want:

1. Performance Monitor.
2. Service Connectivity Monitor.
3. ExpressRoute Monitor.

How does SolarWinds Orion work?

The polling engine requests real-time statistics (through the selected polling method, such as SNMP or WMI) from monitored devices in your environment. Polled data is further processed and stored in the SolarWinds Orion SQL database. Data is requested from the database and displayed in Orion Web Console.

How do I use SolarWinds?

Run Configuration wizard

1. Log in to the Orion Server as a Windows Local Administrator.
2. Start the Configuration wizard found under Start > SolarWinds Orion > Configuration Wizard.
3. On Orion Platform 2020.2.
4. On Database Settings, verify that the correct SQL Server and authentication method are selected.

How does the Orion Network Performance Monitor work?

The Orion Network Performance Monitor will monitor and collect data from routers, switches, servers, and any other SNMP enabled device. Additionally, Orion platform monitors CPU Load, Memory utilization, and available Disk Space. Orion Platform is highly scalable, capable of monitoring from 10 to over 10,000 nodes.

What is Orion platform and how to integrate?

how to integrate? Solution Overview: Orion Platform is a comprehensive bandwidth performance management and fault management application that allows you to view the real-time statistics of your network directly from your web browser.

How to extend network performance monitor to non-standard devices?

Extend monitoring to non-standard devices by creating custom pollers. Hardware, software, and port requirements for the Orion Platform server and for the SolarWinds Orion database. Activate, add, upgrade or assign licenses with the web-based License Manager in the Orion Web Console.

What do I need to know about Orion web console?

Learn more about basic functions of the Orion Web Console: how to log in, view events, syslogs, traps, reports or alerts. Specify devices for monitoring and the information you need about them.