Overview
What is SolarWinds NPM?
SolarWinds NPM is a monitoring and performance management platform. It provides performance troubleshooting support, auto network discovery, customizable thresholds, and can be rapidly deployed.
NPM is a great tool for your networking team!
SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM): A Great Tool Including NetPath
Network monitoring made easy using SolarWinds NPM
SolarWinds NPM brings all your Network Tools into a single Toolbox
Single Window Network Performance Monitoring
An honest review of SolarWinds NPM from a Network Operations Manager at a major US Airline
Complete network monitoring for large organisations
Easy, Big and Mostly Reliable Network Performance Monitoring for Large Organizations
If you're looking for advanced monitoring, NPM has it - but it falls short
SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) - Know Your Network
SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor provides clear insight and usable information
SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) Review
Not impressed but not disappointed either.
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Popular Features
- Network monitoring (231)8.888%
- Alerts (228)8.787%
- Hardware health monitoring (215)8.686%
- Customizable reports (212)8.181%
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Pricing
NPM
$1,638
Entry-level set up fee?
- Setup fee optional
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting / Integration Services
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Why I Recommend SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM)
Features
Network Performance Monitoring
A network performance monitoring system monitors the entire network for performance problems and collects performance data such as network traffic analysis performance bottlenecks, etc.
- 7.9Automated network device discovery(210) Ratings
Automated network device discovery allows all devices in the environment to be found and tracked
- 8.8Network monitoring(231) Ratings
Monitoring network device availability and performance indicators like bandwidth, packet loss, CPU, WAN links, etc.
- 7.8Baseline threshold calculation(201) Ratings
Calculation of baseline thresholds so to establish warning thresholds
- 8.7Alerts(228) Ratings
Alerts warning of critical infrastructure component failure can be sent via email or SMS or other channel
- 7.7Network capacity planning(188) Ratings
Capacity planning analyzes interface utilization, disk usage, etc. and allows identification of capacity problems well in advance of threshold breach
- 7.3Packet capture analysis(130) Ratings
Interception of data packets provides performance-related information such as network and application response times, and traffic type analysis
- 7.2Network mapping(190) Ratings
Dynamic mapping tool allows the network topology to be mapped showing performance metrics, and link connection and utilization
- 8.1Customizable reports(212) Ratings
Ability to schedule, generate, and deliver custom performance and availability reports
- 7.1Wireless infrastructure monitoring(153) Ratings
Ability to monitor wireless access points, controllers, and connected clients
- 8.6Hardware health monitoring(215) Ratings
Ability to monitor key hardware metrics including temperature, fan speed, and power supply
Product Details
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What is SolarWinds NPM?
SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) delivers comprehensive network fault monitoring and performance management that scales and expands with a company's network monitoring needs. Users can collect and view availability, real-time and historical statistics from routers, switches, firewalls, servers, and any other SNMP-, ICMP-, or WMI-enabled devices directly from a web browser.
The vendor states that SolarWinds users can get a full NPM installation up and running the same day they download, and that implementation does not require a team of consultants. NPM provides visibility into the health of network devices and servers on the network, ensuring that users have needed real-time information to keep their network running at peak performance.
Network Performance Monitor helps IT Pros:
- Detect, diagnose, and resolve network performance issues and avoid downtime
- Respond to multiple condition checks, correlated events, and device dependencies
- Automatically calculate capacity exhaustion dates using customizable thresholds based on peak and average usage
- Streamline network troubleshooting with a Web interface
- View paths to critical business services hop-by-hop, even into the cloud, with the NetPath™ feature
- Get deeper visibility into complex network devices with Network Insight™ features for Cisco ASA firewalls, Cisco Nexus switches, and F5 BIG-IP load balancers
SolarWinds NPM Features
Network Performance Monitoring Features
- Supported: Automated network device discovery
- Supported: Network monitoring
- Supported: Baseline threshold calculation
- Supported: Alerts
- Supported: Network capacity planning
- Supported: Packet capture analysis
- Supported: Network mapping
- Supported: Customizable reports
- Supported: Wireless infrastructure monitoring
- Supported: Hardware health monitoring
Additional Features
- Supported: Seamless conversion upgrade to AIOps-powered Hybrid Cloud Observability
- Supported: Multi-vendor device support for any router, switch, firewall, VPN concentrator, wireless access point and other devices that support standard protocols
- Supported: Intelligent alerts for correlated events, sustained conditions, and complex combinations of device states
- Supported: Insight on hardware health by monitoring, alerting, and reporting on the state of key device sensors
- Supported: NetPath for hop-by-hop monitoring of critical business services, on-premises or into the cloud
- Supported: Network Insight for Cisco Nexus switches, F5 BIG-IP load balancers, Cisco ASA firewalls
SolarWinds NPM Screenshots
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SolarWinds NPM Integrations
- SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability
- SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
- SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA)
- SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM)
- SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
- SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor (SRM)
- SolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD)
- SolarWinds Web Performance Monitor (WPM)
SolarWinds NPM Competitors
- LogicMonitor
- Micro Focus Network Node Manager i
- Broadcom Unified Infrastructure Management
- Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution
- ManageEngine OpManager
- Nagios Core
- Progress WhatsUp Gold
- DX Infrastructure Manager (formerly CA Unified Infrastructure Management)
- Paessler PRTG
SolarWinds NPM Technical Details
Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Windows, Windows® Server 2016; SQL Server 2016 SQL Server 2016 SP1 SQL Server 2017 (including installations on Linux) |
Mobile Application | No |
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Reviews and Ratings
(593)Attribute Ratings
- 9.3Likelihood to Renew27 ratings
- 10Availability3 ratings
- 9Performance3 ratings
- 9Usability21 ratings
- 8Support Rating44 ratings
- 8Online Training2 ratings
- 10Implementation Rating17 ratings
- 9Configurability3 ratings
- 10Product Scalability2 ratings
- 7Ease of integration3 ratings
- 9Vendor pre-sale3 ratings
- 9Vendor post-sale3 ratings
- 7.5Solarwinds Premier Support Rating11 ratings
- 1SolarWinds Smart Start Support Rating1 rating
Reviews
(1-25 of 236)The way to monitor your network.
- Custom reports building.
- Alert management with conditions constructor.
- A huge variety of data sources.
- Web console requests cashing works quite slow - I assume Redis configuration should be improved.
- Network elements virtualization and clustering monitoring do not satisfy the contemporary requirements (has to be more functional and provide a wider list of vendors).
- WiFi heatmap is available for Cisco Meraki equipment only.
NPM is a great tool for your networking team!
- Monitor Cisco devices in general
- Monitor Azure Gateways
- Provide different kind of reports
- Provide different kind of alerts
- Pollers for Aruba Devices
- The SolarWinds support team is not familiar with non-Cisco vendors, so it's hard to get some support from them.
- Bugs sometimes is happening
- Sometimes the Dashboard delays to show the current status of Nodes/Services
- Alerting network device status down/up
- Monitor devices for hardware status
- Monitor bandwidth usage
- No improvements needed
Network monitoring made easy using SolarWinds NPM
- Easy to implement
- Easy to navigate
- User friendly
- Nothing as of now.
SolarWinds NPM brings all your Network Tools into a single Toolbox
- Excellent Network Reporting
- Great performance monitoring with various KPIs
- Proactive alerting with alerts when approaching set thresholds
- It would be great to have Root Cause Analysis built into the platform
- The Network mapping feature could use a friendlier interface
- The Network Monitoring Platform does not include the Topology Mapper.
Single Window Network Performance Monitoring
- Device Health Monitoring
- NetPath - network path analysis
- Performance monitoring of devices - utilization of resources like CPU, Mem, Interfaces
- Specific vendor monitoring with Network Insight - Cisco, F5, Palo Alto
- NetPath scaling for very large environments like Banks
- Drag and drop functionality in Reporting
- Drag and drop functionality in Dashboards
An honest review of SolarWinds NPM from a Network Operations Manager at a major US Airline
- Monitor uptime and create alerts for nodes which are down.
- Collecting Syslogs and Traps
- NPM is very slow at drawing charts and historical data from the SQL database.
Complete network monitoring for large organisations
- Devices monitoring
- Alerting
- Graphs
- Scaling (each node is limited)
- Cloud monitoring
- Dashboards
- Alerting on the SolarWinds NPM platform is straightforward to set up, customizable, and works reliably.
- Being able to set up basic and more complex monitoring is a nice touch. Even devices that don't support SNMP can be monitored via a simple ping.
- Visibility of all network and server device health on one dashboard is very convenient.
- The SolarWinds NPM UI/UX isn't exactly the most modern-looking, but it gets the job done.
- Updates to SolarWinds can be tricky at times and have broken the system in the past.
- Configuring and scripting some of the advanced features can be confusing, but the thwack community is always very helpful.
- Notify us when a network device goes down and comes back online.
- Reports for network interfaces.
- Fairly simple to add or remove a network device.
- The software upgrade process is a little hairy and has caused me trouble on occasion.
- The server that it needs to run is a bit of a resource hog along with the SQL server.
- Some additional features like the network map are a bit clunky compared to some other products that we use.
- Easy identification of network issues
- Notification when critical systems are offline
- The "Network Top 10" dashboard is all-around great
- Upgrading the software can be tedious
- Managing/creating reports could be faster
- Overall, no major complaints
- Provides real-time network performance data
- Customized reporting
- Easily create WiFi heat maps
- Cost when scaling can get expensive
- Would like to see tighter integration between SolarWinds products
- GUI could be streamlined more
SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) Review
- Performance Monitoring
- Network Alerting
- Troubleshooting Issues
- Dashboard Graphics
- Node Licensing
- 3rd party compatibility
Not impressed but not disappointed either.
- Aggregate date
- All in one interface
- Supports SNMP and NetFlow
- Can see route of packet across the internet to destination server
- Simplify interface
- Simplify installation
- Price
- Identifies IP addresses, hostnames, packet loss, and latency
- Displays top talkers per each monitored interface
- Path offers device details and detects configuration changes
- Detailed (potentially multi-path) map between Windows node and a specified destination
- Customizing the NPM interface is capable of a multitude of instructions in the Virtual Classroom via the SW website.
- Customizing the threshold values and which interfaces to monitor are configurable by many videos in the Virtual Classroom on the SW website.
- Customizing the active alerts' values are configurable by following directions and video instruction guides in the SW Virtual Classroom on the SW website.
Best Network Monitoring Tool out there
- Monitors all the switches
- Alert when a network device is down
- Monitor bandwidth usage across the network
- Monitor Hardware health on devices
- Bandwidth monitoring could be improved, when creating a map we need to either show bandwidth usage or interface speed. I would like to see both
- Wireless heat maps could be improved. It only works with certain vendors
- monitor up/down status of network nodes
- sends alerts immediately by email
- good graphs and widgets to view at a quick glance status of nodes
- maybe a little easier way to add new network nodes
solarwinds npm
- Resource performance monitoring.
- Link monitoring.
- Alerting.
- Reporting.
- New devices are not supported.
- IPSec VPN tunnel monitoring of the FortiGate firewall is not supported.
- Creating custom pollers does not provide the required information.
GREAT All-in-One Network Monitor
- Highly customizable
- Great mapping tools
- Has an overview of devices and endpoints in an environment
- Tiering could be more granular.
- Customization could be made easier for end-users.
Review of SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor
- Alert when a network device is down.
- Monitor device for hardware errors.
- Monitor bandwidth usage across network.
- Wireless heat maps could be improved. We have multiple AP vendors and from experience, it only works with certain vendors.
All in One Network Performance Tool
- Alerts
- Performance
- Inventory
- Free netflow statistics
- Difficult threshold changes
Robust Network Performance Monitoring Solution
- Very scalable for large environments
- Agent and agentless monitoring available
- Robust SNMP monitoring, realtime MIB updates by the vendor
- Integrates seamlessly with other SolarWinds products
- Support more vendors, checkpoint and storage vendors
Great one stop shop for Network Monitoring
- Network Maps, Live Maps.
- Custom Dashboards.
- Ease of adding new elements.
- Support for Juniper/Arista devices.
- Sluggishness and need for a modern UI.
- Limitation to Windows.
Great Product for Network Monitoring
- NPM Alerts when a network device is down
- bandwidth issues can be determined
- hardware issues can also be seen
- improvements over the WAN
SolarWinds
- Up/Down status
- Bandwidth utilization
- Alerting
- auto discovery
- UI performance