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SolarWinds NPM is a monitoring and performance management platform. It provides performance troubleshooting support, auto network discovery, customizable thresholds, and can be rapidly deployed.
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- Hardware health monitoring (215)8.686%
- Customizable reports (212)8.181%
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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
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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 |
|---|---|
| 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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SolarWinds NPM is a monitoring and performance management platform. It provides performance troubleshooting support, auto network discovery, customizable thresholds, and can be rapidly deployed.
LogicMonitor, Micro Focus Network Node Manager i, and Broadcom Unified Infrastructure Management are common alternatives for SolarWinds NPM.
Reviewers rate Network monitoring highest, with a score of 8.8.
The most common users of SolarWinds NPM are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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April 04, 2023
The way to monitor your network.
Based on my 7-years of experience I am deeply convinced that Solarwinds products (NPM, NTA) are extremely scalable and reliable solutions with customizable user-friendly interfaces. The most important feature for me is the creation of custom reports using a variety of data sources (SQL query, SNMP, OID, etc.). Alerts constructor is a simple and powerful tool as well.
- 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.
March 21, 2023
NPM is a great tool for your networking team!
We choose to use SolarWinds because the legacy Monitor tool was not cover some areas/alerts/vendors. Also, we were looking for a tool able to identify and act in some alerts. We are using NPM to monitor the infrastructure, to provide some stats that can help us to identify possible issues in the future, and to automatize some regular actions.
- 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
SolarWinds Network Performance (NPM) is used to monitor the health of our switches and other network devices, from several brands including Cisco, Aruba, and HPE and (I) OT devices. We use it to monitor when devices are offline, when interfaces have status changes, and also interface bandwidth on devices to identify potential issues.
- Alerting network device status down/up
- Monitor devices for hardware status
- Monitor bandwidth usage
- No improvements needed
December 01, 2022
Network monitoring made easy using SolarWinds NPM
SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor is being used effectively throughout our organization. It's being used across different regions of the world with multiple instances setup. It's able to manage and monitor our entire customer infrastructure proactively.
- Easy to implement
- Easy to navigate
- User friendly
- Nothing as of now.
September 08, 2022
SolarWinds NPM brings all your Network Tools into a single Toolbox
We use SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) to monitor the availability and performance of our networks across 15 geographically dispersed sites. This includes network devices, Servers, Virtual Machines and even our bandwidth consumption. SolarWinds NPM is a powerful and yet user-friendly solution with a variety of very useful tools and performance monitors allowing you to proactively manage your network and be alerted to potential issues using proactive monitoring and threshold management. The system is able to manage a wide variety of devices regardless of manufacturer and brand. There are also a host of very useful reports which can be customized to the organization's needs and automated according to run as needed.
- 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.
May 31, 2022
Single Window Network Performance Monitoring
SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) is used in various ways for us as well as other organizations that we support. Various use cases are as follows - Network availability during business hours Network utilization reports to review all Service provider WAN links Device health monitoring Capacity planning reports for a proactive approach NetPath - very widely used for identifying network issues like latencies, packet drops, config issues, traffic issues using a hop by hop path analysis
- 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
April 26, 2022
An honest review of SolarWinds NPM from a Network Operations Manager at a major US Airline
Our corporation uses SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor to monitor all of our networks/endpoints for outages that may affect connectivity. With the use of NPM, we can easily view uptime graphs, receive alerts, and even SNMP traps or Syslogs. In addition to SolarWinds NPM, we also complement it with SolarWinds NTA and NCM where we can view all network traffic and download nightly backups to our configurations.
- 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.
April 18, 2022
Complete network monitoring for large organisations
SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor is used to monitor all network devices (switches, routers, firewalls,...), manage SLAs and alerting. We build dashboards to monitor main link usages, implement complex alert rules and use Netpath to monitor end to end paths. It is helping us have a clear view about our network and very useful for troubleshooting
- Devices monitoring
- Alerting
- Graphs
- Scaling (each node is limited)
- Cloud monitoring
- Dashboards
Our company uses SolarWinds NPM to monitor the health of our network and servers. We have thousands of devices and it's very helpful to know which are functioning properly in one dashboard. Alerting is also a key feature of the SolarWinds NPM and is essential to our job duties. We are all able to keep track of malfunctioning equipment without having to dive through thousands of logs. Setting up alerts to cell phones and emails is also pretty easy to do and we could not live without it during our on-call rotations.
- 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.
We essentially use it to monitor our network devices - switches, routers, firewalls, ETC. We have our uplink interfaces monitored as well so that we can see usage and report on them as needed for things like bandwidth bottlenecks both internally and externally.
- 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.
We utilize SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) to monitor device health at all layers of our network (switches, routers, wireless controllers, etc.). The dashboard allows us to quickly identify problems such as down devices, bandwidth spikes, dropped packets, and high CPU utilization. Particularly useful is the notification system that alerts our network team when a device is not reachable.
- 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
SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor provides advanced features to monitor network devices, firewalls, access points. It becomes easy to track such issues and resolve them within business objective timelines through the use of email alerts. The tool allows you to create custom dashboards and organize our data in ways that benefit our organization. The SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor also allows our staff to identify network bottleneck issues quickly which in turn results in faster problem resolution times.
- 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
February 01, 2022
SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) Review
For several years, our organization has continued to utilize SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) for around the clock performance monitoring of the network and networking systems in the environment. SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) solves the issues of continuous visibility, notification, and alerting pertaining to problems or issues that may occur anywhere within our IT environment.
- Performance Monitoring
- Network Alerting
- Troubleshooting Issues
- Dashboard Graphics
- Node Licensing
- 3rd party compatibility
January 31, 2022
Not impressed but not disappointed either.
It is used to monitor the availability of critical systems of the infrastructure such as Active Directory, DHCP, and servers in remote sites. It's also used to get NetFlow stats on Cisco Routers to get a time slice view of network traffic and bandwidth.
- 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
Someone knew. But no one knew who. NPM let us regain control of the who knew and turn it into a measured responsibility. Our Company now has knowledge of what our network resources include and how those resources are utilized daily. We demonstrate processes and services which are hyperextended and leverage available resources for use in our production environment by monitoring the trends and use of our business assets. NPM tools have helped us free up monetary resources for additional pressing projects which provide business growth. The payoff?? Minimizing monetary bleed and maximizing resource utilization. We will renew our NPM licensing allowing us to continuously monitor our IT infrastructure, connect to upstream providers, and monitor many production processes and services. This will continue to maximize our planning capabilities for resources and scalability for continued Membership and Subscriber growth.
- 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.
January 27, 2022
Best Network Monitoring Tool out there
We are a University with 13 locations with 2 employees monitoring all locations inclusive of over 300 Switches and 200 Servers that host various apps. SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor allows us to monitor
all devices from one console including switches, routers, servers, and even printers.
It
allows us to monitor for hardware errors and bandwidth issues which
is a major help in troubleshooting errors and planning for the future. I use it to view all of the switches and apps and ensure everything is up and functioning at just a glance.
- 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
I have been using SolarWinds NPM for well over a decade. We have setup up hundreds of alerts and notifications that will email us when network notes ranging from servers, storage systems, VMware ESXi hosts, to all kinds of networking switches and gear encounter issues, are down, reset. We quickly are notified when a system is down or has rebooted and or has not come up in a timely manner.
- 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
January 25, 2022
solarwinds npm
We are using the solarwinds npm to monitor the network availability of our networking devices like routers, switches and servers. We are monitoring the link utilization and device performance and availability uptime and downtime of the devices and their links. We are also monitoring the physical and virtual storage of our devices along with reporting and alerting.
- 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.
January 25, 2022
GREAT All-in-One Network Monitor
SolarWinds NPM is a comprehensive tool for administrators to have an overview of network paths using major protocols (i.e. ICMP, SNMP, etc.). This would help network administrators to be able to pinpoint issues within the network effectively cutting the guesswork on the points of failures and latency issues.
- 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.
January 24, 2022
Review of SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor
We are a University with multiple locations with one Network Engineer to manage and monitor all locations. SolarWinds NPM allows us to monitor all devices from one console including switches, routers, and printers. It
allows us to monitor for hardware errors and bandwidth bottlenecks which is a major help in troubleshooting error and planning for the future.
- 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.
January 21, 2022
All in One Network Performance Tool
I use Solarwinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) for network visibility, uptime, and troubleshooting. SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) verifies issues with network devices such as bandwidth allocation, network devices up/down state, and many other things to assist me in troubleshooting to keep the most uptime for my business.
- Alerts
- Performance
- Inventory
- Free netflow statistics
- Difficult threshold changes
January 20, 2022
Robust Network Performance Monitoring Solution
SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) is our primary enterprise monitoring tool used for monitoring the entire infrastructure. This includes servers, N/W devices, storage, databases, firewall, UPS, etc., to list a few of the device types which we monitor. It supports multi-vendor network monitoring and insights for deeper visibility. SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) includes intelligent alerting, intuitive dashboards, and reporting features. SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) is part of the SolarWinds Orion Platform and is the main monitoring component and integrates seamlessly with other SolarWinds modules. It supports SNMP, WMI, and agent/agentless monitoring.
- 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
January 19, 2022
Great one stop shop for Network Monitoring
SolarWinds allowed us to consolidate Network Performance monitoring into one tool. It has allowed us to spot issues we would have otherwise missed.
- 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.
January 18, 2022
Great Product for Network Monitoring
Our business is manufacturing, we have a wide campus design network equipment and it is hard to manage without SolarWinds NPM platform to check the status of the alerts it generates when a system is down. it helped us take quick actions in terms of doing maintenance during peak hours of the business and to maintain high availability at all times. NPM plays a vital role in our organization and we like how granular statistics it shows on the dashboard, it is very easy to set up any system to monitor its availability in terms of network, power, CPU usage, and other hardware stuff.
- NPM Alerts when a network device is down
- bandwidth issues can be determined
- hardware issues can also be seen
- improvements over the WAN
January 18, 2022
SolarWinds
We monitor status and utilization at 13000 retail locations.
- Up/Down status
- Bandwidth utilization
- Alerting
- auto discovery
- UI performance