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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.
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- Alerts (228)8.989%
- Hardware health monitoring (215)8.888%
- Network monitoring (231)8.787%
- Customizable reports (212)7.979%
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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
- OpenText Network Node Manager i (NNMi)
- Broadcom DX Unified Infrastructure Management
- Cisco Prime LAN Management (discontinued)
- 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, OpenText Network Node Manager i (NNMi), and Broadcom DX Unified Infrastructure Management are common alternatives for SolarWinds NPM.
Reviewers rate Alerts highest, with a score of 8.9.
The most common users of SolarWinds NPM are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Users recommend considering the whole stack of Network Modules on the SolarWinds platform instead of NPM as a standalone product. They believe the other modules are valuable additions for monitoring, managing, and analyzing the network. SolarWinds NPM is considered the best network performance monitoring solution on the market. Users suggest using it for network monitoring and exploring other modules for specific infrastructure monitoring. While NPM is a good tool for network monitoring, users advise looking into alternative options for advanced monitoring needs. Some users suggest improving the navigation to make it more fluid and user-friendly. Overall, users recommend SolarWinds NPM for managing and monitoring network infrastructures due to its reliability and cost-effectiveness. They also recommend trying the live action feature and Meraki for enhanced network analytics. Users suggest considering other products with better UI and capabilities. SolarWinds NPM is worth the price if affordable, especially with sponsorship. Working with third-party services or SolarWinds to properly set up the tool is recommended. Using multiple tools in conjunction with NPM provides more visibility. Users recommend signing up for Thwack and utilizing their resources for assistance with SolarWinds products. Trying the demo first before purchasing is advisable. NPM is considered a core module in every company that chooses SolarWinds as their monitoring tool. It is important to ensure that the server can handle the software. Experienced staff maximizes the benefits of the platform. Users suggest downloading a trial copy of NPM to test it out. NPM outperforms other tools according to user opinions. More theme options and additional ways to export data are requested. Other modules from SolarWinds that work well with NPM, such as Server & Application Manager, should be explored. Support team and Thwack community are highly praised by users. Users should not be overwhelmed by features and take advantage of free trial resources. SolarWinds is recommended for enterprise-level monitoring, but Loop1 consulting is advised for complex environments. Initial setup can be time-consuming. The 30-day evaluation of the full product is excellent. Becoming a Thwack member provides access to extensive resources and support. SolarWinds may have a higher cost but is considered worth it. Proper provisioning of hardware, software, and infrastructure is crucial before deploying SolarWinds. Users recommend setting up the trial version first and getting familiar with the product. SolarWinds NPM receives high recommendations from users and is praised for its great dashboards.
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October 11, 2018
Solarwinds NPM is Great!
Solarwinds NPM has some of the highest level of integration, and worked with what we had already deployed for monitoring. We didn't have to modify device configurations prior to deployment, as they had already contained the entries within their configurations to allow the level of monitoring, alerting, etc. that were necessary for our purposes.
October 05, 2018
NPM Keeps Us Informed and Ahead of Compaints
We went away from HP servers and needed a brand agnostic solution.
October 05, 2018
NPM is well worth a look at if you care about your network
We did not look at any other products
September 28, 2018
2 Decades for network motioning experience.
I've used ScienceLogic, Whatsup Gold, Tivoli, CA's Suite of tools as well as many many others that focus on just small areas of network monitoring. From out of the box Solarwinds is the most cost effective and ease of use tool to get working in your network. If you have under 200 networking nodes and all the passwords to each of them you can deploy NMP in under a day with one user doing 99% of the work. It will take you longer to get your servers built for NPM and the database then it will to actually get your nodes under monitoring by SolarWinds.
September 11, 2018
Yes to SolarWinds!
SolarWinds offered us everything we required at a much lower cost, so at the time that's why we made the decision to purchase.
September 07, 2018
SolarWinds
We only evaluated SolarWinds because it has the best reputation.
OpManager was the product we used before acquiring SolarWinds, and was the one stop shop for our network operations center before SolarWinds NPM was installed. NPM is a more enterprise ready product and we don't have the number of issues to debug like we used to have with OpMgr.
September 05, 2018
My NPM review in a nutshell
- SolarWinds N-central, SolarWinds MSP Manager, SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server, SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager, SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor, Solarwinds VoIP and Network Quality Manager, Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution, Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager, Microsoft Systems Management Server and Riverbed Steelhead
Most have been SolarWinds products for either monitoring and management. As I mentioned, the top usage now is for alerting on up/down. Performance monitoring is mostly on an ad-hoc basis.
August 31, 2018
SolarWinds keeps a good eye on your network weather.
Solar Winds is usually high rated by most users. Pricing is all over the board and depends on the day of the month. It has the main features we were looking for. They are always adding things to it.
We inherited NPM from our Network Engineers, we then evaluated other providers after the software lifecycle of two years came up. SolarWinds only made it because of price. It was by far the cheapest, so cheap that the far superior products, even with all the improvements could not compete with our limited budget. We needed a monolithic tool under 50k a year in maintenance. All the combined Orion Platform tools for us, cost less than 25k a year. (SAM, NPM, NetFlow, VNQM, WPM, Extra Web Server)
September 23, 2016
SolarWinds NPM - A Must-Have for Network Engineers
- Cacti and Nagios
I don't think this is really a fair comparison, but both Cacti and Nagios have some similar functionality to SolarWinds NPM in that they all do performance monitoring on networked devices. Cacti and Nagios both lack the in depth feature set and customization that NPM offers, but Cacti and Nagios are either extremely cheap or free when compared to SolarWinds.
December 21, 2015
Great for monitoring disk usage on physical and virtual servers!
We chose Solarwinds Network Performance Monitor over other solutions for two main reasons: NPM can monitor more than just one type of appliance or OS, it can monitor all types of network related equipment including virtual operating systems as well as physical operating systems all with one product. The competitors product could only handle virtual servers. Overall the cost was significantly cheaper for SolarWinds NPM than the competitor's product.
December 18, 2015
SolarWinds gets the job done faster and cheaper
HP Open View is too costly and too hard to configure
December 18, 2015
SolarWinds eclipsing the competition
We have used Application Manager in the past and still use it for its deeper database monitoring and analysis. It is more costly per its licensing so while SolarWinds has become more feature rich we have been able to reduce our footprint of Application Manager. Application Manager was a good standard to see SolarWinds eclipse.
December 16, 2015
SolarWinds NPM Review
SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor was selected for its ease of use, relatively low price, and great functionality.
December 16, 2015
NPM - definite must when using the rest of the SolarWinds stack
Better full stack integration
December 14, 2015
Solarwinds NPM VS PRTG & Cisco Prime
Multi vendor support and support of the majority of products used in an infrastructure is plus point for SolarWinds NPM.
December 14, 2015
SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor Review
- NetBrain and Intermapper
Intermapper is an easy to use product. We can create a network topology for each of our monitored sites by simply adding a node then use a simple network management protocol (SNMP) to probe and pull relevant information. NetBrain has a better network discovery element.
December 11, 2015
Oversight is key to managing 24x7 high volume operations
We believe Solarwinds offers high quality products at competitive prices. The capability and quality of the product have met or exceeded our needs. VMS does periodic reviews of alternatives and has not found a compelling reason to move to another product offering.
December 11, 2015
NPM review
Tried Spiceworks, it was not as robust.
December 11, 2015
SolarWinds at a Glance
SolarWinds delves so much deeper into your network and its performance than WhatsUp does. WhatsUp is simpler to setup a simple dashboard screen on, but Solarwinds can analyze your network traffic and switches down to the port.
December 09, 2015
Unify
It's pretty and easy to use.
December 09, 2015
Solarwinds
- HP IMC
A lot easier to configure. Maybe I got used to the software we are currently using or I am not too experienced in the field but I got literally lost in HP IMC not knowing what to do. Ä° really like SolarWind's next-next done configuration.
December 08, 2015
NPM - monitoring for a modern datacenter and enterprise network
SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor seemed to have the best interface.
In the past I have "tried" to utilize a couple of different "free" alternatives, including Spiceworks and OpsView. I found both hard to configure and quick to overwhelm me with what I considered useless information. I have also looked at larger network management systems like HP OpenView and the high initial cost and ongoing maintenance completely took them out of my consideration.