NPM is a great tool for your networking team!
Rating: 10 out of 10
March 21, 2023
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Vetted Review
Verified User
6 years of experience
1
Knowledge about the current network, Basic Network skills, and familiar with SolarWinds features and Dashboard.
Starting at $1,638 per year
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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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SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM): A Great Tool Including NetPath
Rating: 8 out of 10
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8 years of experienceSolarWinds NPM brings all your Network Tools into a single Toolbox
Rating: 8 out of 10
September 8, 2022We use SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) to monitor the availability and performance of our networks across 15 geographically dispersed sites. This includes network...
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NPM
$1,638
On Premise
per year
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- Setup fee optional
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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.
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The most common users of SolarWinds NPM are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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The way to monitor your network.
Rating: 9 out of 10
April 04, 2023
Vetted Review
Verified User
7 years of experience
2
Solarwinds is quite simple solution in term of administration. We are using MS SQL as DB but it does not required a significant DBA skills (just initial installation + backup and daily maintenance (shirnking, re-indexing) settings) + sometime you will want to use SQL query as a data source for some graph or report. The administration of NPM requires creative qualities as only on then dependence how far are you going to go in monitoring jungle - for example, you can create a multiple groups of equipment based on their location, draw a map for each location and put your nodes on them that significant increase visualization of all parts of your network and etc.
SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM): A Great Tool Including NetPath
Rating: 8 out of 10
March 06, 2023
Vetted Review
Verified User
8 years of experience
2
Network and System administrators, support SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM). NPM is quite easily to manage now a days. Updating the system to a latest release is easily supported by the SolarWinds update manager, which is included in the deployment.
Adding new systems to NPM can be done using the build interactively wizard. There is also the possibility to scan system, to be added as result of the scan.
Adding new systems to NPM can be done using the build interactively wizard. There is also the possibility to scan system, to be added as result of the scan.
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Rating: 10 out of 10
December 08, 2020
DE
Vetted Review
Verified User
5 years of experience
2
We are systems administrators with years of experience. The reason we have 2 of us is for redundancy. We ensure someone is available when the other may be out of office. We also have a dedicated DBA to handle the backend database on Microsoft QL server. The skills to manage NPM are not extensive, a basic knowledge of SNMP, IP networking, SMTP setup and network topology are relevant.
My SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor Review
Rating: 10 out of 10
December 10, 2020
TP
Vetted Review
Verified User
11 years of experience
1
just a basic knowledge on Tool and Network Infrastructure skills requires to handle this tool.