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
Cons
- 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
- Netpath services
- Wireless stats & reports
- Orion Maps
- Orion Dashboards
- Orion Network Overview
- Able to predict the future with the Forecast reports.
- with NPM I can monitor the WAN circuits then decide if it needs a upgrade or not.
- Able to provide quick responses for alerts, reducing the MTTR for some services
- API Poller support
- Netpatch services
- Orion Maps
- Orion Dashboards
- Able to forecast upgrades & downgrades
- Able to prevent issues
- Able to be proactive about issues
- To Determine potential outside network issues (using Netpath services)
- To share the Orion Maps with Customers/Partners
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Product Reputation
- Prior Experience with the Product
- Implemented in-house
- Orion Alerts (sometimes required more skills to build it up)
- Vendors not supported
- MIB SNMP not working for some systems/vendors
- Online Training
- Netpath services
- Orion Dashboards
- Network Overview
- Orion Maps
- Orion Reports (sometimes requires more skills to build it up)
- Orion Alerts (sometimes requires more skills to build it up)
- Jira
- Splunk
- Azure
- Jira
- Nagios
- File import/export
- API (e.g. SOAP or REST)
Discounts to acquire additional modules.
- Following the current Application version
- Cover bugs & vulnerabilities
- Under a code that the support will probably suggest being
- Fix bugs
- Fix Vulnerabilities
- Make the application faster
- Provide more facilities & tools