Item: SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM)
Rating: 9
Author: Girisha Uramundala

Overall Satisfaction with SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using SolarWinds tool to manage our PwC infrastructure. Along with other Orion modules we are using Network Performance Monitor to manage and monitor our 10000+ devices. It helps us manage our infrastructure efficiently without affecting our business requirements.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Easy and efficient to monitor network devices.
We can deploy large number of devices for monitoring in a short duration.
Has very good additional modules like Perfstack and Netpath.

Cons

Syslog viewer was more useful and easy to use tool. But it has been depreciated in the newer versions and Log viewer has some bugs and cannot be used effectively.
Trap viewer was more useful and easy to use tool. But it has been depreciated in the newer versions and Log viewer has some bugs and cannot be used effectively.
It would be great if we get a feature to monitor nodes for SNMP availability, currently we cannot monitor this parameter through polling.

Return on Investment

If we get any issues related to tool, we are not getting development team support easily.
It's available at a good price, but SLA is not maintained correctly for the incidents.

Alternatives Considered

Micro Focus Network Node Manager i (formerly HP Network Node Manager)

Likelihood to Recommend

One of the best Infrastructure monitoring tools we have ever used. We can include other modules into the same Orion environment reduces our hiccups in planning the server requirements.
Through Network Performance Monitor tool, we can create very fine and effective alerts to the end users about their device or infrastructure status.

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