SolarWinds NPM

Overview

SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) offers multi-vendor network monitoring capabilities to reduce downtime, improve network performance, and help ensure business service delivery. NPM offers fault and availability monitoring, performance analysis, cross-stack network data correlation, hop-by-hop network path analysis, and much more.

SolarWinds NPM supports the monitoring of Cisco Meraki wireless controllers and access points along with other third-party network devices running in your environment such as routers, switches, firewalls, WLANs, and load balancers.

Learn why SolarWinds is #1 in Network Management Software

• Unexpected simplicity: Powerful and intuitively designed network monitoring solutions, so you can start solving problems right away.
• Fully scalable: Out-of-the-box network monitoring scales to handle all the growth your organization can throw at you, today and tomorrow.
• What you need, when you need it: Tailor NPM to your needs with multi-vendor support and customizable dashboards, views, and charts.
• Built by IT pros, with IT pros: We’ve worked as network and systems engineers, so we understand your problems and how to solve them.

Use Cases

• • Fast and Efficient Discovery: Discover and build an inventory of Meraki controllers and their corresponding Access Points. Gain visibility to all connected client end-points (laptops, desktops, etc.) attached to each Access Point with the SolarWinds User Device Tracker product.
• • Multi-vendor Network Monitoring: Monitor key performance indicators such as response time and packet loss on Meraki devices. Reduce network outages and quickly detect, diagnose, and resolve multi-vendor network performance and availability issues with NPM.
• • Advanced Root Cause Analysis and Alerting: Reduce unnecessary network alerts. Create alerts based on simple or complex trigger conditions, defined dependencies, and network topology.
• • Critical Path Visualization with NetPath™: Monitor critical business services on-premises or in the cloud with the NetPath network path analysis tool. See changes along the path, identify service provider issues, and review historical paths before problems occur.
• • Performance Analysis Dashboard - PerfStack™: Accelerate root cause identification by dragging and dropping network performance metrics on a common timeline for visual correlation across all network data. With other SolarWinds Orion products, PerfStack allows cross-stack correlation with application, database, compute, storage, and end-user metrics.
• • Expert Network Insight™ Management: Troubleshoot switches, firewalls, and load balancers like an expert. Network Insight features for Cisco ASA, Cisco Nexus, F5 BIG-IP, and Palo Alto Networks provide advanced visibility into device performance.
• • Auto-Generated Intelligent Maps: See physical and logical relationships for routers, switches, interfaces, and groups, updated automatically. You can also build custom maps or import auto-generated ones and embed them in dashboards.
• • Network Performance Baselines: Dynamically calculate baseline thresholds from historical network performance data to configure accurate alerts and identify deviations in real-time.

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