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What is SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor?

by Chase Collins

What is SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor?

SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) is a powerful and affordable network monitoring software that enables you to quickly detect, diagnose, and resolve network performance problems and outages.

What SolarWinds NPM can monitor?

SolarWinds NPM can monitor VMware ESX and ESXi Servers versions 4.0 and later with VMware Tools installed. If SNMPv2c is enabled on a device, SolarWinds NPM attempts to use SNMPv2c to poll the device for performance information.

How does SolarWinds NPM work?

Network monitoring with SolarWinds NPM SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) is one of its key products. This system focuses on monitoring the health of the devices connected to a network. The constant monitoring process gathers metrics that serve troubleshooting tasks.

How does SolarWinds monitoring tool work?

The polling engine requests real-time statistics (through the selected polling method, such as SNMP or WMI) from monitored devices in your environment. Polled data is further processed and stored in the SolarWinds Orion SQL database. Data is requested from the database and displayed in Orion Web Console.

How do I install SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor?

Click Download. Note the drop-down menu here – if at any point you need older versions of NPM, for stepped upgrades for example, you can download them by selecting the correct version from this drop-down menu. Once your download completes, move the installation file to your Orion NPM Application server.

How do I install SolarWinds network Performance Monitor?

What is included in SolarWinds NPM?

Network Packet Analyzer.

  • Network Device Scanner.
  • Network Device Discovery.
  • Wi-Fi Monitor.
  • SNMP Monitoring.
  • Visual Traceroute Tool.

    • What are the network performance parameters?

    Some common metrics used to measure network traffic performance include latency, packet loss indicators, jitter, bandwidth, and throughput.

    What can SolarWinds network performance monitor do for You?

    SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) offers multi-vendor network monitoring solutions to reduce downtime and help ensure business service delivery. NPM network monitoring software offers fault monitoring, performance analysis, availability monitoring, cross-stack network data correlation,…

    What is the licensing model for SolarWinds NPM?

    NPM licensing model. The SolarWinds NPM license is based on a number of items to monitor. Each license tier number provides the maximum limit of nodes, interfaces, and volumes to manage and monitor. NPM is licensed according to the largest number of the following types of monitored network elements:

    What can I do with SolarWinds service desk?

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    Is the NetFlow analyzer part of SolarWinds Orion?

    NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is a part of the SolarWinds Orion ® Platform. Change the way you think about IT. SolarWinds delivers central visibility and control through a tightly integrated experience.