

Even a small company needs this software but its hard to justify. SolarWinds has a great set of products, but the licensing costs are really high.



Ease of use is good, interface is above average, and saving my score is 1000 out of 10 CONSįor me there is only one real things that gets me with NPM. It offers WMI, SNMP and ICMP monitoring as well as the agent which gives you several flavors to monitor equipment. The Agent for servers installs on Windows and Linux and is SO EASY. You can label your undefined items so they mean something to you. When there is no identified MIB, you can create your own. Detailed level for switch ports and routers, Cisco UCS, HP, DELL, and the list goes on and on. You have details and i mean details about every server, switch, I even have my consumable good inventory vending machines monitored with NPM. Allows you a near single pane of glass approach to you network. Via a cutting-edge, customizable Web console, Orion gives you a unified view into the performance of thousands of nodes and interfaces on your network, serving up detailed metrics like availability, bandwidth utilization, and interface traffic for routers, switches, servers, and any other SNMP-enabled devices.Complete network monitoring tool. Orion can be installed and collecting data in literally minutes. Plus, it doesn't take a team of consultants and months of unpleasant surprises to get Orion up and running. Orion also measures performance SLAs for key services across the network infrastructure, so that you can hold service providers to their promises. Providing extensive visibility into the health of network devices, servers, and applications, Orion ensures that you have the real-time information you need to keep your systems running at peak performance all the time. Orion is a comprehensive fault and performance management platform that scales with the exponential growth of your network and expands with your network management needs.
