Orion Network Performance Monitor

fault & performance management

Youve got a tough job. Your mission which yes, you
already chose to accept is to deliver 100% availability
of all network resources and to keep a close eye on the
performance of every device, server, and application
in your infrastructure, while everything is constantly
changing (of course). Its not easy. But if you could design
a network monitoring solution to make your life easier,
what would it be? Quick to set up? Elegantly simple to
use? Scalable to accommodate your network growth?
Supported by a global community of network engineers
like you? And inexpensive?
Its not that were psychic. We were founded by network engineers who know what it takes to manage
complex networks; they pooled all of their what ifs and designed Orion Network Performance Monitor
(NPM): a comprehensive, web-enabled, fault and performance management solution that gives you broad
visibility across your network.
Orion NPM enables you to quickly detect, diagnose, and resolve network performance problems and outages.
Out-of-the-box, it offers network-centric views that are designed to deliver the critical information network
engineers need. Also, Orion NPM is the easiest product of its kind to use and maintain, meaning you will
spend more time actually managing networks, not supporting Orion NPM.
Orion NPM Highlights:
Monitors and analyzes real-time, in-depth, network performance statistics for routers, switches,
wireless access points, servers, and any other SNMP-enabled devices
Provides a highly intuitive, customizable web interface with point-and-click simplicity and support
for multiple views by user and department
Simplifies issue investigation with drill-down maps and Top 10 views of your global network
Gets you up and running in less than an hour with do-it-yourself deployment
Scales to accommodate growth and management needs with a hot standby engine, multiple polling
engines, and additional web servers
Enables advanced alerting for correlated events, sustained conditions, and complex combinations
of device states
Monitors the energy consumption of Cisco EnergyWise-enabled network devices and displays
policies that regulate energy consumption
Extends management capabilities to NetFlow traffic analysis, VoIP monitoring, IP address
management, network configuration management, and application and server performance
Leverages a Universal Device Poller to monitor virtually any statistic on SNMP-enabled devices
Delivers integrated community support, providing the assistance you need from thousands of
network engineers on thwack, SolarWinds community site
Put Network Complexity in Its Place with Orion NPM
Weve been using [Orion NPM]
for over 5 years now as our primary
network management system.
Its easy to use for both network
engineers and NOC or field
personell no training required.
Its rich with features and... there
are constant improvements to this
product that keep making it better.
- cnorborg,
posted 4/15/09 on solarwinds.com
NetFlow Traffic Analyzer | Orion Module
Orion NPM Features
Performance & Fault Management
Orion NPM provides comprehensive performance,
fault management, and network availability tools to
ensure that your network is always running at peak
performance. Via a cutting-edge web interface, Orion
NPM gives you a unified view into the performance of
thousands of nodes and interfaces on your network.
From a single web page, you can monitor performance
management metrics from any SNMP-enabled device,
including routers, switches, firewalls, and servers.
Commonly monitored metrics include bandwidth
utilization, packet loss, latency, errors, discards,
and quality of service. With Orion NPM, you get the
information you need to quickly fix issues before your
users ever have a chance to call the help desk.
Intuitive Point-and-Click Interface IMPROVED IN V9.5
When you need critical network information fast, you cant waste time
trying to reverse-engineer the thought process of whoever designed
the cryptic user interface of your network management software.
Orion NPMs interface was designed by network engineers, for network
engineers. The highly intuitive, fully customizable web-based interface
offers point-and-click simplicity and allows you to remotely view network
fault, availability, and performance information through detailed graphs,
tables, and lists.
Youll love the top 10 lists that give you at-a-glance visibility into the
nodes and interfaces experiencing the highest amounts of network
traffic, capacity utilization, response time, memory usage, CPU load,
disk space volume, and more. Plus, real-time network maps enable you
to visualize network health by location, while device troubleshooting
displays present critical metrics required to quickly resolve problems
with network devices.
Do-it-Yourself Deployment
Deploying Orion NPM is a simple three-step process. First, install and configure Orion NPM using a simple
wizard interface. Next, let Orion NPM automatically discover your network. Finally, begin monitoring your
network for fault and performance issues. Youll be done in less than an hour. No consultants required. Even
better, with Orion NPMs intuitive web interface, you wont need to attend training classes, read books with
large animals on the cover, or pour through manuals to start being productive with Orion NPM from day
one.
Advanced Alerting
Orion NPM enables you to quickly and easily configure powerful network alert engines to respond to
hundreds of different network scenarios, including multiple condition checks. These network alerts help you
recognize and correct issues before your users experience performance degradation or availability issues.
With alerting support for correlated events and sustained conditions, Orion NPM ensures that you dont get
paged at 3am unless there is a critical issue. Additionally, Orion NPM can automatically escalate network
alerts until a problem is resolved.
model manages:
SL100 Up to 100 elements
SL250 Up to 250 elements
SL500 Up to 500 elements
SL2000 Up to 2000 elements
SLX Unlimited elements
Orion has everything we were
looking for in one package, with
a customizable web interface for
quick at a glance views, e-mail
threshold notifications, custom
SNMP polling, and network
uptime statistics.
- Spencer Furey
PMG, Inc.
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Orion NPM Modules:
Application Performance Monitor
IP Address Manager
NetFlow Traffic Analyzer
IP SLA Manager
Orion NPM modules extend the
capabilities of Orion NPM to network
traffic analysis, VoIP infrastructure
monitoring, IP address management, and
server and application monitoring.
System Requirements
CPU Speed: 3.0 GHz; Hard Drive Space:
20 GB; Memory: 3 GB; Operating
System: Windows 2003/2008 Server
(32-bit or 64-bit) including R2, with IIS
installed; .NET 3.5 Framework; Database:
SQL Server 2005 SP1 / 2008 (Express,
Standard, or Enterprise)
Integrated Wireless Poller NEW IN V9.5
While we all love the convenience of wireless, this technology can give you a headache like no other! Trying
to monitor, secure, and support the multitude of wireless devices on the market today is a nearly impossible
task unless, of course, you have Orion NPM. Orion NPMs Integrated Wireless Poller enables you to easily
manage wireless thin and autonomous access points and their associated clients. Orion NPM can monitor
your wireless devices alongside your wired devices and provide you with alerts, reports, and Top 10 lists for
your wireless infrastructure!
Universal Device Poller NEW IN V9
Out of the box, Orion NPM ships with a MIB database that
covers the vast majority of common network devices. But for
that handful of odd devices that are lurking in your network
or for newer devices that have MIB tables you can now
collect valuable and highly detailed management data. Orion
NPM makes it easy to create a custom poller to monitor
any SNMP-enabled device value that has a MIB, including
virtually any statistic that a network device records. You can
also customize how you want the collected data displayed
for graphing, alerting, and reporting purposes. And, using the
MIB Transformation Wizard, you can convert MIB values into
the units of measurement that are most useful to you.
VMware Virtualization Monitoring
Orion NPM gives you deep visibility into your VMware ESX servers, virtual machine instances, and
VirtualCenter. Orion NPM communicates directly with VMware ESX servers to determine how the
host server is performing and to gauge the health of guest virtual machines. Orion NPM reads host MIB
information from each VMware ESX server and its corresponding virtual machines, detailing statistics such
as CPU utilization, memory utilization, disk usage, and much more. With Orion NPM, you can ensure that
your virtualization environment is running smoothly and delivering a high quality of service.
Cisco EnergyWise Monitoring NEW IN V9.5
Cisco EnergyWise focuses on reducing the energy consumption
of all devices connected to a Cisco network ranging from Power
over Ethernet (PoE) devices, such as IP phones and wireless access
points, to IP-enabled building and lighting controllers. EnergyWise
technology gives you a framework for discovering, monitoring,
optimizing, advising, and regulating energy needs for your business.
Cisco EnergyWise encompasses a highly intelligent, network-based
approach to communicate messages that control energy between
network devices and endpoints.
Role-based Access Control
Orion Network Performance Monitor (NPM) allows you to establish unique accounts and specify which
types of information are displayed within the Orion interface for a particular department, group, or user. This
ensures that only the people who need to view specific information have access to it, providing an increased
level of internal security. For example, Orion NPM can be configured so that the server team only sees the
servers, while the Texas IT group has a view limited to the geography for which they are responsible.