![]() The NPM web console provides a menu bar across the top for one-click access to dashboards, alerts, reports and settings. If a critical system or service goes offline, you can trigger actions such as sending messages by SMS, email and Syslog or running a program or script. It creates a base set of alerts and thresholds for every monitored resource and you can customise these to link specific alerts with a wide range of actions. Next, a discovery wizard asked for address ranges, subnets plus credentials and 15 minutes later, furnished us with details of every SNMP- and WMI-enabled device on the lab network. Installation on a Windows Server 2016 host took 90 minutes due to the new online installer downloading all the latest components. ![]() We’ve shown the price of an SL100 license which enables 100 of each type and if any one element type goes over this threshold, you can either delete those you don’t require, or upgrade to the next level of license. ![]() Licensing is a little confusing as it’s based on elements, which can be monitored nodes, interfaces or logical disk volumes. NPM receives a few network performance tweaks while the Orion web server centrally upgrades all polling engines and supports secure logins via SAML v2 providers. The main update in NPM 12.4 targets enterprises, as it now monitors Cisco’s software defined networks (SDNs). It delivers an impressive range of network monitoring tools, all neatly integrated into SolarWinds’ Orion unified web console which can be customised to show all problem areas at a glance. Time-poor SMBs will love SolarWinds’ Network Performance Monitor (NPM) as it puts everything they need to know about network health right at their fingertips.
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