SolarWinds® Orion®

Network Performance Monitor Administrator Guide

 

 

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Orion Network Performance Monitor Administrator Guide, Version 10.2.1, 12.15.2011

 

 

 

 

 

About SolarWinds

SolarWinds, Inc develops and markets an array of network management, monitoring, and discovery tools to meet the diverse requirements of today’s network management and consulting professionals. SolarWinds products continue to set benchmarks for quality and performance and have positioned the company as the leader in network management and discovery technology. The SolarWinds customer base includes over 45 percent of the Fortune 500 and customers from over 90 countries. Our global business partner distributor network exceeds 100 distributors and resellers.

Contacting SolarWinds

You can contact SolarWinds in a number of ways, including the following:

Team	Contact Information
Sales	sales@solarwinds.com www.solarwinds.com 1.866.530.8100 +353.21.5002900
Technical Support	www.solarwinds.com/support/
User Forums	www.thwack.com

 

 

SolarWinds Orion Network Performance Monitor Documentation Library

The following documents are included in the SolarWinds Orion Network Performance Monitor documentation library:

Document	Purpose
Administrator Guide	Provides detailed setup, configuration, and conceptual information.
Orion Common Components Administrator Guide	Provides detailed setup, configuration, and conceptual information relevant to all products in the Orion family. Material from the SolarWinds Orion Common Components Administrator Guide that is relevant to SolarWinds NPM has been included in this SolarWinds Orion NPM Administrator Guide.
Evaluation Guide	Provides an introduction to Orion Network Performance Monitor features and instructions for installation and initial configuration.
Page Help	Provides help for every window in the Orion Network Performance Monitor user interface
Release Notes	Provides late‑breaking information, known issues, and updates. The latest Release Notes can be found at www.solarwinds.com.

 

Conventions

The documentation uses consistent conventions to help you identify items throughout the printed and online library.

Convention	Specifying
Bold	Window items, including buttons and fields.
Italics	Book and CD titles, variable names, new terms
Fixed font	File and directory names, commands and code examples, text typed by you
Straight brackets, as in [value]	Optional command parameters
Curly braces, as in {value}	Required command parameters
Logical OR, as in value1|value2	Exclusive command parameters where only one of the options can be specified