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SolarWinds IT Management Glossary

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What is Topology

Topology refers to the logical layout of a network and the devices attached to it. Because networks can grow rapidly, maintaining an up-to-date understanding of the network’s topology can be challenging. Network management tools that can discover, categorize and report on the devices on a network make it possible to maintain an accurate view of a network topology over time.

SolarWinds Products Related to Topology

Orion NPM v9.5.1 - Evaluation

Orion Network Performance Monitor (NPM) enables you to quickly detect, diagnose, and resolve network performance problems and outages—before you start getting calls asking if the network is down. And Orion NPM is the easiest product of its kind to deploy, use, and maintain. That means you can spend your time actually managing your network, not supporting your network management software. Learn More »

LANsurveyor Evaluation

Discover how simple network mapping can be. LANsurveyor automatically discovers your network and produces comprehensive, easy-to-view network maps that that integrate OSI Layer 2 and Layer 3 topology data. You can even export into Microsoft Office® Visio®. Learn More »