What's New in Versions 2 & 2.5

Orion Application Performance Monitor (APM) Version 2.5 delivers a new simple, step-by-step wizard that makes it fast and easy to gain visibility into the performance of your applications and servers. We’ve added loads of new additional out-of-the-box application monitoring templates and made it even easier to download more monitoring templates from Thwack. What are you waiting for? Go ahead and get the application monitoring you need to truly manage your network!

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Application Monitor Wizard – NEW!
Using a simple three-step process, you can quickly create a new application monitor with Orion APM. First, choose from a list of available application monitor templates including common applications like Exchange 2007, Apache®, or SQL Server® 2008. Next, select the nodes to which you would like to apply your template. Finally, enter the necessary template credentials to apply to your node and begin instantly monitoring your application!

Community-Built Template & Script Library – NEW!
With Orion APM, you can leverage the SolarWinds online community, Thwack, by implementing Application Monitor Templates and scripts created by other users. Orion APM’s interactive web console offers direct links to browse, download, and share templates and scripts on Thwack, making it easy for community members to benefit from each other’s custom monitors and saving everyone valuable time. Orion APM will even alert you when new templates are posted, so you can easily expand your monitoring capabilities and try new things!

Server Statistic Browser – NEW!
Select from a list of available WMI performance counter, process, and service component monitors on your nodes and add those components to existing application monitor templates or assign them directly to nodes. Ensure your servers are running smoothly by keeping an eye on key statistics so that you can identify and resolve application issues before users are impacted.

User-Experience Monitors – IMPROVED!
Orion APM enables you to measure application performance from an end user’s perspective with out-of-the-box SaaS monitoring and support for HTTP, HTTPS, DNS, Microsoft SQL Server®, Oracle®, and other ODBC databases. This Quality of Experience (QoE) measurement gives you a heads up on problems and helps ensure that your users are happy with the performance of the applications that they rely on.

Open Source Script Processor – NEW!
A huge and growing collection of Nagios® scripts is used globally to monitor thousands of network services; and we know that many of you rely on these open-source scripts for tasks like confirming the completion of daily backups. That’s why we built a script processor into Orion APM that enables you to convert any Nagios script into a format that Orion APM can use to schedule and run jobs and report on results. Now you can leverage your own Nagios scripts or those in third-party script libraries to extend Orion APM’s monitoring coverage.

Universal WMI Performance Monitors – NEW!
Orion APM makes it easy for you to remotely monitor WMI performance counters, so that you can identify and resolve application issues before users are impacted. Adding WMI monitors is as simple as clicking on a server icon, browsing the list of available counters, and selecting the ones you would like to add.

Performance Warning System – NEW!
If Orion APM detects a downward decline in application performance, you’ll be immediately alerted before the situation escalates into a disaster. Orion APM relies on pre-configured or user-defined performance thresholds and sends alerts when these thresholds are crossed. Four tiers of thresholds can be established (good, warning, critical, and down) to help you quickly assess the difference between a system that is up, but performing poorly, and a system that is about to fail.

Windows® and Linux® Script Monitors – NEW!
If you have written your own Windows, Linux, or Unix scripts to monitor application health indicators that are not available through SNMP or WMI, you can now integrate these into Orion APM. With just a few clicks, you can schedule their execution and report and alert on their output.

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