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Read or contribute a user review for Orion Network Performance Monitor (NPM). Discover how organizations like yours use Orion NPM to gain enterprise-strength network fault and performance management capabilities at an affordable price.

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calbor
May 20, 2011
irvine, ca, united states
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NPM & Orion

Pros:

Easy to Use & Intuitive, Feature Rich, Easy to Install & Maintain, Affordable, Simplifies Network Management

Cons:

The Gauges Sometimes Are Difficult To Customize, We Stick With The Engineers Toolset Gauges
Reviewed Version 10
Full Review:
This is a huge step from the capabilities from Engineers Toolset. I had to fight with some of our other engineers to convince them to move in the Solarwinds direction. They were looking at EG, Netmon and Dopplerview with a solid decision on EG, I finally convinced them to do a online demo. A week later they were telling me how awesome that NPM/Orion was, like I’ve never heard of it. I had to remind them that I was the one that suggested this to them a long time ago. I’ve been trying to get our director to purchase Solarwinds the whole time, but my role changing from engineer to System Support Manger, he wanted to leave the decision up to the engineers. This program and all of its ongoing monitoring, top talkers, top latent connections with real time statics, gauges and reporting features are outstanding. Our network engineer likes it alot. Our director couldn’t compete the $80K EG price with Solarwinds price of NPM & Orion at less than half of that price. I don’t think our engineers and our director can be happier. Our director will ask our network engineer, I need to monitor a particular asset. The network engineer will create a custom view with all the goodies in it, then send it to him via a URL and bam! He has a custom view in a matter of a few moments with the live and historical information within one custom view. No MIBS we have to import and spend time dialing in and then creating views. Just drag and drop and you are done. Best buy for 2011 hands down!
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