Solution Overview
SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor
Reduce network outages and improve performance with advanced network monitoring software
At A Glance
SolarWinds® Network Performance Monitor (NPM) is a powerful and affordable network monitoring software that enables you to quickly detect, diagnose, and resolve network performance problems and outages.
Features Overview
- Multi-vendor network monitoring
- NetPath™ critical path visualization
- Performance analysis dashboard
- Intelligent alerts
- Network insight for F5® BIG-IP®
- Wireless network monitoring and management
Key Features
Multi-vendor network monitoring
Multi-vendor fault, performance, and availability monitoring with Network Performance Monitor.
Reduce network outages and quickly detect, diagnose, and resolve multi-vendor network performance issues with affordable, easy-to-use network monitoring software.
NetPath™ critical path visualization
Advanced network troubleshooting for on-premises, hybrid, and cloud services with critical path hop-by-hop analysis.
Is it the app or the network? Find out with hop-by-hop analysis on-premises and into the cloud with NetPath.
Performance analysis dashboard
PerfStack™ cross-stack network data correlation.
Accelerate identification of root cause by dragging-and-dropping network performance metrics on a common timeline for immediate visual correlation across all your network data.
Network insight for F5® BIG-IP®
Comprehensive monitoring of F5® BIG-IP® family of products.
With Network insight, you can monitor the health and performance of all components of application delivery, including Wide IPs, virtual servers, pool members, and more.
Intelligent alerts
Get to the root cause quicker with intelligent, dependency and topology-aware network alerts.
Reduce the flood of unnecessary network alerts. Create alerts based on simple or complex nested trigger conditions, defined parent/child dependencies, and network topology.
Wireless network monitoring and management
See performance metrics for autonomous access points, wireless controllers, and clients.
Easily identify dead zones and improve wireless coverage. With our network monitoring tool, you can access out-of-the-box wireless reports, including wireless availability and rogue access points.
Resources
| United Family Healthcare Achieves Network Visibility With “3N”” United Family Healthcare (UFH) is a pioneering, international-standard health system that provides comprehensive, integrated healthcare in China. They needed more visibility and control of their network to overcome security risks. |
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| SolarWinds Delivers Network Visibility and Control to Consolidated Minerals’ Vast Network Consolidated Minerals monitors over 200km of microwave network links in a remote region of Western Australia. They required greater network visibility to react quickly to issues around network performance, repairs, and allocation. |
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| Cubic Transportation system ensures efficient and seamless service to NSW Opal Card holders with SolarWinds Cubic manages the Opal® card system for Transport for New South Wales (TfNSW). Jeff Shaw discusses why they implemented SolarWinds to monitor the infrastructure environment required to support the Opal system. |
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| Deakin University achieves network visibility and service improvement Deakin University is partway into a major service improvement initiative that is driving network visibility and process maturity across its four campuses. One component of the phased initiative is monitoring service improvement, and resulted in the deployment of several SolarWinds tools in 2014. The use of those tools is now being expanded. |
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| Oil & Gas Major boosts efficiency with network monitoring tools A resources company with operations in the north-west of Western Australia faced issues with a dispersed network environment, remote operations as well as problems with network congestion & connectivity. They needed a solution to deliver consistent performance to their users, regardless of where they are. |
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| Network Monitoring – The Perfect IT Remedy An Australian Not-for-Profit Healthcare agency, comprised of six member organisations needed network visibility across Cisco devices as well as the monitoring of WAN performance. They were looking for a cost-effective solution to work over a large geographic region. They chose SolarWinds. |
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| SolarWinds supports high levels of patient care in Lincolnshire SolarWinds® solutions are helping the United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust to meet the 24/7 challenge of looking after thousands of patients at seven widely dispersed hospitals. |
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| SolarWinds-as-a-Service Spreads Throughout Organisation and Beyond A leading provider of IT services in the UK offers a truly integrated suite of IT services leveraging SolarWinds to assist in the planning, design, deployment, and support of IT environments to meet each client’s business needs. |
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| Best-in-Breed Monitoring A large US-based health care organization looked to reduce their overall IT management costs while at the same time improving coverage by replacing IBM® Tivoli. |
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| SolarWinds Helps Combat Industrial Cyber Threats A leading provider of industrial cyber security solutions that focuses on protecting process industry facilities recommends SolarWinds IT management solutions to combat the growing risk of industrial cyber security threats and vulnerabilities. |
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| Modularity, Scalability, and Reporting Helps Marina Bay Sands When looking for a solution to replace PRTG, Marina Bay Sands sought out a modular and scalable family of products with advanced alerting and reporting that could be easily implemented. |
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| Dramatic Improvements in Uptime by Switching to SolarWinds A US based media distribution company with five data centers containing around 150 servers and 250 network devices replaced HP® network monitoring with SolarWinds® and got even more than they thought they would. |
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| Norway’s largest auto glass company sees clearly with the help of SolarWinds Andr. L. Riis AS is the largest supplier and fitter of windscreens in Norway. Erik Olne, Andr. L. Riis AS CIO joined the company three years ago and began an intensive renewal program to modernize the company’s IT infrastructure. As the rebuilding phase came to an end, Olne and his team turned their attention to network performance and began looking for a software solution that would help to analyze and maintain their newly built infrastructure. |
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| IPM to the rescue in Air Rarotonga’s remote site challenges Working at one of the world’s most remote sites, Air Rarotonga’s IT Manager, Marcus Gleinig experiences problems of distance, latency, cyclones, power cuts and scarce resources that most IT professionals could scarcely even imagine. When it came to needing network tools, the resourceful Marcus knew where to go – straight to SolarWinds, for IP Monitor. This solution alerts him as soon as the company’s far flung network develops problems, so he can address these before the phone starts ringing with user complaints. |
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| NetSuite Selects SolarWinds for Global, End-to-End IT Infrastructure Management NetSuite uses SolarWinds to achieve global, end-to-end operational efficiency. Once SolarWinds products were implemented, NetSuite’s IT Team saw significant improvement in visibility, stability and understanding of their environmen. |
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| Thai AirAsia avoids network turbulence with SolarWinds Thai AirAsia, a joint venture between Malaysian airline AirAsia and Thailand’s Asia Aviation, has overcome issues of IT turbulence by using SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) and Network Configuration Manager (NCM) solutions to streamline and simplify network management and isolate malfunctions before they emerge. |
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| SolarWinds dulls congested network pain for anaesthetists in Australia and New Zealand The Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA) has eased its network pains after implementing SolarWinds solutions. Congestion on the network was affecting traffic flow and communications, and a lack of network visibility meant IT management could not isolate the problem. The college deployed SolarWinds’ Network Performance Monitor (NPM) and Server and Application Monitor (SAM) with excellent results. |
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| SolarWinds on track as Ansaldo STS builds Rome Metro When tourists and citizens are avoiding congestion by travelling swiftly and safely on Rome Metro’s new automated Line C, they will owe just a little to SolarWinds network management. Two of these, Network Performance Monitor (NPM) and Engineer’s Toolset, are helping Ansaldo STS, an industry leader in signalling and rail transportation solutions, to create an ultra-reliable network that will run the city’s 30 driverless trains. |
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| One of the UK’s Biggest Newspaper Groups Replaces a “Big Four” IT Management Product with SolarWinds Trinity Mirror, one of the UK’s largest newspaper publishers, had used HP OpenView, which they found time consuming to customise and manage, and to generate reports. They were looking for a solution that could support their network consolidation needs, be flexible, and scale to support our network growth. They turned to SolarWinds and NPM to give them the visibility they needed. |
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| Perfect record as SolarWinds helps to streamline Fred. Olsen’s network The Fred. Olsen Group’s far-reaching divisions encompass renewable energy, shipping, offshore drilling, travel and more. Its diverse activities all rely on a network that has achieved a perfect record since SolarWinds. Network Performance Monitor (NPM) was implemented. NPM’s automated functionality has allowed network administrators to be pro-active, rather than reactive, in spotting and fixing potential glitches. |
| Datasheet: Network Performance Monitor (NPM) SolarWinds® Network Performance Monitor (NPM) makes it easy to quickly detect, diagnose, and resolve performance issues before outages occur. This affordable, easy-to-use agentless software delivers real-time views and dashboards that enable you to visually track and monitor network performance at a glance. Plus, using dynamic network topology maps and automated network discovery, you can deploy and keep up with your evolving network. |
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| System Center Management Pack for Microsoft System Center SolarWinds System Center Management Pack for Microsoft System Center delivers detailed network health information to Microsoft System Center directly from SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor. |
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| SolarWinds Overview Brochure SolarWinds: IT Management That’s Powerful, Affordable, & Easy-to-Use! |
| Is It The Network Or The Application? Users in different locations of an organization (main office & branch office) are reporting slow performance of intranet sites. What is causing the problem and why? Is it the network, the applications, or the infrastructure that needs troubleshooting, or a combination? Learn how you can solve this problem with SolarWinds NPM and SAM.. |
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| Complete Visibility of Hybrid IT Infographic Complete Visibility of Hybrid IT Infographic. |
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| Network Performance Monitoring 12 Infographic Network Performance Monitor 12: Complete Visibility of Hybrid IT. |
| ebook: Redefining the network Learn to tame your network now and transform it for the future. |
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| Edison NPM 12 vs HPE NNMi In this report, Edison Group provides a compare and contrast of SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor and HP’s Network Node Manager based on four decision criteria: organizational viability; functions/features; technical requirements; and pricing. |
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| Network Troubleshooting and Problem Identification No matter how carefully you’ve planned your network design, how much redundancy is built in or how proactive you are in your monitoring, network problems are bound to arise. When that happens, you need the steps and tools to troubleshoot the problem quickly and minimize impact to your users. This paper provides basic guidance on overall troubleshooting and takes a closer look at five common issues. |
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| How Configuration Management Can Supercharge Your Network Performance Monitoring The purpose of any network monitoring system is to ensure the highest level of network availability and performance. |
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| Visibility From Your Network Into the Cloud: Today’s New Essentials Most organizations today are evolving toward a hybrid IT enterprise architecture, meaning their operations are split between the cloud and the traditional on-premises network. Many important enterprise applications are moving to the cloud, along with some more basic infrastructure such as storage and application development platforms. When cloud services falter, you need to know why – but often lack visibility beyond the firewall. |
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| Bad Network Experience? Fix the Right Problem The way to crack tough-to-solve network performance problems is to systematically examine each possible cause, keeping in mind that you might find more than one thing that needs fixing. This whitepaper discusses how to perform the correct diagnosis by examining the top three causes of network maladies and providing insight into valuable diagnostic tools. |
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| IT Management Scalability for the Enterprise Understand IT management scalability for your growing enterprise networks, and learn various deployment options for scaling up SolarWinds IT management solutions. Learn what all factors impact network management system (NMS) scalability, how you can failover your NMS and ensure NMS high availability, and how you can deploy your NMS across multiple geographies and customer locations and get centralized NOC view for IT management. |
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| Seven Priorities for Network Management: EMA Essential IT Monitoring Series Is your network monitoring strategy complete? Download this detailed assessment of the top seven priorities that ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATES® (EMA™) advocates for best practices in network monitoring. |
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| Is it Really the Bandwidth? Three steps to diagnose bandwidth complaints. |
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| Deep Packet Inspection for Quality of Experience Monitoring The IT industry is increasingly recognizing and leveraging the value and utility of packet-level analysis – also called Deep Packet Inspection or just Packet Analysis – for quickly and accurately identifying the true source and nature of network and application reliability and performance problems. |
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| SolarWinds in the Enterprise SolarWinds offers enterprise solutions that are the powerful, scalable, extensible and customizable. |
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| Network Routing Protocols – Back to Basics Routing protocols are used to determine the optimal path for data communication between network nodes. Modern enterprise networks need dynamic routing tables that automatically adjust if there are any traffic or topology changes. The routing protocols are employed when your organization’s network grows to the point where static routes are unmanageable. |
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| An Easy Guide to Network Mapping in Enterprise Network Monitoring Text. |
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| A Guide to Enterprise Network Monitoring Find out what all factors enterprises consider for selecting a network management system. This paper will guide you to understand what you need to look for in an enterprise network monitoring solution to support your growing networks. |
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| 5 Tips for Creating Your Own Network Operations Center (NOC) Follow these 5 tips and learn how to create a simple and effective Network Operations Center (NOC) view for continuous network visibility and faster network troubleshooting. NOC doesn’t always have to be complicated. |
- Case Studies
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United Family Healthcare Achieves Network Visibility With “3N””
United Family Healthcare (UFH) is a pioneering, international-standard health system that provides comprehensive, integrated healthcare in China. They needed more visibility and control of their network to overcome security risks.SolarWinds Delivers Network Visibility and Control to Consolidated Minerals’ Vast Network
Consolidated Minerals monitors over 200km of microwave network links in a remote region of Western Australia. They required greater network visibility to react quickly to issues around network performance, repairs, and allocation.Cubic Transportation system ensures efficient and seamless service to NSW Opal Card holders with SolarWinds
Cubic manages the Opal® card system for Transport for New South Wales (TfNSW). Jeff Shaw discusses why they implemented SolarWinds to monitor the infrastructure environment required to support the Opal system.Deakin University achieves network visibility and service improvement
Deakin University is partway into a major service improvement initiative that is driving network visibility and process maturity across its four campuses. One component of the phased initiative is monitoring service improvement, and resulted in the deployment of several SolarWinds tools in 2014. The use of those tools is now being expanded.Oil & Gas Major boosts efficiency with network monitoring tools
A resources company with operations in the north-west of Western Australia faced issues with a dispersed network environment, remote operations as well as problems with network congestion & connectivity. They needed a solution to deliver consistent performance to their users, regardless of where they are.Network Monitoring – The Perfect IT Remedy
An Australian Not-for-Profit Healthcare agency, comprised of six member organisations needed network visibility across Cisco devices as well as the monitoring of WAN performance. They were looking for a cost-effective solution to work over a large geographic region. They chose SolarWinds.SolarWinds supports high levels of patient care in Lincolnshire
SolarWinds® solutions are helping the United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust to meet the 24/7 challenge of looking after thousands of patients at seven widely dispersed hospitals.SolarWinds-as-a-Service Spreads Throughout Organisation and Beyond
A leading provider of IT services in the UK offers a truly integrated suite of IT services leveraging SolarWinds to assist in the planning, design, deployment, and support of IT environments to meet each client’s business needs.Best-in-Breed Monitoring
A large US-based health care organization looked to reduce their overall IT management costs while at the same time improving coverage by replacing IBM® Tivoli.SolarWinds Helps Combat Industrial Cyber Threats
A leading provider of industrial cyber security solutions that focuses on protecting process industry facilities recommends SolarWinds IT management solutions to combat the growing risk of industrial cyber security threats and vulnerabilities.Modularity, Scalability, and Reporting Helps Marina Bay Sands
When looking for a solution to replace PRTG, Marina Bay Sands sought out a modular and scalable family of products with advanced alerting and reporting that could be easily implemented.Dramatic Improvements in Uptime by Switching to SolarWinds
A US based media distribution company with five data centers containing around 150 servers and 250 network devices replaced HP® network monitoring with SolarWinds® and got even more than they thought they would.Norway’s largest auto glass company sees clearly with the help of SolarWinds
Andr. L. Riis AS is the largest supplier and fitter of windscreens in Norway. Erik Olne, Andr. L. Riis AS CIO joined the company three years ago and began an intensive renewal program to modernize the company’s IT infrastructure. As the rebuilding phase came to an end, Olne and his team turned their attention to network performance and began looking for a software solution that would help to analyze and maintain their newly built infrastructure.IPM to the rescue in Air Rarotonga’s remote site challenges
Working at one of the world’s most remote sites, Air Rarotonga’s IT Manager, Marcus Gleinig experiences problems of distance, latency, cyclones, power cuts and scarce resources that most IT professionals could scarcely even imagine. When it came to needing network tools, the resourceful Marcus knew where to go – straight to SolarWinds, for IP Monitor. This solution alerts him as soon as the company’s far flung network develops problems, so he can address these before the phone starts ringing with user complaints.NetSuite Selects SolarWinds for Global, End-to-End IT Infrastructure Management
NetSuite uses SolarWinds to achieve global, end-to-end operational efficiency. Once SolarWinds products were implemented, NetSuite’s IT Team saw significant improvement in visibility, stability and understanding of their environmen.Thai AirAsia avoids network turbulence with SolarWinds
Thai AirAsia, a joint venture between Malaysian airline AirAsia and Thailand’s Asia Aviation, has overcome issues of IT turbulence by using SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) and Network Configuration Manager (NCM) solutions to streamline and simplify network management and isolate malfunctions before they emerge.SolarWinds dulls congested network pain for anaesthetists in Australia and New Zealand
The Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA) has eased its network pains after implementing SolarWinds solutions. Congestion on the network was affecting traffic flow and communications, and a lack of network visibility meant IT management could not isolate the problem. The college deployed SolarWinds’ Network Performance Monitor (NPM) and Server and Application Monitor (SAM) with excellent results.SolarWinds on track as Ansaldo STS builds Rome Metro
When tourists and citizens are avoiding congestion by travelling swiftly and safely on Rome Metro’s new automated Line C, they will owe just a little to SolarWinds network management. Two of these, Network Performance Monitor (NPM) and Engineer’s Toolset, are helping Ansaldo STS, an industry leader in signalling and rail transportation solutions, to create an ultra-reliable network that will run the city’s 30 driverless trains.One of the UK’s Biggest Newspaper Groups Replaces a “Big Four” IT Management Product with SolarWinds
Trinity Mirror, one of the UK’s largest newspaper publishers, had used HP OpenView, which they found time consuming to customise and manage, and to generate reports. They were looking for a solution that could support their network consolidation needs, be flexible, and scale to support our network growth. They turned to SolarWinds and NPM to give them the visibility they needed.Perfect record as SolarWinds helps to streamline Fred. Olsen’s network
The Fred. Olsen Group’s far-reaching divisions encompass renewable energy, shipping, offshore drilling, travel and more. Its diverse activities all rely on a network that has achieved a perfect record since SolarWinds. Network Performance Monitor (NPM) was implemented. NPM’s automated functionality has allowed network administrators to be pro-active, rather than reactive, in spotting and fixing potential glitches. - Data Sheets
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Datasheet: Network Performance Monitor (NPM)
SolarWinds® Network Performance Monitor (NPM) makes it easy to quickly detect, diagnose, and resolve performance issues before outages occur. This affordable, easy-to-use agentless software delivers real-time views and dashboards that enable you to visually track and monitor network performance at a glance. Plus, using dynamic network topology maps and automated network discovery, you can deploy and keep up with your evolving network.System Center Management Pack for Microsoft System Center
SolarWinds System Center Management Pack for Microsoft System Center delivers detailed network health information to Microsoft System Center directly from SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor.SolarWinds Overview Brochure
SolarWinds: IT Management That’s Powerful, Affordable, & Easy-to-Use! - Infographics
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Is It The Network Or The Application?
Users in different locations of an organization (main office & branch office) are reporting slow performance of intranet sites. What is causing the problem and why? Is it the network, the applications, or the infrastructure that needs troubleshooting, or a combination? Learn how you can solve this problem with SolarWinds NPM and SAM..Complete Visibility of Hybrid IT Infographic
Complete Visibility of Hybrid IT Infographic.Network Performance Monitoring 12 Infographic
Network Performance Monitor 12: Complete Visibility of Hybrid IT. - White Papers
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ebook: Redefining the network
Learn to tame your network now and transform it for the future.Edison NPM 12 vs HPE NNMi
In this report, Edison Group provides a compare and contrast of SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor and HP’s Network Node Manager based on four decision criteria: organizational viability; functions/features; technical requirements; and pricing.Network Troubleshooting and Problem Identification
No matter how carefully you’ve planned your network design, how much redundancy is built in or how proactive you are in your monitoring, network problems are bound to arise. When that happens, you need the steps and tools to troubleshoot the problem quickly and minimize impact to your users. This paper provides basic guidance on overall troubleshooting and takes a closer look at five common issues.How Configuration Management Can Supercharge Your Network Performance Monitoring
The purpose of any network monitoring system is to ensure the highest level of network availability and performance.Visibility From Your Network Into the Cloud: Today’s New Essentials
Most organizations today are evolving toward a hybrid IT enterprise architecture, meaning their operations are split between the cloud and the traditional on-premises network. Many important enterprise applications are moving to the cloud, along with some more basic infrastructure such as storage and application development platforms. When cloud services falter, you need to know why – but often lack visibility beyond the firewall.Bad Network Experience? Fix the Right Problem
The way to crack tough-to-solve network performance problems is to systematically examine each possible cause, keeping in mind that you might find more than one thing that needs fixing. This whitepaper discusses how to perform the correct diagnosis by examining the top three causes of network maladies and providing insight into valuable diagnostic tools.IT Management Scalability for the Enterprise
Understand IT management scalability for your growing enterprise networks, and learn various deployment options for scaling up SolarWinds IT management solutions. Learn what all factors impact network management system (NMS) scalability, how you can failover your NMS and ensure NMS high availability, and how you can deploy your NMS across multiple geographies and customer locations and get centralized NOC view for IT management.Seven Priorities for Network Management: EMA Essential IT Monitoring Series
Is your network monitoring strategy complete? Download this detailed assessment of the top seven priorities that ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATES® (EMA™) advocates for best practices in network monitoring.Is it Really the Bandwidth?
Three steps to diagnose bandwidth complaints.Deep Packet Inspection for Quality of Experience Monitoring
The IT industry is increasingly recognizing and leveraging the value and utility of packet-level analysis – also called Deep Packet Inspection or just Packet Analysis – for quickly and accurately identifying the true source and nature of network and application reliability and performance problems.SolarWinds in the Enterprise
SolarWinds offers enterprise solutions that are the powerful, scalable, extensible and customizable.Network Routing Protocols – Back to Basics
Routing protocols are used to determine the optimal path for data communication between network nodes. Modern enterprise networks need dynamic routing tables that automatically adjust if there are any traffic or topology changes. The routing protocols are employed when your organization’s network grows to the point where static routes are unmanageable.An Easy Guide to Network Mapping in Enterprise Network Monitoring
Text.A Guide to Enterprise Network Monitoring
Find out what all factors enterprises consider for selecting a network management system. This paper will guide you to understand what you need to look for in an enterprise network monitoring solution to support your growing networks.5 Tips for Creating Your Own Network Operations Center (NOC)
Follow these 5 tips and learn how to create a simple and effective Network Operations Center (NOC) view for continuous network visibility and faster network troubleshooting. NOC doesn’t always have to be complicated.