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SolarWinds Orion Network Performance Monitor

By : Joseph J Dissmeyer, Joseph Dissmeyer
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SolarWinds Orion Network Performance Monitor

By: Joseph J Dissmeyer, Joseph Dissmeyer

Overview of this book

Orion Network Performance Monitor is a scalable, easy-to-use, cost-effective network monitoring system that provides a complete overview of network environments by monitoring performance and availability. Orion NPM enables you to be proactive in detecting, diagnosing, and resolving network issues and outages and has the benefit of supporting hundreds of types of server, OS, and network vendors including Cisco, HP, Microsoft, Linux, Motorola, Brocade, Foundry, and more.Orion NPM is a well-known product and is used by thousands of public and private companies, educational institutions, and government entities for network monitoring. In "SolarWinds Orion Network Performance Monitor" you will learn how to install, implement, and manage Orion NPM to ensure you maintain an efficient, healthy, and performant network.In this book you will start with an overview of the constituent features of Orion NPM. Leading you through installation and configuration this book will help you set up a flexible and dynamic monitoring solution.With Orion NPM in place the book will then take you on a journey through essential Orion NPM and network monitoring concepts and practices. You will cover device management, learning how to use the Network Sonar Wizard, as well as adding devices manually.Turning from novice to pro, you will then be introduced to the core of network monitoring with Orion NPM. You will learn about monitoring Windows and Linux solutions as well as Virtual Servers. You will then master wireless networks and virtual networks. You will then learn how to set up and edit alerts to make network monitoring more efficient and less time-consuming. You will also learn how to develop reports and network maps as well as essential administrative techniques.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
SolarWinds Orion Network Performance Monitor
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Understanding reports


At this point in time, you should be very familiar with how to monitor nodes in Orion NPM. In fact, I'm sure you must have noticed that there is plenty of historical data that Orion NPM saves in its database for every monitored object. Orion NPM allows you to take that data and export it into a report so that you can view its contents easily. Orion reports come in all shapes and sizes and the information that Orion reports can provide help the management and administrators with capacity planning, project management, vendor selection, and many other things.

You can run any of the pre-defined reports, which are installed with Orion NPM, on-demand within the Orion dashboard. Another thing to be discussed later is that you can schedule reports to be created and have them e-mailed to the appropriate people.

Every report available within Orion NPM can be found in the Reports view under the HOME tab in the Orion dashboard.

The Reports page view will look similar to the following...