Knowledge of how traffic is flowing in and out of your routers is critical to maintaining network performance throughout your organization. Verifying sufficient throughput for your users is the entire point of monitoring routers and firewalls with Orion NPM. The SNMP agent installed on your devices send all types of statistical information to Orion NPM. When monitoring routers and firewalls, the items that you should be most interested in are their actual interfaces.
The default modules when monitoring routers in the dashboard include the following:
Multiple Object Chart
Average Response Time & Packet Loss (Radial Display)
Average CPU Load & Memory Utilization
Node Details
Average Response Time & Packet Loss (Bar Chart)
Min\Max\Average of Average CPU Load
Event Summary
Polling Details
Availability Statistics
Custom Properties for Nodes
Current Percent Utilization of Each Interface
Virtual Machine Details
Disk Volumes
Active Alerts on this Node...