By now, you have already added some devices to your own Orion NPM installation and are ready to dive right in. In all actuality, network monitoring with Orion NPM fundamentally consists of two different actions. The first is Orion NPM polling devices and discovering nodes. The second is an administrator physically logging in to the Orion dashboard and looking at the statistics and node information.
All monitoring is performed by viewing the pages available from the various tabs at the top of the dashboard website. By default, the Orion Summary Home page opens directly after logging into Orion NPM's dashboard. This is the page you will find yourself looking at most of the time while managing and monitoring your network with Orion NPM.
There are several modules on every page of the dashboard that provide you with several pieces of information. If you are not sure what the content of a module contains or if you want more information about what the module is displaying, click...