SolarWinds NPM Primary Use Case

MohitKumar - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Specialist at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

Our company uses the solution to monitor NPM for 100 large accounts that typically have 40,000 interfaces. 

Basic monitoring includes CPU memory, errors, and interfaces. Advanced monitoring includes F5 load balancers, in-depth tunnels, and AP alarms. 

We also monitor CM for backup parts and integrate monitoring with Azure. 

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Angela Bustamante - PeerSpot reviewer
Monitoring and Process Analyst at Seguros SURA

SolarWinds NPM is a good tool. It's a strong monitoring tool that we use to monitor our network devices, routers, and switches.

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CP
IT Infrastructure Analyst at Textron Systems Corporation

We've been using SolarWinds for our network monitoring. It's basic advanced network monitoring, up-down of Rogers switches, as well as metrics, latency, wireless metrics, where users are, errors on interfaces, route cables, and things of that nature. We're just pulling as much data from our network devices as possible to present that in an easy pane of glass.

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Alan Arnold - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Operations Manager at University of Alabama at Birmingham

Our installation is on-premises on a virtual machine. When we purchased NPM I was particularly interested in the features of Orion. We were going through a maturation process propagating the monitoring of applications throughout the server policy here at the university. It was more to monitor various applications that are primarily used for individual schools. For example, we have the school public health, and we have the school of nursing and they have different needs. You have all these applications like Banner and Canvas and other web-based applications that get used by particular areas. We are working with one application now for COVID-19. There is an application that has been spawned from that, but mostly our monitoring is for up/downtime, space, memory, availability, and those types of things critical for performance analysis. We are just now getting more into monitoring databases and a broader scope of applications as well.  

What I am mostly referring to is not the whole Network Performance Monitor suite. This is the actual operations monitoring piece of it. We have the network and we are responsible for set up and monitoring of those particular tools.  

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DarrinBryant - PeerSpot reviewer
AVP Technology Network Engineer at LPL Financial

SolarWinds NPM was used for everything. For interface monitoring, load balancing checking interface uptime and device status. 

We had the full suite of products, not just NPM.

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BP
Senior Network Engineer at a mining and metals company with 5,001-10,000 employees

SolarWinds NPM is used to monitor our devices' to see uptime, availability, and performance.

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Naglaa ELDeeb - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant Director, IT Service Excellence Quality Assurance at American University in Cairo (AUC)

We are using Solar NPM to send alerts to the NOC and SOC teams. Some reports are used for our network to link to the router for internet utilization. We are also monitoring wireless access points using SolarWinds. Our network, security and system teams use this solution and its dashboards. 

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BB
Senior Network Administrator at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use SolarWinds as a monitoring platform.

It monitors all of our network gears for up-down status, for the most part. We can also see utilization being high at a given location.

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Henry-Steinhauer - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer at LifePoint Health

We were using it to monitor network devices and the monitoring of certain servers.

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Devdatt Diwedi - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Officer at Guardian Bank

We use the solution for our network. It's for P2P networks or our servers to our network.

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BO
Corporate IT Infrastructure Manager at United Test and Assembly Center Ltd.

We are customers of SolarWinds and I'm the corporate IT infrastructure manager.

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MQ
Service Delivery Manager at a wholesaler/distributor with 10,001+ employees

We are using SolarWinds NPM to monitor our network. For example, we monitor Cisco Meraki for WAN, and other Cisco routers, and for LAN we monitor Cisco switches and firewalls.

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Umair (Abu Mohaymin) Akhlaque - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Solutions & Services Head at Duroob Technologies

If a customer is looking for a monitoring box solution, a medium-scale customer, and he's looking for something that can manage servers, routers, storage, applications, basic monitoring for applications, to cover everything, then SolarWinds is the right choice. However, he has to be a mid-tier customer. He cannot be an enterprise customer. If they are an enterprise customer, then SolarWinds is not the right choice as it will start to slow down.

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NS
Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

My company uses SolarWinds NPM for interface monitoring because we are not required to put in any keywords and do the manual thing, making it easy to onboard. In our company, we just export the device and download the configuration, while the NCM part can be enabled by going to the settings and changing the configuration. The solution becomes easy if you use everything on a single dashboard.

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PF
Manager at Barbados Water Authority

Our primary use case for the solution is to monitor whether certain devices are up or down, monitor bandwidth utilization and have a network performance monitor.

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AbdulKader Mohandes - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I use SolarWinds for monitoring. We have around 300 people at my company. 

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RP
Consultant at HCL Technologies

We're using SolarWinds NPM for server monitoring, report monitoring, and application monitoring.

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Omer_Khan - PeerSpot reviewer
ICT Design Manager at a hospitality company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The primary use case is for cybersecurity, as they did not want it on their own personal cloud. 

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Muhammad Asif - PeerSpot reviewer
Consaltant at a consultancy with self employed

One of my clients is a bank. SolarWinds is primarily used in banking to limit network downtime to less than one or two minutes. All the ATMs are connected with SolarWinds, so the bank can respond quickly when the network is down. You only need about three or four people monitoring this software at a time. SolarWinds is deployed on-premises for security reasons. Banks do not allow cloud solutions for this purpose. 

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DS
Systems and Data Warehouse Supervisor at MMSD

This solution has many different roles in our company. There is the application support group who configure it for monitoring specific services within applications and our desktop or operations group which monitors toner in laser printers. My group, which is primarily networking and servers, use it for bandwidth monitoring, server processor utilization monitoring, and for disk space monitoring. So we use it for a lot of different things. There are probably 200 services that are being monitored within our financial system to make sure that it is running optimally. I'm an infrastructure supervisor and we're customers of SolarWinds.

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JZ
Assistant Director of Information Technology at TOWN OF CULPEPER

SolarWinds NPM is generally used for network monitoring for all of the switches, networking equipment, as well as physical and virtual servers in the environment.

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CharlesGura - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Software Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

We used SolarWinds for network switches, routers, firewalls, and servers, and to collect performance data for items on a global scale. We have 1,000 to 1,500 users.

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PM
Technical Support Specialist at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

The primary use case of this solution is for network monitoring.

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RajeshB - PeerSpot reviewer
Server and Network Monitoring Manager at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees

The primary use case is to to know what nodes or devices are up or down in our environment. I can also provide a performance report, if needed to anyone who asks, by pulling it out from SolarWinds NPM. We have it integrated with other SolarWinds products, like NDM.

I have been using the solution for the last seven years. The company has been using the solution for over nine years now.

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MB
Director of Operations at 802BR

SolarWinds NPM is used for searching equipment in the network, troubleshooting the network, and mapping the networking.

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BenjaminRafrafi - PeerSpot reviewer
System and Network Administrator at a educational organization with 201-500 employees

We use SolarWinds NPM for monitoring. We don't change anything, and we just look at it.

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DP
Senior Executive IT Program Manager at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

My team uses SolarWinds to do some of the network monitoring. I look at the reports.

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SK
SME Solarwinds at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use the product for network monitoring. 

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MR
CEO at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We use it for network monitoring, internet monitoring purpose and server monitoring purposes.

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GN
Instrumentation Superintendent Systems at a mining and metals company with 10,001+ employees

I primarily use it in the OT environment. We use it for important equipment, voice equipment, safety devices, and to alarm and report on.

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KF
Solutions Consultant at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use SolarWinds for network monitoring. It's suitable for mid-sized or enterprise-scale companies. It can work for a small business, too, because it's not too expensive. 

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Yoshiro Travezano - PeerSpot reviewer
IM Infrastructure Specialist at Anglo American

We are a mining company, and we use this solution to monitor our system operations. We monitor the truck service, and we have the network devices installed onto the equipment.

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AW
Vice President Of Global Operations at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

We primarily use the solution for network health.

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RP
Senior Vice President and CIO at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

We have been making use of the most recent version.

We use it for monitoring our uplink ports on our routers and switches. We also use it to monitor our servers and we utilize its disc space and processor memory. We do the same thing for the routers and switches.

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Donald Bakels - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Adfontessoftware

We are a reseller of SolarWinds, so that is our primary use. SolarWinds Network Bandwidth Analyzer is actually a marketing name. That is the brand name of a couple of products in a suite. The main product of the network management suite is NPM, or the Network Performance Monitor, which is qualified as a global market-leading product and has won a lot of awards in the past few years. It is the flagship for network management software.  

The cool thing about that product is that you can use it to also monitor your network cloud connections through the internet. That is quite a unique feature. With this NPM piece, called NetPath, users can see how their applications on the internet are behaving performance-wise. So, for example, you can see how your Office 365 use, status, and performance are doing on the internet. Our customers would otherwise not have a clue when they have performance issues without using this tool.  

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MB
CTO-OSS product development at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees

Our company specializes in the development of a SaaS site. Often times, we look for solutions to complement our existing tool based on customer's needs. 

We recommended the solution to a customer as an infrastructure configuration and monitoring tool that combines multiple domains in a single platform. The customer also wanted issue notifications to be provided in a real-time, viewable format. 

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DN
Digital Innovation at Bobcat Company

We primarily use the solution to try to monitor all of our AWS services, including the servers and the cloud. We use both, and this actually helps us with monitoring and certain applications.

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WK
Network/Systems Administrator at TRSP

This product is useful for monitoring our network devices.

It monitors bandwidth utilized on the network and tells us whether particular nodes or particular services are available or not. 

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KhalidOmer - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Center Engineer at Arabianoud.com

We primarily use the solution for detecting weaknesses and portal connectivity with our client's machines. We also use it to analyze the stacks of data to figure out where downtimes are and for how long. 

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MA
Network Administrator at Libyana Mobile Phone

I am working at a company which is an Internet service provider (ISP). So, I'm monitoring the traffic on some nodes, like switches, routers, firewall, the traffic, and the CPU.

I am using the latest version, which I just downloaded from their site.

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WK
CEO at WilCom Systems Ltd

We use this solution for checking databases and new devices that are added to the network. We test the L state of routers and firewalls.

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Juan Pr - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Professional at NTT Security

Our clients are using Solar Winds NPM to monitor their network product. Solar Winds NPM is straightforward and you can monitor it very easily.

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KD
IT Expert & Data Center Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We use it for our network LAN and some problem that we saw in our switching networks.

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DA
IT Director at Pattillo, Brown & Hill

We monitor five firewalls and five switch stacks in five offices. We also monitor around 30 servers that are both physical and virtual. Most of them run Windows Server 2016.

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EL
Technical Specialist, consultant at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

We use this solution for one of our very big customers. We are consultants and I'm the technical specialist and consultant. The company is a customer of SolarWinds. 

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TN
Senior Systems Engineer at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It is for our current infrastructure or servers and storage system. We're using it globally to monitor our global network. We are currently monitoring all the infrastructure APM, network, switches, and routers. We have some elements in the UK and the USA. 

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NK
Senior Solutions Specialist (Network & Security) at Ooredoo Qatar

We have a data center that is used by multiple clients and we need to see how applications are performing when clients are on our network. The NPM tool is used to analyze what different applications are consuming, in terms of bandwidth.

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AN
Senior Network Engineer at Element Critical

We primarily used the solution for routers and switches.

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FA
Implementation & Support Specialist at 360Factors

We have been using this tool to monitor our multiple network devices, interfaces, physical and virtual memory, application servers, databases, and applications to keep a track of what is causing an issue that we are having.

Either it is the network, or it is the application, or it is the database queries that are causing our users to experience slowdowns. Due to alerting mechanism, we get notified if anything is responding slowly or if anything goes down so that we can resolve the issue as quickly as possible and keep providing best services to our customers.

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reviewer1168221 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

We use this solution for network node monitoring and alerting.

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JF
Manager of Network Services with 10,001+ employees

We use NPM to monitor our enterprise for up/down status on network devices.

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GM
SOC Expert at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use SolarWinds for monitoring internet bandwidth, both outbound and inbound. We also use it to check out network tools like switches, routers, and other things including user monitoring for RAM and CPU. We typically get a report on the internet interface about, for example, HTTP traffic and other software traffic. 

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MH
Vice President, SaaS Operations at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

SolarWinds NPM is used to monitor network components and solutions.

We used it to monitor downtime and latency between applications, as well as the latency between services.

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SF
Help Desk Technician at NERIC BOCES

This solution provides one standardized platform for network device monitoring.

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MV
Information Technology Director at a transportation company with 11-50 employees

We use this solution to monitor workstations and to remotely perform workstation software upgrades.

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DO
System Administration at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

We use this solution for infrastructure monitoring, including servers and network devices.

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Donald Bakels - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Adfontessoftware

SolarWinds NPM is useful for any company that has business-critical applications running over a network and they want to monitor the network behavior.

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FA
IT Security Architecture & Implementation Manager at Banque Saudi Fransi

We primarily use this solution for network troubleshooting and monitoring.

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NJ
Optical Network Engineer at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

Our primary use case for SolarWinds NPM is for network monitoring and SNMP traps.

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AA
CISO with 201-500 employees

Our primary use case for this solution is for default of the stability of the network track.

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AV
Systems Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

We use SolarWinds NPM to monitor and manage network devices and infrastructure in our environment.

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EE
System Engineer - Infrastructure Lead at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We use this product to monitor our performance. It gives us visibility of our environment, especially for software.

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SM
Solutions Engineer at Mesiniaga

Server and network monitoring.

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it_user1012662 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Technology Infrastructure Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We primarily use the solution for our network.

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CC
Technical Head at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We're using it for monitoring network uptime. We were testing it out for applications and for servers, but that didn't work for us. We wanted a different solution, an end-to-end type of monitoring. We wanted to see the end-user experience.

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it_user1290390 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We are a solution provider and we evaluated this product, amongst others, for one of our clients. This product is used as a network monitoring tool.

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it_user952677 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Network Administrator at a recruiting/HR firm with 10,001+ employees

My primary use case for this is for monitoring router switches, and using the solution to support the collection of this information for us.

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Buyer's Guide
SolarWinds NPM
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about SolarWinds NPM. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,386 professionals have used our research since 2012.