Beyond Getting Started

NPM is a SolarWinds Platform product. The SolarWinds Platform is the core of the SolarWinds IT Management Portfolio. It ensures data collection, processing, storage, and presentation. It provides common features, such as user accounts and groups, views, dashboards, reporting, alerting, and more that you can use across all SolarWinds Platform products and access from the SolarWinds Platform Web Console.

Now that you've gotten started with NPM, check out the SolarWinds Platform Administrator Guide and NPM Administrator Guide for more information about using other features.

SolarWinds Platform Administrator Guide

Learn more about common features and administrative procedures in the SolarWinds Platform Administrator Guide (PDF), such as:

• Manage users
• Troubleshoot environmental issues with Performance Analysis dashboards
• Make your SolarWinds Platform highly available
• Manage alerts
• Manage reports
• Customize SolarWinds Platform Web Console, for example change SolarWinds logo for the logo of your company, or change the color scheme of the SolarWinds Platform Web Console.
• Customize views, widgets, and charts
• Use thresholds to specify when your nodes change status
• Monitor Hardware health
• Monitor SNMP traps and syslogs in the SolarWinds Platform
• Review events
• Use Quality of Experience
• Protect your environment with High Availability
• Scale your environment

NPM Administrator Guide

Check out the NPM Administrator Guide (PDF) to find out more about other NPM features, such as:

• Discover your network paths with NetPath™
• Monitor custom metrics on your devices
• Use Network Insight for F5 BIG-IP, Cisco Nexus devices, Cisco ASA, and Cisco ACI
• Forecast capacity

You can also connect with the NPM user community on THWACK, where you'll find training videos, blog posts, and information about what the team is working on.