- Release Notes
- NPM 2025.1.1 release notes
- NPM 2025.1 release notes
- NPM 2024.4.1 release notes
- NPM 2024.4 release notes
- NPM 2024.2.1 release notes
- NPM 2024.2 release notes
- NPM 2024.1.1 release notes
- NPM 2024.1 release notes
- NPM 2023.4.2 release notes
- NPM 2023.4.1 release notes
- NPM 2023.4 release notes
- NPM 2023.3.1 release notes
- NPM 2023.3 release notes
- NPM 2023.2.2 release notes
- NPM 2023.2.1 release notes
- NPM 2023.2 release notes
- NPM 2023.1.1 release notes
- NPM 2023.1 release notes
- NPM 2022.4.1 release notes
- NPM 2022.4 release notes
- NPM release history
- Install or upgrade
- Get Started
- NPM Getting Started Guide
- Network Performance Monitor Getting Started Guide
- What should I monitor on my network?
- Discover your network with NPM
- Add discovered devices to NPM
- Plan to scale network monitoring
- Add a single node for monitoring
- Navigate NPM
- Identify and troubleshoot a node that has a problem
- Identify and troubleshoot an interface that has a problem
- How alerts work
- Work with preconfigured alerts
- How reports work
- How do I customize NPM?
- Why use custom properties in NPM?
- Create a custom property for nodes
- Create a group
- View entities on Intelligent Maps
- Create a Summary view and add widgets
- Add the custom Summary view to My Dashboards
- Edit a view
- Customize the Custom Table widget in NPM
- Create a NOC view
- Create a custom report for NPM showing availability of devices in the last 30 days
- Create a custom alert for NPM notifying the team that critical nodes are not up
- Beyond Getting Started
- NPM Getting Started - Additional resources
- Administer
- Network Performance Monitor Administrator Guide
- SolarWinds Platform features
- NPM licensing model
- Manage interfaces
- View interface status, interface health, and details about downtime
- Display physical layout of interfaces on graphical stencils (Device View)
- Detect and predict duplex mismatches
- Edit interface properties
- Suspend collecting data for interfaces
- Delete interfaces
- Remotely manage monitored interfaces
- Troubleshoot nodes and interfaces that are Unknown
- Observe real-time data for nodes and interfaces on charts
- Monitor capacity usage trends on the network and forecast capacity issues
- Discover your network paths
- Monitor cloud infrastructure
- Monitor firewalls
- Monitor load balancers
- Monitor SD-WAN
- Monitor software-defined networks
- Monitor switches
- Monitor switch stacks
- Monitor wireless networks
- View wireless data
- Monitor Meraki wireless infrastructure
- Monitor Arista Wireless Manager infrastructure
- Monitor Aruba Central wireless infrastructure
- Monitor Extreme Networks Cloud IQ wireless infrastructure
- Monitor Juniper Mist wireless infrastructure
- Monitor Ruckus One wireless infrastructure
- Monitor Ruckus SmartZone wireless infrastructure
- Create wireless heat maps
- Display wireless heat maps in the SolarWinds Platform Web Console
- Configure polling
- Set up and monitor Cisco Unified Computing Systems (UCS)
- Monitor EnergyWise devices
- Set thresholds for nodes and interfaces
- Create custom monitors
- Troubleshoot network performance issues with Performance Analysis dashboards
Network Performance Monitor Getting Started Guide
This guide will take you from setting up your NPM to full implementation, including customization. You should install before using the Getting Started Guide. See SolarWinds Orion Installer.
View as PDFs: Get Started | Customize
Get Started
Customize
- How do I customize NPM?
- Why use custom properties in NPM?
- Create a custom property for nodes
- Create a group
- View entities on Intelligent Maps
- Create a Summary view and add widgets
- Add the custom Summary view to My Dashboards
- Edit a view
- Customize the Custom Table widget in NPM
- Create a NOC view
- Create a custom report for NPM showing availability of devices in the last 30 days
- Create a custom alert for NPM notifying the team that critical nodes are not up
- Beyond Getting Started