- Release Notes
- NCM 2025.1.1 release notes
- NCM 2025.1 release notes
- NCM 2024.4.1 release notes
- NCM 2024.4 release notes
- NCM 2024.2.1 release notes
- NCM 2024.2 release notes
- NCM 2024.1.1 release notes
- NCM 2024.1 release notes
- NCM 2023.4.2 release notes
- NCM 2023.4.1 release notes
- NCM 2023.4 release notes
- NCM 2023.3.1 release notes
- NCM 2023.3 release notes
- NCM 2023.2.2 release notes
- NCM 2023.2.1 release notes
- NCM 2023.2 release notes
- NCM 2023.1 release notes
- NCM 2022.4.1 release notes
- NCM 2022.4 release notes
- NCM release history
- Install or Upgrade
- Install or Upgrade NCM
- SolarWinds Platform Products Installation and Upgrade Guide
- Scalability Engine Guidelines for SolarWinds products
- Migration Guide
- Deploy SolarWinds Platform products to Amazon Web Services
- Deploy SolarWinds Platform products to Microsoft Azure
- Install SolarWinds Platform products using Azure Marketplace
- Get Started
- NCM Getting Started Guide
- How do I get started with NCM?
- Populate NCM with devices
- Back up network configs with NCM
- View information about devices and configurations on the Config Summary dashboard
- Manage network change with NCM
- Network troubleshooting and remediation
- Track changes to network configs
- Reporting in NCM
- Audit your Cisco routers for policy compliance
- NCM Getting Started: Additional resources
- Administer
- NCM Administrator Guide
- Introduction to NCM
- NCM licensing model
- NCM storage requirements
- SolarWinds Platform features in NCM
- Manage NCM user accounts and assign NCM roles
- Add nodes to NCM and specify connection information
- Add or remove NCM nodes
- Options for specifying NCM connection information
- Configure nodes to use device-level login credentials for NCM connections
- Configure nodes to use global connection profiles for NCM connections
- Configure nodes to use user-level login credentials for NCM connections
- Specify values for global variables
- Protocols NCM uses to transfer configurations
- Tips for troubleshooting a connection issue
- Manage nodes and collect node data in NCM
- Transfer, edit, and search network configuration files
- Schedule regular backups of network config files
- Download network configuration files manually
- Edit network config files
- Upload network config files manually
- View config transfer and script execution status
- Import network config files
- Search network config files or node properties
- Give NCM write access to a non-default location or a network share
- Enable a new config type in NCM
- Troubleshoot issues with NCM config files
- Specify settings for transferring and storing configurations
- Remove older config files and data
- Firmware vulnerability data
- Firmware upgrades
- Get notified when a network configuration file changes
- Ensure compliance to policy rules
- Device templates
- Gather the information you need for an NCM device template
- Best practices for NCM device templates
- NCM communication process diagrams
- Create and manage device templates
- F5 device template behavior
- NCM device template commands
- Examples of device templates
- Import and export device templates
- How device templates are assigned to nodes
- Compare a network config to a baseline or another config
- Automate tasks with NCM command scripts and jobs
- Use config change templates to update configs on multiple nodes
- About NCM config change templates
- Parameters for NCM config change templates
- Commands for NCM config change templates
- SWIS entities used in config change templates
- Examples of NCM config change templates
- Create an NCM config change template
- Edit an NCM config change template
- Tag a config change template
- Delete an NCM config change template
- Import and export NCM config change templates
- Execute an NCM config change template
- Approval system for configuration changes
- Manage Cisco ACLs and Palo Alto policies in NCM
- NCM reports
- Alerts in NCM
- Servers for NCM file transfers and email notifications
- EnergyWise devices
- Common NCM tasks
- NCM macros (variables)
NCM Administrator Guide
Use this guide to learn how to set up SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM) and use it to automate network configuration management tasks.
View as a PDF
Network Configuration Manager runs on the self-hosted SolarWinds Platform. See the SolarWinds Platform Administrator Guide to learn about common features, such as adding devices, managing users, customizing your deployment, or viewing monitored devices on maps.
- NCM Administrator Guide
- Introduction to NCM
- NCM licensing model
- NCM storage requirements
- SolarWinds Platform features in NCM
- Manage NCM user accounts and assign NCM roles
- Add nodes to NCM and specify connection information
- Manage nodes and collect node data in NCM
- Transfer, edit, and search network configuration files
- Specify settings for transferring and storing configurations
- Remove older config files and data
- Firmware vulnerability data
- Firmware upgrades
- Get notified when a network configuration file changes
- Ensure compliance to policy rules
- Device templates
- Compare a network config to a baseline or another config
- Automate tasks with NCM command scripts and jobs
- Use config change templates to update configs on multiple nodes
- Approval system for configuration changes
- Manage Cisco ACLs and Palo Alto policies in NCM
- NCM reports
- Alerts in NCM
- Servers for NCM file transfers and email notifications
- EnergyWise devices
- Common NCM tasks
- NCM macros (variables)