- 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
- Disable the wireless heat map poller
- Set a floor plan as the background for visualizing wireless coverage
- Set the wireless heat map scale
- Add wireless access points for NPM wireless heat maps
- Improve the accuracy of NPM wireless heat maps by taking samples of the signal strength on real devices
- Troubleshoot NPM 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
- Management Information Base (MIB) in the NPM
- Monitor custom statistics based on OIDs with Universal Device Pollers in the NPM
- Define a custom statistic to monitor in the NPM
- Select NPM nodes or interfaces to poll a custom statistic
- Transform poller results in the SolarWinds Platform
- Create pollers by duplicating and adjusting pollers
- Import UnDP pollers to NPM
- Export UnDP pollers from NPM
- Temporarily suspend collecting statistics for pollers
- Define UnDP Warning and Critical thresholds
- View Universal Device Poller statistics
- View UnDP status on Network Atlas maps
- Assign Universal Device Pollers to devices monitored
- Update the SolarWinds MIB Database for the SolarWinds Platform
- Manage unique devices on the network with NPM
- Device Studio technologies
- Create pollers in Device Studio for NPM
- Define object identifiers (OIDs) that do not exist in the SolarWinds MIB database for NPM
- What is the SNMP Get Type in NPM?
- What is a formula in NPM?
- Formulas used for transforming Device Studio poller results
- Test Device Studio pollers
- Monitor devices with NPM using THWACK community pollers
- Why can't I connect to THWACK from NPM ?
- Assign Device Studio pollers to monitored devices
- Scan monitored objects in NPM to verify if the OIDs match
- Troubleshoot network performance issues with Performance Analysis dashboards
Add Node - Define Node
Provide the information required to identify and access the node you are adding to the SolarWinds Platform database for monitoring.
- Provide the host name or IP address.
- Select the polling method, provide credentials, and click Next.