- 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
- 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
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
- 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
- How reports work
- Beyond Getting 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