Orion Network Performance Monitor (NPM) is built to enable easy integration with other SolarWinds products and third-party applications to maximize your investment. Orion NPM stores collected data in an open, Microsoft® SQL Server database which can be easily accessed from, or incorporated into, external applications, such as operation management systems or trouble ticketing systems.

Orion NPM also includes an advanced alerting engine, which provides an easy-to-use, real-time method of sending data to upstream systems and event handlers. Orion NPM's web interface is built for easy customization and includes methods for integrating third-party application data or for referencing Orion NPM's data from within other websites.

Microsoft System Centre

A FREE Orion NPM Management Pack enables deep integration with Microsoft® System Centre Operations Manager 2007 and Microsoft System Centre Essentials 2007. Through this new Management Pack, Orion NPM brings extensive network visibility to Microsoft management platforms by pulling rich network fault and performance data from Orion NPM and presenting it natively within System Centre.

The Orion NPM Management Pack delivers detailed network information to System Centre, including network top talkers, comprehensive network traffic summaries and NetFlow analysis, and multi-vendor network device details, such as specific router throughput. This incredibly detailed network information is seamlessly integrated into System Center and is presented side-by-side with existing application and server information, providing a single comprehensive view of server, desktop, and network infrastructure performance.

SolarWinds Integrations

Engineer's Toolset
For customers with Engineer's Toolset and Orion NPM, you can leverage the functionality of the Toolset directly from the Orion NPM interface by simply right-clicking with your mouse. Users may access powerful applications, such as NetFlow Realtime, Real-Time Interface Monitor and Cisco Configuration Viewer, directly from the Orion NPM web interface.

Orion Network  Configuration Manager
Orion NPM displays Orion NCM configurations and reports directly from the Web console, enabling you to easily troubleshoot whether a network issue is related to a configuration change, or what impact a configuration change made to devices.
LANsurveyor
SolarWinds LANsurveyor can quickly and easily discover your network and automatically create a detailed network map. The map can be saved and exported to Microsoft Office Visio®.  The map can be imported from LANsurveyor or Visio into Orion NPM’s Map Maker feature with a single click. For detailed instructions on how to use this integration feature, please view our Rapid Network Topology Mapping Demo.

Thwack
Orion NPM brings Thwack, SolarWinds’ online community of thousands of network engineers, right into the Orion web interface. This empowers you to get quick answers to network issues and to share Orion resources, such as universal device pollers, application templates, and recent forum postings.