Join us for a new monthly product update from the SolarWinds Product Management team. The PM team will cover what’s new, what’s coming, tips & tricks, and cross-product capabilities. In July’s inaugural episode, we’ll review the new features in SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor v10.5 and answer any questions you have about use cases and implementation. Additionally, we’ll discuss we’re working on for Vnext and we'd appreciate your feedback. We’ll have plenty of time for Q&A and discussion, so bring your comments and questions.

1. NPM – What’s New, What’s Coming, and
Popular Extensions
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2. Welcome!
» Our First Monthly Product Roadmap Update
 New monthly series
 Gives you a sneak peak into what we’re working on
 We want your feedback and requests
» Today’s Presenters
 Francois Caron, Product Manager
 Michal Hrncirik, Product Manager
 Rob Hock, Product Manager
» Don’t Wait to Ask Questions
 This is an interactive presentation
 Feel free to interrupt and please ask away!
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3. The Customer Engagement Initiative
» Team is comprised of hand-picked, experienced professionals
 Understanding of your needs as a SolarWinds customer
 Team has the experience and focus required to understand your
objectives, existing environment, and goals
» Customer-only engagement opportunities
 Customer-only offers, trainings, webcasts, and more
 This is an example of one of our efforts
 We welcome your feedback and requests
Contact us directly at customersales@solarwinds.com.
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4. Welcome to the First SolarWinds Product Update
» NPM is our flagship product
 Refreshing the oldest modules
• Charting, Win32 modules moved to the WEB (e.g. Custom property editor)
• Others on the list : Alert Management (Basic and Advanced Alert Manager), UnDP
 Adding new features and supported devices. E.g.:
• Extended support for BigIP® F5® devices
• Hardware health monitoring (temperature, power supply, fan speed, etc.) for major
HW vendors (Cisco, Juniper, F5, Dell, HP)
• Support for HP® MSM 760/765 wireless controllers
 Your votes are essential to us, in order to keep our priorities in line with your
needs:
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5. Welcome to the first SolarWinds Product Update
» Our community continues to be the main source of input:
 You are more than 100,000 to contribute!
 We can’t respond to everything but we try hard
 We read actually most of the postings (even if we don’t respond to all)
 We hear the good and less good comments!
• E.g. We heard the feedback about Web Custom property
• E.g. We heard the need to improve the way we configure&manage events and alerts
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Introducing NPM v10.5
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Network Performance Monitor v10.5 (NPM)
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» Route Monitoring
» Multicast Monitoring
» Interface Filtering
» And more!

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NPM 10.5 Interface Discovery Filtering
» Filter by hardware
type, name,
description, or VLAN,
when importing new
nodes and interfaces
» Reduces time and
simplifies the device
and interface
discovery process
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NPM 10.5 Route Monitoring
» Combines real-time network
route info alongside device
status and performance
» Supports RIP, OSPF, and BGP
» View routing tables, changes
in default routes and
flapping routes
» View router topology in
customizable web interface
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NPM 10.5 Multicast Monitoring
» Monitor and alert on large,
complex, IP multicast
topologies
» Display multicast info, route
info, and device info in a
single unified view
» View multicast topologies in
a customizable web
interface
» Generate multicast related
errors
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NPM v10.5 - DEMO
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NPM v10.5
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Open Discussion

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New NPM v10.5 Resources
» Website
 NPM 10.5 Overview
» Videos
 Network Route Monitoring with NPM
 Multicast Monitoring with NPM
» White Papers
 Network Route Monitoring with NPM
 Multicast Monitoring with NPM
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Extending NPM’s Value
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Extending NPM’s Value - Examples
» NPM + NTA
 Your Orion console can become the access point to understanding how
your bandwidth is being consumed and by whom.
» NPM + SAM
 The monitoring of both physical and virtual servers and monitoring of
commercial, open source applications, and custom applications.
» NPM + UDT
 Adds “last mile” information into NPM, like information about user
connected to the port and possibility to shut down the port from NPM
web console.
» NPM + NCM
 See information such as Policy Violations and the End of Support Devices
which help complete the picture of the condition of your network.
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Extending NPM’s Value - DEMO
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Extending NPM’s Value
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Open Discussion

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NPM – What We’re Working On
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Life After NPM v10.5
» Web based reporting UI with new "out of the box" reports with
charts
 Reports that will substitute legacy/old reporting and add possibility to
show historical charts
 TOP xx reports that show charts and detailed information about interfaces
and nodes and wireless on the same page
» UnDP on maps with thresholds
» Small improvements and bug fixes (F5 interface polling, HW health
polling fixes, adding IP address on interface detail page, and more)
*PLEASE NOTE: We are working on these items based on this priority order, but this is NOT a commitment that all of these enhancements will make the next release.
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New Web-Based Report Manager
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UnDP on Maps
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22. Other Exciting “Ideas”
» Advanced Traffic Analysis capabilities for improved network
troubleshooting, application “discovery” and quality of experience.
 Would like your comments on this blog post
» Log, fault, Event management is the number 1 use case for NPM
 Above and beyond the improvement highlighted above, we would like your ideas.
 Think big!
 Would love your votes and comments on this “Idea”
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Ask the Experts - Q & A
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24. Thank You for Attending!
» To get a direct download or a personal demo of
anything we discussed today:
customersales@solarwinds.com
p.s. Remember to renew your maintenance!!!
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25. Thank You!
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