The Orion IP SLA monitor will show you what's happening between your computers and the routers on your
network. Download this utility and discover bottlenecks, check round-trip times, and set
alerts when traffic suddenly increases. Guy's review of Orion IP
SLA Manager.
Orion IP SLA Manager evolved from the Orion VoIP Monitor. Its
purpose is to identify network performance problems, whether they be
site-specific or WAN-related. The key to troubleshooting this type
of problem is to look from the perspective of the remote site.
This review of
Orion IP SLA Manager will help you identify the routes on your network and analyze
the performance of each device thus eliminating guesswork.
SolarWinds Orion IP SLA Manager offers so much more than just discovering network
bottlenecks, the real joy is learning about router traffic. In the
present era we accept that learning will be for life, yet sometimes it's
hard, and expensive, to get started. Enter the Orion IP SLA
Manager SLA Monitor
which will kick
start your training by measuring key operations on your network.
Listening-in to the traffic on your network is rather like the
government, or a phone company tapping into your conversations. In
both instances, the frequency, latency and bottlenecks are more
interesting to a techie than mundane content of the traffic.
My point is that there is a lot happening on a computer network that not
visible to an ordinary user. The secret of routers' success is
that they collect data about the network traffic. Tools such as
Orion IP SLA Performance Monitor, not only collect these data-about-data packets, but also
analyse their contents to produce red / green warning lights, and
response times in bar charts.
Download your copy of Orion IP SLA Manager
This SolarWinds tool will help you troubleshoot network bottlenecks or computer to
computer latency.
Orion IP SLA Manager works by piggy-backing a ride on existing router
messages.
The skill of any such monitor is analyzing and displaying the data.
The fun of learning with Orion IP SLA Manager is selecting the data most
relevant to your network, for example, ping echo, DNS resolution times,
or HTTP statistics.
The result of a few hours of work / play is that you set alerts on key
indicators and then get on with the rest of your job.
When you get flagged with an alert you put your skills into practice and isolate the
network problem.
When you don't get flagged you revisit the tool to check that the
thresholds are realistic.
The ability to monitor network traffic all starts with NetFlow. This is a UDP protocol that transmits reports about router activity. The central component
is the Cisco Network Services (CNS) with its NetFlow collection engine
(NFC). A key development is active monitoring, which
generates network traffic in a continuous, reliable, and predictable
manner, the result is that you can take the pulse of your network's
performance and health. As a result
Cisco IP SLA turns the router into a network probe.
At the heart is a network management system (NMS). The mission of
an NMS is to discover network devices such as routers. It then
mercilessly tests them for availability and performance.
Where it helps a network administrator is that an NMS such as the Orion
IP SLA Monitor stores the results in a database which we can then query
for all manner of reports.
The Orion IP SLA Monitor uses tried and trusted technologies to poll the
devices. NetFlow is probably the most efficient method, but it
also collects data using SNMP traps, WMI polling or even good old ping
(ICMP Echo).
One feature of all Orion reporting is mapping showing not only links but
geographical relationships between data centers.
See a Video of the Orion IP SLA Manager
Here is a chance to review SolarWinds' SLA Manager:
SolarWinds Orion IP SLA Manager offers so much more than just discovering network
bottlenecks, the real joy is learning about router traffic. See
how effortlessly this monitor analyzes and displays VoIP jitter, network
latency, and packet loss. The key to configuring this Monitor is selecting the data most
relevant to your network, for example, ping echo, DNS resolution times,
or HTTP statistics. As a result of a few hours of investigation is that you
can set alerts on key
indicators, then get on with the rest of your job.
Full Reviews of the SolarWinds Licenced Family of Applications
Here are Guy's comprehensive evaluations, comments and recommendations for
SolarWinds licensed products. Each application offers a 30 day trial of a fully
functional program, so check out the download links provided.
Guy Recommends:
SolarWinds' NPM - Network Performance Monitor
SolarWinds' performance monitor is designed for detecting network outages,
making it easy to see what's working, and what needs your attention.
This utility guides you through creating network maps; it also helps
identifying whether the
root cause is faulty equipment, or resource overload. Give NPM a try.
