As VM or Load Balancer resources gow and decrease, so too should hooks into monitoring systems that increase and decrease monitoring resources automatically.
Imagine a monitoring solution and a VM solution that are intelligent enough to work together to automatically add monitoring interfaces and set thresholds, that can even automatically build and deploy and assign additional Solarwinds polling solutions to the newly expanded resources. At 10 a.m. you have X number of VM hosts and clients being monitored by one Orion NPM poller. At 3 p.m. the number of VM hosts and clients has automatically grown significantly in response to demand.
At the same time, the VM growth process has automatically spawned a new NPM poller, assigned the appropriate new monitoring interfaces on the poller for each new VM host/client, and joined the new poller to NPM's main instance.
If the nebulous "Cloud" is going to become less unknown, we need NPM and its kin to be able to automatically add or decrease pollers and polled interfaces, and to integrate the information into existing Orion modules.
There may not be demand for this today from a lot of customers, but it sure seems like a future-looking company would be thinking about it and preparing for it.
I bet that's Solarwinds!
