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Orion Wish List – Top 5 features

FormerMember

Hi everyone. I’m the new product manager for Orion. Josh has already given you some ideas about what we’re going to be delivering in Orion 8.0. One of our goals is to provide a longer-term roadmap so that you have some idea of what’s coming in future versions.

Consequently, while we are finishing up 8.0, I am thinking about Orion 9.0 and beyond. I’ve been contacting customers individually regarding what they’d like to see in the future. I’m also about to send a survey out to a random sample of customers asking them similar questions.

I know those of you in the forums frequently ask for features, and we do read the forums and take note of those requests. But since I’m working on the roadmap right now, I thought it couldn’t hurt to ask folks to take a few minutes and share your wish list.

Give me your top 5 requests. Please think broadly. These features might be changes to Orion or they might be add-ons to Orion that address new network management problems.

Denny LeCompte
Sr. Product Manager, Orion
SolarWinds

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bosmeny

Denny,

I'd still like to see the following addressed:

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We have been trying to integrate ORION with a third-party customer management system. On your website, you state: "Orion's Web interface is built for easy customization and includes methods for integrating third party application data or for referencing Orion's data from within other Websites via the fully programmable Web API."

I just got off the phone with tech support, who said the only functionality related to this is the custom HTML/Text fuction within ORION. While this is a useful addition, it is hardly a fully programmable API (not even close).

I can find no documentation anywhere on this. What's the scoop on this and how do we access the fully programmable API? Can you shed any light on this?

Bill

jkeberle

One of the easiest things that i would like to see added / support is to associate email contacts for notifications with a user name list.

example :

user John Doe has an email addy of 9164441322@sprintpcs.com

then when you are doing your alerts and set up email notifications you just use the name "John Doe" which will know to use the email addy for that user for notifications. we often have to spent an extra 15 minutes or so on new accounts remembering who exactly to notify and then find thier email address.

Miron

Feature request.

To be able to assign different monitoring levels to different interfaces.(Trunks / Access Ports)

For Example: We can set Solarwinds to Monitor all the interfaces trunks or access ports at the moment and the icon for the device will flash red if interfaces are down. This is useful for trunks but not so useful for access ports which we dont mind being down , but we still want to monitor the utilization of the ports.

Regards

Miron

Hello

Loving orion, but here's a few things that I'd enjoy in a future version.

#1) Improved interoperability with Cirrus. My current method of exporting nodes, ips, and custom variables with csv and importing again to custom properties is not the best way to do things.

#2) Threshold monitoring. I should be alerted if ping times are suddenly 300% more than they were an hour ago. Orion should be 'smart' enough to recognize increased latency across my wan links and notify me. [Tuning capabilities for low ping nodes]

#3) Statistics-only monitoring nodes. I would easily have Orion SLX if Orion supported monitoring interfaces and nodes for utilization and errors only, but did not create up/down alerts or event logs. I don't specifically have my Access ports set up to alert, but they still show up under nodes with problems and this throws off the maps.

#4) 'Advanced' variable comparison. Comparing, for instance, A custom MIB status variable of CPU temperature to the CPU threshold and sending an alert if it's 85% to the threshold.

#5) Improved ${Variable} expansion in map design and node list. Whenever I change the hostname of a device I have to rediscover the node, delete the hostname, press rediscover again, delete a character (Because NodeName is still blank!), and save it again. The node list should work off of ${NodeName} as an option.

-JP Senior

chuco

I would like to be able to set a scheduled monitor mode in Orion for nodes. Currently you have to manually set it. I would like to have it reaccuring and not have to manually do it each week. Thanks!