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NAM vs NOM -- What am I missing?

jbiggley over 7 years ago

I usually delete SolarWinds sales emails. Sorry. It's the truth. It's not that I don't want to read them it's just that I usually have my fingers on the pulse of things via Thwack and other things. So today when I got an email entitled "Two New Enterprise-Class Solutions From SolarWinds" I hesitated before hitting that delete key. And, wow, I'm glad I did.

NAM is Network Automation Manager (Network Automation Tool | Solarwinds )

NOM is Network Operations Manager (Network Operations Management | Solarwinds )

As far as I can tell...

NAM (Network Automation Manager - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support ) is a bulk license for NPM, NTA, VNQM, IPAM, NCM, UDT and SolarWinds HA.

NOM (Network Operations Manager - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support ) is a bulk license for NPM, NTA, UDT and VNQM.

At first I thought this was a marketing gimmick of some sort. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely think that owning NPM, IPAM, NCM, etc. is essential to a NOC, but this is the part that got me.

2016-10-14 13_15_49-Two New Enterprise-Class Solutions from SolarWinds - jbiggley@gmail.com - Gmail.png

Given that we struggle the size of our environment today that growth to "hundreds of thousands of elements" has me totally intrigued. However I am wondering if we aren't being toyed with a little here. If you have 6 products each monitoring 25,000 or so of either respective elements (Orion multi-module system guidelines for a SolarWinds NPM installation - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support for deployment guidelines) then we would be monitoring "hundreds of thousands of elements".

Which Product Manager wants to field this clarification? cobrien? aLTeReGo?

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sum_giais over 5 years ago in reply to nks7892 +2

So when you move to NAM / ACM licensing you have to change the way you think about the solarwinds licensing. For larger deployments it's great. It eliminates the need to procure additional polling engine…

0 jbiggley over 7 years ago

Network Automation Tool | Solarwinds
This link says "10K elements per poller" I have 17 polling engines. Does that mean I can have up to 170K elements on a single instance?
What is the maximum number of pollers per primary server now?
So many questions!
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0 cobrien1 over 7 years ago

Thanks for the page jbiggley, but I think you're looking for jeff.stewart.
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0 jbiggley over 7 years ago in reply to cobrien1

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I guess I am used to either you or aLTeReGo having all the answers.
Paging jeff.stewart, Dr. jeff.stewart!
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0 jeff.stewart over 7 years ago in reply to jbiggley

The recommended max number of additional polling engines is 20 per Orion instance. The caveat is that we still don't recommend going over ~100,000 elements for NPM or ~150,000 component monitors for SAM. While we don't recommend going over 100,000 we do have several large enterprise customers that have successfully scaled well beyond those limits.
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0 satyen.aggarwall over 7 years ago

Do we have any webinars coming up for partners to go through these offerings ?
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0 rschroeder over 6 years ago
I just purchased NAM, and am seeking the right information to correctly allocate the right VM resources, a list of modules which can be co-located on the same server(s) (if any!), and the best practice installation procedures for:
Adding another poller to an existing NPM deployment
Installing and adding to my current NPM/NCM/NTA Orion environment the following:
UDT
VNQM
IPAM
HA
If you've done this, would you mind sharing your experiences?
What resources did you use for successfully VM sizing and installation guides?
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0 smoked_angus over 5 years ago

Bump, Can anyone tell me if the NAM option is compatible with SAM added/retained?
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0 cobrien1 over 5 years ago in reply to smoked_angus

I'm not precisely sure what SAM added/retained means. Some of this is account specific, so your best bet is to reach out to your account rep and see what options are available.
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0 smoked_angus over 5 years ago in reply to cobrien1

Hello sir, a sketchy plan would be to replace current solarwinds platform with NAM, albeit keeping Server and Application Monitor.
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0 deverts over 5 years ago in reply to smoked_angus

Network Automation Manager - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support
Network Operations Manager - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support
And now presenting:
Application-Centric Monitor - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support
You would essentially have 2 licenses versus LOTS. But I don't know if they play nice together on an integrated solution, that's for SolarWinds to answer.
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