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Orion NPM 9.5 General Availability

We are proud to announce the General Availability of Orion NPM 9.5.  Below you will find a set of the major features with this new release.  You can download the new release from your customer portal.
Also, please find the release notes here
  • Web based Network Sonar Discovery – network discovery is now available via the web with new capabilities
    • SNMPv3 Discovery Support
    • Volume Discovery
  • Network Atlas – Map Maker is now Network Atlas and has been completely overhauled with tons of new features and functionality
    • Maps now reflect performance thresholds
    • Ability to install Network Atlas on local machine and remote connect to NPM or EOC Server to add, edit and delete maps
  • Wireless Support – Wireless support has been rolled into NPM now including
    • all the functionality included in the Wireless Module
    • support for Wireless Controllers and Thin Access Points
    • Wireless reports rogue APs detected by controllers
  • Unmanage Interfaces – today you can un-managed nodes, now you can also un-manage specific interfaces on a node
  • Unpluggable Port Mode – when end user workstations undocked and went home for the evening, you would get a node down alert.  By setting this property, the node would go to unplugged and not show as down
  • Cisco EnergyWise Support – Measure, report, and reduce the energy consumption of any device connected to an EnergyWise-enabled switch across the enterprise
  • Windows 2008 and SQL 2008 Support – Orion NPM has added support for 2008 and dropped 2000 support
  • External Node Mode – node type to represent nodes that Orion cannot poll (for APM monitors not associated with managed nodes)
  • Other General Features:
    • Trends in Charts
    • Rollover Tooltips
    • Orion Server settings have been moved to the web console
    • Advanced Syslog Parser
    • Disable all advanced alerts with one checkbox