As always, since NPM 10.4 has been released recently we are already working on the next release of NPM. Here is a preview: New web based reporting including native support for charts in reports. Support for routing information including alerting for major routing protocols (RIP v2, OSPF v2,v3, BGP). UI improvements for interface discovery filtering (possibility to select interfaces based on pattern). Multicast traffic information monitoring and alerting Performance enhancements (specifically focused on the database) Interface auditing/logging Spanning tree & VLAN information We had planned to spend some significant time in this enhancing database performance but unfortunately the other items will take our full time. It is certainly something that is still a high priority for us. PLEASE NOTE: We are working on these items based on this priority order, but this is NOT a commitment that all of these enhancements will make the next release. We are working on a number of other smaller features in parallel. If you have comments or questions on any of these items (e.g. how would it work?) or would like to be included in a preview demo, please let us know!

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What we are working on post NPM 10.4

michal.hrncirik over 11 years ago

As always, since NPM 10.4 has been released recently we are already working on the next release of NPM. Here is a preview:

New web based reporting including native support for charts in reports.
Support for routing information including alerting for major routing protocols (RIP v2, OSPF v2,v3, BGP).
UI improvements for interface discovery filtering (possibility to select interfaces based on pattern).
Multicast traffic information monitoring and alerting
Performance enhancements (specifically focused on the database)
Interface auditing/logging
Spanning tree & VLAN information

We had planned to spend some significant time in this enhancing database performance but unfortunately the other items will take our full time. It is certainly something that is still a high priority for us.

PLEASE NOTE: We are working on these items based on this priority order, but this is NOT a commitment that all of these enhancements will make the next release. We are working on a number of other smaller features in parallel. If you have comments or questions on any of these items (e.g. how would it work?) or would like to be included in a preview demo, please let us know!

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0 familyofcrowes over 11 years ago

Please include EIGRP in your routing protocols.... pretty please....
You guys are are jammin with these enhancements!!! great stuff!!
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0 Sohail.Bhamani over 11 years ago

Sweet!!!!
Numbers 1 and 3 will be super welcomed by all!
Keep up the great work guys!
Sohail Bhamani
Loop1 Systems
http://www.loop1systems.com
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0 superfly over 11 years ago

Great to hear! Some of those features will be welcomed
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0 bwicks over 11 years ago

Michal - can you provide more details around number 5. I believe this could be the biggest enhancement that will benefit all
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0 Radioman over 11 years ago

Michal,
Just an FYI the RELEASE NOTES for 10.4 web link is dead.... http://customerportal.solarwinds.com/RecentRelease/Email/19 Getting Page Not Found.
Looking to confirm that this 10.4 rel will allow 3 poller clustering to get us better scalability.
Thanks
Radioman
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0 Sohail.Bhamani over 11 years ago in reply to Radioman

SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor Release Notes
That link always points to the latest release notes.
I know you addressed your question to Michal, but I am wondering what you mean by 3 node cluster. I have customers with 10 pollers attached to 1 NPM instance and their goal is scalability. Just curious.
Sohail Bhamani
Loop1 Systems
http://www.loop1systems.com
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0 MaGa79 over 11 years ago

I've seen NPM 10.4.1 RC in my Customer Portal.
Are there any features of these new ones implemented yet in 10.4.1 ? The release notes link displays only the 10.4. one.
Regards,
Mario
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0 henriknoerr over 11 years ago

Hi,
Great bullet points - I appreciate the continued effort to speed up the Orion portfoloio.
Furthermore the routing change information sounds exciting, although I am a bit skeptic
Are you still working on support on having several nodes with the same ip (but different snmpv3 context) ?
It was on the 'what are we working on 1.4' - But I guess it was scrapped before 1.4 went public.
Best regards,
Henrik Noerr.
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0 mdriskell over 11 years ago

I am specifically intrigued by 3 & 5.
I am really hoping 3 allows for the ability to ignore all interfaces upon discoveries for servers. We monitor the ports on the switches not both ends so this would be particularly handy to us.
Improvements to the DB performance and more efficient queries from the front end are always welcome. We have documented several long running queries that hinder performance that are generated by either the Map resources or the last events resources. I have actually written a custom last 50 events resource that is much more efficient and replaced it on my views. As for the maps I have taken them off of the views that everyone loads and instead replaced them with a link so they can be loaded as needed.
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0 seigniory over 11 years ago

How about returning the admin components back to a GUI-centric model? Maybe one with .NET remoting that can be run from anywhere, not necessarily the Orion server?
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