Runt Packet – SolarWinds Orion NPMv10 With Head Geek Josh Stephens

29 July 2010 by 3 Comments

SolarWinds Orion fanboy Ethan talks to the Head Geek at SolarWinds, Josh Stephens.  The discussion is around Orion Network Performance Monitor v.10.  If you haven’t checked out Orion in a few years, it’s all grown up now.  Ethan’s implementing Orion NPM and loving it, and had a nice chat with Josh about the core Orion features.

Sure, it sounds like a softball interview, but frankly, the Orion product is working as advertised in Ethan’s experience thus far – it doesn’t suck.  Give the runt a listen, and leave your comments with the hard questions that weren’t asked.  Maybe we can get Josh back on for a tougher Q&A session.

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About Ethan Banks

Ethan Banks, CCIE #20655, is a hands-on networking practitioner who has designed, built and maintained networks for higher education, state government, financial institutions, and technology corporations. Ethan is a host of the Packet Pushers Podcast, which has seen over one million unique downloads, and today reaches a global audience of over ten thousand listeners. Also a writer, Ethan covers network engineering and the networking industry for a variety of IT publications. He is also the editor for the independent community of bloggers at PacketPushers.net. Follow @ecbanks.

  • Jon

    The Solarwinds Runt packet was a little too much like an Advertisement.

    • http://packetpushers.net Ethan Banks

      ACK.

  • Mike

    I've used Orion NPM extensively over the past six months and it really is an excellent product. My basic theory on software is that it is all garbage. NPM surprised me in a very pleasant way. It was trivial to setup relative to other similar products, it almost always had the feature I needed for a particular task and while it hasn't been perfect on the reliability front it's been very close which puts it well ahead of other products I use on a daily basis. Yes, I'm talking about you HP Network Automation.

    On the cost side, they are also a great value compared to just about anything else I've seen. Particularly given the reliability and functionality they provide.