"NOC" view w/ SolarWinds Orion

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Does anyone use SolarWinds Orion and monitor it similar to a NOC? New manager wanted a view, got a quote from a local coder, and bailed due to 'lack of maintenance in future'.

Was just curious if anyone has used Orion as a back end. Our problem with the current Top 10 lists in Orion is it only displays two columns. Not the best since we would have to scroll.
 
Does anyone use SolarWinds Orion and monitor it similar to a NOC? New manager wanted a view, got a quote from a local coder, and bailed due to 'lack of maintenance in future'.

Was just curious if anyone has used Orion as a back end. Our problem with the current Top 10 lists in Orion is it only displays two columns. Not the best since we would have to scroll.

Have looked at tab rotation like Revolver? That's what we use for SolarWinds...
 
Does anyone use SolarWinds Orion and monitor it similar to a NOC? New manager wanted a view, got a quote from a local coder, and bailed due to 'lack of maintenance in future'.

Was just curious if anyone has used Orion as a back end. Our problem with the current Top 10 lists in Orion is it only displays two columns. Not the best since we would have to scroll.
A lot of SolarWinds customers set up user views for the NOC team. Make it read only and add some custom summary views, on as many columns as you like (use the "view page" button, in the top right corner). You can also add a view with only one column and a full-screen system status map. If you click on a map header it opens in a full screen window if you want to grab the URL, and Revolver works great to flip through a handful of views the NOC team cares about.

You can test it in the online demo. Go here: SolarWinds Orion NPM, click "test-drive demo", login and then click "Enterprise Map". Some users also make accounts for managers with just one big green/red status icon. :cool:
 
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i'm always going back and forth with whether NOC monitoring on big screens is appropriate (we do run a projector in our office)...

seems like a well configured monitoring system should be notifying you if there are any issues that need your attention...

but... having a big screen with your network health on it does look cool to outsiders/clients...
 
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