Orion APM – Application Performance Monitor

Who buys APM products?

• Focused on applications & serversSysadmins

• Part of the line of business• Own multiple applications

Application Support Teams

• Own applications, servers, and network• Targets for Application Performance

Monitor & Network Performance Monitor

IT Operations

Teams

What is an application?

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Orion Application Performance Monitor Overview

» Delivers powerful monitoring, alerting, and reporting capabilities for applications and the underlying servers they reside.

» Network engineer vs. App person – eliminates finger pointing

Hooks» Processes, Services, Ports, URL, End User Experience

components, Scripting Engines, DB Queries, Performance Counters. Leverages SNMP, WMI, or RPC.

» Applications are slow or down» User Experience Monitoring» Service Groups / ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS

» Import Nagios scripts» Home Grown applications» Robust Alerting & Reporting Engine» Application Discovery

Pricing & Licensing» Starts at $2495 USD» Licensed by number of monitored components

Why SolarWinds?

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Powerful Features• Dynamic Service Groups• Single Pane of Glass • Comprehensive App Coverage• Powerful alerting & reporting• Built-in Virtual Infrastructure

monitoring

Ease of Use & Affordablity • Up & Running in under an hour• LUCID web interface• Starts under $2,500

Application Performance Monitor provides a unique proposition for sysadmins, power they need in an easy

to use affordable package

SolarWinds vs the CompetitionCriteria SolarWinds Quest

FoglightMS SCOM

WhatsUp Gold

App & IT Service Monitoring

Integrated Virtual infrastructure monitoring

Support for MS apps

Support for non-MS apps 3rd Party

Support for custom apps 3rd Party

Open source support

Deployment services Not Required Required Required Not Req

Try before you buy

Price (range) $2.5K-$30K $100K-$300K

$3K-$100K

$2.5K-$20K

Qualifying Questions

What critical applications do you have? Do you have any home grown applications? How long does it take you to restart your services when

they fail? Are you alerted when critical applications go down? Do you know when your applications are slow? Can you distinguish if issues are related to network,

application, or hardware? Do you need historical reporting for application

availability and usage?

APM – Templates and Monitors

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Orion APM Licensing

APM50 $ 2,495.00

APM150 $ 2,995.00

APM300 $ 4,995.00

APM700 $ 8,995.00

APM1100 $ 13,495.00

APM1500 $ 17,995.00

APM ALX $ 29,995.00

Licensed by the number of component monitors» Rule of Thumb: Allow 10 monitors per server

» EG – Customer wants to monitor 75 servers» 10 Monitors per Server = 750 monitors» License required is APM 1100

Stand Alone Product Features

NPM SA APM SA IPAM SA

Node Status Yes Yes Yes

Node SNMP statistics Yes Yes Yes

Interface SNMP statistics Yes No No

Volume SNMP statistics Yes Yes Yes

UnDP SNMP statistics Yes No No

Alerts Yes Yes Yes

Reports Yes Yes Yes

Groups Yes Yes Yes

Dependencies Yes Yes Yes

Syslog Yes Yes No

SNMP Traps Yes Yes No

Connect Now Yes No No

Virtualization Yes Yes No

Wireless Yes No No

VSAN Yes No No

System Manager Yes No No

Custom Property Editor Yes Yes Yes