Transcript Orion APM Training

Orion APM –
Application Performance Monitor
Who buys APM products?
Sysadmins
• Focused on applications & servers
Application
Support
Teams
• Part of the line of business
• Own multiple applications
IT
Operations
Teams
• Own applications, servers, and network
• Targets for Application Performance
Monitor & Network Performance Monitor
What is an application?
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
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Import Nagios scripts
Home Grown applications
Robust Alerting & Reporting Engine
Application Discovery
 Pricing & Licensing
» Starts at $2495 USD
- Slide 4 » Licensed by number of monitored
components
Why SolarWinds?
Powerful Features
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Ease of Use & Affordablity
• Up & Running in under an hour
• LUCID web interface
• Starts under $2,500
Dynamic Service Groups
Single Pane of Glass
Comprehensive App Coverage
Powerful alerting & reporting
Built-in Virtual Infrastructure
monitoring
Application Performance Monitor provides a unique
proposition for sysadmins, power they need in an easy
to use affordable package
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SolarWinds vs the Competition
Criteria
SolarWinds
Quest
Foglight
MS
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
$2.5K-$30K
$100K$300K
$3K$100K
$2.5K$20K
Try before you buy
Price (range)
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
Orion APM Licensing
 Licensed by the number of component monitors
» Rule of Thumb: Allow 10 monitors per server
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
» EG – Customer wants to monitor 75 servers
» 10 Monitors per Server = 750 monitors
» License required is APM 1100
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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