I usually delete SolarWinds sales emails. Sorry. It's the truth. It's not that I don't want to read them it's just that I usually have my fingers on the pulse of things via Thwack and other things. So today when I got an email entitled "Two New Enterprise-Class Solutions From SolarWinds" I hesitated before hitting that delete key. And, wow, I'm glad I did.
NAM is Network Automation Manager (Network Automation Tool | Solarwinds )
NOM is Network Operations Manager (Network Operations Management | Solarwinds )
As far as I can tell...
NAM (Network Automation Manager - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support ) is a bulk license for NPM, NTA, VNQM, IPAM, NCM, UDT and SolarWinds HA.
NOM (Network Operations Manager - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support ) is a bulk license for NPM, NTA, UDT and VNQM.
At first I thought this was a marketing gimmick of some sort. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely think that owning NPM, IPAM, NCM, etc. is essential to a NOC, but this is the part that got me.
Given that we struggle the size of our environment today that growth to "hundreds of thousands of elements" has me totally intrigued. However I am wondering if we aren't being toyed with a little here. If you have 6 products each monitoring 25,000 or so of either respective elements (Orion multi-module system guidelines for a SolarWinds NPM installation - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support for deployment guidelines) then we would be monitoring "hundreds of thousands of elements".
Which Product Manager wants to field this clarification? cobrien? aLTeReGo?