• Create custom network maps
• View your network logically by floor, building, department, or geographic location
• Monitor real-time performance statistics based on location

The Map Maker feature included with Orion Network Performance Monitor (NPM) makes it possible for you to view your network pictorially and visually track performance data in real time via dynamic network maps. With Orion NPM, you can choose from several built-in geographic templates or you can import a logical image of your network based on floor, building, department, or larger geographic location. Multiple network maps can also be linked to provide drill-down capabilities.

Orion NPM allows you to simply drag and drop devices into their appropriate locations on the network map so that you can view the health of all network devices at a specific location. When the network maps are saved, they are immediately updated with the current status of the added nodes.

When a region is selected in the Orion NPM web interface, the corresponding network map for that location is displayed. Green, yellow and red dots indicate the status of the nodes at that location and enable you to quickly identify regions with associated alerts. Orion NPM can also display specific network maps (and specific types of network information indicated on those maps) based on the viewer's authorization level or responsibility for particular regions of the network. For example, if a device fails within a particular subnet that a user is not authorized to access, then that user’s map view will not go into alert condition, as the device is outside the scope of authorization.

"We didn't have to pay for hours and hours of training to use or deploy [Orion], which has significantly impacted our bottom line."

— Gerald Sherril, Operations Manager, FiberCloud