I'm interested to see how much support this idea gets, so please share it around. It really would make NPM the perfect solution for Network Performance Monitoring. The 'lost' revenue in NTA licensing, from SolarWinds' bean counters perspective, could be reclaimed in part by adding a percentage to the NPM licensing costs, but I firmly believe that the rest would be recouped (and then some) in new NPM sales. To begin with they offer a highly modularised solution, some of which we have listed below: NPM - Network Performance Monitor. It would also help avoid license confusion, as I often find myself explaining why the license level for NTA has to match NPM, even though a customer is only using a fraction of their NTA licenses. Since the NFDB does not require an additional SQL license, all that would be needed, in most cases, as another host. Other than the requirement for a separate NetFlow database (if following best practice), I can't see any blockers standing in the way of merging NTA functionality with NPM, in effect supercharging NPM, and putting it head an shoulders above all competitors. Many of my clients use both NPM and NTA, and time and again I am amazed at how small the NTA installation is.
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