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Excerpt: <rant> Solarwinds Orion NPM is an okay tool, but when it comes to managing anything other than Cisco switches and routers, it’s very meh. It takes very little effort to get devices like that monitored to the fullest extent, but when it comes to something like a storage array, you really have to make tweaks until your fingers bleed to get the minimal monitoring functionality out of it. Even then, it doesn’t seem to perform at maximum capabilities, and misses some very fundamental reporting features. On top of that, whenever I try to google anything related to solarwinds, I get this…