The network management landscape has shifted drastically since the era of the Orion 10.x architecture. Organizations looking for modern, secure enterprise network monitoring options have multiple pathways that eliminate the risks of utilizing insecure legacy archives:

For organizations still running legacy monitoring environments, NPM 10.4.1 is notable for its Windows Server 2008 R2 compatibility and SQL Server 2008 R2 backend support. The version also introduced significant architectural improvements: beginning with NPM 10.2 and continuing through version 10.4.1, Additional Polling Engines could operate without requiring the primary polling engine to remain running for Universal Device Pollers, EnergyWise, and ESX data collection.