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title: SolarWinds
description: "## What is SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor? SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) is a network monitoring system the provides comprehensive discovery and monitoring and dynamic mapping tools for on-premises, hybrid, and cloud. ## Why Should You Use the SolarWinds Connector?…"
url: "https://lucidum.io/docs/solarwinds/"
updated: "2025-03-28"
category: Connectors / List of Connectors / S
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# SolarWinds

## What is SolarWinds Network Performance
 Monitor?

SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) is a network monitoring system the provides comprehensive discovery and monitoring and dynamic mapping tools for on-premises, hybrid, and cloud.

## Why Should You Use the SolarWinds Connector?

The SolarWinds connector provides visibility into the assets in your environment. You can use this visibility to:

- ensure assets are managed per your security policies
- ensure users are managed per your security policies
- derive relationships between assets, users, applications, and data

## How Does This Connector Work?

Lucidum executes read-only requests to the SolarWinds REST API and ingests only meta-data about SolarWinds devices. Lucidum does not retrieve any data stored on your assets.

## Configuring the Connector in Lucidum

| **Field** | **Description** | **Example** |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Host | The hostname of the server for SolarWinds. | 10.2.290.29 |
| Port | The port for API communication with SolarWinds. | 17778 |
| Username | User name for a SolarWinds account with read access to API data. |  justynmutts |
| Password | User name for a SolarWinds account with read access to API data. | ************ |
| Proxy | If you are using a proxy server to allow this connector to communicate with on-premises devices, enter the IP address: port for the proxy server, usually **192.168.255.6:3128** | 192.168.255.6:312 |

## Source Documentation

### Creating Credentials

For details on creating a user in SolarWinds for the Lucidum connector to use, see: [https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/orionplatform/content/core-creating-new-accounts-sw1310.htm](https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/orionplatform/content/core-creating-new-accounts-sw1310.htm)

Assign the new user the **Admin **role.

### Required Permissions

| **Object** | **Permissions** |
| --- | --- |
|  Role | Admin |

### SDK Documentation

[https://github.com/solarwinds/OrionSDK/wiki](https://github.com/solarwinds/OrionSDK/wiki)