Network management is a daunting task. Network management that includes installation, configuration, provisioning, monitoring testing and debugging is prone to error failure and is difficult to upgrade and manage. Today, there is no way to quantify how complex an enterprise con?guration is, and to what extent complexity impacts key management tasks.

SolarWinds (News - Alert), a provider of powerful and affordable IT management software, has launched its NPM Demo Challenge for IT pros to test their network complexity management skillset using the company's flagship network monitoring product. SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) is a powerful, yet affordable, network monitoring solution designed to help manage growing network complexity with features like network availability and performance monitoring, automated network device discovery, intelligent network alerting, and monitoring for hardware health, network route, network multicast, and more.

 The company has also planned to offer reward to its users. SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM), all while earning a chance to a win a $5,000 American Express (News - Alert) gift card and a bonus prize, an iPad mini.

 This new challenges caters to  technologies like Software Defined Networking (SDN), managing IT operations such as Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and Cloud combined with meeting IT security and compliance business operations requirements. It will help network administrator to face an overwhelming amount of growing network complexity.

The SolarWinds NPM Demo Challenge shows areas in which IT pros can leverage SolarWinds NPM to better equip themselves to tackle these challenges today and prepare for what tomorrow might bring. 

IT pros can test their knowledge and skill of SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) by troubleshooting real-life network performance monitoring issues and completing a five-question quiz. The process should take approximately 15 minutes and the successful candidate gets a chance to win a $5,000 American Express gift card.  To participate in this challenge, you need to be at least eighteen (18) years old and a legal residents of the United States.